What about doing a poll on FB (instead or additionally, idk)? Or a private poll elsewhere? (FB is good because people can comment explanations.)
Kelly_Witwicki
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And FRI and SP both have articles on wild animals, not sure which is better for purposes here. SP’s is a bit more introductory/accessible maybe, and also expresses more philosophical arguments for why we should care; FRI’s a bit more academic and does not address some typical introductory reactions.
FRI’s: https://foundational-research.org/the-importance-of-wild-animal-suffering/
“Altruism, numbers, and factory farms”: https://sentience-politics.org/philosophy/altruism-numbers-factory-farms
Sentience Politics recently published a page on the significance of factory farms, which also includes discussion on why it’s important to consider numbers and compare suffering.
(Disclaimer, I work at SP/EAF.)
Mentioned this to Tee—I would love to see both (1) turnover data, and (2) previous (pre-EA) work with or donations to non-profits/other previous altruistic pursuits.
For the latter, the survey could maybe ask how much volunteer time, career hours, and money respondents previously put into charity, maybe in the last year and/or five and/or lifetime before finding EA. It could also offer categories for the charities’ cause areas.
Relatedly, whether the respondent was vegetarian or vegan before finding EA would be interesting, and/or some scale about how important they thought issues faced by nonhumans were. Maybe for each of several cause areas (not just the big three) a scale of how important (not necessarily relatively, just “not at all important” to “very important”?) they thought the issue was before coming to EA.