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It's not a waste as another commenter noted, just probably not the best use of money. I agree this is unintuitive, but I submit that's because of speceisism.
by BenthamsBulldog 2y ago
It's not a waste as another commenter noted, just probably not the best use of money.
I agree this is unintuitive, but I submit that's because of speceisism. What about shrimp makes it so that tens of millions of them painfully dying is less bad than a single human death? It doesn't seem like the fact that they aren't smart makes their extreme agony less bad (the badness of a headache doesn't depend on how smart you are).
- Vecr 2y agoHow much of your posting is sophistry? I assume this isn't (I doubt this increases the positivity of the perception of EA), but the God stuff makes very close to no sense at all. If it's sophistry anyway, can't you take Eliezer's position and say God doesn't exist, and some CEV like system is better than Bentham style utilitarianism because there's not an objective morality? I don't think CEV makes much sense, but I think you're scoring far less points that you think you are even relative to something like that.