I really appreciate this transparency write up. It actually did trigger me to immediately reach out to one of the grantees with some critical information about their strategic plan, which I was previously not aware of.

Glad that it was interesting for op-sy people! 

Accommodations: We self booked the airbnbs and had people fill out a form about accommodation preferences (comfort with sleeping in common spaces, sharing rooms with same/opposite gender, light/sound sensitivity). Then we assigned houses to everyone and set up a whatsapp chat for each of the houses to communicate with one another. One person was the designated housing manager who made sure each house had the things it needed and the relevant airbnb checkin/out info was posted to each whatsapp. We didn't charge anything for housing because the ops side of collecting money for each person corresponding to how long they stayed seemed like too much overhead. Instead of reimbursing people for travel support (which many conferences do), we just offered a free registration and spot in the shared accommodations instead, making it much cleaner from an expense tracking perspective. 

I'll share the form privately with you via a DM on the forum!

There is a students channel on Hive, which is a community of farmed animal advocates. You could connect there to find various resources and connections. 

One that jumps to mind is the student led Food 4 Thought Innovations. They are having a festival in the Harvard for food transformation change next week. 

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A bit too spot on to be an April fools day joke! This is valid commentary. 

A super usable bird directory that was made with AI? This could actually be useful to wildlife researchers and hobbyists. I hope you keep it up somewhere and maybe even expand to other animals. Though I’ve got birds on my brain now!

Hi Simon! You can find out more about the latest development at Earth Species Project here and Project CETI here. There have been some recent breakthroughs with detecting and classifying animal bioacoustic signals through LLM-type models. 

I suspect that the majority of positive impact from vegan/vegetarian diets comes from the normalization of these practices in different communities, not from the economic effects. I don't have any data to back this up other than anecdotes of people telling me that I influenced them just by pointing out animal harm in their food choices... which I guess is different from me just being vegan, but I think me being vegan adds to the impact of my words.

Thanks for the mention, Kevin. I'm looking to gather people together who can build the in infrastructure necessary for what animal welfare initiatives could look like post-AGI transformation.

There is the meat eater problem where more animal lives would likely be lost by increasing the human population. It also seems much more cost effective per dollar to suffering spared to help animals and factory farming is spreading rapidly through Asia and Africa, making this a hingey time.