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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...
A strong skepticism of flashy marketing.
Really, I think this one is massively under-emphasised because of the necessity of marketing tactics to many of EA's outreach efforts.
But I think that learning to decouple actual measurable impact from a slick, well-presented, eye-catching markety whatever is a huge part of becoming the kind of EA that can be trusted with power. And that happens by developing an almost aesthetic revulsion to anything that looks too flashy: a personal warning system to proceed with caution and not be taken in by something attempting to hijack your importance-measuring-sense.