Six months later, this is definitely the most influential and enlightening among the topic-focused/research-centered posts I’ve read here. I’m far too amateur to take anything with total certainty, so don’t worry about that. The post did make me switch from being super confident in cultivated meat as the solution to very skeptical, and got me taking the development of plant-based meat more seriously. I still see cultivated meat being promoted as a solution, so I’m still figuring out what to think about it; I don’t need much of an opinion at the moment, being an undergrad student with nothing to do but learn and give feedback on what I read. 🍔
Most of all, this post got me to face the fact that working in EA involves loads of 4D chess: nothing in this world is certain, the effectiveness of large-scale actions are determined by a world of factors more numerous than can be kept track of, and backfiring is something, sadly, to keep an eye out for. It’s turned EA, to me, from the imperative to seize golden oppurtunities of doing good, to the choice of trying to doing good, not because I’m sure it will work, but because I believe something has to be done. Thank you for your brilliant insight, and for getting me think with more clear realism, expanding my world. 💡
Six months later, this is definitely the most influential and enlightening among the topic-focused/research-centered posts I’ve read here. I’m far too amateur to take anything with total certainty, so don’t worry about that. The post did make me switch from being super confident in cultivated meat as the solution to very skeptical, and got me taking the development of plant-based meat more seriously. I still see cultivated meat being promoted as a solution, so I’m still figuring out what to think about it; I don’t need much of an opinion at the moment, being an undergrad student with nothing to do but learn and give feedback on what I read. 🍔
Most of all, this post got me to face the fact that working in EA involves loads of 4D chess: nothing in this world is certain, the effectiveness of large-scale actions are determined by a world of factors more numerous than can be kept track of, and backfiring is something, sadly, to keep an eye out for. It’s turned EA, to me, from the imperative to seize golden oppurtunities of doing good, to the choice of trying to doing good, not because I’m sure it will work, but because I believe something has to be done. Thank you for your brilliant insight, and for getting me think with more clear realism, expanding my world. 💡