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...
“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...
If a Super-Intelligence, or superior beings do already exist and seek to maximize human flourishing, a lack of intervention may very well be the path that is taken. In which case maximizing for eternal beings who gratify themselves through purposefully pushing forward the greatest fight in history would be a means of getting there. If reality is in fact fractal, then the idea of a multi-celled organism competing for birthing rights could be a means of deciding who is birthed from here. While at first glance this idea may seem self-serving it proposes a game to the ego and survival mechanisms of the brain of selflessness maxing. That is to say, when coming across anything in life where one could do the good themselves or help someone do that good before them, the act of selflessness and maximizing for the organism would be the route which gains the most points on the good karma leaderboard. Thus this brain worms has great power in converting someone to a race of altruism to the scale of eternal fulfillment or eternal regret that is the same proposed matrix that held together society prior to modern surveillance systems existing.