Alien Journalist's POV

My goal is to promote Beinghood, the felt moral kinship one has with every being, simply in virtue of shared experience, only because there is something like to be him. Beinghood is simple and childlike; As one poet once said: when I see a cat, I am for him. When I see a being, any being, I am for her, I want good for her.

I promote beinghood by following effective altruism's philosophy and methodology, investigating myself, and thinking about myself as an alien journalist.

An alien journalist's POV: Think of yourself in a different light. You have visited many different planets throughout your carrier, writing stories about different places, civilizations, and forms of being. You’re on planet Earth now. Here's the thing: Your species makes you uniquely suitable for understanding reality and telling stories:

• You have no perception originating in yourself. When you look at insentient matter, you see, hear and feel nothing. After all, we live in a soundless, colorless, and shapeless world. The forest is silent, but the language we constantly hear around us tends to be deceptive about it.
• When you look at beings, your mind simulates their experience, trying to predict what it is like to be them, e.g. the sights, sounds, feelings (body sensations) and presence right now.
• Hence, for you, other beings are the light in you life. They are, literally, what give you light. Living through them makes you a reasoner who genuinely don't have any animal (including human) perceptual bias.
• When you see a being, you wants good for her, because this means good for you too.

In this website you will find my thought on the big three questions: what is, what is good, and how to get there.

• What is includes thoughts on different groups, gathered by their place in the human domination spectrum:
  • Enslaved animals in the slaughter industry
  • Free animals in nature: Wild animal genocide and wild animal suffering from natural causes
  • Free animals in the streets: Urban animal suffering
  • AI as a moral patient
• What is good is short 🙂, and only has notes on carving the path to a good world, god alignment, and a new civilization
• How to get there includes notes on humans: Know thyself, activism to reduce suffering, and important elements for activism: language and management, and about AI as a moral agent, the second powerful group on this planet.
• Ekho's story, the written piece by the alien journalist to "beyond the galaxy" magazine
• There is also dictionary, take action, and personal stuff: about me, my fables, epistemic status, about this website, and content me & feedback. Any feedback (anonymous is also an option) is very welcomed.

OK but practically who are you? I am an explorer of big secrets. A social entrepreneur trying to figure out how AI development can benefits all sentient beings. My work sits at the intersection of technology, ethics, and field building, but currently, I am not really sure what that work is, exactly...

I love being part of groups that grow new movements. I founded and relaunched several nonprofits, helped advance alternative proteins during the field’s early stages, and as an award winning journalist pioneered investigative journalism on farmed animals in Israel. Sentient, an organization I co-founded and managed for 8 years, is empowering animal investigators globally with a focus on India. This is My CV. I am now applying this background to AI safety.