AI is not technically new, but generative AI was not a mature technology in 2014. It has come a long way since then.

Even trans people aren’t beating the “nearly all mass shooters are men” statistic.

Well, that’s a completely different argument.

If something is wrong, then it’s wrong, regardless of how efficient or inefficient it is.

How much earlier are we talking? I bet if you asked prehistoric hunter-gatherers whether they thought animals experienced pain, they woulds say yes. The idea that animals were automata comes from Descartes.

What? The fact that plants physically react to being cut has absolutely no bearing on whether they have conscious experience.

How about I just get to eat meat because I consider it far more humane to be more efficient about proteins?

What does this have to do with anything? This is bringing efficiency to an ethics fight.

I have a feeling that that might change after this election. There’s a real sense among liberal media (that I engage with) that a loss of this magnitude needs to be answered by a pretty substantial break with the status quo.

Believing a candidate when they tell you who they are is the opposite of delusion.