Thanks Saulius! That’s actually super encouraging and validating for us to hear, given your contributions to the field. Some of your earlier work on interventions has been very helpful to us as we were thinking through this project. We’re glad to hear you’re excited about it, and are grateful for your support!

That's so kind, and much appreciated, Diego! Thanks for everything that you have done, and are doing, for the wild animal cause, too!

Awesome, thanks Matej! I've reached out to you offline...

Thanks for this stimulating and thoughtful post!

I think there is also a third option: that we choose not to create artificial sentience (or artificial moral patients) in the first place. 

I wrote about this in more detail here: We should prevent the creation of artificial sentience 

To build (loosely) on your analogy with factory farming, this might be roughly equivalent to going back to the 1940s and preventing the creation of factory farming in the first place...