I’m confused why the comments aren’t more about cause prioritization as that’s the primary choice here. Maybe that’s too big of a discussion for this comment section.
I don’t view cause prioritisation as the primary choice here.
To illustrate, consider only ‘farmed animal welfare’ charities: Shrimp welfare project, EA Animal Welfare Fund, Arthropoda Foundation, the Humane League, Hive, Legal Impact for Chickens, Animetrics, Veganuary, Sentient, Fish Welfare Institute. Here are the most relevant questions that would influence which organisation I would prioritise.
What is the track record of each organisation, or the people in the organisation, or other organisations which seem similar to each organisation?
How effective do I think interventions in: community building, policy advocacy, the law, public advocacy, vegan advocacy, research, data improvements, etc. are, relative to one another?
How much do I think success or failure in each of those classes of interventions is predictive of future success or failure?
What will each organisation fund on the margin?
What factors do I think play into the “moral weight” of different groups of animals, and how do different animals score on these factors?
How much can each charity do about the above factors?
Of these, I would consider only question (5), maybe (6), to be “cause prioritisation” questions. In this election, information relating to questions (1) and (4) is more easily available to me than usual, and I’m forced to consider the range of interventions discussed in (2) and (3) if I want to produce a full ranking, where in most circumstances I would just go with the intervention I think is most effective and not think about how the rest are ordered.
I’m confused why the comments aren’t more about cause prioritization as that’s the primary choice here. Maybe that’s too big of a discussion for this comment section.
I don’t view cause prioritisation as the primary choice here.
To illustrate, consider only ‘farmed animal welfare’ charities: Shrimp welfare project, EA Animal Welfare Fund, Arthropoda Foundation, the Humane League, Hive, Legal Impact for Chickens, Animetrics, Veganuary, Sentient, Fish Welfare Institute. Here are the most relevant questions that would influence which organisation I would prioritise.
What is the track record of each organisation, or the people in the organisation, or other organisations which seem similar to each organisation?
How effective do I think interventions in: community building, policy advocacy, the law, public advocacy, vegan advocacy, research, data improvements, etc. are, relative to one another?
How much do I think success or failure in each of those classes of interventions is predictive of future success or failure?
What will each organisation fund on the margin?
What factors do I think play into the “moral weight” of different groups of animals, and how do different animals score on these factors?
How much can each charity do about the above factors?
Of these, I would consider only question (5), maybe (6), to be “cause prioritisation” questions. In this election, information relating to questions (1) and (4) is more easily available to me than usual, and I’m forced to consider the range of interventions discussed in (2) and (3) if I want to produce a full ranking, where in most circumstances I would just go with the intervention I think is most effective and not think about how the rest are ordered.