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Bob Fischer

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I’m a Senior Researcher for Rethink Priorities, a Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University, a Director of the Animal Welfare Economics Working Group, the Treasurer for the Insect Welfare Research Society, and the President of the Arthropoda Foundation. I work on a wide range of theoretical and applied issues related to animal welfare. You can reach me here.

What do RP’s tools tell us about giv­ing $100m to AW or GHD?

Hayley Clatterbuck7 Oct 2024 20:41 UTC
165 points
21 comments9 min readEA link

AMA: Re­think Pri­ori­ties’ Wor­ld­view In­ves­ti­ga­tion Team

Bob Fischer31 Jul 2024 10:34 UTC
65 points
43 comments1 min readEA link

Tak­ing Uncer­tainty Se­ri­ously (or, Why Tools Mat­ter)

Bob Fischer19 Jul 2024 10:30 UTC
115 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

Re­think Pri­ori­ties’ Mo­ral Par­li­a­ment Tool

Derek Shiller17 Jul 2024 12:34 UTC
179 points
12 comments12 min readEA link

Re­think Pri­ori­ties’ Port­fo­lio Builder Tool

arvomm10 Jul 2024 12:06 UTC
102 points
1 comment11 min readEA link

An In­tro­duc­tion to the CRAFT Sequence

Bob Fischer8 Jul 2024 10:27 UTC
103 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Re­think Pri­ori­ties’ Digi­tal Con­scious­ness Pro­ject Announcement

Bob Fischer5 Jul 2024 11:15 UTC
107 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Help Fund In­sect Welfare Science

Bob Fischer14 Jun 2024 21:11 UTC
234 points
30 comments2 min readEA link

Eco­nomics of An­i­mal Welfare: Call for Abstracts

Bob Fischer16 Nov 2023 16:50 UTC
86 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

The Risks and Re­wards of Pri­ori­tiz­ing An­i­mals of Uncer­tain Sentience

Bob Fischer16 Oct 2023 9:50 UTC
129 points
21 comments26 min readEA link

If Con­trac­tu­al­ism, Then AMF

Bob Fischer13 Oct 2023 18:03 UTC
62 points
54 comments24 min readEA link

Causes and Uncer­tainty: Re­think­ing Value in Expectation

Bob Fischer11 Oct 2023 9:15 UTC
219 points
29 comments15 min readEA link

Re­think Pri­ori­ties’ Wor­ld­view In­ves­ti­ga­tion Team: In­tro­duc­tions and Next Steps

Bob Fischer21 Jun 2023 14:18 UTC
129 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Wor­ld­view In­ves­ti­ga­tions Team: An Overview

Rethink Priorities25 Feb 2023 17:29 UTC
103 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

If Adult In­sects Mat­ter, How Much Do Ju­ve­niles Mat­ter?

Bob Fischer6 Feb 2023 13:33 UTC
93 points
11 comments25 min readEA link

Re­think Pri­ori­ties’ Welfare Range Estimates

Bob Fischer23 Jan 2023 11:37 UTC
341 points
104 comments16 min readEA link

Don’t Balk at An­i­mal-friendly Results

Bob Fischer16 Jan 2023 11:52 UTC
152 points
7 comments14 min readEA link

Oc­to­puses (Prob­a­bly) Don’t Have Nine Minds

Bob Fischer12 Dec 2022 11:59 UTC
94 points
19 comments10 min readEA link
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Do Brains Con­tain Many Con­scious Sub­sys­tems? If So, Should We Act Differ­ently?

Bob Fischer5 Dec 2022 11:56 UTC
92 points
8 comments21 min readEA link

The­o­ries of Welfare and Welfare Range Estimates

Bob Fischer14 Nov 2022 13:52 UTC
91 points
23 comments9 min readEA link