David_R 🔸

Kurzge­sagt just spotlighted the hor­rific screw­worm!

• David_R 🔸Jun 3, 2025, 11:36 AM

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  in reply to: JoA🔸’s comment on: The Hor­ror Of Un­fath­omable Pain

  That quote really hit home for me too

• David_R 🔸Mar 23, 2025, 4:25 PM

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  on: Five in­sights from farm an­i­mal economics

  Interesting article. I hadn’t considered how consolidation could help farm animal welfare although it probably does the opposite for the low wage stafb by constricting their options further

• David_R 🔸Feb 11, 2025, 1:05 PM

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  in reply to: LewisBollard’s comment on: In defense of the certifiers

  Thank you so much for your comment!

  I don’t want to take up any more of your valuable time but I have to admit that I’m 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 .

• David_R 🔸Feb 9, 2025, 7:10 PM

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  on: In defense of the certifiers

  Amazing article as always! Quick question though:

  Does anyone know if any certifiers use “unannounced audits” and CCTV aside from RSPCA Assured?

  And if so, can the public view any of these audits or CCTV footage?

• David_R 🔸Jan 10, 2025, 3:43 PM

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  on: Cage-free Wins in Africa in 2024

  Thanks, please keep up the good work Daniel!

• David_R 🔸Jan 5, 2025, 2:19 PM

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  on: Launch­ing Screw­worm-Free Fu­ture – Fund­ing and Sup­port Request

  Hi, I’m very excited Screwworm Free Future is getting started!

  I’m curious if this intervention was initially inspired by the 80K hours podcast featuring Kevin Esvelt (published on Oct 2nd, 2023)?

• David_R 🔸Jan 5, 2025, 2:01 PM

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  in reply to: Peter Lofgren’s comment on: Launch­ing Screw­worm-Free Fu­ture – Fund­ing and Sup­port Request

  +1, count me in with Tyner and Peter!

• David_R 🔸Jan 5, 2025, 2:00 PM

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  in reply to: MathiasKB🔸’s comment on: Launch­ing Screw­worm-Free Fu­ture – Fund­ing and Sup­port Request

  I’m very happy to hear you helped put this on CE’s priority list!

• David_R 🔸Jan 4, 2025, 4:49 PM

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  on: Your 2024 EA Fo­rum Wrapped

  This is very cool

• David_R 🔸Dec 29, 2024, 2:53 PM

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  on: Ten big wins in 2024 for farmed animals

  I just wanted to say thank you so much for this newsletter and it’s crazy Harvard is spending over $800 million renovating one house

• David_R 🔸Dec 21, 2024, 9:22 PM

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  in reply to: PabloAMC 🔸’s comment on: Should I tell my clients I donated 10% of what they paid me?

  I hear that. Donation matching shows it’s not just preaching for no reason.

• David_R 🔸Dec 21, 2024, 6:20 PM

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  in reply to: PabloAMC 🔸’s comment on: Should I tell my clients I donated 10% of what they paid me?

  Thanks for the feedback!

  “Some companies use smaller amounts (1%) to signal social impact.”

  My company isn’t currently big enough for 1% to have any impact though 😅 I was actually thinking of potentially donating 20% of revenue by matching clients’ donations to EA’s top charities up to 10%.

• David_R 🔸Dec 21, 2024, 6:17 PM

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  in reply to: david_reinstein’s comment on: Should I tell my clients I donated 10% of what they paid me?

  “How do you explain why you are telling them this?”

  I’d 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 couldn’t have supported it without you.

  “Do something like divide your clients into two random groups and send this message to half.”

  Interesting idea.

• David_R 🔸Dec 21, 2024, 6:15 PM

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  on: The virtues of virtue signalling

  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 😅

  I love this post and it made me think that the downsides of public pledging you described (i.e. “do-gooder derogation”) 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.

  • That’s probably not the best example but I hope my point is clear and you’ll feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.

• David_R 🔸Dec 21, 2024, 3:26 AM

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  in reply to: Xing Shi Cai’s comment on: Fac­tory farm­ing as a press­ing world problem

  I was listening to the audio and noticed a mistake at 1:15. It says:

  “factory farmed animals represent about 97.5% of all the animals on earth” including “all the wild animals”.

  That’s very incorrect but I don’t 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?

• David_R 🔸Dec 11, 2024, 10:47 PM

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  in reply to: Xing Shi Cai’s comment on: Fac­tory farm­ing as a press­ing world problem

  Good idea! I dont know if it’s just me but that link doesn’t work unfortuantely (and i have a notebook LM account).

• David_R 🔸Dec 11, 2024, 10:39 PM

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  in reply to: Josef’s comment on: Fac­tory farm­ing as a press­ing world problem

  I like your spirit although I’m 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/​posts/​gDRH2SrN34KdDvmHE/​abolishing-factory-farming-in-switzerland-postmortem which includes:

  “The 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.”

  I don’t mean to be a debby downer, and in fact I’d be happy to join a campaign team with you, especially after watching your vid.

• David_R 🔸Dec 2, 2024, 9:13 PM

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  on: Be­quest: An EA-ish TV show that didn’t make it

  I just wanted to say I like this idea