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Seems possible in principle. Experiences can cause one to feel more or less pain--what's wrong with quantifying it? Sure it will be a bit handwavy and vague,
by BenthamsBulldog 2y ago
Seems possible in principle. Experiences can cause one to feel more or less pain--what's wrong with quantifying it? Sure it will be a bit handwavy and vague, but the alternative of doing no comparisons and just going based on vibes is worse https://www.goodthoughts.blog/p/refusing-to-quantify-is-refusing https://www.goodthoughts.blog/p/refusing-to-quantify-is-refu.... But as I argue, given high uncertainty, you don't need any fine grained estimates to think giving to shrimp welfare is valuable. Like, if there was a dollar in front of you and you could use it to save 16,000 shrimp, seems like that's a good use of it.
- kaashif 2y ago> Like, if there was a dollar in front of you and you could use it to save 16,000 shrimp, seems like that's a good use of it. Uhh, that's totally unintuitive and surely almost all people would disagree, right? If not in words, people disagree in actions. Even within effective altruism there are a lot of people only giving to human centred causes.