I believe I already told you that I don’t consider “spreading wild animal suffering” to be absurd; it’s a plausible scenario. What may be intuitively absurd is the claim that “destroying nature is a good thing”—which is not necessarily the same as the claim that “spreading wild animal suffering to new realms is bad, or ought to be minimized”. (And there are possible interventions to reduce non-human suffering conditional on spreading non-human life. E.g. “value spreading” is often discussed in the EA community.)
Anyway, I’m done with this conversation for now as I believe other activities have higher EV.
Aren’t we talking about picking which absurd ideas to engage with?
You are doing some motte and bailey juggling:
Motte: This is an absurd idea which we engage with because it’s worth engaging with absurd ideas.
Bailey: This is an important plausible scenario which we need to be concerned about.
I believe I already told you that I don’t consider “spreading wild animal suffering” to be absurd; it’s a plausible scenario. What may be intuitively absurd is the claim that “destroying nature is a good thing”—which is not necessarily the same as the claim that “spreading wild animal suffering to new realms is bad, or ought to be minimized”. (And there are possible interventions to reduce non-human suffering conditional on spreading non-human life. E.g. “value spreading” is often discussed in the EA community.)
Anyway, I’m done with this conversation for now as I believe other activities have higher EV.