Anthony, you may have negative feelings about being held accountable to the moral standards of privileged First World vegans. Nevertheless, as a committed vegan and animal rights advocate I do find that financially supporting the use of livestock raises ethical complications for me, which is regrettable. Is it absolutely essential for you to incorporate animal agriculture into your operation?
Rupert
Consider paying me to do AI safety research work
While I still need to take time to thoroughly absorb the ideas in Magnus’ book, an account of how the EA movement ought to interact with political systems in a constructive way is long overdue.
Thanks Aaron, that’s fine, but I would my hope that my decision to put my post up was not a factor in getting Remmelt’s one moved off Frontpage. But anyway. I did worry a bit about whether my post was appropriate for this forum and Remmelt’s appeal for funding is stronger than mine.
This announcement of a World Economic Forum meeting on “The Great Reset”
sounds very intriguing, and possibly hopeful, but it was hard for me to get a clear sense of whether this is going to mitigate x-risks from e.g. climate change all that much, or whether it’s mostly just about providing more robust safety nets against major disasters. It wasn’t clear to me from reading this whether it’s (significantly) net-positive in terms of mitigating x-risk, and I was wondering what people’s views were. I’m also somewhat worried that it’s going to be highly politically polarising.
I claim cost of not-eating-meat is drastically over-estimated. Have you tried it?
I would like to step in here and say that I did not communicate with Remmelt before uploading my own post, and my own post may be less well-prepared than Remmelt’s and I am totally happy to remove it. I would not like the idea of being responsible for having Remmelt’s post removed from the Frontpage, and Remmelt has put a lot more work into his proposal than I have.