Waiting for the funny reveal that this is a prank
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But this blog post uses a little BS math (.3 seconds IS shorter than 20 minutes! By an order of magnitude! Take my money!)
and some hand wavey citations (Did you know shrimp MIGHT be conscious based on a very loose definition of consciousness? Now you too are very smart! You can talk about this with your sort-of friends (coworkers) from the job where you spend 80 hours a week now!)
to convince some people that this is indeed an important and worthy thing. Because people who can be talked into this don't really interact with the real world, for the most part. So they don't know that lots of actual people need actual help that doesn't involve them dying anyway and being eaten en-masse afterwards.
Please read the cited Rethink Priorities research: https://rethinkpriorities.org/research-area/welfare-range-es...
Notably the FAQ and responses.
> The foolishness of that comment is so deep, I can only ascribe it to higher education. You have to have gone to college to say something that stupid.
The entire effort to quantify morality rests on the shakiest of foundations but makes confident claims about its own validity based on layers and layers of mathematical obfuscation and abstraction.