Totally agree.
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Insects Are Not Moderately Important
Children Are Dying Whom You Can Save
How to make sense of wrongness if you’re a consequentialist
The rationale for today was it was the last day for the consultation.
Insect Suffering Is The Biggest Issue And What To Do About It
Everything’s An Emergency
The Virtue Ethics Case For Shrimp Welfare
Wild Animal Suffering Is The Worst Thing In The World
Against Addressing Root Causes
I disagree with you about wild animal welfare—I think it’s clearly negative. I agree though that we should be cautious and give to the wild animal institute. But even if they have positive lives, if they’ll still die eventually, this just pushes them back to have another more painful death.
Do you think paying for more human pesticides is more effective than SWP? And is there a charity doing that?
I mean, the alternative is the mosquitos dying later. Do we have reason to expect their later deaths to be any better? Given that mosquitos are R-strategists, it might be good to kill them if we think they live negative lives (which I do—I know you’re less certain).
Hmm, I guess none of those happening seems decently likely to me—around 50% probability.
The Upcoming PEPFAR Cut Will Kill Millions, Many of Them Children
Yeah sure! Thanks so much!
How Much Does Morality Require You To Give?
Effective Altruism FAQ
[Question] Does anyone have up to date estimates on the most effective charities helping chickens?
Checking it out now.
That would be right. They’re not conscious, so they’re not important at all.