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Note: This post was crossposted from the Coefficient Giving Farm Animal Welfare Research Newsletter by the Forum team, with the author's permission. The author may not see or respond to comments on this post.
Subtitle: On vegan advocacy, effective altruism, and FIFA
I turn 40 today. Here are some hot takes.
On factory farming
1. Our biggest challenge is salience. If factory farming led the evening news, it wouldn’t last lo...
Impressions from the 21st Annual U.S. Cluster Headache Patient Conference, organized by Clusterbusters.
On the morning of the last day of the conference, E. was hanging out with other “clusterheads” outside the conference hotel when he started having a cluster headache attack. Before he could go back to his hotel room, J. offered E. his DMT v...
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TL;DR:
The movement has an evidence problem. To solve it, for each intervention we need to know:
* What types of evidence that intervention needs
* What types of evidence different sources can give us
In this post, we outline a framework for evidencing an intervention through five stages:
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Recent opportunities to take action
TechCongress, an org that places technologists in the offices of members of US Congress to write policy, has opened an AI Safety Fellowship with applications due in just 10 days, on June 12
https://www.techcongress.io/ai-safety-fellowship
It pays well too. It is distinct from U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute with Paul Christiano and others, which I believe is in the executive branch, not the legislative branch like this one.
I think TechCongress, despite the name, does do Executive branch placements and I think this role in particular is targeted to the executive branch