This is so exciting, I canāt wait to try it! Big congrats & thanks to all the researchers, advocates, funders, etc who got this done. Monumental.
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Iām so glad you made this post.
Super glad to see this. Demonstrating how EA fits into different schools of islamic thought does sound like a huge undertaking, but hopefully one with important and scaling returns. I would be very interested to know more about EA uptake rates in different (islamic) national contexts, like growth of EA Malaysia vs any efforts to bring EA to gulf countries.
Is there a central group, slack, or task force thinking about/āworking on bringing EA to muslims and vice versa? Thanks for writing up this post!
I do this all the time when I realize Iām not gonna get a full nightās sleep, so I just say āscrew it, might as well keep staying upā. This is completely irrational of me and this post is a welcome reminder that 5 hrs of sleep is still much better than 4!
Nice! These kinds of solutions often seem the most effective and neglected, almost by default. Excited to see where this goes!
Wow! How exciting. Thanks for the update!
This brought tears to my eyes, thank you for posting. The Yad Vashem Museum is so beautiful and heavy. Looking for common denominators among the exceptional few who became rescuers seems like a high potential value pursuit for EA.
Awesome work, Dustin! So glad that this exists.
Yeah I say keep doing this, once a month tops/āonce a quarter minimum :)
Very cool, thanks for making this! Where does the data come from? How is it decided which orgs are included?
Thanks for sharing, I definitely have the same feeling. Especially on the ābut I canāt codeā bit. Iām gonna read through that Blue Dot course curriculum, it seems like a good step for people in this stage of thinking.
āDonāt worry too much about overlap. Chances are there is demand for many organizations doing the same thing or that youāll fill a slightly different niche than the original organization.ā
I think this is good advice. Thereās a lot of (justified) focus on neglectedness in EA, but this is often confused with one-of-a-kind-ness, when in reality there can be multiple organizations providing the same service and it is still neglected/āin short supply. EAs who want to help can found new projects that are basically just using a pre-existing template in another context/āniche.
Amazing website! This does fill a need; now I have a simple, single-link resource to share with other animal activists/āEAs/āetc with whom Iād like to convey the importance of wild animal suffering.
āNone of this progress was inevitable. It was mostly the result of sustained and focused advocacy, much of it done and funded by all of you.ā
This is so important to remember. Unlike progress in tech, economic growth, etc, which often feel like the inevitable trends of progress (sometimes our efforts even focus on figuring out ways to slow progress, like in AI), animal welfare runs the risk of falling by the wayside. Itās very important for us to be proactive and not take any change for granted. Most (all?) of these corporate pledges were due to hard-fought, strategic pressure from effective animal advocacy groups.
This was a super motivating post. I saved many bits & pieces in a separate google keep note to look back on as I apply. I especially needed to hear the stuff about getting less attached to each application and needing to have a numbers-game mindset. Thank you for writing such a great piece!