Vasco Grilo

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Nice post! I would be curious to know whether significant thinking has been done on this topic since your post.

Thanks for writing this!

Have you considered crossposting to the EA Forum (although the post was mentioned here)?

With a loguniform distribution, the mean moral weight is stable and roughly equal to 2.

Thanks for the post!

I was trying to use the lower and upper estimates of 5*10^-5 and 10, guessed for the moral weight of chickens relative to humans, as the 10th and 90th percentiles of a lognormal distribution. This resulted in a mean moral weight of 1000 to 2000 (the result is not stable), which seems too high, and a median of 0.02.

1- Do you have any suggestions for a more reasonable distribution?

2-  Do you have any tips for stabilising the results for the mean? 

I think I understand the problems of taking expectations over moral weights (E(X) is not equal to 1/E(1/X)), but believe that it might still be possible to determine a reasonable distribution for the moral weight.

"These two equations are algebraically inconsistent". Yes, combining them results into "0 < 0", which is false.