Comment by zvmaz
2 years ago
> I’m disappointed he projects some sort of idealised aloof moral superiority on anything non human
Can you pinpoint where you got that impression? Note that it's not him that "chooses" dolphins, but it's the interviewer that asks him about what would it look like if we had an LLM that works with dolphins.
Fair enough, but he’s said stuff like this before and nobody twisted his arm.
> I’m disappointed he projects some sort of idealised aloof moral superiority on anything non human
I see no evidence in the podcast transcript of Singer making such a claim. What exactly are you basing your assertion on? Quote the transcript please.
He thinks dolphins would ask “ Why have you failed? Why have you failed to stop humans treating animals so badly?”
Dolphins are violent murderous rapey predators. What on Earth makes anyone think an intelligent dolphin would give a crap how humans treat animals in general? They’d be just as likely to try and make a deal with us to help us out with marine research, in exchange for helping them to genocide the males in another dolphin group so they can gang rape the females.
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