Utility equation links and resources

recommended by Aaron Gertler

https://www.givewell.org/how-we-work/our-criteria/cost-effectiveness/comparing-moral-weights

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/4Xg3dC6rrW4WFnSne/comparisons-of-capacity-for-welfare-and-moral-status-across

animals differ in their cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and neurological features.

these may affect an animal's capacity for welfare (the range of how happy or sad a life can be),

and moral status, degree to which their happiness or sadness matters at all

I don't account for moral status at all, and it seems kind of arbitrary. what's it based on?

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/XG86pCgqTweFsQyrd/how-to-measure-capacity-for-welfare-and-moral-status

Utility functions are hard: post your utility function (less wrong)

moral standing and moral weight talk by Jason Schukraft

@jason