Thanks for this stimulating and thoughtful post!
I think there is also a third option: that we choose not to create artificial sentience (or artificial moral patients) in the first place.
I wrote about this in more detail here: We should prevent the creation of artificial sentience
To build (loosely) on your analogy with factory farming, this might be roughly equivalent to going back to the 1940s and preventing the creation of factory farming in the first place…
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Thanks for this stimulating and thoughtful post!
I think there is also a third option: that we choose not to create artificial sentience (or artificial moral patients) in the first place.
I wrote about this in more detail here: We should prevent the creation of artificial sentience
To build (loosely) on your analogy with factory farming, this might be roughly equivalent to going back to the 1940s and preventing the creation of factory farming in the first place…