Please shift the consciousness comments to any one of the appropriate posts linked.
Robin, should we ask James Miller then? I have no problem with the detailed reasons you offer, it’s just the “insufficiently vetted” part of the argument that I find difficult to engage with—unless I actually find members of this community and ask them which specific pieces are “vetted” in their view, by what evidence, and which not. I wouldn’t necessarily trust them, to be frank, because it was never a condition of their profession that they should deal with nonhumans. But at least I would have some idea of what those laws were under which I was being judged.
It’s hard for me to accept as normative the part of this argument that is an appeal to authority (professional community that has learned good norms about constructing growth models) rather than an appeal to evidence (look at how well the evidence fits these specific growth models). It’s not that I reject authority in general, but these people’s professional experience is entirely about humans, and it’s hard for me to believe that they have taken into account the considerations involved in extrapolating narrow experience to non-narrow experience when various basic assumptions are potentially broken. I would expect them to have norms that worked for describing humans, full stop.
Please shift the consciousness comments to any one of the appropriate posts linked.
Robin, should we ask James Miller then? I have no problem with the detailed reasons you offer, it’s just the “insufficiently vetted” part of the argument that I find difficult to engage with—unless I actually find members of this community and ask them which specific pieces are “vetted” in their view, by what evidence, and which not. I wouldn’t necessarily trust them, to be frank, because it was never a condition of their profession that they should deal with nonhumans. But at least I would have some idea of what those laws were under which I was being judged.
It’s hard for me to accept as normative the part of this argument that is an appeal to authority (professional community that has learned good norms about constructing growth models) rather than an appeal to evidence (look at how well the evidence fits these specific growth models). It’s not that I reject authority in general, but these people’s professional experience is entirely about humans, and it’s hard for me to believe that they have taken into account the considerations involved in extrapolating narrow experience to non-narrow experience when various basic assumptions are potentially broken. I would expect them to have norms that worked for describing humans, full stop.