This is the second post in the CURVE—Causes and uncertainty: Rethinking value in expectation—series. In this post, the researchers discuss the implications of contractualism for cause prioritization.

We want to help others as much as we can, but knowing how to do that is complex. The Worldview Investigations Team explores this topic in their new sequence of posts—Causes and uncertainty: Rethinking value in expectation (CURVE).

This is the ninth post in the Moral Weight Project Sequence, which provides an overview of the research Rethink Priorities conducted between May 2021 and October 2022 on making resource allocation decisions across species. The goal of this post is to help animal welfare grantmakers assess the relative value of improvements to the lives of some commercially-important insects.

This is the eighth post in the Moral Weight Project Sequence, which provides an overview of the research Rethink Priorities conducted between May 2021 and October 2022 on making resource allocation decisions across species. In this post, Senior Research Manager Bob Fischer briefly recaps the research team’s understanding of welfare ranges and their proposed way of using them. The post also summarizes the methodology and responds to some questions and objections.

This is the seventh post in the Moral Weight Project Sequence, which provides an overview of the research Rethink Priorities conducted between May 2021 and October 2022 on making resource allocation decisions across species. In this post, Senior Research Manager Bob Fischer warns against dismissing research just because its findings suggest "the Equality Result" (i.e. that certain species can realize roughly the same amount of welfare as humans).

This is the third post in the Moral Weight Project Sequence. The aim of the sequence is to provide an overview of the research that Rethink Priorities conducted between May 2021 and October 2022 on interspecific cause prioritization. The aim of this post is to suggest a way to quantify the impact of assuming hedonism on welfare range estimates.

This is the second post in the Moral Weight Project Sequence. The aim of the sequence is to provide an overview of the research that Rethink Priorities conducted between May 2021 and October 2022 on interspecific cause prioritization—i.e. making resource allocation decisions across species. The aim of this post is to provide an overview of the Welfare Range Table, which records the results of a literature review covering over 90 empirical traits across 11 farmed species.

This post is the first in the Moral Weight Project Sequence. The aim of the sequence is to provide an overview of the research that Rethink Priorities conducted between May 2021 and October 2022 on interspecific cause prioritization—i.e., making resource allocation decisions across species. The aim of this post is to introduce the project and explain how EAs could use its results.