What are some plausible stories for how being vegan makes the far-future non-trivially better? My bar here is something like “me being vegan is 1/1000th as impactful as working on a biosecurity project for my entire career,” so e.g. I claim that being vegan wastes something like 0.1% of EA’s time (which is an underestimate for me at least—I often spend 10s of counterfactual minutes searching for meatless food; for reference, 1/1000th of waking hours for seven days is about seven minutes).
No—and when I wrote it, I meant to direct it at anyone involved in the comments discussion. I probably should have made that clearer in the comment. Also, I probably should have read all of the comments before commenting (e.g. are you referring to some comment thread that it seemed like I was replying to?), but am time-limited.
Also, for more context, I wrote this comment because I felt concerned about bottom-line/motivated reasoning causing people to apply the sorts of arguments for action that they don’t apply elsewhere to argue for veganism, and I felt compelled to prompt anyone part of this discussion with the sort of calculation that I thought longtermists generally thought was best to use when choosing their actions.
What are some plausible stories for how being vegan makes the far-future non-trivially better? My bar here is something like “me being vegan is 1/1000th as impactful as working on a biosecurity project for my entire career,” so e.g. I claim that being vegan wastes something like 0.1% of EA’s time (which is an underestimate for me at least—I often spend 10s of counterfactual minutes searching for meatless food; for reference, 1/1000th of waking hours for seven days is about seven minutes).
Is this story the reason you are vegan?
Was this meant to be in reply to another comment?
No—and when I wrote it, I meant to direct it at anyone involved in the comments discussion. I probably should have made that clearer in the comment. Also, I probably should have read all of the comments before commenting (e.g. are you referring to some comment thread that it seemed like I was replying to?), but am time-limited.
Also, for more context, I wrote this comment because I felt concerned about bottom-line/motivated reasoning causing people to apply the sorts of arguments for action that they don’t apply elsewhere to argue for veganism, and I felt compelled to prompt anyone part of this discussion with the sort of calculation that I thought longtermists generally thought was best to use when choosing their actions.