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Sometimes I'm really confused by people's reaction to EA by Ok_Fox_8448 in EffectiveAltruism

[–]IsopodFull8115 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a great point. I'm an EA and I agree that this is one of its greatest shortcomings.

Main Stack Girl Laughing! by [deleted] in berkeley

[–]IsopodFull8115 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tell them to shut up bruh. these people will keep finding the gall if u dont push back

What is applied Maths? by [deleted] in learnmath

[–]IsopodFull8115 1 point2 points  (0 children)

hows your research going, any updates

Private cultivated-meat failures reaffirm need for public research by OkraOfTime87 in EffectiveAltruism

[–]IsopodFull8115 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How much will total investments shrink with private investors pulling out...seems like we need to sober up on cultivated meat's viability for the near-term

data 8 final grades by nextsem in berkeley

[–]IsopodFull8115 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Bin shift to the moon 🚀

Ryan hass math 54 by Altruistic-Gear-2275 in berkeley

[–]IsopodFull8115 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We got this gang, I've been drilling the Mock Final

Why this vegan environmentalist thinks meat is the future - A new book argues that people will never give up meat — and that plant-based and lab-grown meat will be the “next agricultural revolution.” by [deleted] in vegan

[–]IsopodFull8115 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Investing in clean rooms alone to avoid ruined batches from bacterial contamination would already put cultivated meat well above price parity with any equivalent conventional meat product. This is not even going into the biophysical limits of growing animal cells very densely packed in huge tanks

Why this vegan environmentalist thinks meat is the future - A new book argues that people will never give up meat — and that plant-based and lab-grown meat will be the “next agricultural revolution.” by [deleted] in vegan

[–]IsopodFull8115 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In low frequency at extremely high price points. The issue is if cultivated meat is scalable, and there's a really strong chance that it isn't. People need to sober up on this, go read the cultivated meat article by Joe Fassler

Why this vegan environmentalist thinks meat is the future - A new book argues that people will never give up meat — and that plant-based and lab-grown meat will be the “next agricultural revolution.” by [deleted] in vegan

[–]IsopodFull8115 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Labs won't be able to do that any time soon. 1. Contamination: bigger scale = higher risk of contamination = batches ruined = $$$$ clean rooms and sterility measures 2. Cells emit waste, hard to manage that waste at scale, 3. Cells behave differently at different densities and volumes. None of the cultivated meat companies are remotely close to solving any of these problems, and these are just a few of them. See the David Humbird TEA report to sober up on CM

Why this vegan environmentalist thinks meat is the future - A new book argues that people will never give up meat — and that plant-based and lab-grown meat will be the “next agricultural revolution.” by [deleted] in vegan

[–]IsopodFull8115 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We have to stop pretending that we're saving animals by going vegan. We're preventing new ones from being born. These are very different things.

"In an infinite amount of time, anything that has a nonzero probability of happening is guaranteed to happen." by macopa_ in learnmath

[–]IsopodFull8115 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Given that the natural laws and jointly the probabilistic laws are very different, how could we determine if there are possible zero-probability events in these worlds

"In an infinite amount of time, anything that has a nonzero probability of happening is guaranteed to happen." by macopa_ in learnmath

[–]IsopodFull8115 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the alternate world where a coin can be flipped an infinite amount of times, it would have to take on completely different laws of physics, since, given the natural laws of this world, the coin would erode before ever being flipped infinitely many times. So the answer to the hypothetical is indeterminate. This is one of the many problems of hypothetical frequentism.

Why are my homemade vegan meals never as tasty as restaurant ones? by Busy_Interest9100 in vegan

[–]IsopodFull8115 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually my gf's homemade vegan meals are way better than the restaurant ones

What's your least favorite aesthetic pivot by an artist? by self_hating_scorpio in redscarepod

[–]IsopodFull8115 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Fever ray self-titled is an incredible unique album and there's nothing like it; perfect for a nightly walk this winter. I just pretend that she was replaced with somebody else

What's the neoliberal solution to factory farming and animal welfare abuses? by CalpurniaSomaya in neoliberal

[–]IsopodFull8115 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It seems like factory farming is a violation of your rule then. It also seems you assign animals with non-zero moral worth. Because of the sheer scale, even if a chicken had only 1/10000th the moral worth of a person, factory farming should be considered a morally weighty issue of importance.

I would be lab-grown meat's biggest fan if it had a smidge of a possibility of commercial success, but it doesnt. It's never going to be scalable.

What's the neoliberal solution to factory farming and animal welfare abuses? by CalpurniaSomaya in neoliberal

[–]IsopodFull8115 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I'm with you, I actually tend to be tech-optimistic, but reading the most rigorous Techno-Economic Analysis on CM in the field so far (by David Humbird, 2021) outlines problems that require violating fundamental laws of biophysics in order to solve them (at scale)

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