Rachell Powell
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 26 Jan
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species, is that alone going to give us a greater value of the entire biosphere?
All of this is going to rest on these insanely controversial questions about how to parse value in nature.
about how we put together the value of, say, rational persons against sentient non-persons and then add it all up and figure out some kind of ... There is no agreement on this.
Once you get to aggregates and ethics, no one knows what to do.
Human extinction might overall, for sentient life, be a huge boon
But maybe not.
You know, the reality is, and this is something people don't realize, and this is like, you know, this is what I always like, always kind of made me a little bit reluctant to go sort of like vegan vegetarian in the sense that like, I mean...
It's as if like they and this is kind of like the colonialist narrative It's like there's bad guys and the bad guys do something bad and the rest of it is and all they're doing is mucking up some kind of like a natural beautiful harmonious
And, but of course that wasn't true in colonialism.
I mean, colonialism was a problem for other moral reasons, but like point being, there wasn't some kind of harmony that was being disrupted, right?
And is of course the same thing in the natural living world.
It is a horrific, horrific place.
And so, yeah.
And like, but it's like, I mean, just,
know like doing little things can give you insights into this like ira i've you know i've always been into aquariums and when i finally moved out of my uh my parents house i could have all the animals i want right so like you know now if we have like a bazillion aquariums and i've been breeding all sorts of fish like many many generations years and years and and all i could tell you is like
It's like, okay, you're gonna have fish that breed.
Oh my God, wait a minute, you just had 500 babies.
What am I gonna do with this?
And you're like, well, actually, only, I mean, if you want a stable fish population, you're only gonna get two living, right?
And so, and you immediately realize all these horror shows unfold, right?
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