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.
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.