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So pleased to see this! Please update us on the next steps when you know about them. (Though I understand that sometimes it is better not to share details about legal cases).
Specifically, I'm wondering: does the judge agreeing with the key argument open up other potential legal cases, for example? If DEFRA's labelling scheme became a reality, would that mean they'd have to make statements about the wellbeing of Frankenchickens?
Thanks for sharing, David! And thank you for your continued dedication to providing constructive criticism.
I've got a pretty long "to read" backlog, does anyone have recommendations for posts from reflective altruism which particularly changed their mind/ gave them action-relevant updates?
Also, question for David- is there a particular area of beliefs which you think the EA Forum community doesn't examine enough, which you'd like to see us hold a debate week about? I'm planning a bunch of debate weeks next year, so I'm always open to suggestions.
Interesting- for what it's worth, I often make frontpage vs community decisions and I don't think of community as relegating content. Often, there is less community content each day, so community posts stick around for longer than frontpage posts. In some cases, I'd assume it would be better for engagement to be tagged community. I haven't looked at the stats on this, so I don't know for sure if my impression is correct.
Noting here that the totals going to each charity have been updated (upwards), due to a matching miscalculation. This also means that we have hit two rather than one of the collective rewards- so keep an eye out for that!
I wish it could be EV-mas every day...
This is great JWS, thanks for writing it! After Forum Wrapped is out in Jan, we should have a list of underrated posts (unsure on exact wording), we'll see how it compares.