I mean, clearly you agree that two shrimp are more important than one shrimp
Hm… no, I don’t think so. Enough shrimp to ensure that there keep being shrimp—that’s worth more than one shrimp. Less shrimp than that, though—nah.
I agree there is a number big enough where eventually you approach 1, nothing I have said contradicts that. As in, my guess is the series of the value of shrimp as n goes to infinity does not diverge but eventually converge on some finite number, though it does feel kind of confusing to think about.
Sure, this is all fine (and nothing that I have said contradicts you believing this; it seems like you took my objection to be much narrower than it actually was), but you’re saying that this number is much larger than the value of a human life. That’s the thing that I’m objecting to.
I’ll mostly bow out at this point, but one quick clarification:
but you’re saying that this number is much larger than the value of a human life
I didn’t say “much larger”! Like, IDK, my guess is there is some number of shrimp for which its worth sacrificing a thousand humans, which is larger, but not necessarily “much”.
My guess is there is no number, at least in the least convenient world where we are not talking about shrimp galaxies forming alternative life forms, for which it’s worth sacrificing 10 million humans, at least at current population levels and on the current human trajectory.
10 million is just a lot, and humanity has a lot of shit to deal with, and while I think it would be an atrocity to destroy this shrimp-gigaverse, it would also be an atrocity to kill 10 million people, especially intentionally.
Hm… no, I don’t think so. Enough shrimp to ensure that there keep being shrimp—that’s worth more than one shrimp. Less shrimp than that, though—nah.
Sure, this is all fine (and nothing that I have said contradicts you believing this; it seems like you took my objection to be much narrower than it actually was), but you’re saying that this number is much larger than the value of a human life. That’s the thing that I’m objecting to.
I’ll mostly bow out at this point, but one quick clarification:
I didn’t say “much larger”! Like, IDK, my guess is there is some number of shrimp for which its worth sacrificing a thousand humans, which is larger, but not necessarily “much”.
My guess is there is no number, at least in the least convenient world where we are not talking about shrimp galaxies forming alternative life forms, for which it’s worth sacrificing 10 million humans, at least at current population levels and on the current human trajectory.
10 million is just a lot, and humanity has a lot of shit to deal with, and while I think it would be an atrocity to destroy this shrimp-gigaverse, it would also be an atrocity to kill 10 million people, especially intentionally.