For the record, here’s what I originally commented on David’s wall. My comment here on LW was an excerpt from that comment:
Remember when Eliezer Yudkowsky claimed on that website [LW] that frogs are not subjects of moral concern? What ought one to think of a community that intends to be “less wrong” and yet succumbs to such obvious forms of anthropocentric bias?
(I ask this as a big fan of LW, and as someone puzzled by the fact that this community is composed of individuals who are abnormally intelligent and truth-oriented.)
Again, we should find somewhere else to discuss this- but (if that’s indeed Eliezer’s quote) it couldn’t be unthinking bias; the idea of moral concern universalized to all sentients was a big theme with Young Eliezer, if I recall correctly. Some further argument changed his mind, at least in the context of some pertinent query.
And I’m not among them, but there are a fair number of Less Wrongers who are vegetarians for ethical reasons.
For the record, here’s what I originally commented on David’s wall. My comment here on LW was an excerpt from that comment:
Again, we should find somewhere else to discuss this- but (if that’s indeed Eliezer’s quote) it couldn’t be unthinking bias; the idea of moral concern universalized to all sentients was a big theme with Young Eliezer, if I recall correctly. Some further argument changed his mind, at least in the context of some pertinent query.
And I’m not among them, but there are a fair number of Less Wrongers who are vegetarians for ethical reasons.