I think not adopting policies or helping people to immigrate would be a very tough sell, given (my impression, at least) of the overwhelmingly strong evidence of immigration on quality of life and economic growth—I was under the impression that the evidence was pretty strong on the “brain drain=good” side, though I could be wrong. An important part of being EA is being evidence based, and I’d need to see evidence that brain drain is actually bad on net.
This also seems very morally problematic—“US passport for me but not for thee” doesn’t seem like something I would be comfortable supporting ethically without very strong evidence otherwise. Forcing someone to work and live somewhere against their will seems really bad. I wouldn’t want to be plucked up, moved to a developing country, be forced to work, and told I couldn’t leave, and I’d encourage people to not do that to others as well.
My impression has been that plant-based meat is more expensive and tastes worse than current meat—even if PTC is sometimes overrated (though I found this comment persuasive in response) I’d be surprised if a substantially cheaper and similar-to-better tasting option wouldn’t cause a pretty large dent in meat consumption over a long enough time horizon. It seems like you think that existing plant based options are close to price/taste competitiveness already, was my above impression incorrect?
I feel like penetration of plant based options has been pretty limited so far, and my impression of cultivated meat is that it’s high risk/high reward (may not end up working, but if it does has much greater potential of creating super cheap, great tasting protein than existing methods). My inclination is that I would be happy to gamble a risk of cannibalizing existing plant based success on a shot that we get a cultivated breakthrough, particularly given that I don’t think we’re on a ~great trajectory at the moment. But I might be wrong! Regardless this was a great post, thank you for sharing!