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Subtitle: On vegan advocacy, effective altruism, and FIFA
I turn 40 today. Here are some hot takes.
On factory farming
1. Our biggest challenge is salience. If factory farming led the evening news, it wouldnât last lo...
See Response to Phil Torresâ âThe Case Against Longtermismâ and Response to Recent Criticisms of Longtermism, including comments.
This. It was already talked and discussed a whole lot, but the worst thing about it is that it's a Salon article. Even before the fact that the news is mostly useless for reasons like this: https://www.gwern.net/Littlewood#:~:text=At a global scale%2C anything,ânetworked global media covering
It's an article that has severe charitability issues, and it's basically as bad as a political article for explaining longtermism, which has negative value.