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I think other people are significantly more responsive to values disagreements than Brian is, and that this suggests they are significantly more open to the possibility that their idiosyncratic personal values judgments are mistaken. You can get a sense of how unusual Brian's perspectives are by examining his website, where his discussions of negative utilitarianism and insect suffering stand out.
That's a pretty meaningless statement without specifying which values. How responsive "other people" would be to value disagreements about child pornography, for example, do you think?
I suspect Nick would say that if there were respected elites who favored increasing the amount of child pornography, he would give some weight to the possibility that such a position was in fact something he would come to agree with upon further reflection.