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I’m a bit surprised by the number of comments here basically saying if we can’t logically prove that X feels pain, then it’s fine to do whatever with it, or that if we don’t know exactly where the line should be drawn, then there’s no line to be drawn at all.

Do you all always behave according to well-defined rules within a consistent logical system?

I don’t think you can prove to me that you or your pets feel pain, so what would be the logical consequence of that?

I find it amusing (and maybe even ironic?) that tools and methods (GPUs and game engines, etc.) whose development was mainly driven by gaming and entertainment (rather frivolous use cases) now find applications in a much more "serious" domain with a potential to revolutionize our lives.

From the wording of this sentence it's not even clear if the higher income came after more speeches. Only that they are correlated.

My understanding is that the article mainly concerns the education of (pure) mathematicians and not engineers, say. Maybe that explains the discrepancy between your experience and the article’s claims.

As an international student from an embargoed country, I’m increasingly worried if at some point there will be a law resulting in blockage of my bank account. Already I’ve heard news of PayPal causing trouble for some of us, so I’ve stopped using PayPal for good.

It is shown that the special theory of relativity has been created not by A. Einstein only but even to a greater extent by H. Poincare.

That’s a good point, I had not thought of this dimension.

Use east/west instead of left/right and you’ll see there’s no flipping. Left and right are defined with respect to the person, and so they are different for the person and their image. East and west (or up and down) are defined with respect to environment, and they’re not flipped.