The Substack algorithm and bestseller list highlights writers who bring in paid subscribers (it's their business model). So my aim is to grow it large enough to benefit from the Matthew effect. Once it's in the top 100 it will receive even more attention, which will hopefully bring more attention to animal welfare, so the income the newsletter generates is really more of a means to an end. But a welcome one of course!
The newsletter will also work in tandem with two books, one on farm animals that I completed a while ago and hopefully appears in early 2028, and one on shrimps that I aim to complete by February. I hope that they'll change the minds of many, but it's of course hard to predict.
Thanks! I agree completely. I think the reverse common sense objection is very forceful to critics of EA appealing to common sense. Almost none of the things we think are good today would have been seen as "common sense" in the past.
Thanks Vasco! Please feel free to post your entire response in the comment section on Substack, as this is where most of our readers are. I will write more on the Welfare Ranges project later, but I will say that I am quite skeptical of neural counts as a proxy for welfare ranges.
Undergraduates at the University of Reading are welcome to get involved with the lab, but this would happen on a project basis, with positions advertised when they are available. Currently there are no such positions.
Hi Simon,
Thanks! :)
The Substack algorithm and bestseller list highlights writers who bring in paid subscribers (it's their business model). So my aim is to grow it large enough to benefit from the Matthew effect. Once it's in the top 100 it will receive even more attention, which will hopefully bring more attention to animal welfare, so the income the newsletter generates is really more of a means to an end. But a welcome one of course!
The newsletter will also work in tandem with two books, one on farm animals that I completed a while ago and hopefully appears in early 2028, and one on shrimps that I aim to complete by February. I hope that they'll change the minds of many, but it's of course hard to predict.
Thanks! I agree completely. I think the reverse common sense objection is very forceful to critics of EA appealing to common sense. Almost none of the things we think are good today would have been seen as "common sense" in the past.
Thanks David! Great work, this is very useful!
Thanks Vasco! Please feel free to post your entire response in the comment section on Substack, as this is where most of our readers are. I will write more on the Welfare Ranges project later, but I will say that I am quite skeptical of neural counts as a proxy for welfare ranges.
Dear Habeeb,
Undergraduates at the University of Reading are welcome to get involved with the lab, but this would happen on a project basis, with positions advertised when they are available. Currently there are no such positions.
Warmly,
Walter