Putting aside the singularity bit, compare your beliefs about the following:
1) How long you’re likely to continue putting out food.
2) The amount of food you’re going to put out in terms of “racoon daily calorie consumption equivalents”
3) How happy it makes a racoon to live on (roughly) free food
4) How much it sucks to starve to death as an infant racoon
5) How much it sucks to die as an adult racoon
6) How much it sucks to be a (by whatever farming method X) meat animal.
7) How much moral damage is done by the deforestation or land development required for meat produced by method X.
3,4,6,7 are approximately the costs and benefits that you incur for continuing your feeding.
5 is the cost of shutting down your feeding at any point
1 tells you the ratio of continuation and starting costs, and 2 is a scaling factor.
Putting aside the singularity bit, compare your beliefs about the following:
1) How long you’re likely to continue putting out food.
2) The amount of food you’re going to put out in terms of “racoon daily calorie consumption equivalents”
3) How happy it makes a racoon to live on (roughly) free food
4) How much it sucks to starve to death as an infant racoon
5) How much it sucks to die as an adult racoon
6) How much it sucks to be a (by whatever farming method X) meat animal.
7) How much moral damage is done by the deforestation or land development required for meat produced by method X.
3,4,6,7 are approximately the costs and benefits that you incur for continuing your feeding.
5 is the cost of shutting down your feeding at any point
1 tells you the ratio of continuation and starting costs, and 2 is a scaling factor.