Two critiques of Rethink Priorities’ Moral Weights project
A critique of Rethink Priorities' Moral Weights project highlights potential overestimations of animal suffering. The project uses empirical proxies, neurophysiological models, and an equality model to assign moral weights, with empirical proxies heavily influencing the animal-friendly results. One critique points out that correlated behavioral proxies are counted independently, inflating scores, while another questions the Bayesian inference that high moral weights in small animals with vastly fewer neurons are justified. AI
