The cost-effectiveness of advocating for an intervention is the cost-effectiveness of the intervention times the money moved to the intervention as a fraction of the spending advocating for it. I think this fundraising multiplier would be very low for desertification efforts even if they decrease the living time of soil animals more cost-effectively than GiveWell’s top charities, such that advocating for supporting these is more cost-effective.
RP’s probability of sentience of crayfish (similar to lobsters) is only 1.54 (= 0.453/​0.294) times RP’s probability of sentient of black soldier flies (BSFs).
I think if you see desertification as good (you seem to be saying it is), you should have very high suspicion that your ethical framework has led you astray somewhere.
I think desertification is beneficial because deserts, and xeric shrublands is the biome with the least soil nematodes, mites, and springtails by far, and my best guess is that these have negative lives, such that decreasing their population is good (although I am highly uncertain).
The cost-effectiveness of advocating for an intervention is the cost-effectiveness of the intervention times the money moved to the intervention as a fraction of the spending advocating for it. I think this fundraising multiplier would be very low for desertification efforts even if they decrease the living time of soil animals more cost-effectively than GiveWell’s top charities, such that advocating for supporting these is more cost-effective.
RP’s probability of sentience of crayfish (similar to lobsters) is only 1.54 (= 0.453/​0.294) times RP’s probability of sentient of black soldier flies (BSFs).
I think if you see desertification as good (you seem to be saying it is), you should have very high suspicion that your ethical framework has led you astray somewhere.
I think desertification is beneficial because deserts, and xeric shrublands is the biome with the least soil nematodes, mites, and springtails by far, and my best guess is that these have negative lives, such that decreasing their population is good (although I am highly uncertain).