Thanks Vasco, I really appreciate your work to incorporate the wellbeing of wild animals into cost-effectiveness analyses.
In your piece, you focus on evaluating existing interventions. But I wonder whether there might be more direct ways to reduce the living time of soil nematodes, mites, and springtails that could outperform any human life-saving intervention.
On priors it seems unlikely that optimizing for saving human lives would be the most effective strategy to reduce wild animal suffering.
Thanks, Jack! I agree it is unlikely that the most cost-effective ways of increasing human-years are the most cost-effective ways of increasing agricultural-land-years. Brian Tomasik may have listed some of these. However, buying beef decreases arthropod-years the most cost-effectively among the interventions for which Brian estimated the cost-effectiveness, and I estimated GiveWell’s top charities are 2.65 (= 1.69/0.638) times as cost-effective as buying beef.
Thanks Vasco, I really appreciate your work to incorporate the wellbeing of wild animals into cost-effectiveness analyses.
In your piece, you focus on evaluating existing interventions. But I wonder whether there might be more direct ways to reduce the living time of soil nematodes, mites, and springtails that could outperform any human life-saving intervention.
On priors it seems unlikely that optimizing for saving human lives would be the most effective strategy to reduce wild animal suffering.
Thanks, Jack! I agree it is unlikely that the most cost-effective ways of increasing human-years are the most cost-effective ways of increasing agricultural-land-years. Brian Tomasik may have listed some of these. However, buying beef decreases arthropod-years the most cost-effectively among the interventions for which Brian estimated the cost-effectiveness, and I estimated GiveWell’s top charities are 2.65 (= 1.69/0.638) times as cost-effective as buying beef.