#96 - The Nature of Consciousness
Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
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The Problem With the Human Self Model
I think I think there are three circles of suffering on this planet. There are 7.3 billion human beings that suffer. 60 billion farm animals, in fact, refarming that suffer for human beings. We don't know how much number of wild animals suffering. Most of the conscious wild animals have two preferences. One is to live as long as possible, and the second is to procreate. But more than 90% of them get eaten before they can even procreate. So there's massive preference for frustration. And one could argue that even if the AI would make all human beings into enlightened vegan Buddha's, so all the factory farming would stop and all human beings would stop to suffer
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