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The speaker says that allowing cost-cutting and efficiency improvements can produce an extremely efficient system of torture and suffering, as in the factory-farming example.
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“meaning allowing that like oh you can do cost cutting in this way you can make more efficiencies this way and what you get at the end result of that process is this incredibly efficient factory of torture and suffering um i i would want to avoid that kind of outcome with”Play from 2:23:31Report a misattribution
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