Re:Paul Graham on the Transition to Meat Substitutes
by 0_gravitas on Sunday February 24, 2019 @08:06PM
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Well yeah but if the whole goal is to minimize suffering in the world as I assume yours is, the lines get very blurry very fast. I would probably not personally beat a Chinese kid that's building my phone too slowly in a sweatshop, yet I still use a phone, and all the other electronics and clothing produced like that; and I'm going to assume you do have some of these products as well. And then of you really wanted to get into it you start having a conversation about "well, what is suffering" "how does something suffer, what are the requirements, when does something become able to suffer, can computers suffer?" (The computer suffering thing is actually one of my favorite conversations to have)
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Re:Paul Graham on the Transition to Meat Substitutes
by morningmoon on Sunday February 24, 2019 @08:17PM
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Making iPhones does not require beating people. Industrial meat production requires mutilating, imprisoning, and slaughtering animals (edit: obviously I'm not referring to cultured meat tissues, which does not exist on the market).
Re:Paul Graham on the Transition to Meat Substitutes
by 0_gravitas on Sunday February 24, 2019 @08:52PM
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Going by the same reasoning, making meat does not in fact require that, lab grown meat exists, but as it stands, much like the phone example, the current methods prove cheaper, and easier, and faster.