The argument I have seen is that other animals share some needs with humans, but not all. All animals don’t have the same social behavior, and so they don’t have the same social needs. We know that humans have a perception of reality different from any other animal, like projecting oneself far into the future etc. I think it’s not far-fetch that all beings don’t share the same physical, psychological, and social needs.

I’d like to emphasize that humans wouldn’t have more needs than other animals, just different ones.

So the question is: if the animals’ needs are met, could they be happier if we gave them opportunities that satisfy human needs? Or is that projecting a human perception onto another being that’s just different?

But the same argument was probably made by white people towards slaves: “they don’t have the same needs than us”. We know that slaves did have the same needs. Maybe something similar could happen with our perception of animals’ needs?

Yeah, I guess you could realign it without retraining the whole thing! Dunno what would be the cost though, sometimes this is done with a cohort of human trainers 😅

Even though it’s magnitudes lower than comparable models, Deepseek still cost millions to train. Unless someone’s willing to invest this just to retrain it from scratch, you’re left with the alignment of its trainers.

That’s true for nuclear DNA, but there’s genetic code outside of your nucleus, mitochondrial DNA, that you inherit 100% from your mother.

And that’s only talking DNA, but you’re more than your genetic code. All of the organelles, lipidic membrane, cytoplasm… was generated from the egg material.

We were mostly the egg.

Sooo, why is the gf on a leash?