From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue May 21 2002 - 13:56:45 MDT
"Dickey, Michael F" wrote:
>
> Now if they could just grow the chickens without heads, removing the costly,
> inneficient, and inhumane process of raising and slaughtering the animals,
> then we would all be better off. More abudant, less expensive food, and
> animal rights activists wont have much to complain about (let alone kill
> politicians over) if meat is grown in nutrient rich vats, after all, they
> would only be eating cells then...
>
> Of course, itll be labeled as 'playing god' 'unnatural' 'frankenmeat' or
> whatever else, which will delay the process further and cause more
> unessacary suffering of animals and people.
Sadly, most people are not quite as rational as Bob the Angry Flower. A
disturbing thought when you consider that Bob is insane.
http://www.angryflower.com/vegeta.gif
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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