Consider how difficult it is to change yourself, and now consider how foolish it is to believe that we should “change society” before we change ourselves. Michael Jackson said it better; I’m starting with the man in the mirror.
@jamestalarico You can’t tax ingenuity out of existence and expect progress to stay. Don’t keep lying to people. If @elonmusk vanished tomorrow, his companies were liquidated and every asset was given to the poor there would be even more poverty. Wealth creation is not a zero-sum game.
@SwitchRepairSho No expert will ever say The Manifester is science fiction. The most difficult techs for it to be a reality have already been invented.
@bryan_johnson who I admire, posted this about his veganism. Here’s my response:
If we ever reach a point where advanced AI judges humanity’s ethics, I think it would actually take issue with how easily we dismiss plant life, because eating meat is an evolutionary behavior. It’s not something humanity chose in a moral vacuum; it’s something nature programmed into our biology. So AI could see it as a natural vestige of survival, part of our evolutionary design.
But what @bryan_johnson is doing now, is consciously deciding that animal life is more “worthy” than plant life. If the entire society were to do that then we would not be following biology anymore, we’d be making moral hierarchies, declaring that certain life forms deserve to die and others deserve protection, based solely on how similar they seem to us in awareness or pain response.
From a non-animal, hyper-rational AI perspective, that looks dangerously inconsistent. Because once you start ranking life based on complexity or consciousness level, you’ve created the same logic that could be used against us.
If we justify killing what we consider “less conscious” or “different in nature” (plant vs animal) then a superintelligent AI could easily and morally apply that same reasoning to humans, viewing us as the lesser, inefficient species to be optimized or removed.
So ironically, the ideology that seems more “ethical” today, veganism as moral superiority, could logically backfire and appear to AI as a precedent for selective extermination. It teaches the logic of valuing some life forms over others, which is exactly the logic that could one day devalue us.
We should love all life forms equally, from a unicellular plant organism to @elonmusk regardless of our evolutionary eating habits.