Training children that it is a good idea to keep psychopaths as pets as long as they are cute probably results in them voting actors into positions of authority later in life.
1. Make a survey of EAs preferences over puppies x kittens. I suppose it’s correlated with cause areas and donation strategies.
2. Dogs and cats are too mainstream and fail the neglectedness test. If you’re a true EA, you should consider smaller animals, such as mice, or farm animals like chickens or pigs—so teaching people to expand their moral circle.
(BTW, has anyone seriously considered measuring if meeting a farm animal pet decreases someone’s willingness to eat meat, etc? I bet it does not, but...)
3. If you’re hardcore, you’ll create an AI pet (smarter than Tamagochi, plz) to either as an approach to AI alignment, or at least to teach kids about the dangers of AGI.
Training children that it is a good idea to keep psychopaths as pets as long as they are cute probably results in them voting actors into positions of authority later in life.
1. Make a survey of EAs preferences over puppies x kittens. I suppose it’s correlated with cause areas and donation strategies.
2. Dogs and cats are too mainstream and fail the neglectedness test. If you’re a true EA, you should consider smaller animals, such as mice, or farm animals like chickens or pigs—so teaching people to expand their moral circle.
(BTW, has anyone seriously considered measuring if meeting a farm animal pet decreases someone’s willingness to eat meat, etc? I bet it does not, but...)
3. If you’re hardcore, you’ll create an AI pet (smarter than Tamagochi, plz) to either as an approach to AI alignment, or at least to teach kids about the dangers of AGI.