Bird flu is spreading through factory farms, infecting dairy cows and farmworkers. The U.S. just pulled $700M from a vaccine program, meanwhile spending $2B+ bailing out the same reckless poultry companies that got us in this mess. On top of the public health risk, countless

Nice quiet day on the internet

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What the french will be eating once the EA Vegan Globalists impose the New World Order

EAG London FOMO is hitting me rn

Know your EAs.

Trace is an excellent example of how even smart & thoughtful ppl are surprisingly bad at doing moral philosophy. His whole schtick today is obfuscating with flowery language to avoid clarifying his precise views and how insane the bullets he's biting are.

Feels important to state that you can reject negative utilitarianism and still be against the extreme torture of non-humans in factory farms.

My dunk on TracingWoodgrains yesterday was a good reminder of why I need to be more intentional about using this website. Ultimately, I opted to vent my frustrations with an unbecoming arrogance that is natural to feel, but should be checked and curtailed publicly.

Academic AI criticism is stuck in 2023. This is Not Good if you want to hold developers to account and make sure AI is socially beneficial. I wrote about some common misconceptions and shared some simple suggestions for better criticism from my peers Link below 📖

While I am obviously biased here, I do not think that zoning and green energy permitting reform nerds are morally equivalent to Nazis.

One of the biggest ways in which i find a lot of the rationalist/EA subculture extremely alienating is the pervasiveness of naïve philistinism

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Fair question! bbc.com/news/articles/…

GAVIN NEWSOM: To the NIMBY movement that's now being replaced by the YIMBY movement, go YIMBYs. Thank you for your abundant mindset. That’s a plug for Ezra Klein. (And Derek Thompson!!!)

It's disappointing to see people like Oli and Jan, who have spent much of their careers encouraging young people to explore weird ideas, to react so contemptuously to a young person making the case for a weird idea. If you think an argument is wrong, just say why it's wrong!

I think I've become convinced that veganism is, in fact, morally obligatory.

Just $1 can help avert 10 years of farmed animal suffering. I decided to give $250,000 as a donation match to FarmKind after learning about the outsized opportunities to help. FarmKind directs your contributions to the most effective charities in this area. Please

A take: LinkedIn is the healthiest social media platform right now. Hot take: We should Linkedin-ify all social media. Yes, it's a good thing when every other post is not a video of someone dying!

Phrased this way, it sounds beautiful 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸