let’s be completely real here though, lab grown meat does not scale at all - it’s low scale, insanely expensive and probably not all that environmentally friendly when you count all the steps too. All this is just for political points, it does not really make a tiny bit of a difference.
That’s true as of now, but if we stopped subsidising farmers and spent that funding on lab grow technology then, much like solar, it would go from expensive niche to cheap mainstream a whole lot quicker. All decisions like this do is slow that process down.
How did you feel about the SAG-AFTRA strikes over AI?
Edit: I feel like this reads as snarky but it’s a genuine question. I feel like these are complex situations. AI cannot be allowed to be curtailed for protectionist reasons, but there are serious likeness ownership concerns in entertainment media.
I imagine similar problems with the US beef industry so want your take.
The AI industry is going to obliterate significant chunks of the white collar workforce the same way the robotics industry has, and will continue to, obliterate the manufacturing workforce.
In the long term this will be a good thing but I think we’re in for a very bumpy and interesting next 20-25 years.
I don’t understand, on what basis should one kind of job be protected at the expense of another?
Because fuck the environment, we gotta keep the farmers happy.
let’s be completely real here though, lab grown meat does not scale at all - it’s low scale, insanely expensive and probably not all that environmentally friendly when you count all the steps too. All this is just for political points, it does not really make a tiny bit of a difference.
That’s true as of now, but if we stopped subsidising farmers and spent that funding on lab grow technology then, much like solar, it would go from expensive niche to cheap mainstream a whole lot quicker. All decisions like this do is slow that process down.
Money
If AI is anything to go by, most people think white-collar jobs should be protected while blue-collar jobs should be automated.
How did you feel about the SAG-AFTRA strikes over AI?
Edit: I feel like this reads as snarky but it’s a genuine question. I feel like these are complex situations. AI cannot be allowed to be curtailed for protectionist reasons, but there are serious likeness ownership concerns in entertainment media.
I imagine similar problems with the US beef industry so want your take.
I feel like it’s a shining example of hypocrisy among city-folk and white-collar workers.
They legitimately think they’re better than everyone else and rules should be made for them.
The AI industry is going to obliterate significant chunks of the white collar workforce the same way the robotics industry has, and will continue to, obliterate the manufacturing workforce.
In the long term this will be a good thing but I think we’re in for a very bumpy and interesting next 20-25 years.
the term is “vested interests”