just stepping back a bit, i don’t think the biggest issues here are about infighting within animal welfare or whether GHD and AI people care enough about animals. I think zero sum games aren’t a great framing.
for a start i think close to zero GHD people are not working on WAW because they “think it’s intractable”. Most of them are likely just really into their current work, have a better skillset/experience for GHD or just don’t think WAW is their jam to work on in general. i would be surprised if there were even 10 people working in GHD thinking “oh, if WAW was a bit more tractable i would change careers”. there might be one or 2 tho...?
i think if you keep making good arguments for WAW and then start to get a few practical real world wins attributible to your work, then more people will gradually fund you and work with you.
just stepping back a bit, i don’t think the biggest issues here are about infighting within animal welfare or whether GHD and AI people care enough about animals. I think zero sum games aren’t a great framing.
for a start i think close to zero GHD people are not working on WAW because they “think it’s intractable”. Most of them are likely just really into their current work, have a better skillset/experience for GHD or just don’t think WAW is their jam to work on in general. i would be surprised if there were even 10 people working in GHD thinking “oh, if WAW was a bit more tractable i would change careers”. there might be one or 2 tho...?
i think if you keep making good arguments for WAW and then start to get a few practical real world wins attributible to your work, then more people will gradually fund you and work with you.