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...
Hello! I'm Justin Portela. I got hired by GWWC to make YouTube videos after AI in Context did such a kickass job.
My channel is using that same cinematic, high-production value beauty to talk about everything in the EA universe that isn't AI.
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“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...
So in Peter Singer’s The Life You can Save, he mentions one way to be an EA is activating for increased GDP investment in humanitarian aid.
So I created this website (wordpress and d3) to try to convince people to call their representatives on the topic, espically in regards to WFP and UNICEF
https://whereourtreasureis.com/
I image the WFP and UNICEF may not be the most effective NGO’s, but they still do good work, and they seem better then the for-profits like Chemonics that get most of the USA federal funding.
I do plan to expand on the Fustula Foundation, which does get a little bit of federal funding and is on Singer’s list as a effective organization.
If anyone has ideas on improvements, please let me know. Honestly, people don’t seem that interested when I tell them about it, so I know there’s room for improvement!