This exchange does not seem to be going anywhere, so I’ll just leave my final comments before disengaging, feel free to do likewise.
The paper draft is an interesting and comprehensive survey of views on em suffering and related (meta)ethics
It does not do a good job defining its subject matter and thus does not advance the field of em ethics
One potential avenue of progress in em ethics and “em rights” is to define suffering in an externally measurable way for various levels of em complexity and architecture.
This exchange does not seem to be going anywhere, so I’ll just leave my final comments before disengaging, feel free to do likewise.
The paper draft is an interesting and comprehensive survey of views on em suffering and related (meta)ethics
It does not do a good job defining its subject matter and thus does not advance the field of em ethics
One potential avenue of progress in em ethics and “em rights” is to define suffering in an externally measurable way for various levels of em complexity and architecture.
Just so you know, I probably came off more confrontational than was my intention. Sorry about that if true.
I agree it’s better to halt these kinds of spats than try to find a fix after shit hits the fan.