This is meant as an introductory reading list for basic knowledge for effective altruists just learning about reducing wild animal suffering as a field, and want to catch up to speed. While some philosophers have written many of these essays and articles, others have been written by researchers with an academic background in the life sciences. There aren’t firm conclusions in this area yet. Nobody is taking RWAS research out of small EA non-profits with limited research experience as better conclusions than academia would produce.
Multiple EA organizations are spending thousands of dollars per year on multiple staff to build bridges to life scientists in academia to transform welfare biology into a genuine academic discipline. These organizations are also comfortable with the fact academic research may quickly overturn many of the tenuous impressions effective altruists have themselves formed of wild animal suffering. I’m confident EAs when contradicted by novel academic research will change their minds. It seems you think we are taking these findings much more seriously than we actually do.
This is meant as an introductory reading list for basic knowledge for effective altruists just learning about reducing wild animal suffering as a field, and want to catch up to speed. While some philosophers have written many of these essays and articles, others have been written by researchers with an academic background in the life sciences. There aren’t firm conclusions in this area yet. Nobody is taking RWAS research out of small EA non-profits with limited research experience as better conclusions than academia would produce.
Multiple EA organizations are spending thousands of dollars per year on multiple staff to build bridges to life scientists in academia to transform welfare biology into a genuine academic discipline. These organizations are also comfortable with the fact academic research may quickly overturn many of the tenuous impressions effective altruists have themselves formed of wild animal suffering. I’m confident EAs when contradicted by novel academic research will change their minds. It seems you think we are taking these findings much more seriously than we actually do.