Well yes, but there are not many goals people land on when they set out from a starting point of “find the most important thing I can work on”. Animal welfare is one of those goals. It’s also true that (e.g.) donating to build a new wing in an art museum is dominated by post-ASI futures, but the sort of people who donate to build museum wings don’t care about questions like “how does ASI interact with my goal of expanding art exhibits?”
Not unrelatedly, it is strategically important to make arguments about what animal welfare people should be doing, because the value of their work is high and it’s important that their work be steered well. I don’t care nearly as much about whether museum-wing-donators are missing strategic considerations.
Well yes, but there are not many goals people land on when they set out from a starting point of “find the most important thing I can work on”. Animal welfare is one of those goals. It’s also true that (e.g.) donating to build a new wing in an art museum is dominated by post-ASI futures, but the sort of people who donate to build museum wings don’t care about questions like “how does ASI interact with my goal of expanding art exhibits?”
Not unrelatedly, it is strategically important to make arguments about what animal welfare people should be doing, because the value of their work is high and it’s important that their work be steered well. I don’t care nearly as much about whether museum-wing-donators are missing strategic considerations.