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		amanaplanacanal on Feb 3, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: John Carmack’s ‘Different Path’ to Artificial Gene... I’m not sure this really matters. Mammals are clearly sentient, as a whole, but we don’t treat them as people usually.

yreg on Feb 3, 2023 [–]

We believe they are less sentient than us. And hurting a mammal is much less socially acceptable than hurting an insect, since we consider insects even less sentient, if at all.

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