Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Open thread, Nov. 10 - Nov. 16, 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 November 2014 06:58:04AM 4 points [-]

Beef. Chickens are even less likely to be sentient by a considerable margin.

Comment author: pinyaka 13 November 2014 07:27:48PM 4 points [-]

I agree that chickens are less likely to be sentient, but is killing an animal with 50 sentience units worse than killing 10 animals with 5 sentience units? How is suffering likely to scale with sentience?

Comment author: VAuroch 13 November 2014 10:39:36AM 5 points [-]

Related to this and your recent poll on Facebook: Do you distinguish between sentience and sapience?