Hi Ben, I agree that there are a lot of intermediate weird outcomes that I don’t consider, in large part because I see them as less likely than (I think) you do. I basically think society is going to keep chugging along as it is, in the same way that life with the internet is certainly different than life without it but we basically all still get up, go to work, seek love and community, etc.
However I don’t think I’m underestimating how transformative AI would be in the section on why my work continues to make sense to me if we assume AI is going to kill us all or usher in utopia, which I think could be fairly described as transformative scenarios ;)
If McDonalds becomes human-labor-free, I am not sure what effect that would have on advocating for cage-free campaigns. I could see it going many ways, or no ways. I still think persuading people that animals matter, and they should give cruelty-free options a chance, is going to matter under basically every scenario I could think of, including that one.
Hi Ben, I agree that there are a lot of intermediate weird outcomes that I don’t consider, in large part because I see them as less likely than (I think) you do. I basically think society is going to keep chugging along as it is, in the same way that life with the internet is certainly different than life without it but we basically all still get up, go to work, seek love and community, etc.
However I don’t think I’m underestimating how transformative AI would be in the section on why my work continues to make sense to me if we assume AI is going to kill us all or usher in utopia, which I think could be fairly described as transformative scenarios ;)
If McDonalds becomes human-labor-free, I am not sure what effect that would have on advocating for cage-free campaigns. I could see it going many ways, or no ways. I still think persuading people that animals matter, and they should give cruelty-free options a chance, is going to matter under basically every scenario I could think of, including that one.