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Forrest's avatar

$30 per month to help a shrimp? In THIS economy? I'd have to have the brain of a shrimp NOT to take that offer!

https://www.farmkind.giving/confirmation?id=44cfdc9e-8f37-48d4-b2cc-e3008d25fb15

1 paid subscription, please

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Tejas Subramaniam's avatar

I think Vasco Grilo’s cost-effectiveness analysis makes some pretty controversial assumptions. Most notably, he assumes excruciating pain is 10,000x as intense as disabling pain. This seems plausibly 2-3 OOMs off to me, and if you use a lower factor, chicken welfare campaigns win out on the cost-effectiveness calculation. E.g., Rethink Priorities uses a lower estimate, having used ~600x recently and even 33x before (latter seems implausible to me in the other direction), which would change who wins out.

I like the Shrimp Welfare Project a lot and often donate to it (although I’m super uncertain about phenomenal consciousness and think there’s some nonnegligible chance shrimp aren’t conscious). My current guess is that it’s plausibly even more cost-effective to donate to chicken welfare campaigns.

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