Personally, I don’t care about the shrimp. At all. The anthropomorphising is absurd, and saying “but even if the suffering were much less it would still be huge” is either a basic error of thinking or dark arts. Anchor the reader by picking a huge number, then back off and point out that it’s still huge. How about epsilon? Is that still huge? How about zero? Anyone can pluck figures out of the air, dictated by whatever will support their bottom line.
I see that already one person has let this article mug his brain for $1000. His loss, though he think it gain.
I refer you to my response to Said Achmiz’s comment. Do you have a better way of estimating animal consciousness? Sure, the report isn’t perfect, but it’s better than alternatives. It’s irrational to say “well, we don’t know exactly how much they suffer, so let’s ignore them entirely.” https://www.goodthoughts.blog/p/refusing-to-quantify-is-refusing
Confused as to why this is so heavily downvoted.
Personally, I don’t care about the shrimp. At all. The anthropomorphising is absurd, and saying “but even if the suffering were much less it would still be huge” is either a basic error of thinking or dark arts. Anchor the reader by picking a huge number, then back off and point out that it’s still huge. How about epsilon? Is that still huge? How about zero? Anyone can pluck figures out of the air, dictated by whatever will support their bottom line.
I see that already one person has let this article mug his brain for $1000. His loss, though he think it gain.
The dark arts of expected value calculations relying on conservatively downgrading the most detailed report on the subject. What a joke.
I refer you to Said Achmiz’s comment.
I refer you to my response to Said Achmiz’s comment. Do you have a better way of estimating animal consciousness? Sure, the report isn’t perfect, but it’s better than alternatives. It’s irrational to say “well, we don’t know exactly how much they suffer, so let’s ignore them entirely.” https://www.goodthoughts.blog/p/refusing-to-quantify-is-refusing