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.
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.