Humane League
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Humane League is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between September 29, 2021 and November 28, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “She gives the example of the Humane League, an animal rights group that was picketing laboratories”; “the Humane League remained good Soldiers for their cause of animal welfare”; “I’m counting groups like Humane League”. It most often appears alongside Sam Bankman-Fried, Twitter, #57.
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- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: September 29, 2021
- Last seen: November 28, 2023
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- Sam Bankman-Fried (2 shared issues)
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- Twitter (2 shared issues)
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- #57 (1 shared issues)
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- 80,000 Hours (1 shared issues)
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- Adam D’Angelo (1 shared issues)
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- AI (1 shared issues)
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- AI doomerism (1 shared issues)
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- AI risk (1 shared issues)
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- AI Safety (1 shared issues)
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- Amazon (1 shared issues)
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- Andrew Jackson (1 shared issues)
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- animal welfare (1 shared issues)
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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.
One justification for Soldier mindset is that you are often very sure which side you want to win. Sometimes this is because the moral and empirical considerations are obvious. Other times it’s something as simple as “you work for this company so you would prefer they beat their competitors.” But even if you know which side you’re supporting, you need an accurate picture of the underlying terrain in order to set your strategy. She gives the example of the Humane League, an animal rights group that was picketing laboratories to stop animal testing. After a while they evaluated that program and found it rarely worked, and when it did work, the animals saved were only a drop in the bucket. So they tried other strategies, and one of them (pressuring agribusinesses to improve animal welfare) worked really well and saved far more animals. Even though the Humane League remained good Soldiers for their cause of animal welfare, their Scout mindset let them abandon an unpromising strategy and switch to a promising one.
Estimate for number of chickens here. Their numbers add up to 800 million but I am giving EA half-credit because not all organizations involved were EA-affiliated. I’m counting groups like Humane League, Compassion In World Farming, Mercy For Animals, etc as broadly EA-affiliated, and I think it’s generally agreed they’ve been the leaders in these sorts of campaigns.
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