My philosophical axioms that are relevant for EA are largely utilitarian as long as that doesn't interfere with truthfulness. To be clear though I am not a moral realist!
My interests are:
-forecasting
-animal welfare
-politics (unfortunately)
-intelligence research
Is there any charity that works on shrimp welfare that you would consider worth giving to based on this analysis? My preferred charity currently is The Humane League.
I thought it might be helpful to share this article. The title speaks for itself.
What you (yes, you) can do to move humanity forward
So far his e-mail has gotten relatively little media attention, his English Wikipedia page was changed (not the German one though) and there was little social media outrage.
This seems like a pretty good outcome for him. The reasons I can think of why that happened.
My initial comment seemed completely innocent to me. I didn't expect the backlash and don't want to clog this thread further with a discussion that isn't really on topic, so this will be my last reply here. (DM me if you want)
thx @RAB for the reply
To all the people who downvoted. My comment was asking for clarification. If you then downvote it for presumably the same reason you took offense to the Bostrom comment without explaining why this isn't very productive.
@moderators I edited my comment.
The effect that the rules will have won't be that I(and I assume this is true for others as well) will act the way that you think is proper, instead I will just not engage at all. This isn't just true for this instance (which would be trivial), but in general.
The reason why I don't say "the n-word" as you did is because it can be misleading. I have seen people using it to quote somebody else who just said "negro". So to me saying "the n-word" would violate another (to my mind much more important) norm:
"Be honest.
I try to follow rules I disagree with. However if I violated any rules here then at least they should have been clearer, so I appreciate the ongoing effort.
Hanania released a new blogpost about his diet. It seems like part of the reason for not going vegan is his lack of self control. You can eat less calories and more protein on a vegan diet than he does on a nonvegan one.