I don't have a detailed writeup, but this seems straightforward enough to fit in this comment: you're conducting your moral reasoning backwards, which is why it looks like other people have a sophisticated intuition about neurobiology you don't.
The "moral intuition"[1] you start with is that insects[2] aren't worth as much as people, and then if you feel like you need to justify that, you can use your knowledge of the current best understanding of animal cognition to construct a metric that fits of as much complexity as you like.
I'd call mine a "moral oracle" instead. Or a moracle, if you will.
I'm assuming this post is proximately motivated by the Don't Eat Honey post, but this works for shrimp or whatever too.
If you're concerned about deleting negative comments, you should see blocking the people making them as effectively deleting their comments from every future post.
all genetic mutations are bad.
You might be rediscovering Fisher's geometric model. A refinement to your current model you could consider is that close to, but not exactly at, the local optima, sufficiently small mutations have a 50% chance of being beneficial.
This proves too much. If you consistently require there be no "serious personal and professional consequences" before you trust a source, you'd have to dismiss almost all of them.
And outside the US, statements the government finds offensive often run the risk of criminal prosecution as well. The existence of "stable rule of law" doesn't preclude this.
I'm on the lookout for more models like this
Here's a recent one where the quality is pretty good: f-lite. They say, "The models were trained on Freepik's internal dataset comprising approximately 80 million copyright-safe images."
I really like the title of this post!
two students did that stronger version in one or two days.
I believe this was just a call to PimEyes.
What you're describing is not really different in principle from using specialized hardware like GPUs for rendering polygons instead of running everything on the same general CPUs. There are ASICs for hashing (used for Bitcoin mining), FGPAs (real-time signal processing, I think), and of course, TPUs for AI inference. And with cloud-computing, would you even know if your computation was actually being done with different physics than you thought?
Oh cool, if we're deciding it's now virtuous to ostracize people we don't like and declare them evil, I have a list of enemies I'd like to go after too. This is a great weapon, and fun to use! (Why did we ever stop using it?) Who else can we persecute? There are several much weaker and more-hated groups we could do to warm up.