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Welcome Emmanuel! You might want to post on this thread to introduce yourself, and/or ask any questions you have,
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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...
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Welcome, Emmanuel! A lot of people get introduced to additional ideas of effective altruism through the virtual programs, through 80,000 Hours, and through various country or regional Slack workspaces. I don't know of any chat groups or Slack workspaces for Uganda or to East Africa, but you might be able reach out to other people to ask. There are also some cause-specific groups, like Hive for people interested in animal welfare.
Since EA is a loose community rather than a formal hierarchy, I encourage you to reach out to people. If someone wrote a post on the EA Forum about something you are interested, send them a message to ask if they have recommendations for how you can learn more, or if they know anyone you can talk to get get more involved.
Glad to have you here.
Thanks Joseph. Sure! I'll reach out to people to get involved.