The idea of a rationalist who doesn’t understand that rationality/intelligence doesn’t imply values convergence astounds me.
I’ll be a vegan when our technology outgrows animal farms, or the personal cost to be a vegan falls below the tiny sliver of me that is vaguely dissatisfied with the status quo.
The problem is that it is intensely hypocritical to only value human life, because humans are just not that different from other animals. Maybe “irrational” is the wrong word here, because orthogonality thesis blah blah, but it’s laughably arbitrary, along the same lines as nationalism or sexism. “I happen to have been born in X group, therefore X group is superior.”
No, but I don’t eat very much meat.
Not to be that guy, but the idea of someone being a rationalist but not a vegan astounds me. You do know animals are sentient, right?
The idea of a rationalist who doesn’t understand that rationality/intelligence doesn’t imply values convergence astounds me.
I’ll be a vegan when our technology outgrows animal farms, or the personal cost to be a vegan falls below the tiny sliver of me that is vaguely dissatisfied with the status quo.
The problem is that it is intensely hypocritical to only value human life, because humans are just not that different from other animals. Maybe “irrational” is the wrong word here, because orthogonality thesis blah blah, but it’s laughably arbitrary, along the same lines as nationalism or sexism. “I happen to have been born in X group, therefore X group is superior.”