Yup, I’m mostly sympathetic to your last three paragraphs.
What I meant to argue is that biases like status quo bias, self-interest, and comfort are not biases that could lead us to (majorly) misallocate careers away from current animal suffering and toward future generations, because (I claim) work focused on future generations often involves roughly as much opposition to the status quo, self-sacrifice, and discomfort as work focused on animals. (That comparison doesn’t hold for dietary distinctions, of course, so the effects of the biases you mention depend on what resources we’re worried about misallocating / what decisions we’re worried about messing up.)
Yup, I’m mostly sympathetic to your last three paragraphs.
What I meant to argue is that biases like status quo bias, self-interest, and comfort are not biases that could lead us to (majorly) misallocate careers away from current animal suffering and toward future generations, because (I claim) work focused on future generations often involves roughly as much opposition to the status quo, self-sacrifice, and discomfort as work focused on animals. (That comparison doesn’t hold for dietary distinctions, of course, so the effects of the biases you mention depend on what resources we’re worried about misallocating / what decisions we’re worried about messing up.)