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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.
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* Animal advocates sometimes make claims like “there are X of this animal...
“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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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...
While I agree that GiveDirectly is almost certainly not more cost-effective than AMF or other GiveWell top charities, the quote
rang alarm bells in my head in the sense of conflating confidence levels inside and outside an argument. But this is an extremely minor nitpick; let me also balance it out by saying I'm a fan of your uncertainty quantification of GW's GiveDirectly CEA, which is a lot better than what I would've come up with (as someone who's also spent long hours poring over their CEAs and, like Froolow, found their model architecture frustratingly confusing).