HeyJaredSandcastles
A blog for animal advocates and other campaigners about focusing on the right things– and not focusing on the wrong things.
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The Campaigner Crunch (opens the original)
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This is the first of at least two posts on the talent shortage in animal advocacy. This one focuses on the inputs, why we are struggling to find new campaigners. The next post will focus on the nefarious internal conspiracy to steal our best talent away from the top.In this post:Farmed animal advocacy is in the midst of a significant increase in funding.We are already critically bottlenecked on talent, especially founders and effective campaigners, limiting our ability to make the most of new mo
There is a path to meat without misery (opens the original)
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I believe this is the most important essay I have published on Sandcastles. If you only read (or listen to) one of my posts to the end, let it be this one. This goes double if you or someone you know is open to starting a new project or career for farmed animals, and triple if that person has any kind of STEM background; part 5 signposts to key opportunities for founders, engineers, and other job seekers to help write the next chapter of the movement.Nothing on this channel represents the views
Should Machine Gods Dream of Liberated Sheep? (opens the original)
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Important news: I recently started a new Substack channel, the Animal Welfare Alignment Newsletter, fully dedicated to my work at Anima International trying to convince AI companies to include animal welfare values as a target when aligning their AI models. I decided to keep this separate from Sandcastles because the topic is narrower and the posts are often more technical, but most of the feedback I’ve gotten from readers is that people would still be interested in these posts. I’m crossposting
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