Stijn Bruers 🔸

Karma: 877

PhDs in physics (thermodynamics of ecosystems), moral philosophy (animal rights) and economics (altruistic motivation and incentives for blood donation), co-founder of EA Belgium, environmental footprint analyst at Ecolife

[Question] Why do EA longtermists not discuss the alleged problem of cognitive decline?

Stijn Bruers 🔸Mar 13, 2025, 10:16 PM

8 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

How to systematically reduce wild animal suffering in the near future

Stijn Bruers 🔸Mar 11, 2025, 10:06 AM

39 points

4 comments3 min readEA link

Rational Animal Ethics (my top 10 ideas of all time)

Stijn Bruers 🔸Mar 7, 2025, 6:57 PM

29 points

1 comment3 min readEA link

Are fishing and agriculture bad for animals?

Stijn Bruers 🔸Nov 7, 2024, 1:47 PM

16 points

2 comments6 min readEA link

Causing harm by neglecting alternatives: how well-intentioned actions can backfire.

Stijn Bruers 🔸Aug 29, 2024, 2:51 PM

19 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

A top-effective public outreach: small-farmed-animal reducetarian deep questioning

Stijn Bruers 🔸Aug 12, 2024, 7:54 PM

48 points

10 comments10 min readEA link

How to realistically reduce most suffering on earth

Stijn Bruers 🔸Jun 30, 2024, 8:10 AM

45 points

4 comments5 min readEA link

The suffering of a farmed animal is equal in size to the happiness of a human, according to a survey

Stijn Bruers 🔸May 21, 2024, 11:46 AM

48 points

7 comments16 min readEA link

The harm cascade: why helping others is so hard

Stijn Bruers 🔸Jul 27, 2023, 1:54 PM

43 points

1 comment13 min readEA link

EA Belgium is looking for a Community Builder!

Jeroen Willems🔸Apr 5, 2023, 4:02 PM

27 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

Animal welfare certified meat is not a stepping stone to meat reduction or abolition

Stijn Bruers 🔸Mar 4, 2023, 5:04 PM

52 points

12 comments9 min readEA link

The deathprint of replacing beef by chicken and insect meat

Stijn Bruers 🔸Nov 30, 2022, 7:51 AM

70 points

20 comments10 min readEA link

On the correspondence between AI-misalignment and cognitive dissonance using a behavioral economics model

Stijn Bruers 🔸Nov 1, 2022, 9:15 AM

11 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

Avoiding the demandingness of total welfarism with rights-based discounted welfarism

Stijn Bruers 🔸Aug 15, 2022, 8:35 PM

6 points

2 comments10 min readEA link

Should we herbivorize predators?

Stijn Bruers 🔸Feb 28, 2022, 6:34 PM

13 points

1 comment7 min readEA link

The case against degrowth

Stijn Bruers 🔸Dec 30, 2021, 6:05 PM

58 points

16 comments13 min readEA link

The crux of the cultivated meat feasibility debate

Stijn Bruers 🔸Oct 7, 2021, 2:06 PM

9 points

7 comments7 min readEA link

Communicate your epistemic status shifts

Stijn Bruers 🔸Jul 14, 2021, 2:07 PM

31 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

The problem of possible populations: animal farming, sustainability, extinction and the repugnant conclusion

Stijn Bruers 🔸Jul 6, 2021, 1:17 PM

7 points

9 comments16 min readEA link

Cost-effectiveness distributions, power laws and scale invariance

Stijn Bruers 🔸Mar 18, 2021, 7:27 PM

32 points

4 comments9 min readEA link