Xodarap comments on Arguments Against Speciesism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Xodarap 30 July 2013 11:36:20PM 1 point [-]

If it's a heuristic, then it's not speciesism.

If it's a "heuristic" that overrides lots of evidence, then it's speciesism. Which is just another way of saying that you aren't performing a Bayesian update correctly.