My stance is that the examples like sentience, ability to feel pain, access consciousness, and various other things etc all have instrumental but not terminal value in the sense that they can be used to maximise phenomenal valence under the curve.
So you’re in the “every little helps” rather than “this one specific thing is what matters” camp?
I don’t think this wording is great but it’s more like “every little bit helps toward the one specific thing which ultimately matters”
My stance is that the examples like sentience, ability to feel pain, access consciousness, and various other things etc all have instrumental but not terminal value in the sense that they can be used to maximise phenomenal valence under the curve.
So you’re in the “every little helps” rather than “this one specific thing is what matters” camp?
I don’t think this wording is great but it’s more like “every little bit helps toward the one specific thing which ultimately matters”