I think the big problem with the suffering/day of life estimate is that it assumes suffering can’t go negative. If you think suffering can go as low as 0.015 suffering-units it doesn’t seem too much of a stretch to think their lives could be net positive.
(this is a general problem with reducing-suffering derived estimates imo)
I think that’s a really interesting point. Curious as to what you think the lower bound for suffering would be assuming it could go negative (basically, if they’re living net positive lives)?
I think the big problem with the suffering/day of life estimate is that it assumes suffering can’t go negative. If you think suffering can go as low as 0.015 suffering-units it doesn’t seem too much of a stretch to think their lives could be net positive.
(this is a general problem with reducing-suffering derived estimates imo)
I think that’s a really interesting point. Curious as to what you think the lower bound for suffering would be assuming it could go negative (basically, if they’re living net positive lives)?