Economics (and Business Economics) and Philosophy student.
Looking for a future career in development economics/finance and politics.
Brother, of course EA also works towards reducing shrimp deaths. Most EAs are vegan and try to spread veganism, but decreasing the suffering of the shrimp who will be killed anyway is an efficient way of decreasing suffering in the world. To your 0% multiple choice thing, like what even is that, its just alienating, and not even accurate to any extent, a big part of EA is to adopt a scout mindset and be better at estimating probabilities and having an as accurate picture of the world as possible.
I am curious what is your alternative is to effective altruism? How do we improve the world in a better way?
Researchers simulate an entire fly brain on a laptop. Is a human brain next?
What is the implication of this for EA thinking? Does the fly that purely exists in the computer warrant moral consideration, and could we increase the overall welfare of the world by making millions of these simulations with ideal fruit-fly conditions?
They fully copied the brain of the fly, so from my understanding it should also feel pleasure and pain in theory, I think this poses a real conundrum for EA morality.
Cool project!
One point of improvement I noticed was that when it asked for zip-code you could only add American ones, I would suggest adding an option to choose different countries! I think the platform could be especially popular with Europeans, so I would suggest focusing on adding those countries first.
Anyway, I like the platform and I feel like it has a lot of potential to do good. Good work!
Also, Art Chad literally ate shrimp in his video, so he is clearly not agreeing with you that we should prevent them from dying.