spacedoutmatt.bsky.social
YIMBY, effective altruist, rabbit lover, and probably the most chaotic engineer you’ve met
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lmao
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100%
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MrBeast does actually end the video by saying that it's wrong that private philanthropy is needed to pay for this (not to say the MrBeast's overall politics/behavior are good)
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environments, or should we intervene to help animals in certain extreme cases?
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How about wild animal welfare? There can be a tension between conservation and welfare in the cases of e.g. parasites that kill their hosts in extraordinarily painful ways. screwworm.org. As we get a better understanding of ecology, should our aim be solely to preserve and restore natural
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Just because they’re happening to “someone else,” or even to a nonhuman animal, isn’t the comfort that it used to be
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I think it’s a nice piece of writing, but I’ve always hard the opposite emotional response to accepting the Parfitian view of personal identity. Believing that there’s no deep further fact makes all the bad things in the world more salient to me
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Claude approves
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Huel.
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Check out this year's fundraiser at www.givingwhatwecan.org/fundraisers/...!
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And last, but certainly not least, we tried to convince strangers at the mall to care about shrimp welfare x.com/AaronBergman...
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Laura made animal thank-you cards
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I made Derek Parfit: The Board Game
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We recorded a drunk podcast with @aaronbergman18.bsky.social, @laura-duffy.bsky.social, and I www.aaronbergman.net/p/drunk-pige...
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He also put on a santa hat and read Christmas blog post x.com/absurdlymax/...
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First off, @absurdlymax.bsky.social went to EA Global in a shrimp costume
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Clearly the optimal strategy is to just donate extra to AWF on top of the GH&D donations 🐓🐓🐓
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GH&D is awesome, and definitely do whatever you think is highest-impact! We chose AWF because we could all agree that on the current margin, they're very likely to be among the most-effective opportunities (See e.g. the discussions during debate week forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/nrC5v6...)
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@laura-duffy.bsky.social
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bsky.app/profile/aaro... 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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And finally ending things with the least explicable meme of them all! If you've read this far, I'm so sorry🤣
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Courtesy of @aaronbergman18.bsky.social
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Matt bingo
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Some response posts:
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Lmao
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I bet y'all can guess when I made this one:
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Watching the PhilosophyTube video on EA like:
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I love the EA forum:
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Will MacAskill defending sweatshops in Doing Good Better like:
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More parfit memes:
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Parfit: "My Division: My body is fatally injured, as are the brains of my two brothers. My brain is divided, and each half is successfully transplanted into the body of one of my brothers. Each of the resulting people believes that he is me"
Me:
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Some trolley problem memes:
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Animal welfare ETGers showing up to work like:
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When people at the global health and development meetup start talking about AI:
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Some more laser eyes reaction images