Ah, I think we have a fundamental disagreement about how the majority of humans think about animals and each other. If the world were vegetarian, and someone created chickens, I think it would NOT lead to many chickens leading happy chicken lives. It would either be an amusing one-time lab experiment (followed by death and extinction) or the discovery that they’re darned tasty and very concentrated and portable nutrition elements, which leads to creating them for the primary purpose of food.
I’m not sure wireheading an AI (so it’s happy no matter what) is any more (or less) acceptable than doing so to chickens (by evolving smaller brains and larger breasts).
Ah, I think we have a fundamental disagreement about how the majority of humans think about animals and each other. If the world were vegetarian, and someone created chickens, I think it would NOT lead to many chickens leading happy chicken lives. It would either be an amusing one-time lab experiment (followed by death and extinction) or the discovery that they’re darned tasty and very concentrated and portable nutrition elements, which leads to creating them for the primary purpose of food.
I’m not sure wireheading an AI (so it’s happy no matter what) is any more (or less) acceptable than doing so to chickens (by evolving smaller brains and larger breasts).