BrianK comments on [Link post] Optimistic “Longtermism” Is Terrible For Animals

[BrianK]

I think we should have a lot of uncertainty about the future. For example:

1. There could be a high percentage of digital people but some non-digital people, and so animals still matter.

2. Digital people might cause suffering to digital animals.

3. We could treat digital people as terribly as we do animals.

Others have written about these ideas here: https://​​forum.effectivealtruism.org/​​topics/​​non-humans-and-the-long-term-future.

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