Thanks for the reply. I completely agree that we should look for interventions that improve welfare most per $, and that those, at least for now, are the ones focusing on animals and not humans. 100% of my donations at the moment actually goes to animal causes.
That’s a very interesting table about welfare range per calorie consumption. It caused me to update away from my belief that in the ideal far future we should dedicate most resources to creating more happier humans (or the next generation of the most sentient beings), and towards the belief that the existence of some lower sentience but super efficient beings, such as bees, would be a great thing. It doesn’t change any near term things for me or have any actionable consequences though, as I think we’re still gonna be in the “reduce suffering” part of history for a very long time before we get to the “increase bliss” part
Thanks for the reply. I completely agree that we should look for interventions that improve welfare most per $, and that those, at least for now, are the ones focusing on animals and not humans. 100% of my donations at the moment actually goes to animal causes.
That’s a very interesting table about welfare range per calorie consumption. It caused me to update away from my belief that in the ideal far future we should dedicate most resources to creating more happier humans (or the next generation of the most sentient beings), and towards the belief that the existence of some lower sentience but super efficient beings, such as bees, would be a great thing. It doesn’t change any near term things for me or have any actionable consequences though, as I think we’re still gonna be in the “reduce suffering” part of history for a very long time before we get to the “increase bliss” part