I've mostly thought of crucial considerations (CCs) in the longtermist domain. It's not surprising that if you're trying to improve welfare impartially over space and time, there will be a lot of CCs. But suppose you're focusing on the near term (including / especially animal welfare). I'm curious to hear which CCs people working on near-term philanthropy have found to be especially important. Just listing them, with relevant links if necessary, would be great. Thanks!
(Some examples that have occurred to me: displacement effects, the poor meat eater problem, maybe wacky anthropics stuff? I'm also aware of the CCs tag on the Forum.)
this comes to mind
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/jGoExJpGgLnsNPKD8/does-ultimate-neartermism-via-eternal-inflation-dominate?commentId=oQf9RDLqjkLjobmne
in a thread there i mentioned that even for a described 'ultimate neartermist', the best action is actually to cause acausal trade (i.e. by causing aligned ASI) with an ASI at an earlier point in time. for a hypothetical value which only cares about near-term beings, this would also be true, because most near-term beings are not on earth.
also, if i consider a hypothetical value which just cares about near-term beings on earth, it may prefer to destroy earth instead of slowly reducing animal suffering. 'would want to destroy earth' is a classical response t... (read more)