#vegetarian #vegan #evolution Originally shared by Sean P. O. MacCath-Moran +Eve Volve: "Meat allowed us to evolve" Really? I think you're mistaken to believe this is a certainty, but what causes you to believe this is so, +Eve Volve ? As I understand it, there have been healthy, thriving vegetarians and vegans for as long as there have been humans. Some were so due to moral or ethical concerns, others due to resource utilization issues, others due to cultural taboos. All other factors being equal, the veg(etari)ans have thrived, and continue to do so. For some more recent historical examples of vegans, we can look at Pythagoras, the "Pythagoreans" (as vegans were called for the following 1300 years), along with a plethora of like-minded contemporaries (e.g. goo.gl/lgDBL ). Buddhists, Jainists, et al., have been doing grand as veg(etari)ans since around the 6th century BCE. Prior to this, there's compelling reason to believe that most people were veg...
This article is too simplistic. Comparison with childhood is interesting but he doesn't think about AI model which will be used. AI will not be inevitably based on human model. An AI can be based on virus, insect etc models... In our society which is still primitive with her wars, crimes, financial market and her modern slavery, religion, nationalism, ecology... AI can out perform some of this bad fields. AI is not the real problem, humanity is it. So who will decide which model is the right one? An AI developped in army research could be sign human extinction in the worst case
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of merging of the AI with us and the idea of AI as children. but what if it figures our ideals e.g. space exploration not worth persuing?
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