i didn't realize Yud's meat eating is based on believing that animals

Nov 23, 2025, 07:50 EST

i didn't realize Yud's meat eating is based on believing that animals don't have conscious experience https://x.com/allTheYud/status/1992278063271563713

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Nov 23, 2025, 08:45 EST

and thinks GPT-3 is more likely to have conscious experience than chickens are

A screenshot of a Twitter thread by Eliezer Yudkowsky (@allTheYud) discussing his concerns about AI consciousness compared to chickens. The thread includes a quoted tweet from 2021 and two subsequent replies explaining his position on AI architectures and a hypothetical scenario involving lie detectors and chickens.

Nov 23, 2025, 08:57 EST

imo treating consciousness as a binary trait is causing a lot of confusion. it seems obvious to me that there's some experience of what it's like to be a chicken and also that this experience is flatter than a human's experience.