The Insect Institute (as Insect Welfare Project) got a $45k movement grant from ACE in June 2022. Shrimp Welfare Project got a $40k grant in the same round.
(I could be wrong but I think Insect Welfare Project was the working name of the Insect Institute prior to February 2023?)
By invertebrate welfare as a cause area, I mean all invertebrates (particularly marine crustaceans and insects[1]), whether farmed or wild. Thus, this cause area includes:
Crossposted to Less Wrong
‘Like most of life’s dangers, the dangers of artificial intelligence are not easily identified from the armchair.’
J Dmitri Gallow
Epistemic status
I’m not an expert in this field, and herein I make some sweeping generalisations educated guesses about the overall...
This post is part of the Rethink Priorities Cross-Cause Fund (CCF) series on how to allocate funding across causes when it is uncertain what matters most.
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Thanks to Bruce Friedrich, Seth Ariel Green, Tobias Leenaert, Jan Willem Bolderdijk, Martine van Haperen, Herman Rohrbach, Chris Popa and Elizabeth Alvarez for comments. Claude helped structure the text. Ideas and mistakes are my own. I currently work with ProVeg International. The prize I propose would be defined and judged by an independent committee, and its money would fund scaling the winning solution(s), not ProVeg or the winner.
TL/DR
* EA could d...
Some data from open phil and EA funds grants:
Shrimp Welfare Project :
Insect Institute:
Arthropoda Foundation:
Aquatic Life Institute:
Crustacean Compassion:
The Insect Institute (as Insect Welfare Project) got a $45k movement grant from ACE in June 2022. Shrimp Welfare Project got a $40k grant in the same round.
(I could be wrong but I think Insect Welfare Project was the working name of the Insect Institute prior to February 2023?)
Good information!