Happy to see this! I work at a new org accelerating animal welfare technologies for farms and fisheries. https://springfund.com/.  If it would be helpful, DM me and I'm happy to discuss strategies or collaboration ops   

Thanks for the write up, Eitan. A venture philanthropy fund as an animal welfare megaproject has been top of mind for me for years. Your strategic thinking (and Milo's) refined the concept into something uniquely catalytic. Grateful to work on Welfare Tech alongside you and the other great orgs in this field.

Thanks for this lovely solarpunk vignette! I believe net positive-welfare farming is possible.

Thanks, Fai. I like your ideas. Virtual Control Groups and LLM-agents are especially interesting to me right now. I want to look into the state of digital twins for various animals. This could not only obviate some animal testing, but also facilitate better translational medicine between humans, farmed animals, companion animals, and wild animals. It might also help us model levels of suffering and welfare improvement associated with interventions like novel pesticides, without the need for physical experimentation. Models would probably mostly cover individual physiology, but could also model population dynamics on farms or in the wild. Aware of anything on these fronts?

Also, your comment on pond loaches reminded me of our ~2021 discussions around animals in the long term future in space. I am planning on revisiting some of those topics.

Great write up! I especially appreciate your one-line descriptions of some of the largest AW issues. Are you aware of any kind of database where these issues are catalogued, and if so, could you point me to it? We have a long list of interventions, but having a long list of discrete welfare issues would be at least equally useful.

@Fai had some excellent and prescient ideas. Anything new come to mind, Fai? 

Hi, could you send me some information on what youre working on? I may do some venture investing in this area 

Cool idea. I assume you're tracking Innovate Animal Ag already; they might be interested in this

Hi Oli, I appreciate your thoughtful reply and share much of your sentiment. Indeed, we must protect the flame. The inner fire I have for positive impact (especially animal welfare) is equally critical, but I find it's sometimes hard to give both the attention they need. Personally, I think it would improve my art to attend to both simultaneously, but probably not improve my impact (unless I come up with some better ideas). 

I haven't yet but plan to. From what I can see in the forum and LinkedIn, the main focus is/was getting donation pledges from successful artists.