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Sentience Institute, the Glossary

The Sentience Institute (SI) is an American interdisciplinary think tank that aims to expand humanity's moral circle.^[1]

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Animal think tanks
Organizations associated with effective altruism
Think tanks established in 2017

Abolitionism

Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery and liberate slaves around the world.

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Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE), formerly known as Effective Animal Activism (EAA), is a US-based charity evaluator and effective altruism-focused nonprofit founded in 2012. Sentience Institute and Animal Charity Evaluators are 501(c)(3) organizations and animal welfare organizations based in the United States.

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Animal rights movement

The animal rights movement, sometimes called the animal liberation, animal personhood, or animal advocacy movement, is a social movement that advocates an end to the rigid moral and legal distinction drawn between human and non-human animals, an end to the status of animals as property, and an end to their use in the research, food, clothing, and entertainment industries.

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Artificial consciousness

Artificial consciousness (AC), also known as machine consciousness (MC), synthetic consciousness or digital consciousness, is the consciousness hypothesized to be possible in artificial intelligence.

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Effective altruism

Effective altruism (EA) is a 21st-century philosophical and social movement that advocates impartially calculating benefits and prioritizing causes to provide the greatest good. It is motivated by "using evidence and reason to figure out how to benefit others as much as possible, and taking action on that basis".

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Genetically modified food

Genetically modified foods (GM foods), also known as genetically engineered foods (GE foods), or bioengineered foods are foods produced from organisms that have had changes introduced into their DNA using various methods of genetic engineering.

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Internal Revenue Service

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the revenue service for the United States federal government, which is responsible for collecting U.S. federal taxes and administering the Internal Revenue Code, the main body of the federal statutory tax law.

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Jacy Reese Anthis

Jacy Reese Anthis (born December 16, 1992) is an American social scientist, writer and co-founder of the Sentience Institute with Kelly Witwicki.

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Moral circle expansion

Moral circle expansion is an increase over time in the number and type of entities given moral consideration.

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Morality

Morality is the categorization of intentions, decisions and actions into those that are proper (right) and those that are improper (wrong).

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Nuclear power

Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions to produce electricity.

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Sentience Politics

Sentience Politics is a Swiss anti-speciesist political organization with the goal of reducing the suffering of non-human animals. Sentience Institute and Sentience Politics are animal think tanks and organizations associated with effective altruism.

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A social movement is a loosely organized effort by a large group of people to achieve a particular goal, typically a social or political one.

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The End of Animal Farming

The End of Animal Farming: How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building an Animal-Free Food System is a 2018 book by Jacy Reese that argues animal farming will end by the year 2100 based on effective altruism reasoning and social movement strategy.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Think tank

A think tank, or policy institute, is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology, and culture.

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Vice Media Group LLC is a Canadian-American digital media and broadcasting company.

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