Cross-posted from my Substack.
Epistemic status: I’ve puzzled over this for a long time but I’m not sure I came to the right answers. I'm sharing this partly because it might help others work on resource allocation, but mostly because some smarter reader might tell me how to do it better.
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* I he...
This post is part of the Cross-Cause Fund (CCF) series by Rethink Priorities — a sequence of articles dedicated to effective giving across philanthropic areas.
TL;DR:
There is a seemingly plausible argument that do...
TL;DR: We lack high-quality evidence on what reduces animal product consumption, and I see current academic incentives as part of the reason. Drawing on my experience as a PhD researcher, I describe six ways academic incentives misalign with what animal advocates need:
* 1) research questions follow the literature rather than practitioner decision relevance;
* 2) health- and climate-motivated research leads to disproportional attention to red meat and neglect o...
As a new person here, i am curious to learn more. I think that Longtermism strongly implies growth-oriented policies, and that might even be the existential risk-minimizing strategy. I did an entire substack post on my thoughts, and would be interested to hear where you might think i am wrong (I probably am, you may have thought a lot more on it than I have, or just be smarter). Also what is the general longtermist take on AI-regulation, and the larger statement made here - We Must Act Now. It seems to me that carte blanche calls to action are not really helpful, but would be open to changing my mind. :-)
https://open.substack.com/pub/ulrikahm/p/longtermism-and-the-moral-necessity?r=4cnrou&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true