Battle Erupts over Alleged Grisly Photos of Brain-Hacked Neuralink Monkeys

My gut feeling from reading the article and this thread has been that the monkeys should have been better taken care of. But the idea that every human advancement will only result in a win for the capitalist hellscape is some blackpill bullshit.

There are people who are trapped inside their own bodies due to neurological disabilities. Even if neuro-interfacing technology is used to huck consumer convenience devices, there are likely positive impacts on devices used to help these people. I don't really care about the 90% of people who are lining up to buy the neurolink equivalent of an iphone. I care about what those implications have for a disabled minority, as do many other people here who are commenting.

You don't have to feel like the trade-off is worth it, but if you aren't going to acknowledge that maybe technological process presents opportunities to help people, than you are being willfully ignorant.

There’s a reason a bunch of states passed laws making it illegal to photograph the warehouses where these animals are raised.

If there was a transparency law, that required an accurate picture of the location where the animals whose meat is being sold was raised to be stuck on the packaging it wouldn’t be very long before the more inhumane (or more accurately, the more inhumane looking) meat sources would become unprofitable.

Because most people are willing to pay a little bit more if they fully understand the ethical consequences. Actually, what is more likely to happen is that many people would eat meat less frequently, opting for more plant based sources of protein and then spend the extra money needed for the more humane meat when they wanted meat itself.

Unless one is a hunter-gatherer, meat eating isn’t about survival.

Instead, what it means is that they may care; but not enough to give up or work on giving up the pleasure of eating meat daily.

No one is forcing these people to participate. Being overworked is an absolutely ridiculous excuse for not being able to cut out unethically farmed meat from your diet.

You can perseverate all you want, but someone else is going to get there before us then and we won’t be in a hegemonic position to enforce our ethical framework (fwiw I think is good) over the rest of the world. A bad actor will be in that position and you cause more pain through inaction.