It’s not my problem! I have not made the mistake of moving to the Bay Area where vegans can try to punish me, so I can just ignore them and continue eating my delicious delicious meats.
If the information environment prevents people from figuring out the true cause of the obesity epidemic, or making better engineered foods, this affects you no matter what place and what social circles you run in. And if epistemic norms are damaged in ways that lead to misaligned AGI instead of aligned AGI, that could literally kill you.
The stakes here are much larger than the individual meat consumption of people within EA and rationality circles. I think this framing (moralistic vegans vs selfish meat eaters with no externalities) causes people to misunderstand the world in ways that are predictably very harmful.
It’s not my problem! I have not made the mistake of moving to the Bay Area where vegans can try to punish me, so I can just ignore them and continue eating my delicious delicious meats.
If the information environment prevents people from figuring out the true cause of the obesity epidemic, or making better engineered foods, this affects you no matter what place and what social circles you run in. And if epistemic norms are damaged in ways that lead to misaligned AGI instead of aligned AGI, that could literally kill you.
The stakes here are much larger than the individual meat consumption of people within EA and rationality circles. I think this framing (moralistic vegans vs selfish meat eaters with no externalities) causes people to misunderstand the world in ways that are predictably very harmful.