Even if one takes the midpoint of the RP intervals as established fact, there are a lot of other assumptions Vasco’s arguments depend on, like the magnitude and duration of suffering a particular creature experiences with pain scales with thousands of points to cancel out the RP weights, and the cost-effectiveness of brand new charities in a field (campaigning) where marginal cost-effectiveness is relatively difficult to measure.
Unlike for RP we don’t have published estimates of distributions or confidence intervals for these, but if we did they’d also be extremely wide and I’m not sure that animal welfare interventions would look better across most of the distribution for them.
Even if one takes the midpoint of the RP intervals as established fact, there are a lot of other assumptions Vasco’s arguments depend on, like the magnitude and duration of suffering a particular creature experiences with pain scales with thousands of points to cancel out the RP weights, and the cost-effectiveness of brand new charities in a field (campaigning) where marginal cost-effectiveness is relatively difficult to measure.
Unlike for RP we don’t have published estimates of distributions or confidence intervals for these, but if we did they’d also be extremely wide and I’m not sure that animal welfare interventions would look better across most of the distribution for them.