michael_nielsen

@lukeprog @Lewis_Bollard I'm particularly interested in your answers if you don't mind sharing publicly :)

80% CI: 1sec of monkey experience worth .00001-1.25 of human, given pure hedonic utilitarianism. Monkeys 90% likely conscious; less likely they have advanced self-concept and plans thwarted by ~painless train death. Maybe death also bad for other reasons.

Out of curiosity how does the CI end up above 1? You think it's possible they have *more* consciousness/moral weight than humans?

1] Yes, via several possible paths. E.g. if split-brain patient is intuitively worth 2x, and many non-humans have disunified experience (some evidence for this), we might (with completed scientific understanding) intuitively assign >1x to monkey experience.

2] Also smaller animals seem to have faster brain clock speeds, and thus may have "more" experience per sec, akin to if you uploaded me and ran me at 2x speed, which intuitively I'd value at 2x per sec.