You are welcome! I have now estimated the total welfare of animal populations, trees, and bacteria and archaea assuming individual welfare per fully-healthy-organism-year is proportional to “metabolic energy consumption per unit time at rest”^”exponent”. I had recommended research informing how to increase the welfare of soil animals, but I am now more pessimistic about this. I currently think it is better to focus on decreasing the uncertainty about how the individual welfare per unit time of different organisms and digital systems compares with that of humans.
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You are welcome! I have now estimated the total welfare of animal populations, trees, and bacteria and archaea assuming individual welfare per fully-healthy-organism-year is proportional to “metabolic energy consumption per unit time at rest”^”exponent”. I had recommended research informing how to increase the welfare of soil animals, but I am now more pessimistic about this. I currently think it is better to focus on decreasing the uncertainty about how the individual welfare per unit time of different organisms and digital systems compares with that of humans.