Ben_LandauTaylor comments on Open thread, 3-8 June 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Ben_LandauTaylor 03 June 2014 06:43:30PM 3 points [-]

The counterargument would be to claim that cows > pigs > chickens in intelligence/complexity

My understanding is that pigs > cows >> chickens. Poultry vs mammal is a difficult question that depends on nebulous value judgments, but I thought it was fairly settled that beef causes less suffering/mass than other mammals.

Comment author: jaibot 03 June 2014 06:47:12PM 1 point [-]

Pigs on top surprises me, given that I thought pigs had more intelligence/awareness than other meat sources (as measured by nebulous educated guessing on our part).

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 04 June 2014 04:26:19PM 2 points [-]

From his last sentence, Ben agrees with you. He has just reversed the meaning of the inequality sign.

Comment author: jaibot 04 June 2014 06:01:48PM 0 points [-]

You're right, I failed a parse check. Thanks!

Comment author: David_Gerard 04 June 2014 02:21:19PM 0 points [-]

Huskies love fish (for obvious practical reasons), and fish are just dumb. (Though the way we achieve that is to mix fishy cat food into our husky's dog food, which is random tinned dog food.)