Thank you so much for your comment!
I donāt want to take up any more of your valuable time but I have to admit that Iām 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 .
Amazing article as always! Quick question though:
Does anyone know if any certifiers use āunannounced auditsā and CCTV aside from RSPCA Assured?
And if so, can the public view any of these audits or CCTV footage?
Thanks, please keep up the good work Daniel!
Hi, Iām very excited Screwworm Free Future is getting started!
Iām 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!
Iām very happy to hear you helped put this on CEās priority list!
This is very cool
I just wanted to say thank you so much for this newsletter and itās crazy Harvard is spending over $800 million renovating one house
I hear that. Donation matching shows itās not just preaching for no reason.
Thanks for the feedback!
āSome companies use smaller amounts (1%) to signal social impact.ā
My company isnāt currently big enough for 1% to have any impact though š I was actually thinking of potentially donating 20% of revenue by matching clientsā donations to EAās top charities up to 10%.
āHow do you explain why you are telling them this?ā
Iād 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 couldnāt have supported it without you.
āDo something like divide your clients into two random groups and send this message to half.ā
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 š
I love this post and it made me think that the downsides of public pledging you described (i.e. ādo-gooder derogationā) 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.
Thatās probably not the best example but I hope my point is clear and youāll feel free to correct me if Iām wrong.
I was listening to the audio and noticed a mistake at 1:15. It says:
āfactory farmed animals represent about 97.5% of all the animals on earthā including āall the wild animalsā.
Thatās very incorrect but I donāt mean to nitpick because this is still super interesting technology in its infancy.
Good idea! I dont know if itās just me but that link doesnāt work unfortuantely (and i have a notebook LM account).
I like your spirit although Iām 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/āposts/āgDRH2SrN34KdDvmHE/āabolishing-factory-farming-in-switzerland-postmortem which includes:
āThe 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.ā
I donāt mean to be a debby downer, and in fact Iād 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 Godās) speciesism bias (but if God exists I think He would appreciate us trying to help out animals i.e. His creations).
Interesting article. I hadnāt considered how consolidation could help farm animal welfare although it probably does the opposite for the low wage stafb by constricting their options further