Interesting post. Just want to chime in with a comment that I think you’re overconfident in cell-cultured meat (though I don’t blame you—there’s been a lot of boostermism). It’s possible it won’t reach price parity and be a real contender in the marketplace. We have to try, and time will tell.
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Where have you been all my life? We are thinking similarly, and I’m glad you are raising these topics and added nuance/wisdom/data to them. I wrote a related piece for Fast Company a while back: https://www.fastcompany.com/90599561/once-we-have-lab-grown-meat-will-we-still-need-animal-advocacy.
Well articulated. Thanks for adding this.
I think we should have a lot of uncertainty about the future. For example:
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There could be a high percentage of digital people but some non-digital people, and so animals still matter.
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Digital people might cause suffering to digital animals.
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We could treat digital people as terribly as we do animals.
Others have written about these ideas here: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/non-humans-and-the-long-term-future.
Thanks for your comment!
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Thank you for the insights!
I’d certainly write the constitution differently (why doesn’t it mention welfare for insects, for example?), but I more take it to mean that numerous amendments were required to make it moral, and still many more are needed.