Comment by Monstar Dev (Monstar) (monstar-dev-monstar) on Moral Weight Doesn't Accrue Linearly · 2023-04-09T01:52:44.592Z · LW · GW

''Animal intelligence correlates with X"
But since what we care about is suffering and not intelligence, we're implying that more intelligence = more suffering, which if true would mean that hurting a children or a baby causes less suffering than hurting an adult.
Yet I would argue that the opposite seems to be true given that intelligence allows us to cope and contextualize and understand our suffering better than a child.

At best, there is no correlation between intelligence and suffering.
At worse, the opposite is true.