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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...
On October 22nd starting at 10:00am Pacific Time, Every.org is matching donations to select animal welfare organizations at a 2:1 rate, up to $2,000 per donor per nonprofit (so if you give up to $2,000, they will contribute up to $4,000 and the nonprofit will get up to $6,000). The first donation a donor makes to each eligible nonprofit will be matched, and donors can get the match for multiple $2,000 donations. So, you can get more than $2,000 matched by donating $2,000 one time to multiple...
When speaking to candidates who are considering working with us at 80,000 Hours, I often hear people worry about replaceability.
The familiar version of the worry is about whether the organisation will hire someone else in your place. If it will, then the difference you make by taking the job is only the difference between you and them.
There are a couple of well-known answers to that. The person hired in your place probably cares about the world too, and would go on to do somethi...
After having written an annual review of AI safety organisations for six years, I intend to stop this year. I'm sharing this in case someone else wanted to in my stead.
Reasons
Hopefully it was helpful to people over the years. If you have any questions feel free to reach out.
Ahhh, what if you instead got substantial help, e.g., a research assistant? Mostly interested because there just aren't that many in-depth investigations of the whole field.
I think that the case for impact is now that OP/FTX read the review and change their perspective, rather than small donors. But I think that there is still value in this.
Yea; from my perspective, the total benefit of these posts might be higher than ever given the fact that there's much more activity and decisions being in the space now. That said, I imagine the costs are higher too (Larks's time is more valuable)
Thanks for pulling it together over so many years, and reading through a truly mindboggling array of papers & reports!