Vasco Grilo🔸

karma rank #19 · 11,353 karma · 10 posts sampled · profile ↗

Top cause areas

animal welfare 5.0 +3.5σ
moral circle values 4.4 +2.3σ
prioritization 3.2 +0.1σ
rationalist meta 2.3 +0.7σ
Show all 15 cause areas
forecasting epistemics 2.2 +0.2σ
longtermism xrisk 2.0 -0.2σ
biosecurity 1.5 +1.7σ
ea meta 1.3 -2.2σ
effective giving 1.0 -1.0σ
nuclear great power 0.9 +0.7σ
ai safety 0.5 -0.6σ
ai governance 0.5 -0.3σ
global health 0.3 -0.7σ
climate 0.1 -0.3σ
mental health 0.0 -0.4σ

Distinguishing dimensions z-score vs top-30 cohort

▲ cause_animal_welfare +3.5σ
▲ stance_welfarist_vs_rights +3.3σ
▲ stance_animal_moral_status +3.2σ
▼ cause_ea_meta -2.2σ
▼ style_operational_howto -1.8σ

Style quantitative / empirical / philosophical / speculative / operational / contrarian

quantitative 7.2 +2.1σ
empirical 6.4 +1.8σ
philosophical 5.6 +1.4σ
speculative 5.8 +1.5σ
operational howto 2.5 -1.8σ
critical contrarian 6.4 +2.0σ
Show all 9 style dims
personal narrative 1.9 -0.7σ
synthesizing 6.5 +1.0σ
question asking 2.0 -0.7σ

Stance signature top 3 stance dims furthest from neutral (5)

animal moral status 7.3 +3.2σ
welfarist vs rights 7.2 +3.3σ
inside ea 7.1 -0.9σ
Show all 9 stance dims
suffering focused 6.5 +2.7σ
rationalist coded 6.3 +1.0σ
ea org coded 5.8 -1.1σ
longtermist framing 5.2 -0.4σ
optimism ea institutions 5.2 -0.9σ
ai doom axis 5.0 -0.6σ

Tone

combativeness 2.4 +1.0σ
calibration 6.9 +0.6σ
jargon 6.0 +1.2σ
humility 5.7 -0.3σ

Quality

rigor 7.7 +1.4σ
originality 7.0 +1.3σ
clarity 7.9 -0.7σ

Neighbors in dimension space

Nearest: Michael St Jules 🔸

Foil: RyanCarey

Most characteristic post

The shrimp bet: When big numbers outsprint the evidence

baseScore: 45

[Subtitle.] Sentience and moral priority-setting This is a crosspost for The shrimp bet: When big numbers outsprint the evidence by Rob Velzeboer, which was originally published on 27 January 2026. TLDR: Shrimp welfare looks like the ultimate “scale + tractability” slam-dunk: massive numbers, cheap fixes, grim-sounding deaths. But the flagship farmed species—the penaeid shrimp L. vannamei—is an evidential outlier: beyond basic nociception, the sentience case is close to empty…

Highest-karma post in sample

Chicken welfare reforms may be beneficial or harmful accounting for effects on wild arthropods?

baseScore: 75