Wow I like this board ! Congrats CEA

I would change the title to something like "AIxBio Africa is looking for a Director of Research"

So…. Are we calling it SI now ? 😂😂😂

besides this obviously being really cringey and maybe illegal (?) it was a good reminder for me of how unpaid work tests are just a massive hinderance to potential applicants - who the heck has 20 hours of unpaid work to donate unless they're unemployed?

I'm early-ish in the application pipeline for a non-EA job and they're asking me to do a 20-HOUR UNPAID work test where they explicitly want to own and use the product of my "work test" ....

oh okay I think the misunderstanding was that by "in space" you mean something like "everywhere/on planets that aren't earth" and not just "in space stations/on spacecraft"

I’m probably missing something but why would this be worth doing ?

Hopefully this answers the question: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/D2wfYhB4rAMPkSnPt/kaleem-s-shortform?commentId=T2WzbqBLRTF5TJ43r

I find it icky/disappointing when things like this end up on the 80k job board. Can someone make a case why this is a high-impact job worth advertising on the job board? 

 

Hi Michael. Since writing this I finished the paper for OP which I can share with you if you'd like to read it. I'd say that the research found almost no existing FAW interventions in Muslim countries that leverage Islamic principles: the handful that exist (cage-free campaigns in Turkey, the Gulf, Indonesia, Malaysia) are mostly EA/welfare driven and don't really engage with Islamic theology. The most promising intervention identified is working within the halaal certification ecosystem, since there are ~400 certification bodies globally with huge variation in standards and significant profit incentives that could be redirected toward welfare. Layer hen welfare was flagged as the most immediately tractable target. Longer term, getting ahead of lab-grown meat's halaal status could be valuable. Overall the biggest surprise was how little information there was about industries or consumer attitudes in this space.

Afterwards I ran a n~6000 person survey of Muslims from 15 countries to fill in some gaps regarding our understanding of what Muslims think about industrial agriculture and slaughter in relation to their religious and moral beliefs - that survey is finished and I'm working on sharing the results publicly within the next month or so (as well as open-sourcing the dataset).