I co-started Effectief Geven (Belgian effective giving org), am a volunteer researcher at SatisfIA (AI-safety org) and a volunteer writer at GAIA (Animal welfare org).
If you’re interested in philosophy and mechanism design, consider checking out my blog.
I’m a student of moral science at the university of Ghent. I also started and ran EA Ghent from 2020 to 2024, at which point I quit in protest because of the Manifest scandal (and the reactionary trend it highlighted). I now no longer consider myself an EA (but I’m still part of GWWC and EAA, and if the rationalists split off, I’ll definitely join again).
Possible conflict of interests: I have never received money from EA, but could plausibly be biased in favor of the organizations I volunteer for.
Are you an EU citizen? If so, please sign this citizen’s initiative to phase out factory farms (this is an approved EU citizen’s initiative, so if it gets enough signatures the EU has to respond):
stopcrueltystopslaughter.com
It also calls for reducing the number of animal farms over time, and introducing more incentives for the production of plant proteins.
(If initiatives like these interest you, I occasionally share more of them on my blog)
EDIT: If it doesn’t work, try again in a couple hours/days. The collection has just started and the site may be overloaded. The deadline is in a year, so no need to worry about running out of time.