My main hesitation with cryonics technology is that I expect the marginal cost of providing an extra year of life is increasing as the age goes higher. So I expect making a person live 1000 years would be much more expensive than making 10 people live 100 years each. So I would be interested in arguments on how could marginal costs of increasing lifespan stay constant over age.
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This was what I was referring to. Thank you!
Upvoted! I find your posts on management very beneficial for our organisation. Thank you!
In this talk, Leah Edgerton from ACE says:
The combined efforts of Animal Charity Evaluators, Open Philanthropy Project, and the Centre for Effective Altruism’s Animal Welfare Fund influenced about $40 million[25%] in funding within the farmed animal advocacy cause area [in 2018].
This is brilliant! Thank you!
Great research!
Thanks for sharing this submission! I just wanted to chime in with an idea I sometimes think about. I sometimes notice that a lot of the research on animal advocacy is targeted at grant makers who need to decide which projects to fund. But people who execute these projects also need to make a lot of strategic decisions and I suspect that the research that can support these decisions is more neglected. I reckon this might be because 1. research is costly 2. research has a lot of positive externalities 3. animal advocacy organisations are much more numerous than grant makers so it’s more difficult to coordinate to provide this kind of “public goods”.
Because of these reasons animal advocacy organisations rely on their own experiences to learn lessons. There are limits to how much you can learn from this since the sample size is very small. It’s hard to predict what kind of work tests would best predict the performance of a campaigner when you have hired only 10 campaigners at most. Or it’s hard to understand what kind of campaign strategies are better when you have run 50 campaigns. So I sometimes wonder whether it would be better to have well-funded researchers that reach out to animal advocacy orgs, learn about their research needs and help them.
Though a major problem with such a suggestion would be ensuring accountability. It’s hard to ensure that this kind of research is really useful when animal advocacy organisations are not paying for it.
Hi everyone! I’m trying to learn more about Land Use Reform (YIMBY) Advocacy as a cause area. Are there any cost-effectiveness estimates of the work on this?
I didn’t downvote any of the criticisms but I can understand why people would downvote the following quote as it is quite close to assuming intention:
“Either you are aware that this characterisation is highly inaccurate and unfair, or you are not. If the former, I am disappointed by your (apparent) dismissiveness and willingness to mischaracterise.”
Thank you Lorenzo!
You may want to check out “Introductions, Handbooks, Collections” section of University of Oxford’s ethics reading list. I personally prefer Shelly Kagan’s Normative Ethics.
Hi everyone! I have a question for moral philosophers here! People in animal advocacy sometimes debate about some type of “contrary to duty imperatives” in which an advocate makes a demand that might “countenance” some constraint violation. For example: “Please do not consume any animal products, but if you are going to eat some at all, at least leave fish, chicken and eggs off your plates” or “Stop using cage-eggs”. I found it surprisingly difficult to find academic discussion around the morality of uttering these sentences, so if you are aware of anything useful, please share!
Happy to help!
This is awesome, I am glad that someone built this!
It was a bet worth taking and we likely learned a lot. We will keep fighting the good fights. I feel grateful to all the people who worked hard on this.
Thank you! It’s such a pleasure to read high quality work in this forum.
That was not my intention. I just wanted to communicate the ideas that 1. this is high quality work 2. I appreciate it more when I read high quality work here, instead of somewhere else. Makes me happier about the community.
Thank you for all your amazing work in connecting people to make the world a better place. I have some feedback on the following:
“We expect applications for the other conferences to open approximately 2 months before the event”
After the pandemic, visa admissions have slowed down quite significantly. “Priority Service” option for UK visas wasn’t available when I applied for a visa for the EAGx Oxford in 2021. A friend of mine has waited 6 weeks until he received his UK visa, which is not so uncommon. Similarly, earliest tourist visa appointment I can get from US embassy is for 2024. If applicants from countries with “weaker” passports were allowed to apply earlier, that would help with accessibility and inclusivity.
I am glad to learn that applications for EAG London will open much earlier, that wasn’t clear to me from the text. For me that solves much of the problem.
I understand that there must be operational costs of opening admissions much earlier and you have to balance many trade-offs. I just wanted to signal this issue so that it can be taken into account in your decision-making. I think you are doing a great job, thank you for everything!
Hello everyone, my name is Emre. I am the co-founder and director of Kafessiz Türkiye, a farmed animal advocacy organisation in Turkey. Looking forward to learning from you all!