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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 wouldn’t last lo...
A strong skepticism of flashy marketing.
Really, I think this one is massively under-emphasised because of the necessity of marketing tactics to many of EA's outreach efforts.
But I think that learning to decouple actual measurable impact from a slick, well-presented, eye-catching markety whatever is a huge part of becoming the kind of EA that can be trusted with power. And that happens by developing an almost aesthetic revulsion to anything that looks too flashy: a personal warning system to proceed with caution and not be taken in by something attempting to hijack your importance-measuring-sense.