• The ideal is strategic conviction: the ability to adopt a confident mindset to maintain momentum, while regularly zooming out to reflect and maintaining the capacity for zoomed-out skepticism and the willingness to update or abandon course based on evidence.

Really resonate with this line, and I think this is incredibly important. Especially from my experience in the EA and animal advocacy movement, I see a lot of people who are in this "bubble" and stick to what they started with, and either haven't zoomed out, or have—but didn't care about what they saw.

Super interesting concept - thanks for sharing. I wonder if we can apply this to the field of nonhuman welfare as well, in terms of AIxAnimals? For example, integrate HEMs into chips or hardware used in AI-assisted factory farming to detect when it passes a certain threshold. In this way we could limit more extreme animal suffering on farms? Something like that.