Dwarkesh Podcast / episode intelligence
Speakers in the public record
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Evidence policy
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Claim ledger
26 published records
01 / belief
“In that case, there was a new technology of immunocastration, an injection that achieved the same effects, and it was very easy to develop. I think there are a whole lot of other practices like that out there.”
02 / belief
“I think you said in one of your blog posts that it costs 19 cents more for a dozen eggs to be cage-free, but often chains will charge on the order of $1.”
03 / belief
“I understand other people's psychologies are different, so I don't want to project the way I think about it.”
04 / uncertainty
“To the extent that we hold consumption constant, and maybe we shouldn't, they would have to be suffering 4x as much as a chicken in the 1950s for it not to be a net improvement. I don't know if you disagree with that.”
05 / belief
“We think less than $300 million is being devoted to all work globally around every possible solution to factory farming across every country.”
06 / belief
“I think that one great way to support them is to support a diversified portfolio of groups.”
07 / belief
“I think what happened is that when people started learning about this issue initially, it was just a few people and they felt totally powerless to achieve larger-scale change.”
08 / belief
“I wish instead that politicians were actually just responsive to what the voters want. But given this is how the system works, I think that what people need to do is to bind together with a couple of other friends who care about this issue, max out on your donations to a politician, and then meet with the politician and say, "I really care about this and I'm watching what you do on this issue.”
09 / belief
“I think I learned from you that McDonald's has made these commitments or that Chipotle has made these commitments.”
10 / belief
“What I would say on genetics is that what feels way more achievable to me in the near term is to get rid of the genetic physical problems that ail these animals.”
11 / belief
“There is the potential, I think, to help tens of billions of animals through these drivers.”
12 / observation
“The problem is this bill stopping states from regulating farm animal welfare meaningfully could not pass on its own.”
13 / observation
“The reason why that’s so shocking…On its face it's shocking. But in other areas where you're trying to do global health or something, first, the problem is improving on its own.”
14 / belief
“I think people might just not be aware of the ratio of dollars to suffering averted in this space.”
15 / belief
“We know there is a limit to how long we're going to be able to sell these things for." I think that gives me some optimism.”
16 / observation
“Then the problem is not that if there were accurate labeling, you'd think there might be consumer demand to make this a viable, much larger industry.”
17 / evaluation
“The rest of the production process is incredibly cheap because they've removed everything that costs money, treating animals well and providing comfort and all that stuff.”
18 / observation
“One thing that is wild to me is where you have people out there telling people to switch from beef to chicken because it's better for the climate.”
19 / evaluation
“In Germany, this happened because there are very talented advocates who harnessed that public opinion and concern to drive corporate reforms to the retailers and to drive government policy reforms.”
20 / prediction
“I think people will be aware that there's a general problem here, but the actual politics, the actual economics, the actual state of the technology landscape here… there might be interventions which are stupendously effective, which we overlook just because people are not aware of what's actually happening in this space.”
21 / evaluation
“What they do is they give the breeding birds about 30% of the feed that the birds would eat on their own. They're starving them 70%, because that is the only way to stop these birds from completely collapsing under the genetics that they've inflicted on them.”
22 / evaluation
“If you can cram twice as many animals into a barn, it doesn't matter if 10% more of them die.”
23 / recommendation
“I think we made a mistake as a movement making this about personal diet. It's great when folks want to make a personal diet decision, whether that is eating less meat or meat from more humane sources, but the focus should not be on the individual.”
24 / preference
“Could we make chickens or pigs with no brains? Because it’s the suffering we care about.”
25 / evaluation
“Because consumption has gone up so dramatically, and the suffering per bird has gone up so dramatically, that has outweighed the benefits of these birds being bigger.”
26 / prediction
“Because you're right, the industry left on its own will always find a race to the bottom.”