The Open Philanthropy Project spoke with Mr. Shulman of as part of its investigation into which types of beings should be of moral concern, and thus a potential target for the Open Philanthropy Project’s grantmaking. This conversation focused on cognitive procedures that might be useful when considering one’s moral intuitions and judgments (e.g. about which beings should be of moral concern or not). These included identifying the potential sources of one’s current moral intuitions, considering various types of conditions and constraints under which one’s current moral intuitions might have been different, and techniques for projecting what moral policies one would be likely to endorse in light of different or additional facts or experiences.
