MichaelStJules

Philosophy, global priorities and animal welfare research. My current specific interests include: philosophy of mind, moral weights, person-affecting views, preference-based views and subjectivism, moral uncertainty, decision theory, deep uncertainty and cluelessness, and indirect effects on wild animals.

I've also done economic modelling for some animal welfare issues.

Posts

Better difference-making views
by MichaelStJules @ 2024-12-21 | +14 | 0 comments
Which animals are most affected by fishing?
by MichaelStJules @ 2024-11-25 | +50 | 0 comments
Animals matter a lot on non-hedonic views
by MichaelStJules @ 2024-10-16 | +41 | 0 comments
Pleasure and suffering are not conceptual opposites
by MichaelStJules @ 2024-08-11 | +29 | 0 comments
Sequence overview: Welfare and moral weights
by MichaelStJules @ 2024-08-01 | +34 | 0 comments
Utilitarianism and the replaceability of desires and attachments
by MichaelStJules @ 2024-07-27 | +34 | 0 comments
Being swallowed live is a common way for wild aquatic animals to die
by MichaelStJules @ 2024-06-09 | +60 | 0 comments
170 to 700 billion fish raised and fed live to mandarin fish in China per year
by MichaelStJules @ 2024-06-08 | +116 | 0 comments
Fishing-aquaculture substitution and aquafeeds
by MichaelStJules @ 2024-06-03 | +45 | 0 comments
The scale of animal agriculture
by MichaelStJules @ 2024-05-16 | +49 | 0 comments
The moral ambiguity of fishing on wild aquatic animal populations
by MichaelStJules @ 2024-05-06 | +75 | 0 comments
Sustainable fishing policy increases fishing, and demand reductions might, too
by MichaelStJules @ 2024-04-25 | +52 | 0 comments
The responsiveness of aquatic animal supply
by MichaelStJules @ 2024-04-17 | +53 | 0 comments
Repugnance and replacement
by MichaelStJules @ 2024-04-11 | +17 | 0 comments
Gradations of moral weight
by MichaelStJules @ 2024-02-29 | +13 | 0 comments
Which animals realize which types of subjective welfare?
by MichaelStJules @ 2024-02-27 | +22 | 0 comments
Solution to the two envelopes problem for moral weights
by MichaelStJules @ 2024-02-19 | +66 | 0 comments
Types of subjective welfare
by MichaelStJules @ 2024-02-02 | +42 | 0 comments
Increasingly vague interpersonal welfare comparisons
by MichaelStJules @ 2024-02-01 | +36 | 0 comments
Arguments for utilitarianism are impossibility arguments under unbounded...
by MichaelStJules @ 2023-10-07 | +39 | 0 comments
Malaria bednet and medicine overlap
by MichaelStJules @ 2023-09-05 | +24 | 0 comments
Desire theories of welfare and nonhuman animals
by MichaelStJules @ 2022-07-16 | +20 | 0 comments
Consciousness, counterfactual robustness and absurdity
by MichaelStJules @ 2022-04-12 | +14 | 0 comments
Project for Awesome 2022: Video sign-ups
by MichaelStJules @ 2022-01-10 | +17 | 0 comments
Liberty in North Korea, quick cost-effectiveness estimate
by MichaelStJules @ 2021-11-03 | +94 | 0 comments
Why does (any particular) AI safety work reduce s-risks more than it increases...
by MichaelStJules @ 2021-10-03 | +48 | 0 comments
It takes 5 layers and 1000 artificial neurons to simulate a single biological...
by MichaelStJules @ 2021-09-07 | +44 | 0 comments
How much should we still worry about catching COVID? [Links and Discussion...
by MichaelStJules @ 2021-08-29 | +21 | 0 comments
Welfare Footprint Project - a blueprint for quantifying animal pain
by MichaelStJules @ 2021-06-26 | +73 | 0 comments
Voting open for Project for Awesome 2021!
by MichaelStJules @ 2021-02-12 | +33 | 0 comments
Project for Awesome 2021: Video signup and resources
by MichaelStJules @ 2021-01-31 | +11 | 0 comments
Project for Awesome 2021: Early coordination
by MichaelStJules @ 2021-01-27 | +57 | 0 comments
Even Allocation Strategy under High Model Ambiguity
by MichaelStJules @ 2020-12-31 | +15 | 0 comments
[Summary] Impacts of Animal Well‐Being and Welfare Media on Meat Demand
by MichaelStJules @ 2020-11-05 | +40 | 0 comments
Hedging against deep and moral uncertainty
by MichaelStJules @ 2020-09-12 | +83 | 0 comments
Is it suffering or involuntary suffering that's bad, and when is it...
by MichaelStJules @ 2020-06-22 | +11 | 0 comments
Physical theories of consciousness reduce to panpsychism
by MichaelStJules @ 2020-05-07 | +34 | 0 comments
Replaceability with differing priorities
by MichaelStJules @ 2020-03-08 | +26 | 0 comments
Biases in our estimates of Scale, Neglectedness and Solvability?
by MichaelStJules @ 2020-02-24 | +93 | 0 comments
[Link] Assessing and Respecting Sentience After Brexit
by MichaelStJules @ 2020-02-19 | +17 | 0 comments
Changes in conditions are a priori bad for average animal welfare
by MichaelStJules @ 2020-02-09 | +27 | 0 comments
Please take the Reducing Wild-Animal Suffering Community Survey!
by MichaelStJules @ 2020-02-03 | +24 | 0 comments
What are the challenges and problems with programming law-breaking constraints...
by MichaelStJules @ 2020-02-02 | +20 | 0 comments
Should and do EA orgs consider the comparative advantages of applicants in...
by MichaelStJules @ 2020-01-11 | +15 | 0 comments
Should animal advocates donate now or later? A few considerations and a request...
by MichaelStJules @ 2019-11-13 | +25 | 0 comments
MichaelStJules's Quick takes
by MichaelStJules @ 2019-10-24 | +7 | 0 comments
Conditional interests, asymmetries and EA priorities
by MichaelStJules @ 2019-10-21 | +22 | 0 comments
What are the best arguments for an exclusively hedonistic view of value?
by MichaelStJules @ 2019-10-19 | +7 | 0 comments
Defending the Procreation Asymmetry with Conditional Interests
by MichaelStJules @ 2019-10-13 | +34 | 0 comments
Ex ante prioritarianism and negative-leaning utilitarianism do not override...
by MichaelStJules @ 2019-07-04 | +11 | 0 comments