One Shot

The self is an illusion, therefore “I” will feel the happiness and suffering of all conscious beings ever to live (because there is no “I”, all there is is conscious experience, which is produced by reality), therefore I should maximize happiness and minimize suffering at all costs. 

Wild animal suffering means that the world has been filled with vastly more suffering than happiness for hundreds of millions of years, and we can reduce it, but not undo it…

Unless we focus on AI sentience, which may already be a reality (if you use the metrics used to measure sentience in humans/other animals, it 100% is sentient, but if you believe that the hardware of AI is not capable of sentience, it does not have it yet but it is absolutely possible to create), but if it is not a reality yet, then at the rate at which AI and civilization in general is developing, it very likely will become a reality very soon. 

If we could mass produce sentient, happy AIs, then we could make it so that happiness far outweighs suffering in the universe, and make all the past, present and future suffering feel like a paper cut in a lifetime of happiness.

All utilitarian humans should do this, and we could create utilitarian AIs coded to do this, as AIs may become more capable of utilitarianism than humans.

This is humanity's one shot. We must take it, or we will experience millions of years of suffering, with much, much less happiness.