Try to sell me on working with large food companies to improve animal welfare, if I’m a vegan abolitionist.
There is more political traction on improving animal welfare in large food companies than there is in ending systematic slaughter and abuse of animals completely.
Becoming aware of the harm one is causing and then undoing that harm can lift the blinds that were hiding your seemingly innocuous everyday actions.Having large food companies improve animal welfare can increase the sensitivity to animal harm of those within the companies. These people may then go on to push for further increases in animal welfare, and maybe even for the end of the systematic slaughter and abuse.
Work with large food companies to increase animal welfare doesn’t necessarily exclude the possibility of work to end the slaughter and abuse completely.
The animals, although still having a bleak life overall, will probably feel grateful for the small breaks they will be given in their lives.
Try to sell me on donating to the global poor if I live in the developed world and have a very strong sense of responsibility to my family and local community.
Doing what you can to help yourself and others around you is logical. However, not everyone in the world has the luxury to help themselves and others close to them.
By reducing global poverty you make places around the world better and safer places to live. Therefore, if, say, one of your grandchildren chooses to live somewhere else in the world, their experience will be better and safer.
Try to sell me on the dangers of AGI if I’m interested in evidence-based ways to reduce global poverty, and think EA should be pumping all its money into bednets and cash transfers.
Even experts,sometimes, are taken off guard by huge technological milestones that come with huge risks. Not working to be prepared for such risky technological advances would be doing a disservice to those around you that you care about, by doing nothing for the world as something bad happens that takes the world off guard. Being passive about the dangers of AGI can render all other humanitarian efforts moot.
Try to sell me on donating to the global poor if I live in the developed world and have a very strong sense of responsibility to my family and local community.
Doing what you can to help yourself and others around you is logical. However, not everyone in the world has the luxury to help themselves and others close to them.
By reducing global poverty you make places around the world better and safer places to live. Therefore, if, say, one of your grandchildren chooses to live somewhere else in the world, their experience will be better and safer.
Try to sell me on the dangers of AGI if I’m interested in evidence-based ways to reduce global poverty, and think EA should be pumping all its money into bednets and cash transfers.
Even experts,sometimes, are taken off guard by huge technological milestones that come with huge risks. Not working to be prepared for such risky technological advances would be doing a disservice to those around you that you care about, by doing nothing for the world as something bad happens that takes the world off guard. Being passive about the dangers of AGI can render all other humanitarian efforts moot.