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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“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...
“Marginally More Effective Altruism” by AppliedDivinityStudies
There's a huge amount of energy spent on how to get the most QALYs/$. And a good amount of energy spent on how to increase total $. And you might thin...
“My TED Talk” 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...
“Consider thanking whoever helped you” by Kevin Xia 🔸
TL;DR: If a (meta) org had a meaningful impact on you (in line with what they hope to achieve), you should probably tell them. It is essential for the...
“High-impact & urgent funding opportunity - Rodent fertility control” by Nitin Sekar
Context: I’m a senior fellow at Conservation X Labs (CXL), and I’m seeking support as I attempt to establish a program on humane rodent fertility cont...
“You’re Enough” by lynettebye
I told someone recently I would respect them if they only worked 40 hours a week, instead of their current 50-60.
What I really meant was stro...
“The anti-fragile culture” by lincolnq
How to prevent infighting, mitigate status races, and keep your people focused. Cross-posted from my Substack.
Organizational culture...
[Linkpost] “Most of the World Is an Adorably Suffering, Debatably Conscious Baby” by Jack_S🔸
This is a link post.
There are some moments of your life when the reality of suffering really hits home. Visiting desperately poor parts of the...
“New Spanish-language book on ‘classical EA’” by Pablo Melchor 🔸
My new book, Altruismo racional, is now on presale. It is my attempt at presenting a compelling case for a particular strand of "classical EA"[1]: one...
“Not inevitable, not impossible” 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...
“PSA for vegan donors: GiveWell not ruling out animal-based aid” by AdamA
I’m a long-time GiveWell donor and an ethical vegan. In a recent GiveWell podcast on livelihoods programs, providing animals as “productive assets” wa...
“A big milestone: 10,000 10% pledgers!” by Giving What We Can🔸
Giving What We Can has reached 10,000 🔸10% pledgers! We see this as an important milestone on the road to a cultural norm, and we’ve made a video to...
[Linkpost] “Of Marx and Moloch: How My Attempt to Convince Effective Altruists to Become Socialists Backfired Completely” by LennoxJohnson
This is a link post.
This is a personal essay about my failed attempt to convince effective altruists to become socialists. I started as a conv...
“Should we aim for flourishing over mere survival? The Better Futures series.” by William_MacAskill, Forethought
Today, Forethought and I are releasing an essay series called Better Futures, here.[1] It's been something like eight years in the making, so I’m pret...
“Alcohol is so bad for society that you should probably stop drinking” by Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️
This is a cross post written by Andy Masley, not me. I found it really interesting and wanted to see what EAs thought of his arguments.
This p...
“Frog Welfare” by Chad Brouze
This morning I was looking into Switzerland's new animal welfare labelling law. I was going through the list of abuses that are now required to be doc...
“Why You Should Become a University Group Organizer” by Noah Birnbaum
Confidence Level: I’ve been an organizer at UChicago for over a year now with my co-organizer, Avik. I also started the UChicago Rationality Group, co...
“Please, no more group brainstorming” by OllieBase
And other ways to make event content more valuable.
I organise and attend a lot of conferences, so the below is correct and need not be caveate...
“Building an EA-aligned career from an LMIC” by Rika Gabriel
This is Part 1 of a multi-part series, shared as part of Career Conversations Week. The views expressed here are my own and don't reflect those of my...
“Why You Should Build Your Own EA Internship Abroad” by Annika Burman
I am writing this to reflect on my experience interning with the Fish Welfare Initiative, and to provide my thoughts on why more students looking to b...
[Linkpost] “How Unofficial Work Gets You Hired: Building Your Surface Area for Serendipity” by SofiaBalderson
This is a link post.
Tl;dr:
In this post, I introduce a concept I call surface area for serendipity — the informal, behind-the-scenes wo...
“Is EA still ‘talent-constrained’?” by SiobhanBall
Since January I’ve applied to ~25 EA-aligned roles. Every listing attracted hundreds of candidates (one passed 1,200). It seems we already have a very...
[Linkpost] “My kidney donation” by Molly Hickman
This is a link post.
I donated my left kidney to a stranger on April 9, 2024, inspired by my dear friend @Quinn Dougherty (who was inspired by...
“Gaslit by humanity” by tobiasleenaert
Hi all,
This is a one time cross-post from my substack. If you like it, you can subscribe to the substack at tobiasleenaert.substack.com. Thank...
“We should be more uncertain about cause prioritization based on philosophical arguments” by Rethink Priorities, Marcus_A_Davis
In this article, I argue most of the interesting cross-cause prioritization decisions and conclusions rest on philosophical evidence that isn’t robust...
“80,000 Hours is producing AI in Context — a new YouTube channel. Our first video, about the AI 2027 scenario, is up!” by ChanaMessinger, Aric Floyd
Hi! We’re Chana and Aric, from the new 80,000 Hours video program.
For over a decade, 80,000 Hours has been talking about the world's most pres...
“A shallow review of what transformative AI means for animal welfare” by Lizka, Ben_West🔸
Epistemic status: This post — the result of a loosely timeboxed ~2-day sprint[1] — is more like “research notes with rough takes” than “report with so...
“Road to AnimalHarmBench” by Artūrs Kaņepājs, Constance Li
TL;DR: We developed an empirical benchmark to assess risk of harm to nonhuman animals from LLMs. Influenced by EU legal frameworks and pre-existing ta...
[Linkpost] “Eating Honey is (Probably) Fine, Actually” by Linch
This is a link post.
I wrote a reply to the Bentham Bulldog argument that has been going mildly viral. I hope this is a useful, or at least fun...
“Morality is Objective” by Bentham’s Bulldog
Is Morality ObjectivePlace your vote or view results.disagreeagree
There is dispute among EAs--and the general public more broadly--about wheth...