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Factory farming, animal welfare, socialism, the precautionary principle, pandemics, the ethics of research on animals, and the future of meat.
Anomalies in Animal Communication
Four Quotes on Animal Welfare.
Animal Welfare vs. Species Welfare
Can EA justify using animal products for animal welfare?
Interview with Gary Francione: Animal Rights, Veganism, Utilitarianism, Animal Welfare, Speciesism
Prioritizing the Welfare of Wild Animals in Conservation Efforts
The Ultimate Argument Against Speciesism And For Animal Utilitarianism
What is the cost-effectiveness of the Humane Society of the United States' top animal welfare interventions under total utilitarianism?
Maximizing Animal Welfare: An Alternative to Expected Utility Theory and a Generalization of Maxipok to Moral Uncertainty about Animals
Animal welfare and the long-term future
In Pursuit of Practical Ethics: Species-Specific Moral Considerations in a Utilitarian Framework with Leibnizian Priors
Animal testing: when is it justified?
Animal sanctuaries and AI.
Animal cognition and the ethics of hunting.
A world where animals don't have to suffer from being used for food
Maybe the Best Way to Improve Animal Welfare Is to Focus on the Welfare of Humans Who Interact with Animals
Can animal sentience be neglected in favor of human flourishing?
Utilitarianism and animals
Animal Rights as a Moral Absolute
Animal suffering and the far future
The Intersection of Animal Welfare & Existential Risk
Animal Welfare in the Context of Resource Extraction: Balancing Economic Interests Against the Well-being of Nonhuman Animals
Wild Animal Sanctuary Should Rename Itself
Animal Welfare in Factory Farms
The Debate Over Speciesism
Animal Intelligence and Cognitive Ethology
Prioritization Questions for Animal Sentience
You're given this topic from the Why Not Animal Welfare, by Robert Long. You're asked to give a similar topic that involves animals or animal welfare, or if the topic is already about that, keep the topic the same. Your topic has to be on the same level of complexity as the original topic.
The ethics of xenotransplantation: an opinionated guide
Animal suffering and the importance of habitat destruction
Animal Intelligence and Cognitive Abilities in the Animal Kingdom
An Assessment of the Impact of Animal Agriculture on Animal Welfare and the Environment
Moral Considerations for the Creation and Use of Artificial Animal Senses
Animal Cognitive Bias
What to think when a wild animal claims its territory
Investigating the ethics of animal testing for medical research and its implications on animal welfare.
What are the definitions of animal sentience and its stages, and how do we determine them?
The Future of Animal Suffering
Topic: AI safety via the lens of animal welfare
Animal Welfare Research in the History of Animal Ethics
Future Matters #3: digital sentience, AGI ruin, and forecasting track records
What can we do now to prepare for a pandemic of animal intelligence, in order to protect them from the global scale of human cruelty?
Animal Welfare and AI Research: Establishing a New Standard for the Treatment of Animals in the Development of Artificial Intelligence
Animal Welfare in the Context of Human-AI Collaboration
The importance of getting animal welfare right
Animal exploitation in entertainment.
Animal sentience and the ethics of animal agriculture
Animal Testing Debate Week
Reproductive Considerations for Digital Consciousness
Invasive Species Management
Animal Intelligence and Agency: What are the implications for animal welfare?
The story of the creation of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is a classic example of how a group of passionate individuals can band together to create a significant impact on the world. In 1980, a group of six friends, including Ingrid Newkirk and Alex Pacheco,
animal welfare and the trolley problem: what to think?
How to Engineer a Global Feline Utopia
What is the relationship between sentience in animals and their welfare, and how do we determine if an animal is sentient or not, and what are the implications for our treatment of animals? Sentience in animals is often considered a morally relevant factor in animal welfare debates, but the concept of sentience can be difficult to define
The Limits of Artificial Animal Welfare: A Biology-Based Critique of the "Five Freedoms" Paradigm
The Nature of Animal Sentience
An Evolution Revolution: using personal digital twin software, artificial sentience and quantum physics to solve animal welfare problems in factory farms
Animal Health Technologies, Inc.
Establishing a $1,000,000 endowment for the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) Conservation Education Center, to support the development and dissemination of effective conservation education and outreach programs for zoos and aquariums across the United States.
Key Lessons From Animal Welfare Movement History
The Question of What Counts as a Moral Agent for Sentient Beings
The longtermist case for working on animal cognition (Uncertainties & research ideas)
AGI x Animal Welfare: A High-EV Outreach Opportunity?
Animal Welfare and the Concept of "The Unavoidable Costs" of Human Progress
The moral status of current and future animals in zoos and sanctuaries
Animal welfare has been increasingly mentioned in the EA community, with some people advocating for it as a key part of effective altruism. However, the topic has been met with skepticism, with some arguing that it is too broad or vague, and that prioritizing animal welfare would be a distraction from more pressing global problems. This
Improving the Welfare of Farm Animals: A Nearcasted Proposal
Simulating a single zebra finch brain takes 200 million artificial neurons and 10 layers.
Animal Welfare Impacts of AI-Induced Global Resource Depletion: Global Prioritization of Animal Sentience in a Resource-Constrained World
The vast future of animal consciousness and its implications for animal welfare prioritization
The animal welfare and rights movement has historically been led by humans, often with varying degrees of success.
Animal Emotions in Time: A New Approach to Evaluating Animal Suffering (paper draft)
Animal Welfare Organizations Should Be Terrified of Humans
Animal Intelligence and Capacity for Suffering
Dolphin, Dog, Deer, Drone
Animal Welfare in Factory Farms: A Roundtable Discussion
Animal Welfare Red Flags for Factory Farming
What if we could create technology that allowed us to directly communicate with and understand the cognitive and emotional experiences of animals, and if we were able to use that technology to raise awareness of animal suffering and promote more compassionate treatment of them, would it be worth investing in and developing, and what might be the implications of such technology
More attention and resources are needed for nonhuman animal sentience research
The World-Wide Digital Farm Animal Rescue and Rehabilitation Network: A New Frontier for Effective Altruism
Animal mental health
Animal Minds, The Hard Problem, and the Limits of Empathy
The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: A Comparative Analysis with Animal Welfare
Animal Welfare in Factory Farms
Exploring the Potential for Chimpanzees to Develop a Form of Self-Awareness Through Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience Research
Using AI to help mitigate the effects of animal overpopulation
The Moral Circle of Animals: Who Matters, What Matters, and Why
Animal cognition and the moral implications of using non-human animals in artificial intelligence research. This involves considering the potential for non-human animals to possess consciousness or have some form of subjective experience, and the ethics of using their cognitive abilities in AI research.
The current focus in animal welfare and conservation is heavily skewed towards addressing the symptoms rather than the root causes of animal suffering and extinction. It's a topic that has been discussed in the EA community, but it seems to be relatively under-explored. For example, there are many organizations and individuals working to address the issue
Animal Welfare and AI in Agriculture: Developing Effective Policy and Regulation for the Future
Animal cognition and the hard problem of consciousness: Some intuition pumps
Why Im skeptical about using a species-level moral consideration to assign moral weights
Animal experimentation does NOT correlate with methods that involve less suffering
Do dolphins have the same capacity for empathy as humans do?
Redesigning Animal Welfare Systems: Using Social Science to Identify Opportunities for Improvement
The benefits of a plant-based diet for animal welfare and environmental sustainability
Animal rights versus human interests in conservation efforts
The Cause of Animal Sentience

Factory farming, animal welfare, socialism, the precautionary principle, pandemics, the ethics of research on animals, and the future of meat.

Anomalies in Animal Communication

Four Quotes on Animal Welfare.

Animal Welfare vs. Species Welfare

Can EA justify using animal products for animal welfare?

Interview with Gary Francione: Animal Rights, Veganism, Utilitarianism, Animal Welfare, Speciesism

Prioritizing the Welfare of Wild Animals in Conservation Efforts

The Ultimate Argument Against Speciesism And For Animal Utilitarianism

What is the cost-effectiveness of the Humane Society of the United States' top animal welfare interventions under total utilitarianism?

Maximizing Animal Welfare: An Alternative to Expected Utility Theory and a Generalization of Maxipok to Moral Uncertainty about Animals

Animal welfare and the long-term future

In Pursuit of Practical Ethics: Species-Specific Moral Considerations in a Utilitarian Framework with Leibnizian Priors

Animal testing: when is it justified?

Animal sanctuaries and AI.

Animal cognition and the ethics of hunting.

A world where animals don't have to suffer from being used for food

Maybe the Best Way to Improve Animal Welfare Is to Focus on the Welfare of Humans Who Interact with Animals

Can animal sentience be neglected in favor of human flourishing?

Utilitarianism and animals

Animal Rights as a Moral Absolute

Animal suffering and the far future

The Intersection of Animal Welfare & Existential Risk

Animal Welfare in the Context of Resource Extraction: Balancing Economic Interests Against the Well-being of Nonhuman Animals

Wild Animal Sanctuary Should Rename Itself

Animal Welfare in Factory Farms

The Debate Over Speciesism

Animal Intelligence and Cognitive Ethology

Prioritization Questions for Animal Sentience

You're given this topic from the Why Not Animal Welfare, by Robert Long. You're asked to give a similar topic that involves animals or animal welfare, or if the topic is already about that, keep the topic the same. Your topic has to be on the same level of complexity as the original topic.

The ethics of xenotransplantation: an opinionated guide

Animal suffering and the importance of habitat destruction

Animal Intelligence and Cognitive Abilities in the Animal Kingdom

An Assessment of the Impact of Animal Agriculture on Animal Welfare and the Environment

Moral Considerations for the Creation and Use of Artificial Animal Senses

Animal Cognitive Bias

What to think when a wild animal claims its territory

Investigating the ethics of animal testing for medical research and its implications on animal welfare.

What are the definitions of animal sentience and its stages, and how do we determine them?

The Future of Animal Suffering

Topic: AI safety via the lens of animal welfare

Animal Welfare Research in the History of Animal Ethics

Future Matters #3: digital sentience, AGI ruin, and forecasting track records

What can we do now to prepare for a pandemic of animal intelligence, in order to protect them from the global scale of human cruelty?

Animal Welfare and AI Research: Establishing a New Standard for the Treatment of Animals in the Development of Artificial Intelligence

Animal Welfare in the Context of Human-AI Collaboration

The importance of getting animal welfare right

Animal exploitation in entertainment.

Animal sentience and the ethics of animal agriculture

Animal Testing Debate Week

Reproductive Considerations for Digital Consciousness

Invasive Species Management

Animal Intelligence and Agency: What are the implications for animal welfare?

The story of the creation of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is a classic example of how a group of passionate individuals can band together to create a significant impact on the world. In 1980, a group of six friends, including Ingrid Newkirk and Alex Pacheco,

animal welfare and the trolley problem: what to think?

How to Engineer a Global Feline Utopia

What is the relationship between sentience in animals and their welfare, and how do we determine if an animal is sentient or not, and what are the implications for our treatment of animals? Sentience in animals is often considered a morally relevant factor in animal welfare debates, but the concept of sentience can be difficult to define

The Limits of Artificial Animal Welfare: A Biology-Based Critique of the "Five Freedoms" Paradigm

The Nature of Animal Sentience

An Evolution Revolution: using personal digital twin software, artificial sentience and quantum physics to solve animal welfare problems in factory farms

Animal Health Technologies, Inc.

Establishing a $1,000,000 endowment for the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) Conservation Education Center, to support the development and dissemination of effective conservation education and outreach programs for zoos and aquariums across the United States.

Key Lessons From Animal Welfare Movement History

The Question of What Counts as a Moral Agent for Sentient Beings

The longtermist case for working on animal cognition (Uncertainties & research ideas)

AGI x Animal Welfare: A High-EV Outreach Opportunity?

Animal Welfare and the Concept of "The Unavoidable Costs" of Human Progress

The moral status of current and future animals in zoos and sanctuaries

Animal welfare has been increasingly mentioned in the EA community, with some people advocating for it as a key part of effective altruism. However, the topic has been met with skepticism, with some arguing that it is too broad or vague, and that prioritizing animal welfare would be a distraction from more pressing global problems. This

Improving the Welfare of Farm Animals: A Nearcasted Proposal

Simulating a single zebra finch brain takes 200 million artificial neurons and 10 layers.

Animal Welfare Impacts of AI-Induced Global Resource Depletion: Global Prioritization of Animal Sentience in a Resource-Constrained World

The vast future of animal consciousness and its implications for animal welfare prioritization

The animal welfare and rights movement has historically been led by humans, often with varying degrees of success.

Animal Emotions in Time: A New Approach to Evaluating Animal Suffering (paper draft)

Animal Welfare Organizations Should Be Terrified of Humans

Animal Intelligence and Capacity for Suffering

Dolphin, Dog, Deer, Drone

Animal Welfare in Factory Farms: A Roundtable Discussion

Animal Welfare Red Flags for Factory Farming

What if we could create technology that allowed us to directly communicate with and understand the cognitive and emotional experiences of animals, and if we were able to use that technology to raise awareness of animal suffering and promote more compassionate treatment of them, would it be worth investing in and developing, and what might be the implications of such technology

More attention and resources are needed for nonhuman animal sentience research

The World-Wide Digital Farm Animal Rescue and Rehabilitation Network: A New Frontier for Effective Altruism

Animal mental health

Animal Minds, The Hard Problem, and the Limits of Empathy

The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: A Comparative Analysis with Animal Welfare

Animal Welfare in Factory Farms

Exploring the Potential for Chimpanzees to Develop a Form of Self-Awareness Through Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience Research

Using AI to help mitigate the effects of animal overpopulation

The Moral Circle of Animals: Who Matters, What Matters, and Why

Animal cognition and the moral implications of using non-human animals in artificial intelligence research. This involves considering the potential for non-human animals to possess consciousness or have some form of subjective experience, and the ethics of using their cognitive abilities in AI research.

The current focus in animal welfare and conservation is heavily skewed towards addressing the symptoms rather than the root causes of animal suffering and extinction. It's a topic that has been discussed in the EA community, but it seems to be relatively under-explored. For example, there are many organizations and individuals working to address the issue

Animal Welfare and AI in Agriculture: Developing Effective Policy and Regulation for the Future

Animal cognition and the hard problem of consciousness: Some intuition pumps

Why Im skeptical about using a species-level moral consideration to assign moral weights

Animal experimentation does NOT correlate with methods that involve less suffering

Do dolphins have the same capacity for empathy as humans do?

Redesigning Animal Welfare Systems: Using Social Science to Identify Opportunities for Improvement

The benefits of a plant-based diet for animal welfare and environmental sustainability

Animal rights versus human interests in conservation efforts

The Cause of Animal Sentience