Austin at 17 was a fully functioning human
17? I laught, thinking about my past self.
More seriously, great post I don't fully agree with but upvoted (cf Jay's comment), which I accept within the limits of updateless(-ish) light. As Jay said:
I actually DO consider 20!Jay to be a dumber and less ethical person than present-day 30!Jay .
Thank you so much for this post!
It's very satisfying for me because when I was a newbie in EA I very poorly tried to tackle this topic (my first!), so I see this one is the successful shot!
So conviced that I've edited my post to redirect to this one instead.
99 % of sentience is non human animals + the worst suffering in the world are the animal ones.