Thanks for your question and for your patience waiting for our response—we’ve just come back from our end-of-year break.
We don’t currently have anything scheduled on this topic, but we regularly review project ideas and may consider working on something like this a little later in the year. Dedicated funding would certainly make it more likely that we could prioritize this work. If we do decide to explore this further, we’d first need to scope out what a project in this area might look like, but would be happy to discuss different funding levels and what they could enable at that point.
Approximately $2K would be sufficient to scope out a project like this, provided we have capacity at the time. We’re usually able to accommodate some scoping work alongside ongoing projects though.
I would be happy to donate 2 k$ to RP myself. You could use this to scope out whatever project or projects you believe would decrease the most cost-effectively the uncertainty about how the (expectedhedonistic) welfare per unit time of different organisms and digital systems compares with that of humans.
Hi Vasco,
Thanks for your question and for your patience waiting for our response—we’ve just come back from our end-of-year break.
We don’t currently have anything scheduled on this topic, but we regularly review project ideas and may consider working on something like this a little later in the year. Dedicated funding would certainly make it more likely that we could prioritize this work. If we do decide to explore this further, we’d first need to scope out what a project in this area might look like, but would be happy to discuss different funding levels and what they could enable at that point.
Thanks!
Thanks for clarifying, Hannah! How much dedicated funding would you have to receive to scope out projects (without commiting to doing a project)?
Approximately $2K would be sufficient to scope out a project like this, provided we have capacity at the time. We’re usually able to accommodate some scoping work alongside ongoing projects though.
I would be happy to donate 2 k$ to RP myself. You could use this to scope out whatever project or projects you believe would decrease the most cost-effectively the uncertainty about how the (expected hedonistic) welfare per unit time of different organisms and digital systems compares with that of humans.
Thanks so much for your offer to support this, Vasco. I’ll follow up with you about this on email.
Hi Hannah. Are you still planning to email me?