I want to go into this full-time but I’m unfortunately looking at part-time work and full-time studies (60 h / week) which annoys me deeply, and I’ve never manged to do even 10 hours a week (conscientiousness in the 2nd percentile, yes 2% of people have less in conscientiousness and uhm neuroticism in the 80th percentile). I’m thinking about skipping my studies to the government-funded school, which bribes me very well, just working 20 h a week and doing Maps of Meaning etc, 40 h a week. I wrote about it more here: http://lesswrong.com/lw/p6l/open_thread_june_26_july_2_2017/dusd
I’m not your ordinary LWer, this is not my only account. If you are looking to make people buy into this who are hyperrational and IQ’s in the 140′s, I wasn’t the targeted audience :).
Thanks for the advice by the way.
Regardless of one’s answer, it’s not relevant, unless you’re talking of humans and not cows, what is relevant however is a question like this:
“Do you support bringing cows into existence, regardless for the fact that the majority will be inflicted with unnecessary suffering?” “Do you support bringing cows into existence, though they will be executed in 30 yrs?”
A cows well being is an assumption, will the cow be more or less likely to be miserable for those 30 years?
Using your cognition in the position of a human is incorrect when talking of cows, a cow in the position of a cow is correct. Anthropomorphism I would consider a human bias. Human in the position of a cow is better as it might lead to a conclusion to not inflict unnecessary suffering, but it’s also a bias, so it’s a question if the means justify the end, whereas the means in this case is the argument and any hesitation is rationality.
How many cows march on cruelty-free farms and how many march on non-cruelty-free farms?
Many questions are raised which means more data to conclude a meaningful answer or ethics.