Alistair Stewart
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@alistair___s
Fundraising at the Center for Reducing Suffering, and co-organising @sentfutures Summit London 2026 Trying to make powerful AI go less badly, for all sentients
There was only one problem: there was no science to support the use of ventilation shutdown. The industry came to the rescue. It funded a PhD student at NC State to prove the method was humane. The student locked 144 birds in glass cages and slowly cooked them to death.
A crab climbs out of its tray in a Japanese supermarket where seafood is often kept alive for freshness.
NEW: MIRI CEO Malo Bourgon's opening testimony to Canada's Senate Committee on Human Rights. Bourgon warns the race to superintelligence risks human extinction, and calls on Canada to push for international coordination to stop the race.
"Is EA sleeping on making dogs and cats vegan?" by Alistair Stewart (@alistair___s)
@Philip_Goff I'd obviously take 4 humans farms over 2 factory farms, but so what? At the margins you're generally choosing between a "humane farm" which likely still has animals living bad lives, as well as seriously risks violating rights, vs buying plants.
