biznor comments on Debate: organisations using Rethink Priorities’ mainline welfare ranges should consider effects on soil nematodes, mites, and springtails, or at least be transparent about their reasons for neglecting them?

[biznor]

Organisations using Rethink Priorities’ mainline welfare ranges should consider effects on soil nematodes, mites, and springtails.

So long as expected welfare is appropriately discounted based on reasonable guesstimates of sentience.

[Vasco Grilo🔸]

Welcome to the EA Forum, biznor! RP’s mainline welfare ranges already take into account the probability of sentience (here are RP’s estimates for this). In other words, they are expected welfare ranges (as a fraction of the expected welfare range of humans).