P.S. If it's not too personal, I'm just curious how is your first video (on AI 2027) so incredibly polished? Did you work with a more experienced videography team?

Great idea and even better execution on the Youtube vids. I can't wait for more!

I think you make a lot of good points even though I ended up disagreeing with your conclusion.  For now I'll reply to just one argument, since no one will probably even read this one:

"Seeing someone willingly make personal sacrifices for the sake of morality encourages others to act ethically, too."

I think that striving for veganism actually discourages most people from acting ethically about animals i.e. offsetting their footprint with donations, because it's adding a hurdle in the path to helping animals.

It's like demanding people do handstands before entering the gym. 

• It would be cool if everyone could handstands but not everyone is ready for that. And it's not even needed to be in good shape i.e. have a positive overall impact on animal welfare.

It also reminds me of oil companies pressuring people to do their part by turning off the lights when not using them and shortening showers. It seems like a trivial distraction from the systematic change, and the funding and broad public support, that is really needed.

It's stuff like this that makes me fall in love with this community.

I think Humantix cofounder Josh Ross is dope. 

In this podcast with Peter Singer he says he got into the digital ticketing space with the purpose of developing software that can be scaled up into a tremendous source of charity. 

In that podcast he also was incredibly honest that he is also motivated by a fear of Hell

• He was disillusioned with his religious upbringing but figured that if there was a right religion out there, humanitarian efforts would probably help save him from the negative afterlife that lack of faith can incur.

To be honest I can relate to that but unlike him I haven't donated over $10,000,000 yet. That's according to Humantix's site today, which says it donates virtually all its profits, to nonprofits including Peter Singer's The Life You Can Save.

P.S. In various interviews like this one he says his long-term goal is to create more tech innovations that can generate more for charity and disrupt more industries than just ticketing. So maybe get in touch if you want to help him out with that.

This is great and I'm grateful for it although this is not exactly what I was hoping to hear 😅: 

"I really do think we should all be thinking about the $10 we spend on a movie as $10 stolen from the mouths of starving people, or suffering animals, or future generations."

Thank you for another banger Mr. Bollard!

Judging from cage free egg prices I had no idea that cage free eggs currently cost just $0.01-0.02 more per egg. And almost all supermarkets just mark it up $0.08-0.20.

Please keep up the great work and fighting those greedy bastards.

This sounds amazing! 

Would you consider providing support for a startup that is already generating profits and aims to donate at least 10% of revenue to EA affiliated charities (along with innovative charitable initiatives) but could really use help with bookkeeping and scaling up faster?

That quote really hit home for me too

Interesting article. I hadn't considered how consolidation could help farm animal welfare although it probably does the opposite for the low wage stafb by constricting their options further