The Bitter Lesson for Animal Activists

A new generation is revolutionizing the grassroots animal movement, by learning the same way superintelligent AI learns.This essay examines some of the ways I went wrong as a young animal activist, especially my failure to seek out evidence for or against the strategies I believed in. This audio version of Sandcastles is produced using an AI clone of Aidan's voice. Please forgive mispronunciations. Read the original on Substack.Note: the quotes from Sarah Schulman and Ian Morris are in their own real voices! Thanks to Sarah for narrating her own audiobook! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sandcastlesblog.substack.com