I didn’t realize it was that much money. This has relevance to the debates about whether AI will value humans. Though EA has not focused as much on making mainstream money more effective, there have been some efforts. But my major response is why the focus on cultivated meat? It seems like efforts on plant-based meat or fermentation or leaf protein concentrate have much greater likelihood of achieving parity in the near term.
Fermentation or leaf protein concentrate are other excellent ideas. The main reason I think lab-grown beef is the thing to focus in is simply because beef is the main issue. The elephant in the biodiversity room is primarily cattle-ranching. Any successful intervention, purely from a biodiversity perspective (the perspective of this pot of money) would have to address beef. I understand there are probably multiple avenues towards that goal, however, and would be very open to being persuaded that other methods could achieve it.
I didn’t realize it was that much money. This has relevance to the debates about whether AI will value humans. Though EA has not focused as much on making mainstream money more effective, there have been some efforts.
But my major response is why the focus on cultivated meat? It seems like efforts on plant-based meat or fermentation or leaf protein concentrate have much greater likelihood of achieving parity in the near term.
It could even be that mitigating existential risk is the most cost-effective way of saving species, though I realize that is probably too far afield for this pot of money.
Fermentation or leaf protein concentrate are other excellent ideas. The main reason I think lab-grown beef is the thing to focus in is simply because beef is the main issue. The elephant in the biodiversity room is primarily cattle-ranching. Any successful intervention, purely from a biodiversity perspective (the perspective of this pot of money) would have to address beef. I understand there are probably multiple avenues towards that goal, however, and would be very open to being persuaded that other methods could achieve it.