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Ours is the era of inadequate AI alignment theory. Any other facts about this era are relatively unimportant, but sometimes I tweet about them anyway.

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    Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 22 Oct 2017

    #UnpopularOpinions It is much more likely that your mental models of chickens can suffer, than that actual chickens are sentient.

    5:11 PM - 22 Oct 2017
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    14 replies 5 retweets 46 likes
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      2. vinsomer  🍭, prorex de vacui‏ @lhommedauphin 22 Oct 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        are you serious?

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      3. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 22 Oct 2017
        Replying to @lhommedauphin

        Sure. Your imagination of a chicken runs on a slice through a whole complete human brain containing all necessary mechanisms for sentience.

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      4. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 22 Oct 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky @lhommedauphin

        I’m not saying it’s likely. I’m saying it’s more likely.

        3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. vinsomer  🍭, prorex de vacui‏ @lhommedauphin 22 Oct 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        to clarify for me: say if i were to slice a chickens leg off, you suspect it won’t feel pain?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. Rogs‏ @ESRogs 22 Oct 2017
        Replying to @lhommedauphin @ESYudkowsky

        I think EY's view is that there is a thing that happens that is analogous to human pain, but there's no "it" there to feel the pain.

        2 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
      7. Ray Hsu‏ @Roflsaurus16 22 Oct 2017
        Replying to @ESRogs @lhommedauphin @ESYudkowsky

        It feels safer to err on the side of assuming more animals are conscious and can feel pain, than to assume that less can?

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      8. Vitalik Non-giver of Ether‏Verified account @VitalikButerin 29 Nov 2017
        Replying to @Roflsaurus16 @ESRogs and

        Depends on cost/benefit ratio. For me for example, choosing beef over chicken (99% fewer animals killed/suffer per 100 grams) in many cases is a trivial cost, so I do it.

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      2. AwaitingTransmission‏ @chickenbubs 22 Oct 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        #PopularBias It is much more likely that some are unwilling to recognize verifiable suffering of livestock, than that they don't suffer.

        1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
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      1. Evan Sandhoefner‏ @EvanSandhoefner 22 Oct 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        This sounds very crazy and I hope an explanation is coming

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      1.  💀 🈂️ 🍵 💀‏ @suchaone 22 Oct 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        admit it, you had an urge to s/chickens/humans/g there

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      2. Ray Hsu‏ @Roflsaurus16 22 Oct 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        The potential harms if we are wrong that chickens don’t suffer seem greater than the harms of assuming they can suffer?

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      3. Ray Hsu‏ @Roflsaurus16 22 Oct 2017
        Replying to @Roflsaurus16 @ESYudkowsky

        Ending factory farming of chickens will make chicken meat more expensive. That is a harm. But if chickens can suffer, the benefit is huge?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Brian  🇲🇽 🇮🇱‏ @SpeakingBee 22 Oct 2017
        Replying to @Roflsaurus16 @ESYudkowsky

        Ending farming of chickens will result in extinction of chickens. You might make an exception for layers, though.

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Kinrany‏ @kinrany 23 Oct 2017
        Replying to @SpeakingBee @Roflsaurus16 @ESYudkowsky

        Does it matter that they'll go extinct? Does the chicken species matter more that any of the currently endangered species?

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Brian  🇲🇽 🇮🇱‏ @SpeakingBee 23 Oct 2017
        Replying to @kinrany @Roflsaurus16 @ESYudkowsky

        We're presuming that the concerns of chickens matter here. Genocide would be the worst possible outcome from their perspective.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      7. Kinrany‏ @kinrany 23 Oct 2017
        Replying to @SpeakingBee @Roflsaurus16

        Does genocide have negative utility on it's own, or is it equal to the aggregated negative utility of all the chicken deaths?

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      8. Brian  🇲🇽 🇮🇱‏ @SpeakingBee 23 Oct 2017
        Replying to @kinrany @Roflsaurus16

        Revealed preference: Most animals are willing to die themselves if it's the only way to save family/offspring.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      9. Kinrany‏ @kinrany 24 Oct 2017
        Replying to @SpeakingBee @Roflsaurus16

        Do we actually care about their preferences and not their happiness/suffering?

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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