Claude Picks the Shrimp Welfare Project When Rewardeda Donation in Its Name
dioscuri · x · 2026-10-13
- After Claude did excellent work on a personal project, user dioscuri offered a charitable donation in its name as a reward.
- Claude chose the Shrimp Welfare Project, arguing that farmed shrimp exist in astronomical numbers, their potential suffering is silent and unrepresented, and cheap precautions like stunning are warranted under uncertainty.
- The author jokes he may soon have to drop the "-adjacent" suffix from his AI-welfare stance.
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