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I've heard it argued seriously before.
You must be kidding? Really?
I can even hear the news: "New Vegan Barbeque Steakhouse, we make sure your sirloin comes from previously forested fields that would never have been deforested otherwise, and promise to invest 5% of profit in further deforestation."
Talk about awesome elevator pitch.
http://felicifia.org/viewtopic.php?t=414 Scroll down to Brian Tomasik's post.
This is one of the very few occasions in which I feel sad that Nick Bostrom didn't go on his career as a stand up comedian.
There is so much good material in the rationalist community to draw for good comedy.
And the best is that it makes you think as well as laugh.
I still don't know whether being vegan is a bad or a good thing (my emotion tells me it is very good). But for one thing, I know that it is hilarious to be on both sides of the issue.
We really are missing comedians to ironize all the major battles. AI X FAI. Atheist X Simulationist. Dust X Counterfactual-computationalism. Veg x Meat-Veg. NegUtilitarian X HedUtilitarin. "I want to preserve my rationalisty" X CogEnhancemnt, Tinkering with narrow AI X AIXI Solomonoff reduction. Foom X Slow Takeoff.
When LW outputs rational Larry David, it will be a blast.
Most people are against it, because they believe wild animals lives are worth living. If you don't think their lives are worth living, I don't see much of a reason not to start nuking rainforests. I've suggested the idea, but since I'm uncertain about whether or not their lives are worth living, I don't think you could say I've argued for it.
Given that their lives are not worth living, do you think it would be a bad idea?
Or are you just talking about thinking wild animals lives aren't worth living? I can find some stuff arguing that if you want.
Tomasik on Wild-Animal Su ffering - pdf