Michael St. Jules
Research Articles
Do Brains Contain Many Conscious Subsystems? If So, Should We Act Differently?
This is the fifth 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. This post assesses the hypothesis that brains have many conscious subsystems, which could affect how we ought to make tradeoffs between members of different species.
Can Black Soldier Fly Larvae (BSFL) producers displace fishmeal?
We investigated costs of production at four of the largest BSFL producers to better understand the prospects of them making major inroads into the aquatic animal feed market. We found production costs at these firms will most likely be too high to displace fishmeal. We therefore anticipate a smaller BSFL sector focused on high-value market segments rather than bulk feed commodities.