Hi Bill. Thanks for engaging with our work. I agree with you that the project had lots of limitations. And as I've said many times, no one should put much stock in the specific estimates we offered. A few additional thoughts:
We don't say that 14 bees = 1 human. We say that if the one and only thing you care about is the intensity of valenced experience (which is not the only thing that most people care about), then, probably, you should think of the value of a life year of bee suffering as being within an order of magnitude of the value of a life year of h
Hi Bill. Thanks for engaging with our work. I agree with you that the project had lots of limitations. And as I've said many times, no one should put much stock in the specific estimates we offered. A few additional thoughts:
- We don't say that 14 bees = 1 human. We say that if the one and only thing you care about is the intensity of valenced experience (which is not the only thing that most people care about), then, probably, you should think of the value of a life year of bee suffering as being within an order of magnitude of the value of a life year of h
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