I refer you to my response to Said Achmiz's comment. Do you have a better way of estimating animal consciousness? Sure, the report isn't perfect, but it's better than alternatives. It's irrational to say "well, we don't know exactly how much they suffer, so let's ignore them entirely." https://www.goodthoughts.blog/p/refusing-to-quantify-is-refusing
Fischer's not against using it for tradeoffs, he's against using it as a singular indicator of worth.
But then you'd lose out on being the creatures.
The dark arts of expected value calculations relying on conservatively downgrading the most detailed report on the subject. What a joke.
But I'm not trolleying them--I'm talking about how bad their suffering is.
As they describe in the report, the philosophical assumptions are mostly inconsequential and assumed for simplicity. The rest of your critique is just describing what they did, not an objection to it. It's not precise and they admit quite high uncertainty, but it's definitely better than alternatives (E.g. neuron counts).
It's not that piece. It's another one that got eaten by a Substack glitch unfortuantely--hopefully it will be back up soon!
He thinks it's very near zero if there is a gap.
Well, sometimes getting a lot of arguments for a view should convince you of the view.