No shit rationalists dismiss animal welfare more. The people who don’t, are far more likely to call themselves EAs. Same for global poverty. To a lesser degree, same even for pandemics.
You have egregiously confused correlation for causation. And played into the stereotype that animal activist EA is persistently the sloppiest and most prone to deception for a good cause.
Personally I think Eliezer’s position is much more reasonable than Bentham’s counterarguments; the things BB dismissed as ridiculous seem obviously plausible, even if they aren’t relevant to animal moral patienthood. It may be there are good arguments against it, but they aren’t present here, and I would not trust them from any animal activism EA I didn’t already know well enough to trust by rationalist standards, because nearly every time I do that, I have more experiences that confirm the stereotype.
Especially since I don’t consider being correct on this point urgent by my own moral standards; I will continue eating chicken even if I’m convinced they are capable of having moral relevance.
No shit rationalists dismiss animal welfare more. The people who don’t, are far more likely to call themselves EAs. Same for global poverty. To a lesser degree, same even for pandemics.
You have egregiously confused correlation for causation. And played into the stereotype that animal activist EA is persistently the sloppiest and most prone to deception for a good cause.
Personally I think Eliezer’s position is much more reasonable than Bentham’s counterarguments; the things BB dismissed as ridiculous seem obviously plausible, even if they aren’t relevant to animal moral patienthood. It may be there are good arguments against it, but they aren’t present here, and I would not trust them from any animal activism EA I didn’t already know well enough to trust by rationalist standards, because nearly every time I do that, I have more experiences that confirm the stereotype.
Especially since I don’t consider being correct on this point urgent by my own moral standards; I will continue eating chicken even if I’m convinced they are capable of having moral relevance.