The value of a life - Minding Our Own Way– Definire il valore di una vita umana e la differenza con il costo del salvare una vita umana in questo mondo in difficoltà. (15 min.)
Tradeoffs– Come raggiungere un equilibrio tra le proprie necessità e quelle degli altri (5 min.)
Famine, affluence, and morality (15 min.) N.B.: molte persone all’interno di altruismo efficace non sono d’accordo sull’impegno richiesto da ognuno di questi problemi.
Sustainable motivation – Come rimanere motivati quando si affrontano problemi su larga scala (24 min)
I am writing up two charity ideas I’ve wanted to investigate, but haven’t been able to, in the hopes someone will investigate them further. If you end up investigating either, I'd be most interested to see what conclusions you come to!
Vulture preservation as a global health intervention
Since the mid 1990's the vulture population in India has been rapidly declining. The reason is due to a few chemicals which are fed to livestock, which is highly poisonous to vultures.
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Epistemic status: Wrote this pretty fast, probably ~70% confident some version of the thesis claim is true, would welcome being proven demonstrably wrong.
Context: I’m a grantmaker focused on alt-protein and am fairly well-connected/moderately in the loop of what animal welfare grantmakers are doing.
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