Really interesting food for thought. I don't have much to add to Sampson's arguments at the moment except for maybe the x-risk probality chart comes from Toby Ord's book The Precipice published in 2020. It's amazing how he Unaligned artificial intelligenceĀ to be about ~ 1 in 10, a few years before ChatGPT was released, which has held up well to this date.
Great summary of one of my fav books!Ā
P.S. Peter Singer also made a documentary covering the main points of the book. You can watch it for free here:Ā
I'm tardy to the party but I wanted to join in. I share a lot of OP's concerns especially when it comes to shrimp welfare.Ā
As I wrote in a previous post:Ā
"Most of our data on the topic [of farmed shrimp sentience] is based on another shrimp species about as evolutionarily distant from what's most commonly eaten as sharks are from humans"
Amen ā