In the US we can eat half as much meat that is 2x as expensive to stop being a-holes to living creatures, spend no more, help the environment a bit, and be healthier.
Dwarkesh Patel (@dwarkesh_sp)
Cultivated meat is not on track to ever be economically competitive with animal meat.
Modern factory farms have cut out almost all costs that aren't strictly biologically necessary for the production of muscle. And animal evolution has been optimizing the conversion of energy into muscle for billions of years.
That means that cultivated meat needs to beat billions of years of accumulated evolutionary efficiency to become competitive.
That's an extremely hard challenge.
It's maybe even harder than building AGI, since evolution has only been optimizing for intelligence for tens of millions of years.
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