Amazing article as always! Quick question though:
Does anyone know if any certifiers use âunannounced auditsâ and CCTV aside from RSPCA Assured?
And if so, can the public view any of these audits or CCTV footage?
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Thanks, please keep up the good work Daniel!
Hi, Iâm very excited Screwworm Free Future is getting started!
Iâm curious if this intervention was initially inspired by the 80K hours podcast featuring Kevin Esvelt (published on Oct 2nd, 2023)?
+1, count me in with Tyner and Peter!
Iâm very happy to hear you helped put this on CEâs priority list!
This is very cool
I just wanted to say thank you so much for this newsletter and itâs crazy Harvard is spending over $800 million renovating one house
I hear that. Donation matching shows itâs not just preaching for no reason.
Thanks for the feedback!
âSome companies use smaller amounts (1%) to signal social impact.â
My company isnât currently big enough for 1% to have any impact though đ I was actually thinking of potentially donating 20% of revenue by matching clientsâ donations to EAâs top charities up to 10%.
âHow do you explain why you are telling them this?â
Iâd say something like it has been such a pleasure working with you that I feel the need to give back to the less fortunate. X charity seems to me to be the most effiecent way to do that as far as I know and I couldnât have supported it without you.
âDo something like divide your clients into two random groups and send this message to half.â
Interesting idea.
Thanks! This helped me with a question I just posted on the forum and have been struggling with for a while now. And inspired me to stop putting off taking the 10% pledge đ
I love this post and it made me think that the downsides of public pledging you described (i.e. âdo-gooder derogationâ) make it more virtuous (aside from the upsides you listed).
Because I think (all else being equal) the more difficult a good deed is, the more virtuous it becomes. For example (if there are no opportunity costs) spending 10 minutes patiently helping an old lady cross the street is more virtuous than spending 5 minutes helping an old lady across the street.
Thatâs probably not the best example but I hope my point is clear and youâll feel free to correct me if Iâm wrong.
I was listening to the audio and noticed a mistake at 1:15. It says:
âfactory farmed animals represent about 97.5% of all the animals on earthâ including âall the wild animalsâ.
Thatâs very incorrect but I donât mean to nitpick because this is still super interesting technology in its infancy.
[Question] Should I tell my clients I donated 10% of what they paid me?
Good idea! I dont know if itâs just me but that link doesnât work unfortuantely (and i have a notebook LM account).
I like your spirit although Iâm afraid it would take more than a referendum to upend factory farming.
One was recently held in the Switzerland and, even in that relatively progressive place, most Swiss voted to hold onto the status quo. You can find out more about it here: forum.effectivealtruism.org/âposts/âgDRH2SrN34KdDvmHE/âabolishing-factory-farming-in-switzerland-postmortem which includes:
âThe opposition [to abolishing factory farming] commanded resources which significantly exceeded our own. In order to have a realistic chance at the ballot box, any future initiative would likely require a substantially larger budget and campaign team.â
I donât mean to be a debby downer, and in fact Iâd be happy to join a campaign team with you, especially after watching your vid.
I just wanted to say I like this idea
Thank you so much for sharing this for free!
Animals win on scale & neglectedness while humans win on my (and maybe Godâs) speciesism bias (but if God exists I think He would appreciate us trying to help out animals i.e. His creations).
I just wanted to say I really appreciated you illustrating the scale by translating individuals into seconds.
That really helped me wrap my head around this.
Thank you so much for your comment!
I donât want to take up any more of your valuable time but I have to admit that Iâm very keen on filling this gap in the US market (maybe by working with trusted food vendors).
Just wanted to put that out there and invite DMs from any other forumites that might be interested in collaborating on more public audits .