No, although if the “juicy beings” are only unfeeling bugs, that might not be as bad as it intuitively sounds.
There’s a wrinkle to my posts here where partly I’m expressing my own position (which I stated elsewhere as “I’d want human-like sapients to be included. (rough proxy: beings that would fit well in Star Trek’s Federation ought to qualify)”) and partly I’m steelmanning the OP’s position, which I’ve interpreted as “all beings are primary sources of values for the CEV”.
In terms of how various preferences involving harming other beings could be reconciled into a CEV: yeah it might not be possible. Maybe the harmed beings are simulated/fake somehow? Maybe animals don’t really have preferences about reality vs. VR, and every species ends up in their own VR world...
No, although if the “juicy beings” are only unfeeling bugs, that might not be as bad as it intuitively sounds.
There’s a wrinkle to my posts here where partly I’m expressing my own position (which I stated elsewhere as “I’d want human-like sapients to be included. (rough proxy: beings that would fit well in Star Trek’s Federation ought to qualify)”) and partly I’m steelmanning the OP’s position, which I’ve interpreted as “all beings are primary sources of values for the CEV”.
In terms of how various preferences involving harming other beings could be reconciled into a CEV: yeah it might not be possible. Maybe the harmed beings are simulated/fake somehow? Maybe animals don’t really have preferences about reality vs. VR, and every species ends up in their own VR world...