I think a lot of people use cultured meat not being available as an excuse to keep eating animal flesh, and when it is available, they’d just find a new excuse to not change
VeryJerry
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AGI by 2028 is more likely than not
Ai 2027
Just applied!
I don’t judge people for having a different eating pattern than me (i eat like 90% plenny shake 😅), but I do judge people who aren’t vegan. That question tripped me up a bit, I think I answered somewhat agree but in the spirit of it I probably should’ve answered strongly agree
How can we unhypocritically expect AI superintelligence to respect “inferior” sentient beings like us when we do no such thing for other species?
How can we expect AI to have “better” (more consistent, universal, compassionate, unbiased, etc) values than us and also always only do what we want it to do?
What if extremely powerful, extremely corrigible AI falls into the hands of a racist? A sexist? A speciesist?
Some things to think about if this post doesn’t click for you
Don’t forget other species have been experiencing experiences before we even existed, and still do. I’d be surprised if humans make up any significant fraction of the total experiences experienced, for example we kill more non-human animals on factory farms each year than the total number of humans who’ve ever lived.
I was just thinking about writing a post like this after listening to https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/introducing-ai-2027 and especially the end where they’re talking about getting into blogging, and thinking about the massive blind spot Rationalists seem to have for sentientism. I’m particularly interested in ways to get involved and help push this cause forward. Especially as someone who frankly, feels pretty helpless with the mass scale of non-human suffering and mass amount of human apathy towards it, as well as the many flaws in the current animal rights movement.
My first thought is, “is this money going to the person being tipped, or to a charity? If the latter, which charity?”. After a minute of poking around the site and thinking about it, my next question is who’s the target audience/donor? Is it somebody who doesn’t know where to donate their money, but trusts somebody else (whoever they “tip”) to donate it well?