Robert Yaman
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Robert Yaman is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between March 08, 2023 and October 13, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Is Cultivated Meat For Real? , by Robert Yaman”; “Robert Yaman, $100,000, for Innovate Animal Ag”; “8: IAA CEO Robert Yaman also has an article about his work in Asimov”. It most often appears alongside ACX, ACX Grants, ACX Grants.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 4
- Issue count: 4
- First seen: March 08, 2023
- Last seen: October 13, 2025
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- ACX (2 shared issues)
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- ACX Grants (2 shared issues)
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- ACX Grants (2 shared issues)
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- African School of Economics (2 shared issues)
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- Andrew Martin (2 shared issues)
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- Anton Makiievskyi (2 shared issues)
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- Austin Chen (2 shared issues)
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- Calvin French-Owen (2 shared issues)
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- Charter Cities Institute (2 shared issues)
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- Clara Collier (2 shared issues)
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- Coalition To Modify NOTA (2 shared issues)
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- Elaine Perlman (2 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.
Is Cultivated Meat For Real?, by Robert Yaman. I’d heard claims that cultivated (eg vat-grown, animal-cruelty-free) meat will be in stores later this year, and also claims that it’s economically impossible. Which are true? This article says that we’re very far away from cultivated meat that can compete with normal meat on price. But probably you can mix a little cultivated meat with Impossible or Beyond Meat and get something less expensive than the former and tastier than the latter, and applications like these might be enough to support cultivated meat companies until they can solve their technical obstacles.
Inline links: Is Cultivated Meat For Real?
Robert Yaman, $100,000, for Innovate Animal Ag, which seeks “technological solutions to animal welfare challenges”. For example, farmers who raise egg-laying chickens don’t want males, so they currently kill 6 billion male chicks per year. “In ovo3 sexing technology” lets them read sex from eggs directly, so they can throw away the male eggs instead of killing chicks in a horrible grinding machine after they’re born. If this works, we’ll finally achieve mankind’s age-old dream of being able to count your chickens before they hatch! But also:
Inline links: Innovate Animal Ag, 3
8: Congratulations to ACX grantee Innovate Animal Ag, who have successfully gotten the first American company to adopt in ovo sexing (which removes unwanted chickens at the egg stage, instead of killing them after they hatch). NYT article here. IAA CEO Robert Yaman also has an article about his work in Asimov. IAA is looking for new employees, including a “head of marketing” and “business generalist” - if you’re interested in animal welfare and want to work with them, check out their careers page.
External consultants: Paige Brocidiacono, Jay Lubow, Neel Nanda, John Schilling, Alex Turner, Robert Yaman, et al