This one’s tricky because I think the limiting factor on promising new interventions is more often a lack of talent wanting to pursue them—and established groups not wanting to do too many things at once—rather than a lack of support or good ideas. (To be clear: I think the movement as a whole is funding constrained; this only applies to new speculative interventions.)
Here’s a non-exhaustive list of new interventions I’d like to see tried which I think some EAs would be well-positioned to do:
Working with large aquatic invertebrate companies to assess and improve welfare.
Working with insect farming companies and investors to implement welfare standards.
Piloting new fundraising approaches, e.g. optimizing online small-donor response to fundraise for EAA groups.
Piloting new corporate campaign approaches to strengthen existing campaigns, e.g. new online campaign tools etc.
Running EA-aligned fellowships to build the pipeline of diverse talent for our movement.
Solving very specific alt-protein scientific challenges, e.g. replicating the texture of a particular species like shrimp.
Engaging with international institutions (e.g. OIE, FAO, IFC, EBRD) and banks (e.g. Rabobank, BNP Paribas) that already have farm animal welfare standards to strengthen and implement them.
A few caveats on what this list isn’t: (1) my “top priorities”—I’ve excluded lots of great ideas that people are already pursuing or which I think would be hard for people to pursue without significant capital or specific expertise, (2) all the new interventions I’d like to see—I only spent 10 mins on this and would likely change the list with more reflection, (3) a guarantee we’d fund a new initiative on one of these topic—this would also depend on whether the people who wanted to launch the initiative had the necessary expertise / experience, and how good their plan was. That said, if you think you’re well-positioned to launch a new initiative on one of those topics, please do reach out to me.
This one’s tricky because I think the limiting factor on promising new interventions is more often a lack of talent wanting to pursue them—and established groups not wanting to do too many things at once—rather than a lack of support or good ideas. (To be clear: I think the movement as a whole is funding constrained; this only applies to new speculative interventions.)
Here’s a non-exhaustive list of new interventions I’d like to see tried which I think some EAs would be well-positioned to do:
Working with large aquatic invertebrate companies to assess and improve welfare.
Working with insect farming companies and investors to implement welfare standards.
Piloting new fundraising approaches, e.g. optimizing online small-donor response to fundraise for EAA groups.
Piloting new corporate campaign approaches to strengthen existing campaigns, e.g. new online campaign tools etc.
Running EA-aligned fellowships to build the pipeline of diverse talent for our movement.
Solving very specific alt-protein scientific challenges, e.g. replicating the texture of a particular species like shrimp.
Engaging with international institutions (e.g. OIE, FAO, IFC, EBRD) and banks (e.g. Rabobank, BNP Paribas) that already have farm animal welfare standards to strengthen and implement them.
A few caveats on what this list isn’t: (1) my “top priorities”—I’ve excluded lots of great ideas that people are already pursuing or which I think would be hard for people to pursue without significant capital or specific expertise, (2) all the new interventions I’d like to see—I only spent 10 mins on this and would likely change the list with more reflection, (3) a guarantee we’d fund a new initiative on one of these topic—this would also depend on whether the people who wanted to launch the initiative had the necessary expertise / experience, and how good their plan was. That said, if you think you’re well-positioned to launch a new initiative on one of those topics, please do reach out to me.