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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH1ZQOF1yAo
A key & peele video that is effectively EA dark humor. Enjoy!
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AI Use Note: Main body text entirely human written. Claude (Opus 4.8) helped develop models of animal life histories in the appendix.
Cross-posted from Good Structures.
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* Animal advocates sometimes make claims like “there are X of this animal...
“How long have you been v*g*n?”
This is one of the most common icebreakers at animal protection events. It’s a baseline assumption, and it mostly holds true: if you’re out advocating for animals not to be tortured or abused, realistically these days you are v**n, or close. And it makes for good conversation. It seems fairly safe to assume when you meet strangers.
But this assumption is hurting the movement in a way which we don’t always notice: someone new comes into the sp...
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Back in November 2023 I posted here to launch Spiro and raise our first $198k. Two and a half years later this is an update and a fundraiser for the next step.
The short version: we've now reached over-5,900 people with TB preventive medicine, including over 3,000 children under five years old. Our early results have held up well an...
Idea: The coronavirus' timing is an opportunity for biorisk to become a major political issue. If we can frame a discussion in the coming post-primary months around what each candidate will do in their next 4 year term to improve pandemic response and prevention, it is likely that pandemic response could become a big discussion point in august-november pre-election discussions and hopefully translate to significant policy moves in the next 4 year presidential cycle.
Would love your thoughts!
Certainly a good topic to be thinking about now!
This falls into a common category for me: "Would be great if it happened, not sure who would make it happen."
As far as I'm aware, most EA-funded biosecurity work currently happens in Europe (e.g. CSER/FHI). I don't know of existing policy organizations in the U.S. that we are linked to, and that are sufficiently large/influential to exert pressure on "discussion points" in the upcoming election cycle.
Did you have a particular "we" in mind when you used the phrase "we can frame a discussion"?
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Blue Ribbon Panel on BiodefenseBipartisan Commission on Biodefense is funded by OpenPhil and works in the US FWIW.OTOH, I think if it became a talking point in debates it could wind up with more funding, but would also risk becoming politicized, which could be bad for the efficacy of the approaches that end up being used.