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...
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.
Executive Summary
* Animal advocates sometimes make claims like “there are X of this animal...
Hey guys, my name is Greg Mustreader, I am probably the most popular blogger in Russia who advocates for EA, with several hundred thousand subscribers across various platforms. I have recently started a YouTube channel in English, where I have posted:
1) a video on EA and myths surrounding charity: youtu.be/dIWAya9aptA
2) a video podcast with Peter Singer: youtu.be/Po7eTBbInnw
I would be happy if you gave me some feedback on those videos and also helped spread them among your friends who are interested in EA and want to learn more about it. Cheers!
This sounds great! I think you should make this a top-level post :)
Seconded!