Alex Schwalb

The Fermi para­dox, and why suffer­ing re­duc­tion re­duces ex­tinc­tion risk

• Alex Schwalb 27 Nov 2022 9:01 UTC

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  on: Where are you donat­ing this year, and why? (Open thread)

  I’m donating to the Good Food Institute for 2 reasons:

  1: Moving the world more towards alt protein has a positive impact in many different areas including animal welfare, food security, pandemic prevention and climate change

  2: I live in Switzerland and effective-spenden makes it bureaucratically easy and tax deductible to donate to them

• Alex Schwalb 28 Sep 2021 13:46 UTC

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  on: EA Fo­rum Creative Writ­ing Con­test: $10,000 in prizes for good stories

  Are there any rules against using crude language or having a lot of violence in the story?

• Alex Schwalb 17 Aug 2021 10:50 UTC

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  on: Com­par­i­sons of Ca­pac­ity for Welfare and Mo­ral Sta­tus Across Species

  Thanks for the great post, it was a very enjoyable read.

  I’m curious if there are any justification to using qualities such as intelligence, creativity and sociability to determine moral status? They seem pretty arbitrary to me. We might as well consider fluffyness, body weight and visual resolution.

  I would think if there is at all something like hierarchical moral status, it would be determined by instrumental qualities such as resource consumption (negative) and altruism (positive)