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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...
You could probably post a half-dozen beer-sheds encircling a village, and each batch of brew is moved on a dolly to a spot somewhat further from the village-center, such that you steadily enlarge a de-mosquitoed zone.
Also worth considering: though you get a similar CO2 trap with baking soda, that would be a COST of a few dollars a week, only yielding a small amount of chicken-feed and avoiding malaria and bites in general. Instead, brewing beer (or fruit wine into vinegar) generates a revenue from inputs, WHILE eliminating malaria. This is also categorically better than Bed Nets, because those only protect you in BED; the mosquitoes are still flying around everywhere!