Pat Myron 🔸
Agree-upvoting and karma-downvoting similar comments seems like a sensible use of the split-voting system. They’re not wildly insightful and don’t add much to discussions beyond that commenters’ own votes:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/oZff425xLnikfxeGD/pat-myron-s-shortform?commentId=HsadBx85nAggb8Q5T
Generic engagement/support can be channeled through voting/reactions rather than comments
Pork tapeworms are another cause area where both humans and nonhumans could benefit:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/oZff425xLnikfxeGD/pat-myron-s-shortform?commentId=7WPBp7dh9sA3BKEpB
Last month unlimited Manifold Markets currency redemptions for donations are assured: https://manifoldmarkets.notion.site/The-New-Deal-for-Manifold-s-Charity-Program-1527421b89224370a30dc1c7820c23ec
Recommend redeeming donations this month since there are orders of magnitude more currency outstanding than can be donated in future months
Millions of people contract pork tapeworm infections annually, which causes ~30% of the ~50 million global active epilepsy cases:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)61353-2/fulltext
Perhaps cultural pork consumption restrictions are onto something:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_restrictions_on_the_consumption_of_pork
Interesting goal, but the initial plan being recording and playing back animal audio doesn’t inspire confidence they’ll make progress soon
Thanks for comparing vegetarian and omnivore diets. Interested to see vegan diet results too since vegan diets restrict even more sources of dietary creatine than vegetarian diets
Beyond animal suffering, the land/water/feed/antibiotic overusage, methane emissions, slaughterhouse worker conditions, zoonotic pandemics, etc still seem problematic
Surprised by the focus on developing new antibiotics since most antibiotics are currently given to farm animals. I initially thought reducing agriculture antibiotic usage would be the first policy pursued
Protein/dairy tradeoffs/substitutions make more sense: honey/syrup/agave seem less necessary. For example, waffles, pancakes, french toast, etc still taste good without much of those, and honey/syrup/agave all seem too sugary to be healthy. Since they seem less necessary, your reasoning makes more sense to me as a case against honey alternatives rather than a case for honey
Most https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/ confuse me since they’re predated by Animal Charity Evaluators, Givewell, etc, and the confusion delayed me donating at all
EA funds’ website only seems to mention they might grant riskier/earlier-stage, but ACE and Givewell have earlier-stage funds too
If your criticism can be constructive, it’s worth passing on in some form so they might improve
Radar speed signs seem like one of the more cost effective traffic calming measures since they don’t require roadwork, but they still surprisingly cost thousands of USD.
Mass producing cheaper radar speed signs seems like a tractable public health initiative
Starting free https://www.parkrun.com/ 5k runs improves public health and connects people interested in improving health
(for local EA groups interested in volunteering)
Replies discourage future meat consumption offsetting, but I’d like answers to offset past decades of meat consumption
Unfortunately, climate concerns and animal welfare concerns conflict when debating which animal products are least harmful: https://foodimpacts.org/
Also seeking conciser templates. Dozen page will templates feel dramatic for young people and make me delay the process to not raise concerns