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The speaker wants to avoid factory-farming-like suffering for future beings that may be more sophisticated and numerous, including a possible population of trillions of digital people.

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“beings that are even more sophisticated and are more numerous there's billions of factory farmed animals there might be trillions of digital people in the future”
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