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This is a crosspost from the new Animal Welfare Alignment Newsletter by Anima International. You can subscribe on Substack if you are interested in following these efforts. Audio reading also available on Substack.
The goals of this post are to:
1. Raise a question I see as crucially important to the goal of aligning AI to animal welfare...
“How long have you been v*g*n?”
This is one of the most common icebreakers at animal protection events. It’s a baseline assumption, and it mostly holds true: if you’re out advocating for animals not to be tortured or abused, realistically these days you are v**n, or close. And it makes for good conversation. It seems fairly safe to assume when you meet strangers.
But this assumption is hurting the movement in a way which we don’t always notice: someone new comes into the sp...
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Back in November 2023 I posted here to launch Spiro and raise our first $198k. Two and a half years later this is an update and a fundraiser for the next step.
The short version: we've now reached over-5,900 people with TB preventive medicine, including over 3,000 children under five years old. Our early results have held up well an...
Some ideas that come to mind: community organizer, community safety officer, sound system setup, or other tech support, interviewing applicants, recruiter, electronics engineer, building maintenance, air filtration system installer, bunker construction, distributing supplies in other countries, translator, earning to give, petri dish replicates, greenhouse lab tech (for drought/climate resistant crops).
It really depends on their skills, their interest area, and in what ways they can mitigate their disadvantages. For example, if they can text to speech easily, then research is still a potential. If they can't work with numbers, then many of these suggestions might not work out. (unless a color labeling system was implemented or etc)