Executive summary: This report outlines a framework for quantifying the subjective experiences of animals to compare the potential impact of different animal advocacy campaigns, incorporating philosophical and empirical uncertainties through worldview diversification.
Key points:
The framework is based on the Cumulative Pain metric, considering intensity and duration of experiences across species and interventions.
Pleasure categories are added to complement pain categories, with moral weightings assigned based on different worldviews.
Welfare ranges from Rethink Priorities are used to make comparisons across vertebrate and invertebrate species.
The framework can compare improving animal welfare to averting animal lives by tallying total pain and pleasure experienced.
Limitations include imperfect accuracy, challenges in addressing indirect effects, and the need for more empirical data to inform weightings.
The framework is one tool among many, including qualitative factors, used to evaluate animal advocacy interventions.
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Executive summary: This report outlines a framework for quantifying the subjective experiences of animals to compare the potential impact of different animal advocacy campaigns, incorporating philosophical and empirical uncertainties through worldview diversification.
Key points:
The framework is based on the Cumulative Pain metric, considering intensity and duration of experiences across species and interventions.
Pleasure categories are added to complement pain categories, with moral weightings assigned based on different worldviews.
Welfare ranges from Rethink Priorities are used to make comparisons across vertebrate and invertebrate species.
The framework can compare improving animal welfare to averting animal lives by tallying total pain and pleasure experienced.
Limitations include imperfect accuracy, challenges in addressing indirect effects, and the need for more empirical data to inform weightings.
The framework is one tool among many, including qualitative factors, used to evaluate animal advocacy interventions.
This comment was auto-generated by the EA Forum Team. Feel free to point out issues with this summary by replying to the comment, and contact us if you have feedback.