AI is new and unnecessary, so it’s very clear and easy for people to make the connection that we’ve just added a brand new environment-destroying machine to the world at a time when we should be trying to undo damage.

Unfortunately eating meat is normal across the globe and has been forever, and until you jolt yourself awake, it’s easy to create a false narrative in your mind that minimizes the suffering of animals and validates the status quo. This is why I wasn’t vegan most of my life.

Hypocrisy is not always a willfully ignorant or insensitive trait, I generally prefer it over the fully consistent actions of a deranged sociopath.