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Three stories from May’s EA newsletter — each about preventing suffering at scale before it's too late 🧵 Center for Global Development and Market Shaping Accelerator (MSA) creating market incentives for sepsis diagnostics Rethink Priorities on the projected growth of insect farming Anthropic new research on AI model welfare

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Simpler organisms like shrimp or insects have less complex minds than us. But does that mean they have a lower capacity for suffering? Last week, I curated a post from @welfarefootpr on the EA Forum which explored this question. 🧵:

This week, I've curated a research-in-progress post on the 'Easterlin Paradox', or the puzzle that life satisfaction reports have remained flat while economic growth has increased. (link at end of thread) 🧵:

A couple interesting research posts on the EA forum recently:

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At last year’s EAG London, I talked about EA needing to tell our own stories. Since then we've seen great progress — TIME + The New York Times coverage, even The Daily Show ft. shrimp welfare. But one line from that segment (which I overall love) stuck with me: "Fuck your feelings." 🧵

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For this month's EA Newsletter, I featured: • 80,000 Hours on reasons AGI may not come soon • Lewis Bollard on crunch time for cage-free campaigns • A Works in Progress article on 'The end of lead' My favourite takeaways in thread 🧵 :