Presumably a past person whose volition was coherently extrapolated would lose their racism and other backwards attitudes, and thus be on par with a contemporary person’s coherently extrapolated volition.
Even if we grant this assumption, this sort of argument clearly cannot be generalized to justify the exclusion of nonhuman animals—who have preferences that humans routinely disregard—from the class of beings whose volitions are to be coherently extrapolated. Why not run CEV on all present sentient beings?
Even if we grant this assumption, this sort of argument clearly cannot be generalized to justify the exclusion of nonhuman animals—who have preferences that humans routinely disregard—from the class of beings whose volitions are to be coherently extrapolated. Why not run CEV on all present sentient beings?