Muhan Luo🔸

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Hey there! My name is Muhan. I’ve worked in the field of cybersecurity for around 3 years, mostly in web and application security. My involvement with the EA community is mostly from EAxDC attending my local city’s EA bookclub. I’m also a vegan and pledged to donate 10% of my income through Giving What We Can.

Hobby-wise I like singing karaoke and going to the gym. I’m also really into self-help and productivity hacks. 3 things that have really helped me: (1) Installing blocker apps on both my phone and laptop (2) Meditating first thing in the morning as I get out of bed (3) Using a systems-approach to getting rid of bad habits or creating new ones (See Atomic Habits by James Clear for more)

Muhan Luo🔸 22 Jun 2025 23:33 UTC
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in reply to: Brad West🔸’s comment on: Why It’s Irrational to be Vegan
Oh just to be clear, I am a vegan. I don’t eat any animal products meat, dairy, eggs, or otherwise and have been doing so for 3+ years. I also fully agree with you that it would be a good thing if more people went vegan for all the reasons you mentioned.
My article is more of an explanation for why there are so many people, including intellectuals, who agree with vegans that factory farming is wrong or even that eating meat is wrong, but don’t change behaviorally. My argument, to restate it, is that purely that from a personal cost-benefit standpoint, going vegan is irrational since it imposes a lot of personal costs and doesn’t have any significant positive impact on animal welfare.

Muhan Luo🔸 10 Feb 2025 1:11 UTC
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in reply to: Martin Jacobson 🔸’s comment on: Health Challenges are a Major Cause of the High Dropout Rate amongst Vegans
Thank you for the comment! Your argument about social desirability bias changed my mind. I hadn’t considered it, but you’re definitely right to point out that health issues are a more socially acceptable excuse for no longer committing to an ethical cause compared to taste or convenience.
I also agree with you that we need strategies to make it easier for people to not mess up. On an individual level, getting people to track their vitamin intake and to track nutrients with Chronometer is good advice, though I’m not sure how scalable it is. On a societal level, we would probably need to legally mandate B12 enriched rice or bread in the same way we do that with iodine in salt. I think another thing that would help would be to normalize vegetarian proteins like tofu, lentils, and beans in Western countries.This way people don’t have to make as much of a diet switch when they stop eating meat.