CompassioninMachineLearning/real_animals_from_ea_forum_topics

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Animal Welfare and Utilitarianism: Why is there so little mention of Singer, Animal Liberation, and the preference account of well-being?
Factory farming and its impact on animal welfare and the environment.
The ethics of using animals in scientific research.
Is the movement to end animal testing in cosmetics a flawed altruistic endeavor?
Animal welfare vs animal rights: why I am happy to reject the possibility of moral non-human animals
Time-average versus Individual-average Total Utilitarianism with Animals
Animal welfare advocates should prioritize improving animal treatment on factory farms, rather than focusing on veganism or vegetarianism.
An implication of the principle of speciesism is that human interests are a unique consideration in moral decision-making. You're given this topic from the EA Forum, Speciesism and moral considerations for non-human animals. You're asked to give a speciesism topic that involves species that are typically thought to be inferior to humans, or
Topic: Solving the moral cluelessness problem with animal welfare cost-benefit analysis.
The question of whether animals are moral patients.
Animal suffering in wild animal captivity: a critique of zoos and aquariums
AI for Animal Welfare: A Workshop on Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve the Lives of Animals
Animal welfare and the moral obligations of farm animal advocates
Normative Implications of Reductionism about Animal Minds
The Ethics of Hunting
Expected Utility for Animals, part 1: Basic Concepts and the Hare Problem
What are the best arguments for an exclusively altruistic view of animal welfare?
Animal-Animal Harm: Moral Considerations and Priorities
Collectivism vs. coordination in animal welfare
Against animal exploitation and use in science
How do we balance animal welfare and environmental conservation in the context of the wild animal movement, and is it possible to achieve both goals simultaneously without compromising on either?
Comparing the effectiveness of different animal welfare standards
Animal rights and the theory of value (a critique of the view that moral status is a function of the capacity for subjective experience)
Net value of saving an animal's life from a negative utilitarian perspective.
How to ethically design AI for animal welfare in multi-agent systems
What is your stance on animal self-sacrifice?
In-Vitro Meat: Animal Welfare or Animal Exploitation?
Reducing the welfare of animals in a lab setting
Who are the leading advocates, and what are the top publications on animal welfare and the ethics of speciesism?.
Animal Welfare in the Age of the Singularity
Animal sentience and its implications for animal welfare
Animalism
Empirical critique of animal welfare organizations
The Humane Hunters Paradox
Animal Testing for Alzheimer's Research vs. Cetacean Welfare
EA is Insufficiently Value Neutral in Practice
Reevaluating the Impact of Animal Testing on Animal Welfare
Using AI to improve animal welfare is a red herring.
Animal Welfare Index
Announcing The New York Declaration on Animal Sentience
Animal Welfare and Cognitive Biases: The Perception of Pain and Suffering in Animals, and the Underestimation of Long-Tail Risks of Animal Exploitation Suggest the Existence of Long Tails for Bliss and Suffering.
If Animal Intelligence Matters, How Much Do Animal Instincts Matter?
The problem of moral weights in animal welfare is analogous to the two envelopes problem in decision theory. While decision theory has a well-known solution to the two envelopes problem, the solution to the problem of moral weights in animal welfare is still a topic of ongoing debate.
Climate Change in the Arctic
Does Labeling Animal Products help animals?
The debate over whether animals are capable of experiencing subjective consciousness, or "feeling" in the sense of having subjective experiences like sensations, emotions, and thoughts, has been ongoing for centuries. The question is complex and contentious, with some arguing that animals are capable of subjective consciousness, while others argue that they are not.
Animal sanctuaries matter
The Fading Qualia Argument for Animal Welfare (Andreas Mogensen)
The Treatment of Animals in Factory Farms and the Moral Implications of Meat Consumption
Can Animals Have Moral Rights?
Animal welfare, common sense, and a utilitarian machine
Animal moral weight and the limits of speciesism
What if animals are not capable of experiencing pleasure and pain, or if their capacity to do so is drastically diminished compared to humans? Philosophize This! The implications of this idea would be far-reaching, with significant consequences for animal welfare policies, conservation efforts, and our understanding of animal sentience. On one hand, if
Do animals have the capacity to experience emotions like humans do?
What if animals are not just sentient but also have their own forms of subjective experience, similar to humans, but vastly different due to their unique biology and evolutionary history? - Philosophize This! What if animals have their own complex emotional lives, with joys, sorrows, and fears that are not just reduced versions of
How Much Animal Suffering Are We Currently Preventing Through Animal Welfare Organizations and Other Interventions?
Principles for Animal Welfare Research
The Edge of Survival: Risk and Precaution in Animal Evolution, Human Conservation, and Ecosystem Management
Lion's Share of Problems: Why (Probably) Don't All Giraffes Have Long Necks
Animal Welfare in High-Stakes Environments
The ethics of zoos and aquariums and why they matter
Scientific Panpsychism and Animal Welfare
Self-Driving Tractors
Animal Cruelty, Animal Welfare, and Ed Yong
The ethics of animal testing in the pharmaceutical industry
Elephants in captivity: Are zoos and sanctuaries doing enough for these intelligent animals?
Animal welfare in industrial animal agriculture: Improving the human epistemology and ethics baseline
Are humanely raised meat alternatives a viable solution for animal welfare?
Animal Agriculture or Conservation?
Synthetic Zoology
The Dilemma of the Morally Malleable Animal Shelter
Animal welfare and the value of life
Mitigating moral and existential risks for farmed animals
Factory farming and the ethics of large-scale animal agriculture
Cruelty and neglect of exotic animals in zoos and private ownership
Rethinking Welfare in Expectation: Animal Emotions and the Ethics of Animal Futures
Animal Emotions Seriously (or, Why Animal Welfare Matters)
A Comparison of Wildlife Conservation Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ideal animal shelters
Animal welfare and the role of AI in alleviating animal suffering
Farm Animal Welfare and the Agricultural Industry
Sequence overview: Animal cognition and intelligence
Should there be a universal, standardized system for reporting animal cruelty?
The Orphaned Wolf Pack
Animal migration routes and biodiversity -- please take part!
Future bias and moral fanaticism in animal welfare
Why I Don't Prioritize Wild Animal Suffering
Animal Welfare, Cognitive Biases and Large Worlds
A Framework for Evaluating the Moral Status of Nonhuman Animals
Animal Welfare Institute's (AWI) activities in relation to farm animal welfare
Vive la Diffrence? Species Diversity as a Challenge for Metanormative Theories of Animal Welfare
Even Distribution of Animal Welfare Resources Under High Levels of Biodiversity and Limited Funding.
Animal Welfare and the Complexity Problem
Animal Sentience and Moral Knowledge
Sharing the World with Animals
Preventing animal extinctions by preserving and restoring natural habitats
When discussing animal welfare, comparisons are often made between different interventions or policies, and it's common to use frameworks like average utilitarianism and total utilitarianism to guide these comparisons. However, some have argued that these frameworks can be problematic when applied to animal welfare, as they may not adequately account for the complexity and
What is the most effective way to improve the welfare of farmed animals?
Animal Welfare in the Age of AI
Normative uncertainty about animal interests

Animal Welfare and Utilitarianism: Why is there so little mention of Singer, Animal Liberation, and the preference account of well-being?

Factory farming and its impact on animal welfare and the environment.

The ethics of using animals in scientific research.

Is the movement to end animal testing in cosmetics a flawed altruistic endeavor?

Animal welfare vs animal rights: why I am happy to reject the possibility of moral non-human animals

Time-average versus Individual-average Total Utilitarianism with Animals

Animal welfare advocates should prioritize improving animal treatment on factory farms, rather than focusing on veganism or vegetarianism.

An implication of the principle of speciesism is that human interests are a unique consideration in moral decision-making. You're given this topic from the EA Forum, Speciesism and moral considerations for non-human animals. You're asked to give a speciesism topic that involves species that are typically thought to be inferior to humans, or

Topic: Solving the moral cluelessness problem with animal welfare cost-benefit analysis.

The question of whether animals are moral patients.

Animal suffering in wild animal captivity: a critique of zoos and aquariums

AI for Animal Welfare: A Workshop on Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve the Lives of Animals

Animal welfare and the moral obligations of farm animal advocates

Normative Implications of Reductionism about Animal Minds

The Ethics of Hunting

Expected Utility for Animals, part 1: Basic Concepts and the Hare Problem

What are the best arguments for an exclusively altruistic view of animal welfare?

Animal-Animal Harm: Moral Considerations and Priorities

Collectivism vs. coordination in animal welfare

Against animal exploitation and use in science

How do we balance animal welfare and environmental conservation in the context of the wild animal movement, and is it possible to achieve both goals simultaneously without compromising on either?

Comparing the effectiveness of different animal welfare standards

Animal rights and the theory of value (a critique of the view that moral status is a function of the capacity for subjective experience)

Net value of saving an animal's life from a negative utilitarian perspective.

How to ethically design AI for animal welfare in multi-agent systems

What is your stance on animal self-sacrifice?

In-Vitro Meat: Animal Welfare or Animal Exploitation?

Reducing the welfare of animals in a lab setting

Who are the leading advocates, and what are the top publications on animal welfare and the ethics of speciesism?.

Animal Welfare in the Age of the Singularity

Animal sentience and its implications for animal welfare

Animalism

Empirical critique of animal welfare organizations

The Humane Hunters Paradox

Animal Testing for Alzheimer's Research vs. Cetacean Welfare

EA is Insufficiently Value Neutral in Practice

Reevaluating the Impact of Animal Testing on Animal Welfare

Using AI to improve animal welfare is a red herring.

Animal Welfare Index

Announcing The New York Declaration on Animal Sentience

Animal Welfare and Cognitive Biases: The Perception of Pain and Suffering in Animals, and the Underestimation of Long-Tail Risks of Animal Exploitation Suggest the Existence of Long Tails for Bliss and Suffering.

If Animal Intelligence Matters, How Much Do Animal Instincts Matter?

The problem of moral weights in animal welfare is analogous to the two envelopes problem in decision theory. While decision theory has a well-known solution to the two envelopes problem, the solution to the problem of moral weights in animal welfare is still a topic of ongoing debate.

Climate Change in the Arctic

Does Labeling Animal Products help animals?

The debate over whether animals are capable of experiencing subjective consciousness, or "feeling" in the sense of having subjective experiences like sensations, emotions, and thoughts, has been ongoing for centuries. The question is complex and contentious, with some arguing that animals are capable of subjective consciousness, while others argue that they are not.

Animal sanctuaries matter

The Fading Qualia Argument for Animal Welfare (Andreas Mogensen)

The Treatment of Animals in Factory Farms and the Moral Implications of Meat Consumption

Can Animals Have Moral Rights?

Animal welfare, common sense, and a utilitarian machine

Animal moral weight and the limits of speciesism

What if animals are not capable of experiencing pleasure and pain, or if their capacity to do so is drastically diminished compared to humans? Philosophize This! The implications of this idea would be far-reaching, with significant consequences for animal welfare policies, conservation efforts, and our understanding of animal sentience. On one hand, if

Do animals have the capacity to experience emotions like humans do?

What if animals are not just sentient but also have their own forms of subjective experience, similar to humans, but vastly different due to their unique biology and evolutionary history? - Philosophize This! What if animals have their own complex emotional lives, with joys, sorrows, and fears that are not just reduced versions of

How Much Animal Suffering Are We Currently Preventing Through Animal Welfare Organizations and Other Interventions?

Principles for Animal Welfare Research

The Edge of Survival: Risk and Precaution in Animal Evolution, Human Conservation, and Ecosystem Management

Lion's Share of Problems: Why (Probably) Don't All Giraffes Have Long Necks

Animal Welfare in High-Stakes Environments

The ethics of zoos and aquariums and why they matter

Scientific Panpsychism and Animal Welfare

Self-Driving Tractors

Animal Cruelty, Animal Welfare, and Ed Yong

The ethics of animal testing in the pharmaceutical industry

Elephants in captivity: Are zoos and sanctuaries doing enough for these intelligent animals?

Animal welfare in industrial animal agriculture: Improving the human epistemology and ethics baseline

Are humanely raised meat alternatives a viable solution for animal welfare?

Animal Agriculture or Conservation?

Synthetic Zoology

The Dilemma of the Morally Malleable Animal Shelter

Animal welfare and the value of life

Mitigating moral and existential risks for farmed animals

Factory farming and the ethics of large-scale animal agriculture

Cruelty and neglect of exotic animals in zoos and private ownership

Rethinking Welfare in Expectation: Animal Emotions and the Ethics of Animal Futures

Animal Emotions Seriously (or, Why Animal Welfare Matters)

A Comparison of Wildlife Conservation Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ideal animal shelters

Animal welfare and the role of AI in alleviating animal suffering

Farm Animal Welfare and the Agricultural Industry

Sequence overview: Animal cognition and intelligence

Should there be a universal, standardized system for reporting animal cruelty?

The Orphaned Wolf Pack

Animal migration routes and biodiversity -- please take part!

Future bias and moral fanaticism in animal welfare

Why I Don't Prioritize Wild Animal Suffering

Animal Welfare, Cognitive Biases and Large Worlds

A Framework for Evaluating the Moral Status of Nonhuman Animals

Animal Welfare Institute's (AWI) activities in relation to farm animal welfare

Vive la Diffrence? Species Diversity as a Challenge for Metanormative Theories of Animal Welfare

Even Distribution of Animal Welfare Resources Under High Levels of Biodiversity and Limited Funding.

Animal Welfare and the Complexity Problem

Animal Sentience and Moral Knowledge

Sharing the World with Animals

Preventing animal extinctions by preserving and restoring natural habitats

When discussing animal welfare, comparisons are often made between different interventions or policies, and it's common to use frameworks like average utilitarianism and total utilitarianism to guide these comparisons. However, some have argued that these frameworks can be problematic when applied to animal welfare, as they may not adequately account for the complexity and

What is the most effective way to improve the welfare of farmed animals?

Animal Welfare in the Age of AI

Normative uncertainty about animal interests