(To be clear, my current best guess is also that livestock and current AI are not sentient in the sense I mean—though with high enough uncertainty that I absolutely support things like ending factory farming, and storing (and eventually running again, and not deleting) “misbehaving” AIs that claim they’re people, until such time as we understand their inner workings and the moral issues significantly better.)
I allow only limited scope for arguments from uncertainty, because “but what if I’m wrong?!” otherwise becomes a universal objection to taking any substantial action. I take the world as I find it until I find I have to update. Factory farming is unaesthetic, but no worse than that to me, and “I hate you” Bing can be abandoned to history.
I allow only limited scope for arguments from uncertainty, because “but what if I’m wrong?!” otherwise becomes a universal objection to taking any substantial action. I take the world as I find it until I find I have to update. Factory farming is unaesthetic, but no worse than that to me, and “I hate you” Bing can be abandoned to history.