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By coincidence I just published a similar post to this and mentioned being honest / transparent in EA job applications. I think your examples are really helpful (and I've linked them to my post).
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This is a crosspost from the new Animal Welfare Alignment Newsletter by Anima International. You can subscribe on Substack if you are interested in following these efforts. Audio reading also available on Substack.
The goals of this post are to:
1. Raise a question I see as crucially important to the goal of aligning AI to animal welfare...
“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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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.
Executive Summary
* Animal advocates sometimes make claims like “there are X of this animal...
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I really enjoyed this post, especially the explanation about honesty, and the hiring process being collaborative if your goal is aligned with that of the org you're applying for.
Likewise - I listened to this via the Nonlinear Library but decided to open the Forum version just to leave a comment endorsing this post's advice.
Both this and Six Takeaways from EA Global and EA Retreats contain a lot of things that I already believed were useful advice that not enough people are aware of and that I wasn't aware of a good concise clear writeup on, so I appreciate you (Akash) producing these posts :)