Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Scope Insensitivity - Less Wrong
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Douglas, I understand that scope insensitivity decreases substantially, but does not go away entirely, when personal profits are at stake.
It's not easy to devise experiments that distinguish unambiguously between the explanations that center around prototype-dominated affect, versus the warm glow of moral satisfaction. It seems pretty likely that both effects are at work.