About Me
I work in the core-relevance division of Bing at Microsoft in Bellevue, WA. I graduated from Swarthmore College in 2009, where I studied Computer Science, Mathematics / Statistics, and Economics. I particularly enjoy statistics, machine learning, and similar topics at the intersection of math and computer science.
On the side, my main focus is researching the most cost-effective ways to reduce the massive amounts of animal suffering on earth. I donate to Vegan Outreach, in part to help factory-farmed animals in the short run but more importantly, to increase concern for animal welfare among the general population. The ultimate goal is to increase the probability that future human civilization will give equal moral weight to animal suffering, including wild-animal suffering, which preponderates over human-caused animal suffering by orders of magnitude.
I'm the author of the website Essays On Reducing Suffering,
and I'm one of the administrators of the Felicifia forum. You can find my Felicifia contributions here (under the user name Alan Dawrst
).
Feel free to email me if you'd like to talk more about these topics, or anything else on the site!
