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An­i­mal Ethics

TagLast edit: 3 Sep 2023 23:34 UTC by keltan

Animal Ethics relates to how we ought to treat Non-Human Animals. Current treatment of animals is potentially a moral emergency. Though these discussions are underway.

“There is no fundamental difference between humans and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.”
- Darwin

The question is not, ‘Can they reason?’ nor, ‘Can they talk?’ but rather, ‘Can they suffer?’
- Jeremy Bentham

Animal Ethics covers a lot of ground, including but not limited to:
Animal Rights, Vegetarian/​Veganism, Diet, Effectiveness of these methodologies, Nutrition, Industrial Meat Production, Sentience, History, Animal Welfare, Speciesism, Other things?

(If your post relates to Non-Human Animals and their internal states, it probably belongs here)

For Further Info, Here is an introduction by Peter Singer

WARNING:
Those who play in these woods should dance with care, the forest is dense here, it is easy to trip on a root or your foot.

Unfortunately, there are few topics you less want to come up at a non-rational dinner party than Animal Ethics as it can be highly contentious.
Before engaging with this section of LessWrong, weather you believe Non-Human Animals deserve rights or not, please take a deep breath… and remember your training as a rationalist.

5. Mo­ral Value for Sen­tient An­i­mals? Alas, Not Yet

RogerDearnaley27 Dec 2023 6:42 UTC
33 points
41 comments23 min readLW link

Some thoughts on veg­e­tar­i­anism and veganism

Richard_Ngo14 Feb 2022 2:40 UTC
37 points
23 comments4 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Ar­gu­ments Against Speciesism

Lukas_Gloor28 Jul 2013 18:24 UTC
30 points
476 comments9 min readLW link

Wire­head your Chickens

Shmi20 Jun 2018 5:49 UTC
86 points
53 comments2 min readLW link

An­i­mal welfare EA and per­sonal dietary options

Rob Bensinger5 Jan 2022 18:53 UTC
38 points
32 comments3 min readLW link

Book Re­view: The Ethics of What We Eat

Jonah_O18 Oct 2021 8:16 UTC
20 points
1 comment11 min readLW link

Can a Ve­gan Diet Be Healthy? A Liter­a­ture Review

Erich_Grunewald12 Mar 2021 12:47 UTC
26 points
0 comments11 min readLW link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Eat the cute an­i­mals instead

Andrew Vlahos21 Nov 2021 1:06 UTC
−4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Re­but­ting Every Ob­jec­tion To Giv­ing To The Shrimp Welfare Pro­ject

omnizoid22 Nov 2024 16:12 UTC
−6 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

Pre­limi­nary thoughts on moral weight

lukeprog13 Aug 2018 23:45 UTC
93 points
49 comments8 min readLW link2 reviews

Four Fo­cus Areas of Effec­tive Altruism

lukeprog9 Jul 2013 0:59 UTC
67 points
55 comments5 min readLW link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Through Ad­ver­tis­ing Vege­tar­i­anism?

Peter Wildeford12 Jun 2013 18:50 UTC
29 points
553 comments14 min readLW link

Why Eat Less Meat?

Peter Wildeford23 Jul 2013 21:30 UTC
64 points
505 comments6 min readLW link

When should an Effec­tive Altru­ist be veg­e­tar­ian?

KatjaGrace22 Nov 2014 5:04 UTC
35 points
81 comments9 min readLW link

Vegetarianism

Raemon24 Dec 2010 4:57 UTC
40 points
179 comments2 min readLW link

How Pet Own­ers Can Help Wild An­i­mals and The Environment

ozymandias1 Jun 2018 21:57 UTC
7 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Why I’m Not Vegan

jefftk9 Apr 2020 13:00 UTC
30 points
23 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

An ar­gu­ment that an­i­mals don’t re­ally suffer

Solvent7 Jan 2012 9:07 UTC
5 points
86 comments3 min readLW link

Richard Dawk­ins on vivi­sec­tion: “But can they suffer?”

XiXiDu4 Jul 2011 16:56 UTC
19 points
49 comments3 min readLW link

Valu­ing Sen­tience: Can They Suffer?

jefftk29 Jul 2013 12:39 UTC
9 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

Is skil­led hunt­ing un­eth­i­cal?

JamesFaville17 Feb 2018 18:48 UTC
6 points
18 comments12 min readLW link

AGI x An­i­mal Welfare: A High-EV Outreach Op­por­tu­nity?

simeon_c28 Jun 2023 20:44 UTC
29 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Weigh­ing An­i­mal Worth

jefftk28 Sep 2023 13:50 UTC
25 points
11 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Killing the ants

Joe Carlsmith7 Feb 2021 23:17 UTC
76 points
27 comments8 min readLW link1 review

Is top-down ve­g­anism un­eth­i­cal?

Malmesbury22 Aug 2021 16:53 UTC
13 points
15 comments4 min readLW link
(www.telescopic-turnip.net)

Quick gen­eral thoughts on suffer­ing and consciousness

Rob Bensinger30 Oct 2021 18:05 UTC
38 points
46 comments21 min readLW link

There Meat Come A Scan­dal...

Nicholas / Heather Kross7 Nov 2021 20:52 UTC
31 points
7 comments3 min readLW link
(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

Tears Must Flow

sapphire30 Nov 2021 18:37 UTC
21 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

Mo­ral Weights of Six An­i­mals, Con­sid­er­ing View­point Uncer­tainty—Seeds of Science call for reviewers

rogersbacon26 May 2022 13:36 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Some thoughts on Animals

nitinkhanna9 Jul 2022 2:11 UTC
2 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Peter Singer’s first pub­lished piece on AI

Fai15 Jul 2022 6:18 UTC
20 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(link.springer.com)

[Linkpost] Can lab-grown brains be­come con­scious?

Jack R28 Aug 2022 17:45 UTC
14 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

EA, Ve­ganism and Nega­tive An­i­mal Utilitarianism

Yair Halberstadt4 Sep 2022 18:30 UTC
9 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Kindness

David Gross3 Jul 2021 21:47 UTC
17 points
1 comment17 min readLW link

Knowl­edge Base 3: Shop­ping ad­vi­sor and other uses of knowl­edge base about products

iwis9 Oct 2023 11:53 UTC
0 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Public Opinion on AI Safety: AIMS 2023 and 2021 Summary

25 Sep 2023 18:55 UTC
3 points
2 comments3 min readLW link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Solu­tion to the two en­velopes prob­lem for moral weights

MichaelStJules19 Feb 2024 0:15 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Which an­i­mals re­al­ize which types of sub­jec­tive welfare?

MichaelStJules27 Feb 2024 19:31 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Arthro­pod (non) sentience

Arturo Macias25 Nov 2024 16:01 UTC
11 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

Su­per ad­di­tivity of consciousness

Arturo Macias29 Apr 2024 15:41 UTC
−2 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

De­mand offsetting

paulfchristiano21 Mar 2021 18:20 UTC
133 points
41 comments5 min readLW link
(sideways-view.com)

In­ter­view with Chris­tine M. Kors­gaard: An­i­mal Ethics, Kan­ti­anism, Utilitarianism

Erich_Grunewald8 May 2021 11:44 UTC
11 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Which an­i­mals can suffer?

Valentin20261 Jun 2021 3:42 UTC
7 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

A Longter­mist case against Veganism

Connor Tabarrok20 Oct 2022 14:30 UTC
−3 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Gra­da­tions of moral weight

MichaelStJules29 Feb 2024 23:08 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

I Really Don’t Un­der­stand Eliezer Yud­kowsky’s Po­si­tion on Consciousness

J Bostock29 Oct 2021 11:09 UTC
103 points
120 comments4 min readLW link

Se­quence overview: Welfare and moral weights

MichaelStJules15 Aug 2024 4:22 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Sen­tience In­sti­tute 2023 End of Year Summary

michael_dello27 Nov 2023 12:11 UTC
11 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Tak­ing Into Ac­count Sen­tient Non-Hu­mans in AI Am­bi­tious Value Learn­ing: Sen­tien­tist Co­her­ent Ex­trap­o­lated Volition

Adrià Moret2 Dec 2023 14:07 UTC
26 points
31 comments42 min readLW link

The Ethics of Eat­ing Seafood: A Ra­tional Discussion

Jonathan Grant15 Mar 2023 17:55 UTC
1 point
2 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Am I eth­i­cally obli­gated to ex­tend the life of my dog with life-ex­ten­sion treat­ments about to hit the mar­ket?

TrudosKudos11 Dec 2023 19:41 UTC
−3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Can This Idea Dra­mat­i­cally Im­prove Effec­tive Ve­gan Ac­tivism?

NothingIsArt19 Mar 2023 23:39 UTC
−5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Against Dog Ownership

Ben Pace23 Mar 2020 9:17 UTC
54 points
27 comments4 min readLW link
(dormin.org)

Creat­ing Welfare Biol­ogy: A Re­search Proposal

ozymandias16 Nov 2017 19:06 UTC
20 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

Map­ping Fun The­ory onto the challenges of eth­i­cal foie gras

HonoreDB7 Dec 2011 20:47 UTC
49 points
62 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are some posthu­man­ist/​more-than-hu­man ap­proaches to defi­ni­tions of in­tel­li­gence and agency? Par­tic­u­larly in ap­pli­ca­tion to AI re­search.

Eli Hiton9 Apr 2024 21:52 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Evolu­tion “failure mode”: chickens

Yuxi_Liu26 Apr 2019 11:42 UTC
21 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Un­der­wa­ter Tor­ture Cham­bers: The Hor­ror Of Fish Farming

omnizoid26 Jul 2023 0:27 UTC
81 points
49 comments10 min readLW link

Mike Dar­win on an­i­mal re­search, moral cow­ardice, and rea­son­ing in an un­car­ing universe

Synaptic25 Aug 2012 16:38 UTC
36 points
15 comments7 min readLW link

In­fant Mor­tal­ity and the Ar­gu­ment from Life History

ozymandias4 Oct 2017 23:10 UTC
13 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
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