Thanks for this thoughtful reply and your work on animal welfare.
So I think my previous comment is to express my belief/knowledge/informed guesses that chronic suffering is very large, and on average, focusing on interventions that reduce highly unnatural, chronic suffering is more impactful. I’m uncertain that ~1-2 hours of slaughter, even of many millions of fish, is the top priority if it shifts resources from other priorities[1]. I think that a general, uncommitted audience, should take these views into account.
All your reasons you mention seem great to me and also is useful, interesting ideas in themselves.
I think a project reducing slaughter suffering is really valuable. I think if you’re saying that you or someone else is committed to working on this, have a lead here, or even have a personal preference to work on these projects, that seems really good to do.
I think it’s really bad if EA aligned people thoughtfully working on interventions feel there they have to “win the extra game of being approved on the EA forum”, especially if the quality of discussants is low or the views unnecessarily disagreeable.
Further ways I know of communicating this, are basically massive violations of the intent of “CW”, “safe spaces”. I don’t know if anyone wants to read this right now.
Thanks for this thoughtful reply and your work on animal welfare.
So I think my previous comment is to express my belief/knowledge/informed guesses that chronic suffering is very large, and on average, focusing on interventions that reduce highly unnatural, chronic suffering is more impactful. I’m uncertain that ~1-2 hours of slaughter, even of many millions of fish, is the top priority if it shifts resources from other priorities[1]. I think that a general, uncommitted audience, should take these views into account.
All your reasons you mention seem great to me and also is useful, interesting ideas in themselves.
I think a project reducing slaughter suffering is really valuable. I think if you’re saying that you or someone else is committed to working on this, have a lead here, or even have a personal preference to work on these projects, that seems really good to do.
I think it’s really bad if EA aligned people thoughtfully working on interventions feel there they have to “win the extra game of being approved on the EA forum”, especially if the quality of discussants is low or the views unnecessarily disagreeable.
Further ways I know of communicating this, are basically massive violations of the intent of “CW”, “safe spaces”. I don’t know if anyone wants to read this right now.