I do independent research on EA topics. I write about whatever seems important, tractable, and interesting (to me). Lately, I mainly write about EA investing strategy, but my attention span is too short to pick just one topic.
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I used to work as a software developer at Affirm.
I agree that this is kind of absurd but I expect that public concern for small-scale animal suffering weakly increases potential future concern for large-scale animal suffering, rather than funging against it. I think it weakly helps by propagating the meme of “animal suffering is a problem worth taking seriously”.
I wouldn’t promote concern for Olympic horses as an effective cause area, but I wouldn’t fight against it, either.