It seems unfortunately plausible that despite technological progress toward alternatives to meat, humans have a revealed terminal preference for animal suffering, which mean that short of extinction we are on a default trajectory to astronomical suffering.

otoh, this is funny:

Peter Thiel, the tech billionaire and a frequent Gates critic, said in an interview that he had privately encouraged around a dozen Giving Pledge signers to undo it. “Most of the ones I’ve talked to have at least expressed regret about signing it,” he said. He has his own Epstein ties, but he calls the Pledge an “Epstein-adjacent, fake Boomer club.”

"There is already an option for people who want to hang out with the people who are currently attracted to effective altruism. It is called “the rationalist community.”"

https://x.com/austinc3301/status/2027639210874966060

Fully autonomous weapons seems to me to be a clear-cut case of differential acceleration in any case: not giving any kind of legitimate battlefield advantage for law-abiding democratic countries (human reflexes are top of the sigmoid; this is one of our main evolutionarily-selected skills for obvious reasons), but allowing authoritarians to establish a military dictatorship with minimal staff (historically "the army is ultimately made up of ordinary people who can refuse to shoot their brethren and/or shoot the dictator instead" have been an important pressure valve), or to organize genocidal massacres with automated recognition of targeted civilians (i.e. the FLI Slaughterbots scenario).

Democracy promotion is a common interest of many causes. It's highly unlikely we can do anything about (potentially, will ever be able to do anything about again) global poverty, factory farming, or existential risk, if all world powers become repressive autocracies squashing any sign of moral cosmopolitanism and freethought.

This is about the RSP v3 (front-page post), wholly unrelated.