Yes? This seems like a net good. Cows and chickens are like Cauliflower in that they need a very specific and controlled environment to produce market level produce.
Genocide seems like the wrong word here. If you understand it as removing a group of genes, then you’re correct. If you mean it as the large scale butchering of a group, then that’s sort of the whole point of farming them?
If you believe these animals are somewhat sentient with worthwhile individual qualia, then the consequences of cheap and perfect synthetic meat would be a reduction in number to less than 1 percent the current population.
So given those assumptions it’s genocide. I am not saying I believe they are sentient but presumably once we invent “neural debuggers” we will be able to answer this.
(Perfect synthetic meat: a close enough substitute that blind A:B testing cannot distinguish the difference. Neural debugger: technology to connect trillions of wires, either physically or though light, all throughout a running meat brain so that it’s functions can be fully analyzed and understood.)
Yes? This seems like a net good. Cows and chickens are like Cauliflower in that they need a very specific and controlled environment to produce market level produce.
Genocide seems like the wrong word here. If you understand it as removing a group of genes, then you’re correct. If you mean it as the large scale butchering of a group, then that’s sort of the whole point of farming them?
If you believe these animals are somewhat sentient with worthwhile individual qualia, then the consequences of cheap and perfect synthetic meat would be a reduction in number to less than 1 percent the current population.
So given those assumptions it’s genocide. I am not saying I believe they are sentient but presumably once we invent “neural debuggers” we will be able to answer this.
(Perfect synthetic meat: a close enough substitute that blind A:B testing cannot distinguish the difference. Neural debugger: technology to connect trillions of wires, either physically or though light, all throughout a running meat brain so that it’s functions can be fully analyzed and understood.)