>I think the problem with this framing is that it privileges a particular way of thinking about option value that prioritizes the values of the human species in a way I find arbitrary.

I think it's in the same category of "don't do crime for utilitarian reasons"? Like, if you are not seeing that (trans-)humans are preferable, you are at odds with lots of people who do see it. (and, like, with me personally) Not moustache twirling level of villaining, but you know... you need to be careful with this stuff. You probably don't want to be that part of ea that is literally plotting downfall of human civilization