Stijn Bruers 🔸

Karma: 1,077

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

Effective petitions (November 2025)

Stijn Bruers 🔸9 Nov 2025 23:09 UTC

14 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] EA in high-school economics education

Stijn Bruers 🔸13 Oct 2025 13:54 UTC

20 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Effective Petition

Stijn Bruers 🔸13 Sep 2025 18:48 UTC

20 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Should we consider the welfare of small soil animals? On the special relativity of welfare

Stijn Bruers 🔸22 Jul 2025 11:09 UTC

66 points

14 comments7 min readEA link

How to do a million times better?

Stijn Bruers 🔸28 May 2025 13:34 UTC

32 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

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

Stijn Bruers 🔸13 Mar 2025 22:16 UTC

8 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

How to systematically reduce wild animal suffering in the near future

Stijn Bruers 🔸11 Mar 2025 10:06 UTC

42 points

4 comments3 min readEA link

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

Stijn Bruers 🔸7 Mar 2025 18:57 UTC

29 points

1 comment3 min readEA link

Are fishing and agriculture bad for animals?

Stijn Bruers 🔸7 Nov 2024 13:47 UTC

16 points

2 comments6 min readEA link

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

Stijn Bruers 🔸29 Aug 2024 14:51 UTC

19 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

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

Stijn Bruers 🔸12 Aug 2024 19:54 UTC

49 points

10 comments10 min readEA link

How to realistically reduce most suffering on earth

Stijn Bruers 🔸30 Jun 2024 8:10 UTC

46 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 🔸21 May 2024 11:46 UTC

48 points

7 comments16 min readEA link

The harm cascade: why helping others is so hard

Stijn Bruers 🔸27 Jul 2023 13:54 UTC

48 points

1 comment13 min readEA link

EA Belgium is looking for a Community Builder!

Jeroen Willems🔸5 Apr 2023 16:02 UTC

27 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

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

Stijn Bruers 🔸4 Mar 2023 17:04 UTC

52 points

13 comments9 min readEA link

The deathprint of replacing beef by chicken and insect meat

Stijn Bruers 🔸30 Nov 2022 7:51 UTC

70 points

21 comments10 min readEA link

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

Stijn Bruers 🔸1 Nov 2022 9:15 UTC

11 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

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

Stijn Bruers 🔸15 Aug 2022 20:35 UTC

6 points

2 comments10 min readEA link

Should we herbivorize predators?

Stijn Bruers 🔸28 Feb 2022 18:34 UTC

13 points

1 comment7 min readEA link