Stijn Bruers 🔸

PhDs in physics (thermodynamics of ecosystems), moral philosophy (animal rights) and economics (altruistic motivation and incentives for blood donation), co-founder of EA Belgium, environmental footprint analyst at Ecolife

Posts

Why do EA longtermists not discuss the alleged problem of cognitive decline?
by Stijn Bruers 🔸 @ 2025-03-13 | +8 | 0 comments

How to systematically reduce wild animal suffering in the near future
by Stijn Bruers 🔸 @ 2025-03-11 | +37 | 0 comments

Rational Animal Ethics (my top 10 ideas of all time)
by Stijn Bruers 🔸 @ 2025-03-07 | +30 | 0 comments

Are fishing and agriculture bad for animals?
by Stijn Bruers 🔸 @ 2024-11-07 | +16 | 0 comments

Causing harm by neglecting alternatives: how well-intentioned actions can...
by Stijn Bruers 🔸 @ 2024-08-29 | +19 | 0 comments

A top-effective public outreach: small-farmed-animal reducetarian deep...
by Stijn Bruers 🔸 @ 2024-08-12 | +48 | 0 comments

How to realistically reduce most suffering on earth
by Stijn Bruers 🔸 @ 2024-06-30 | +45 | 0 comments

The suffering of a farmed animal is equal in size to the happiness of a human,...
by Stijn Bruers 🔸 @ 2024-05-21 | +48 | 0 comments

The harm cascade: why helping others is so hard
by Stijn Bruers 🔸 @ 2023-07-27 | +43 | 0 comments

Animal welfare certified meat is not a stepping stone to meat reduction or...
by Stijn Bruers 🔸 @ 2023-03-04 | +52 | 0 comments

The deathprint of replacing beef by chicken and insect meat
by Stijn Bruers 🔸 @ 2022-11-30 | +70 | 0 comments

On the correspondence between AI-misalignment and cognitive dissonance using a...
by Stijn Bruers 🔸 @ 2022-11-01 | +11 | 0 comments

Avoiding the demandingness of total welfarism with rights-based discounted...
by Stijn Bruers 🔸 @ 2022-08-15 | +6 | 0 comments

Should we herbivorize predators?
by Stijn Bruers 🔸 @ 2022-02-28 | +13 | 0 comments

The case against degrowth
by Stijn Bruers 🔸 @ 2021-12-30 | +58 | 0 comments

The crux of the cultivated meat feasibility debate
by Stijn Bruers 🔸 @ 2021-10-07 | +9 | 0 comments

Communicate your epistemic status shifts
by Stijn Bruers 🔸 @ 2021-07-14 | +31 | 0 comments

The problem of possible populations: animal farming, sustainability, extinction...
by Stijn Bruers 🔸 @ 2021-07-06 | +7 | 0 comments

Cost-effectiveness distributions, power laws and scale invariance
by Stijn Bruers 🔸 @ 2021-03-18 | +32 | 0 comments

Rational altruism and risk aversion
by Stijn Bruers 🔸 @ 2021-02-17 | +12 | 0 comments

Clean technology innovation as the most cost-effective climate action
by Stijn Bruers 🔸 @ 2020-12-06 | +22 | 0 comments

Towards zero harm: animal-free and land-free food
by Stijn Bruers 🔸 @ 2020-10-23 | +31 | 0 comments

EA's abstract moral epistemology
by Stijn Bruers 🔸 @ 2020-10-20 | +13 | 0 comments

Relativistic welfare, farm animal abolitionism and wild animal welfarism
by Stijn Bruers 🔸 @ 2020-08-29 | +7 | 0 comments

The extreme cost-effectiveness of cell-based meat R&D
by Stijn Bruers 🔸 @ 2020-08-10 | +37 | 0 comments

Asymmetric altruism
by Stijn Bruers 🔸 @ 2020-06-27 | +5 | 0 comments

Probability estimate for wild animal welfare prioritization
by Stijn Bruers 🔸 @ 2019-10-23 | +9 | 0 comments

Some solutions to utilitarian problems
by Stijn Bruers 🔸 @ 2019-07-14 | +4 | 0 comments