In the “factory farmed animals have positive lives” camp, I’d imagine that people aren’t going to think that those lives make for particularly cost-effective ways to generate hedons. Maybe I’m wrong but I’d imagine most people who consider these lives positive would say they’re weakly positive. By contrast, among the people who consider these lives negative, many consider them highly negative. Most people don’t actually care about maximizing sentience per se (though some people might); instead, it’s about the quality.
In the “factory farmed animals have positive lives” camp, I’d imagine that people aren’t going to think that those lives make for particularly cost-effective ways to generate hedons. Maybe I’m wrong but I’d imagine most people who consider these lives positive would say they’re weakly positive. By contrast, among the people who consider these lives negative, many consider them highly negative. Most people don’t actually care about maximizing sentience per se (though some people might); instead, it’s about the quality.