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...
“How long have you been v*g*n?”
This is one of the most common icebreakers at animal protection events. It’s a baseline assumption, and it mostly holds true: if you’re out advocating for animals not to be tortured or abused, realistically these days you are v**n, or close. And it makes for good conversation. It seems fairly safe to assume when you meet strangers.
But this assumption is hurting the movement in a way which we don’t always notice: someone new comes into the sp...
Summary
Back in November 2023 I posted here to launch Spiro and raise our first $198k. Two and a half years later this is an update and a fundraiser for the next step.
The short version: we've now reached over-5,900 people with TB preventive medicine, including over 3,000 children under five years old. Our early results have held up well an...
This is great. Are there any more talks on career choice that you could add?
80,000 Hours have only a few videos on their YouTube channel that're more than ten minutes long.
Is there anything you had in mind? I don't know of any other talks that are relevant and whose permissions would be easy to secure.
P.S. I just realized that the audio quality of Toby Ord's talk is very bad.
P.P.S. If anyone would like to take over this project, let me know.
If you'd like I can give a go at cleaning up the audio of Ord's talk.
And by give a go I mean, run it through a few filters to see if it can go from "very bad" to "passable".
Sure, that would be very helpful. Boris did that for a couple of other files. I'll upload any cleaned-up audio sent my way. New audio is also welcome!
E-mail is probably the best way to get in touch: [email protected]
And sorry for the delayed reply! I didn't see your comment.