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The fake stuff (and cultivated meat for that matter) are getting closer to parity every year. You don't go back to something "for the taste", if the alternative you switched to offers a near identical experience.

I don't want to stop eating meat, I want to stop the exploitation and suffering of animals.

While I want to stop the exploitation of animals more than I want to eat meat, if there is a path that allows me to do both, I will have a preference for that path.

The same goes for leather. It's use isn't worth what has to be done to create it, but it is a fantastic material with a lot of versatility that's better than near all alternatives in plenty of applications. Fake leather and synthetic leather are wonderful innovations because we can enjoy the benefits without the negatives, and that's something to be encouraged rather than avoided.

True, but the timing seems very convenient for the current Israeli administration.

Are they actually that incompetent, or was it known and allowed to happen anyway?

Were the bikes in the exercise not assumed to move instantly, or am I thinking of a different exercise?

We did call those things AI back when they were being developed. It's just that advancements in AI that become immediately useful tend to get a different name.

Surely he's a monarchist?

The best part is that voting to find the one true leftist is impossible since the last two wouldn't be able to get a majority for themselves.

I do always wonder how anyone can live with themselves after playing such a large part in the deaths of millions of people.

It's a lovely idea, and absolutely something that should be done when we have a surplus of resources for protecting species, but this is unfortunately a triage situation. Redirecting conservation funds to protect individual humpback whales means that other species will go extinct, when they could have been saved.

AI has been able to do fingers semi-reliably for months now

That is very cool, thanks for sharing it. Watching through the video though, there don't seem to be any claims made or evidence presented that suggest these cells possess a mechanism, understood or otherwise, to know, understand or experience anything. Nothing to suggest they are capable of consciousness.