Hi Philip, I am aware of the problem you raise about the happiness of animals, but don't have a clear answer. My preference is that human happiness will depend on animal happiness, especially as the productivity of super-intelligent machines gives humans more wealth and education. Explicitly writing anmal happiness into values will be hard, given that there is no unanimous view among humans. Some treat animals as humans, some don't want cruelty but do eat meat, and some don't care a bit. There's a much greater concensus about the value of universal human happiness.
But like I say, I don't feel all that strongly one way or the other about including animal happiness. Cheers, Bill ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
