Vasco Grilo🔸 comments on Matthew_Barnett’s Quick takes

[Vasco Grilo🔸]

Hi,

A more extreme version of this is that, given the massively greater efficiency with which a digital consciousness could convert matter and energy to utilons

I have a post where I conclude the above may well apply not only to digital consciousness, but also to animals:

• I calculated the welfare ranges per calorie consumption for a few species.

• They vary a lot. The values for bees and pigs are 4.88 k and 0.473 times as high as that for humans.

• They are higher for non-human animals:

  • 5 of the 6 species I analysed have values higher than that of humans.

  • The lower the calorie consumption, the higher the median welfare range per calorie consumption.