Roughly speaking, Rethink Priorities’ Moral Weight Project tries to estimate how intense suffering is in different animals, relative to humans. A moral weight of 1.0 means it is exactly as intense as in humans.It’s notoriously animal-friendly, e.g. it holds that 14 bees = 1 human. Here are some of the results:The calculation essentially uses a weighted factor model:Empirical proxies (60% weight): The animal is evaluated for presence/absence of a set of cognitive (e.g. object permanence, respo...

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