This is a masterpiece. These were the key points for me from the article:
Unitarianism: the view that the moral value of welfare is independent of a being’s species. Even if we value one unit of human welfare one hundred times more than one unit of another animal’s welfare, the conclusion still supports prioritizing animal welfare
1$=200 hens: corporate campaigns can spare over 200 hens from cage confinement for each dollar spent, according to GiveWell.
1,000: The average cost-effectiveness of cage-free campaigns is on the order of 1,000 times that of GiveWell’s top charities. Even if the campaigns’ marginal cost-effectiveness is ten times worse than the average, it would still be one hundred times more cost-effective
17%: Open Philanthropy has allocated an average of only 17% of its neartermist funding to animal welfare each year
Controversial: Yes, animal welfare is “controversial,” but so is AI risk, which is one of Open Philanthropy’s priorities.
I would like to add that if you perform an intervention to shift society towards a more plant-based diet, you have solved all of the animal’s problems as opposed to the case in which you prevented malaria, for example, in which some problems for the same individual still remain.
This is a masterpiece.
These were the key points for me from the article:
Unitarianism: the view that the moral value of welfare is independent of a being’s species. Even if we value one unit of human welfare one hundred times more than one unit of another animal’s welfare, the conclusion still supports prioritizing animal welfare
1$=200 hens: corporate campaigns can spare over 200 hens from cage confinement for each dollar spent, according to GiveWell.
1,000: The average cost-effectiveness of cage-free campaigns is on the order of 1,000 times that of GiveWell’s top charities. Even if the campaigns’ marginal cost-effectiveness is ten times worse than the average, it would still be one hundred times more cost-effective
17%: Open Philanthropy has allocated an average of only 17% of its neartermist funding to animal welfare each year
Controversial: Yes, animal welfare is “controversial,” but so is AI risk, which is one of Open Philanthropy’s priorities.
I would like to add that if you perform an intervention to shift society towards a more plant-based diet, you have solved all of the animal’s problems as opposed to the case in which you prevented malaria, for example, in which some problems for the same individual still remain.