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Fairlife, a brand that didn't exist before 2012, is now the 2nd most popular milk in the US. It's a reflection of how dairy manages to continually rebrand & reinvent itself. But the reality behind Fairlife, like all dairy, is an unmitigated horror show story by Kenny Torrella

The end of factory farming is neither inevitable nor impossible. It depends on the actions we all take. Dwarkesh Patel and my interview on this and what we can do about it drops tomorrow! Here’s the teaser.

Last month's hearing in Boston on self-driving car was like a parody of the attitudes Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein critiqued in Abundance.

Honestly the thing that motivated me to do this episode was learning that there's less than $200M/year of smart philanthropy on factory farming - GLOBALLY. Just to explain how fucking crazy that is: 1. It's insane how cheap the interventions that will spare BILLIONS of animals

Anyone who opposes building new houses in UK is deeply wrong, but I had assumed this was 10k in rental income per month. It says a lot about the state of Britain that we're making a big fuss over someone getting 10k *a year* from rental income.

Dwarkesh's fundraiser to fight factory farming has now raised over $1M! ($535K doubled by the match.) I'm very grateful to Dwarkesh Patel, Patrick Collison, and all the other generous donors! This funding will impact millions of animals' lives.

We're just getting started Lewis!

Even though we’ve already raised over $1,125,000, we’ve continued to have matchers step up (more about them later). So keep donating, knowing you're doubling your impact. Thanks to everyone who donated over the weekend! Highlighting a few below: Anonymous: $125,000

I’m eating lab grown meat the second it’s mass market ready. It’s biologically identical to animal meat and will reduce suffering more than any technology in the history of our planet as long as enough people switch over from factory farmed meats.

“the train will be too noisy for my dead father” is probably the funniest NIMBY argument I’ve ever heard

The internet unites in outrage when someone slaughters a majestic jungle animal. Yet billions of sentient, emotionally and intellectually complex animals are tortured by industrialized factory farms. Here's Dwarkesh Patel with Lewis Bollard on how to help improve conditions:

People don’t appreciate how effective corporate campaigns have been on animal welfare. As opposed to policy change (often gets gridlocked by the meat industry) or moonshot cultivated meat tech (might be decades away from being competitive). This is a pro-market story! We can

Also, strong +1 to this point

10,000 people across the globe have now taken the 🔸10% Pledge 🚀 > $300M already donated > $1B lifetime committed 10,000 people from 116 countries 🌐 This is a movement of action and optimism, funding work to solve the world’s most pressing problems 🔥 givingwhatwecan.org/pledge

This is so, so good.

We’ve raised $2,027,084 for FarmKind (with matching). This will improve the lives of over 20 million animals. We’ve increased the global funding for farmed animal welfare by 1%. That’s crazy - the world is really big place! Thank you all so much for the incredible

We did it! Dwarkesh's fundraiser raised $2M+ for high impact work to end the worst abuses of factory farming. I'm so grateful for everyone who contributed. It's a great reminder of how many people want to help end the horrors of factory farming.

E/acc's Beff Jezos thinks we should build AGI faster because life accelerates entropy production, and that's supposedly good. 🧵 This is genuinely unprecedented in moral philosophy. Nobody – not Nietzsche, not the transhumanists, not even cosmic pessimists – ever argued that