This degree of insight density is why I love LW.
Someone who is just scanning your headline might get the wrong idea, though: It initially read (to me) as two alternate possible titles, implying that the filter is early and AI is hard and these two facts have a common explanation (when the actual content seems to be "at least one of these is true, because otherwise the universe doesn't make sense").
Small sample size (92 participants), not replicated, and full of potential confounds (maybe the research assistant was extra enthusiastic when handing out envelopes, or maybe the person soliciting noticed who had what and also varied their reaction). That there was an effect at all was dubious, and privileging this hypothesis seems unwarranted. It's plausible, but this study is very, very weak evidence.
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Cool! Purely out of curiosity, what are the old and new jobs?
Old job: Systems Engineer for a political group.
New job: Systems Engineer for Amazon Web Services.
Not that much lower stress. But instead of having sole responsibility for a big production environment, I'll be working on a team on a test environment. I get to leave DC, which I've wanted to do for a while, and live down the hall from some of my best friends in the world in Seattle, at a significantly reduced cost-of-living.
I quit my job almost a year ago, spent most of the time on low-stress skill development and relaxation, and will shortly be starting a much-better-paying, much-lower-stress job.
No one's posted about the new Oregon Cryonics yet?
From his last sentence, Ben agrees with you. He has just reversed the meaning of the inequality sign.
You're right, I failed a parse check. Thanks!
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.
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).
I don't have a full answer to the question, but if you do feed the dog meat, one starting point would be to prefer meat that has less suffering associated with it. It is typically claimed that beef has less suffering per unit mass associated with it than pork and much less than chicken, simply because you get a lot more from one individual. The counterargument would be to claim that cows > pigs > chickens in intelligence/complexity to a great enough extent to outweigh this consideration.
I'm curious: are there specific reasons to believe that dogs need meat while humans (also omnivores) do not? A quick Google search finds lots of vegetarians happy to proclaim that dogs can be vegetarian too, but I haven't looked into details.
Here's a quick citation: http://pets.webmd.com/features/vegetarian-diet-dogs-cats
tldr: Dogs are opportunistic carnivores more than omnivores. They eat whatever they can get, and they'll probably survive without meat, but they'll be missing a bunch of things their bodies expect to have.
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I have some intention of attempting to summon Seattle meetups. I'll be going to a EA meetup tomorrow, to learn things and hopefully meet some eat people. Is there interest in other LW things happening?