Thanks for the great post, Jared and Maya!

Hi Max,

Have you considered pitching Ambitious Impact on running a research round with the goal of finding the best interventions leveraging AI to help animals?

Thanks, Jamie and David. Will there be a similar post for the 2024 survey?

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for the comment! Would you be happy to share the name of the book?

Thanks, Michael. I agree AI risk should not be dismissed without looking into how large it is. On the other hand, there is not an obvious relationship between existential risk, and the cost-effectiveness of decreasing it. The cost-effectiveness decreases as the risk increases because this decreases the value of the future, unless the risk is concentrated in a time of perils. In addition, a higher risk of human extinction does not necessarily imply a higher existential risk because some AI systems may well be sentient. 

I do not discuss B12 in the post. "I also plan to continue my D3 supplementation, as I worry the non-mortality benefits, which would decrease the break-even donations, may be significant". Do you think there is evidence that not taking a multivitamin-multimineral or long-chain omega-3, which are the 2 supplements besides D3 I mention in the post, would cause anything close to sufficient damage to "impair sustaining any income"?

Thanks, Pat. I have added the following to the summary (which was in the main text). "I did not cover benefits from increased future annual net income".

Thanks for the great clarifications, Daniela!

It is interesting RP's work on wild animal welfare is not supported by unrestricted funds. It suggests the people at RP responsible for allocating the unrestricted funds think there is other work from RP which is more cost-effective at the margin. How are unrestricted funds allocated? I think it would be great for RP to be transparent about this considering donations become unrestricted funds by default.

Will donations restricted to RP's work on invertebrate welfare (including farmed, wild, and other invertebrates) also not go towards vertebrate welfare (including humans, and vertebrate animals)? Which fraction of the funds supporting invertebrate welfare are unrestricted? I asked these questions about wild animal welfare, but I am actually specially interested in invertebrate welfare.

Thanks for all your efforts. I think donating to ALLFED saves human lives roughly as cost-effectively as GiveWell's top charities^[1], so I would say it is a good opportunity for people supporting global health and development interventions^[2].

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   I estimated policy advocacy to increase resilience to global catastrophic food shocks is 4.08 times as cost-effective as GiveWell's top charities.

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   Although I believe the best animal welfare interventions are way more cost-effective, and I do not know whether saving human lives is beneficial or harmful accounting for effects on animals.