Nevermind. I have been using your estimates for the time in pain as if they do not account for any considerations relevant for interspecies welfare comparisons. However, the sentence below made me think no adjustments were needed to compare your estimates for the time humans and shrimp spend in excruciating pain. So I mistakenly inferred you were accounting for considerations relevant for interspecies welfare comparisons. However, as you say in the same paragraph, you “hold this assumption as temporary until better evidence allows for a more accurate placement of each experience on an absolute scale”.
In the Welfare Footprint framework, pain intensities are defined as absolute measures, meaning that one hour of Excruciating pain in humans is assumed to be hedonically equivalent to one hour of Excruciating pain in shrimps, if shrimps were capable of experiencing Excruciating pain.
Nevermind. I have been using your estimates for the time in pain as if they do not account for any considerations relevant for interspecies welfare comparisons. However, the sentence below made me think no adjustments were needed to compare your estimates for the time humans and shrimp spend in excruciating pain. So I mistakenly inferred you were accounting for considerations relevant for interspecies welfare comparisons. However, as you say in the same paragraph, you “hold this assumption as temporary until better evidence allows for a more accurate placement of each experience on an absolute scale”.