“The AIs seem like EAs — a quick look at two prompts” by trammell
Overview When asked about how they would give away money, or about how to have a moral career, the leading LLMs typically give answers in an EA spirit, and informed by thinking from people and organiz...
17 Maj 8min
“My Dad Worked in a Slaughterhouse. I Made a Documentary About It.” by Jack Hancock-Fairs
I’m an EA who has been trying to find ways to make animal suffering more salient. I’ve been working on a feature-length documentary called ‘The Dying Trade’ for the last 5 years and I’ve just released...
14 Maj 3min
“Save Our Pigs!” by LewisBollard
Note: This post was crossposted from the Coefficient Giving Farm Animal Welfare Research Newsletter by the Forum team, with the author's permission. The author may not see or respond to comments on th...
11 Maj 10min
“Reflections on Anthropic and EA” by abrahamrowe
LLM disclosure: I wrote this post myself, then asked an LLM to copy-edit it before posting. I manually made any edits I liked and copy-pasted no text from the LLM (my current practice for using LLMs i...
11 Maj 9min
“How to actually give money away” by NickAllardice
This was originally posted here. It's written for an audience that's not deep in the weeds of EA giving theory/culture, but a few people suggested I post here as there's much that's additive to or div...
6 Maj 19min
“If You Do One Thing for Animals This Year, Do This” by Becca Rogers
There is a short window to prevent a US bill that would overturn decades of animal welfare progress. This is arguably the most consequential piece of farm animal legislation in U.S. history. Summary ...
5 Maj 21min
[Linkpost] “Starfish” by Aaron Gertler 🔸
This is a link post. By Alexander Wales Thousands of starfish had washed up on the beach, and a little girl was diligently throwing them back into the water, one at a time. A man came up to the girl a...
1 Maj 4min
“Time Sensitive Urgent Animal Welfare Action” by Bentham’s Bulldog
The EATS act—now called the save our bacon act—would make it illegal for states to pass animal welfare laws that apply to products produced out of state. This would gut most state level animal protect...
29 Apr 1min
