shrimp welfare
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shrimp welfare is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between August 06, 2024 and February 20, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “objective calculations of the right thing to do, although some would say these produce new signaling games (eg shrimp welfare)”; “its assets donated to shrimp welfare”. It most often appears alongside AI, AI corrigibility, AI lab.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: August 06, 2024
- Last seen: February 20, 2025
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
When altruists do this wrong, they end up supporting eg clemency for serial murderers, a category for whom it’s especially hard to feel compassion (and therefore, if they do show compassion, it proves they’re so amazingly kind and compassionate). EAs try to restrain these kinds of signaling games by objective calculations of the right thing to do, although some would say these produce new signaling games (eg shrimp welfare).
St. John of Daly City left his hometown at age sixteen to join the Centrist Order, who tried to free themselves of political bias by meditating on moderate positions. Unsatisfied with their limited piety, he and several other members of the order split to found the Ultra-Both-Sidesists, known for extreme pronouncements like “If you favor either of Democrats or Republicans over the other by even one percent, you are no better than a mindkilled MAGA/woke fanatic.” He (or according to some scholars, one of his disciples) invented a new Implicit Association Test that could be used to ferret out even tiny amounts of political favoritism, then took it every day, scourging himself when he deviated from perfect neutrality by even a single question. When he died, nobody in his order could form an opinion on who should replace him; finally, the whole sect was dissolved by Pope Anna III and its assets donated to shrimp welfare.