"Most of our data on the topic [of farmed shrimp sentience] is based on another shrimp species about as evolutionarily distant from what's most commonly eaten as sharks are from humans"
This article is really good food for thought but for now I'm more swayed by Marcus's more pessimistic take in the comments. I just wanted to add another correction to this post where it says:
"The last time new technology opened up this kind of money, it led to one of the largest declines in extreme poverty and child mortality in human history."
I explored that statement with Gemini 3.5* and it thinks the above is half right .
It said it's correct that early 21st tech boom ended up saving the lives of 5.4 million children each year, cutting global child mortality "by more than half in a single generation".
However it said the roughly 80% reduction in extreme poverty around that time was probably more correlation than causation.
*P.S. Sorry I had to use Gemini cuz I ran out of Claude credits
This is great to hear! Any reason why "major grantmakers have significantly more to deploy than they did a few years ago — the EA Animal Welfare Fund alone has had more funding allocated to it in the past six months than in the previous six years"?
I'm convinced tho I must admit I was turned off by this post (and the associated quitgpt.org) opening its case by Brockman's contribution to MAGA. And that's saying something cuz I dislike that movement a lot.
But I really think it's much more partisan and controversial than it should be when the reasons that follow include being unprincipled about enabling authoritarianism.
Great summary of one of my fav books!
P.S. Peter Singer also made a documentary covering the main points of the book. You can watch it for free here:
Thank you so much for making so many great linked resources about FTG available for free!
I'm tardy to the party but I wanted to join in. I share a lot of OP's concerns especially when it comes to shrimp welfare.
As I wrote in a previous post:
"Most of our data on the topic [of farmed shrimp sentience] is based on another shrimp species about as evolutionarily distant from what's most commonly eaten as sharks are from humans"
I'm probably too late to get read but I think https://ccf.rethinkpriorities.org/donor-compass/ is a good automated tool for you.
And if u want more personalized advice there's https://www.arkphilanthropy.org/ which employ smart humans who would be happy to chat.
Can give more recommendations if you're still interested.
This article is really good food for thought but for now I'm more swayed by Marcus's more pessimistic take in the comments. I just wanted to add another correction to this post where it says:
I explored that statement with Gemini 3.5* and it thinks the above is half right .
It said it's correct that early 21st tech boom ended up saving the lives of 5.4 million children each year, cutting global child mortality "by more than half in a single generation".
However it said the roughly 80% reduction in extreme poverty around that time was probably more correlation than causation.
*P.S. Sorry I had to use Gemini cuz I ran out of Claude credits
This is great to hear! Any reason why "major grantmakers have significantly more to deploy than they did a few years ago — the EA Animal Welfare Fund alone has had more funding allocated to it in the past six months than in the previous six years"?
Just wanted to note that this work was highlighted by ourworldindata.org/do-better-cages-or-cage-free-environments-really-improve-the-lives-of-hens
Great post and beautiful charts
Can't wait to find time to watch this.
Quick nitpick: there's currently no link at the end of this sentence 'You can see our retrospective on our first two videos here."
I'm convinced tho I must admit I was turned off by this post (and the associated quitgpt.org) opening its case by Brockman's contribution to MAGA. And that's saying something cuz I dislike that movement a lot.
But I really think it's much more partisan and controversial than it should be when the reasons that follow include being unprincipled about enabling authoritarianism.