EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular)
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EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular)
Audio narrations from the Effective Altruism Forum, including curated posts and posts with 125 karma. If you'd like more episodes, subscribe to the "EA Forum (All audio)" podcast instead.
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“3 doubts about veganism” by emre kaplan🔸
I keep thinking about what kind of identity would be useful for building a powerful animal advocacy movement. Here are 3 features of veganism that I o...
“The funding conversation we left unfinished” by jenn
People working in the AI industry are making stupid amounts of money, and word on the street is that Anthropic is going to have some sort of liquidity...
“Front-Load Giving Because of Anthropic Donors?” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸
Summary: Anthropic has many employees with an EA-ish outlook, who may
soon have a lot of money. If you also have that kind of outlook, money
“Peter Wildeford talks about risks from AI on the Daily Show” by MartinBerlin
Ronny Chieng strikes again, this time featuring Peter Wildeford and the risks from AI on the Daily Show:
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“Caring about Bugs Isn’t Weird” by Bob Fischer
I’ve spoken with hundreds of entomologists at conferences the world over. While there's clearly some self-selection (not everyone wants to talk to a p...
“Announcing the new AIM CEO!” by Ambitious Impact
We, the AIM Board and outgoing CEO Joey Savoie, are delighted to announce that Samantha Kagel has been selected as AIM's new CEO, effective December 1...
“The overall cost-effectiveness of an intervention often matters less than the counterfactual use of its funding” by abrahamrowe
Cross-posted from Good Structures.
For impact-minded donors, it's natural to focus on doing the most cost-effective thing. Suppose you’re genui...
“Announcing ClusterFree: A cluster headache advocacy and research initiative (and how you can help)” by Alfredo Parra 🔸, algekalipso
Today we’re announcing a new cluster headache advocacy and research initiative: ClusterFree
Learn more about how you (and anyone) can help.
“Open Philanthropy Is Now Coefficient Giving” by Aaron Gertler 🔸
Big news from Open Philanthropy Coefficient Giving today:
Today, Open Philanthropy is becoming Coefficient Giving. Our mission remains the same...
“The Protein Problem” by LewisBollard
Note: This post was crossposted from the Open Philanthropy Farm Animal Welfare Research Newsletter by the Forum team, with the author's permission. Th...
“New donation opportunity: the Center for Wild Animal Welfare” by Ben Stevenson, RichardP
The Center for Wild Animal Welfare (CWAW) is a new policy advocacy organization, working to improve the lives of wild animals today and build support...
“To a first approximation, all farmed animals are bugs” by Bob Fischer
To a first approximation, all farmed animals are bugs. (Recalling, of course, that shrimps is bugs.) We don’t know much about their needs in current p...
“Some hardworking dads in EA” by Julia_Wise🔸
It's hard to divide anything 50/50. In many families, even if both parents have paid jobs, one parent will lean into parenting more, and the other wil...
“Historical EA funding data: 2025 update” by Jacco Rubens🔸
Long time lurker, first time poster - be nice please! :)
I was searching for summary data of EA funding trends, but couldn't find anything more...
“If wild animal welfare is intractable, everything is intractable.” by mal_graham🔸
Author's note: This is an adapted version of my recent talk at EA Global NYC (I’ll add a link when it's available). The content has been adjusted to r...
“12 Theses on EA” by Mjreard
This is a crosspost from my Substack, where people have been liking and commenting a bunch. I'm too busy during my self-imposed version of Inkhaven to...
“Recruitment is extremely important and impactful. Some people should be completely obsessed with it.” by abrahamrowe
Cross-post from Good Structures.
Over the last few years, I helped run several dozen hiring rounds for around 15 high-impact organizations. I'v...
“Announcing ACE’s 2025 Charity Recommendations” by Animal Charity Evaluators, Vince Mak 🔸
16 minute read
We update our list of Recommended Charities annually. This year, we announced recommendations on November 4.
Each year, h...
“Leaving Open Philanthropy, going to Anthropic” by Joe_Carlsmith
(Audio version, read by the author, here, or search for "Joe Carlsmith Audio" on your podcast app.)
Last Friday was my last day at Open...
“How Well Does RL Scale?” by Toby_Ord
This is the latest in a series of essays on AI Scaling.
You can find the others on my site.
Summary: RL-training for LLMs scales surpri...
“Recommitting to Giving: A Personal Update” by frankieaw
TL;DR: I took the 🔸10% Pledge in 2016 and haven’t kept to it consistently. I’ve decided not to pay the backlog donations, and instead to recommit fre...
“Why Many EAs May Have More Impact Outside of Nonprofits in Animal Welfare” by lauren_mee 🔸, Animal Advocacy Careers
Many thanks to @Felix_Werdermann 🔸 @Engin Arıkan and @Ana Barreiro for your feedback and comments on this, and for the encouragement from many people...
“Framing EA: ‘Doing Good Better’ Did Worse” by Rethink Priorities, David_Moss
Summary
Doing Good Better taglines
Nouns and sentences
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Outline:
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[Linkpost] “The Charity Trap: Brain Misallocation” by DavidNash
This is a link post.
In Ugandan villages where non-governmental organisations (NGOs) hired away the existing government health worker, infant m...
[Linkpost] “The Four Pillars: A Hypothesis for Countering Catastrophic Biological Risk” by ASB
This is a link post.
Biological risks are more severe than has been widely appreciated. Recent discussions of mirror bacteria highlight an extr...
“Entertainment for EAs” by Toby Tremlett🔹
I’ve used the phrase “entertainment for EAs” a bunch to describe a failure mode that I’m trying to avoid with my career. Maybe it’d be useful for othe...
“Canva to donate $100M over 4 years to GiveDirectly” by MartinBerlin
All quotes are from their blog post "Why we chose to invest another $100 million in cash transfers", highlights are my own:
Today, we’re annou...
“My EA Senescence” by Michael_PJ
I have some claim to be an “old hand” EA:[1]
But I have not really been much involved in the community since about 2020. The interesting thing...
“You should probably track your time (and it just got easier)” by Christoph Hartmann 🔸
TLDR
EA is a community where time tracking is already very common and yet most people I talk to don't because
I built https://donethat....
“Experts & markets think authoritarian capture of the US looks distinctly possible” by LintzA
The following is a quick collection of forecasting markets and opinions from experts which give some sense of how well-informed people are thinking ab...
“Your Sacrifice Portfolio Is Probably Terrible” by Midtermist12
or Maximizing Good Within Your Personal Constraints
Note: The specific numbers and examples below are approximations meant to illustrate the fr...
“Effective altruism in the age of AGI” by William_MacAskill
This post is based on a memo I wrote for this year's Meta Coordination Forum. See also Arden Koehler's recent post, which hits a lot of similar notes....
“Taking ethics seriously, and enjoying the process” by kuhanj
Here's a talk I gave at an EA university group organizers’ retreat recently, which I've been strongly encouraged to share on the forum. I'd like to ma...
“Charity Entrepreneurship is bottlenecked by a lack of great animal founders” by Ben Williamson, Amalie Farestvedt 🔸
TL;DR - AIM's applicants skew towards global health & development. We’ve recommended four new animal welfare charities, have the capacity to launch al...
“Cultivated Meat: A Wakeup Call for Optimists” by CianHamilton
Summary: Consumers rejected genetically modified crops, and I expect they will do the same for cultivated meat. The meat lobby will fight to discredit...
“Why I think capacity building to make AGI go well should include spreading EA-style ideas and helping people engage with EA” by Arden Koehler
Note: I am the web programme director at 80,000 Hours and the view expressed here currently helps shape the web team's strategy. However, this shouldn...
“Moving to a hub, getting older, and heading home” by ElliotTep
“How many chickens spared from cages is worth not being with my parents as they get older?!” - Me, exasperated (September 18, 2021)
This post i...
“Student group organising is hard and important” by Bella
It's been several years since I was an EA student group organiser, so please forgive any part of this post which feels out of touch (& correct me in c...
“Rejected from all the ‘EA’ Jobs you applied for - What to do now?” by guneyulasturker 🔸
Hi, have you been rejected from all the 80K listed EA jobs you’ve applied for? It sucks, right? Welcome to the club. What might be comforting is that...
“How cost-effective are AI safety YouTubers?” by Marcus Abramovitch 🔸, Austin
Early work on ”GiveWell for AI Safety”
Intro
EA was founded on the principle of cost-effectiveness. We should fund projects that do more...