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...
Summary
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...
My apologies if I messed something up, just wanted to make sure I'd get it up in time.
I would also like to note that I was following this counter for the PST 12 deadline:
https://time.is/PST
But I realize now it might be off because of daylight savings? But I truly hope you will still consider it a valid entry. I really poured a lot of effort (plus a tiring all-nighter) to pull it off despite having found out about the contest just a few days ago!
There may be some typos and formatting issues given the last minute rush, but I won't edit it any further unless given permission to.
New Forum users need to be approved by a moderator before their posts are published. This post was approved, along with a few others, just after the deadline, when I did my final sweep to look for submissions from new authors. I've edited the publication time for this and those other posts to reflect when they were actually submitted. So you're fine!