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Dinner talk between a startup founder father and his daughter.
Bob (Father, founder of startup): Alice, don’t you like this steak? This is Kobe beef!
Alice (Daughter): I feel sorry for the cow. The cow is the victim of my dinner. I feel sick for that cow’s pain.
Bob: I see. You compare your happiness with the cow’s unhappiness.
Alice: Yes, I feel that is out of proportion. The cow doesn’t get anything for the unhappiness.
Bob thinks for a while.
Bob: In the long run, the cow got some profit for the unhappiness.
Alice: Really?
Bob: From the long term perspective, all life on Earth will go extinct. Hundreds of millions of years later, the Sun will make the Earth a scorching hell. The Sun will expand into a red giant, and swallow the Earth.
Alice: I learned it in school.
Bob: In conclusion, all animals, including cow, will go extinct.
Alice feels a chill.
Alice: Well, what is the relationship with the steak ?
Bob: For the sake of preserving cow DNA, the only chance for cows is to rely on human’s technology improving.
Alice: …Go on please.
Bob: By the human’s technology, human can make cow’s descendants leave the Earth by space shuttle.
Alice: Humm, I remember the story of Noah's Ark.
Bob: We have to make interstellar travel Ark.
Alice gets lost in the line of reasoning.
Alice: Well, dad, I can not figure out what is the relation with steak.
Bob: For that technology improving, Humans have to endure hard work, and by startup spirit, human have to keep innovating.
Alice: (So what ?)
Bob: For preserving that civilization, that great steak is the fuel! Eating the steak could be a kind of the Effective Altruism (EA) from the cows for the sake of the future life. Short term cost of few cows can preserve long term trillions of life.
Alice: Well, that story is that,,, to avoid the existential risk, we allocate cost by present resource.
Bob: Yes, of course, this story is only one way of thinking.
Bob feels his appetite returning.
Bob: By the way, the steak is getting cold. Let’s eat with startup spirit !
Alice: But, how about the cultured meat?
Bob: Hm?
Alice: By cultured meat, we do not need victims. We can get meat from cell culture. Cost down by technology is also the allocation of resources, isn’t it?
Bob: Hum…
Alice: How about cultured meat?
Bob starts to sweat a little.
Bob: In that case, the stock price of our meat processing factory goes down, and the supply chain capital investments depreciation becomes,,,
Alice: That is daddy’s interest.
Bob: …Yes, sorry. For the sake of daddy’s startup, let’s eat this steak.
Dinner talk between a startup founder father and his daughter.
Bob (Father, founder of startup): Alice, don’t you like this steak? This is Kobe beef!
Alice (Daughter): I feel sorry for the cow. The cow is the victim of my dinner. I feel sick for that cow’s pain.
Bob: I see. You compare your happiness with the cow’s unhappiness.
Alice: Yes, I feel that is out of proportion. The cow doesn’t get anything for the unhappiness.
Bob thinks for a while.
Bob: In the long run, the cow got some profit for the unhappiness.
Alice: Really?
Bob: From the long term perspective, all life on Earth will go extinct. Hundreds of millions of years later, the Sun will make the Earth a scorching hell. The Sun will expand into a red giant, and swallow the Earth.
Alice: I learned it in school.
Bob: In conclusion, all animals, including cow, will go extinct.
Alice feels a chill.
Alice: Well, what is the relationship with the steak ?
Bob: For the sake of preserving cow DNA, the only chance for cows is to rely on human’s technology improving.
Alice: …Go on please.
Bob: By the human’s technology, human can make cow’s descendants leave the Earth by space shuttle.
Alice: Humm, I remember the story of Noah's Ark.
Bob: We have to make interstellar travel Ark.
Alice gets lost in the line of reasoning.
Alice: Well, dad, I can not figure out what is the relation with steak.
Bob: For that technology improving, Humans have to endure hard work, and by startup spirit, human have to keep innovating.
Alice: (So what ?)
Bob: For preserving that civilization, that great steak is the fuel! Eating the steak could be a kind of the Effective Altruism (EA) from the cows for the sake of the future life. Short term cost of few cows can preserve long term trillions of life.
Alice: Well, that story is that,,, to avoid the existential risk, we allocate cost by present resource.
Bob: Yes, of course, this story is only one way of thinking.
Bob feels his appetite returning.
Bob: By the way, the steak is getting cold. Let’s eat with startup spirit !
Alice: But, how about the cultured meat?
Bob: Hm?
Alice: By cultured meat, we do not need victims. We can get meat from cell culture. Cost down by technology is also the allocation of resources, isn’t it?
Bob: Hum…
Alice: How about cultured meat?
Bob starts to sweat a little.
Bob: In that case, the stock price of our meat processing factory goes down, and the supply chain capital investments depreciation becomes,,,
Alice: That is daddy’s interest.
Bob: …Yes, sorry. For the sake of daddy’s startup, let’s eat this steak.
Alice: For the stake of daddy’s startup.