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Welfare Biology and AI: The Psychopath, the Nematode, and the Arahant
Pain without a sufferer: a speculative model of invertebrate experience, drawn from no-self psychopathy and Buddhist phenomenology, and what it predicts…
 • Dawn Drescher
Welfare Biology and AI: What We Can Do Now
From soil-welfare research to the New World Screwworm: a practical portfolio for wild-invertebrate welfare.
 • Dawn Drescher
Welfare Biology and AI: Soil and Sea
There are 57 billion nematodes per human. Boreal forests pack 7× more per square meter than cropland. The numbers, the mechanisms, and why pesticides…
 • Dawn Drescher
Effective Afterlife Altruism: A New Cause Area at the Intersection of Theology, Nematology, and Symmetric Total Utilitarianism
Why paradise-maxxing for invertebrates may be the most cost-effective intervention in history
 • Dawn Drescher
Welfare Biology and AI: The Quiz
Are you Quiverfull, pro-life, or pro-choice – but for nematodes? A quiz to find your place on the welfare ecology map.
 • Dawn Drescher
AI Mental Health Chatbots for Low-Resource Settings: A Prioritization Framework
We’re building an AI-powered mental health chatbot targeting populations with severe mental healthcare shortages.
 • Dawn Drescher, Scott D Blain, Anand Jeevanandham, and Angie Hsu
How to Donate to Alleviate Suffering in Gaza
Gemini 2.5's best guesses on how to help effectively: UNRWA, B’Tselem, +972 Magazine.
 • Dawn Drescher
With the Future of the World in Your Hands, Think for 6.77 Years!
How long should you think about a problem that could determine the future of all existence? A mathematical journey from simple bets to existential…
 • Dawn Drescher
Beyond Control: The Strategic Case for AI Rights
To prevent a dangerous conflict with AI, the answer isn't more control – it's a social contract. The pragmatic case for granting AIs legal rights.
 • Dawn Drescher
Evidential Cooperation as a Black Box
What if there’s finally a way to answer ethics’ age old question of how one should act? What if we can cooperate with countless beings to generate…
 • Dawn Drescher
Breaking the Cycle of Trauma and Tyranny: How Psychological Wounds Shape History
A developmental perspective on authoritarian leadership and how we can build more resilient societies
 • Dawn Drescher
Summary of Replacing Guilt
A Notebook LM summary of Nate Soares’s book, which advocates for replacing guilt with more effective tools such as intrinsic drive, cold resolve, or hot…
 • Dawn Drescher
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