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3:59

“Recommitting to Giving: A Personal Update” by frankieaw

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2025/11/01

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 fresh from today, with simple systems to keep me on track. Sharing this for transparency and in the hope it may be helpful to others - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Why I’m posting In 2016, as a university student, I took the Giving What We Can 10% Pledge. I made my pledge publicly,

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9:35

“Framing EA: ‘Doing Good Better’ Did Worse” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2025/10/29

Summary As part of our ongoing work to study how to best frame EA, we experimentally tested different phrases and sentences that CEA wereconsidering using oneffectivealtruism.org. Doing Good Better taglines We observed a consistent pattern where taglines that included the phrase ‘do[ing] good better’ received less support from respondents and inspired less interest in learning about EA. We replicated these results in a second experiment, where we confirmed that taglines referring to “do[ing] good

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9:42

“Why You Should Build Your Own EA Internship Abroad”...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2025/07/28

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 build EA experience should do something similar. Back in October, I cold-emailed the Fish Welfare Initiative (FWI) with my resume and a short cover letter expressing interest in an unpaid in-person internship in the summer of 2025. I figured I had a better chance of getting an internship by building my own door than competing with hundreds of others

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7:54

“Mitigating Risks from Rouge AI” by poppinfresh

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2025/04/01

Introduction Misaligned AI systems, which have a tendency to use their capabilities in ways that conflict with the intentions of both developers and users, could cause significant societal harm. Identifying them is seen as increasingly important to inform development and deployment decisions and design mitigation measures. There are concerns, however, that this will prove challenging. For example, misaligned AIs may only reveal harmful behaviors in rare circumstances, or perceive detection attempts

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25:36

“Stewardship: CEA’s 2025-26 strategy to reach and...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2025/03/29

“I” refers to Zach, the Centre for Effective Altruism's CEO. Oscar is CEA's Chief of Staff. We are grateful to all the CEA staff and community members who have contributed insightful input and feedback (directly and indirectly) during the development of our strategy and over many years. Mistakes are of course our own.Exec summary As one CEA, we are taking a principles-first approach to stewardship of the EA community. During the search for a new CEO, the board and search committee were open to

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9:55

“The catastrophic situation with U.S. foreign aid...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2025/03/02

For those in the EA community who may not typically engage with politics/government, this is the time to do so. If you are American and/or based in the U.S., reaching out to lawmakers, supporting organizations that are mobilizing on this issue, and helping amplify the urgency of this crisis can make a difference. Why this matters: Millions of lives are at stake Decades of progress, and prior investment, in global health and wellbeing are at risk Government funding multiplies the impact of

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9:39

The catastrophic situation with USAID just got worse...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2025/03/02

If you don’t typically engage with politics/government, this is the time to do so. If you are American and/or based in the U.S., reaching out to lawmakers, supporting organizations that are mobilizing on this issue, and helping amplify the urgency of this crisis can make a difference. Why this matters: Millions of lives are at stake Decades of progress, and prior investment, in global health and wellbeing are at risk Government funding multiplies the impact of philanthropy Where things stand today

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26:14

“The Game Board has been Flipped: Now is a good time...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2025/01/29

Introduction Several developments over the past few months should cause you to re-evaluate what you are doing. These include: Updates toward short timelines The Trump presidency The o1 (inference-time compute scaling) paradigm Deepseek Stargate/AI datacenter spending Increased internal deployment Absence of AI x-risk/safety considerations in mainstream AI discourse Taken together, these are enough to render many existing AI governance strategies obsolete (and probably some technical safety

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8:59

“The Upcoming PEPFAR Cut Will Kill Millions, Many of...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2025/01/28

Crossposted from my blog. (This could end up being the most important thing I’ve ever written. Please like and restack it—if you have a big blog, please write about it). A mother holds her sick baby to her chest. She knows he doesn’t have long to live. She hears him coughing—those body-wracking coughs—that expel mucus and phlegm, leaving him desperately gasping for air. He is just a few months old. And yet that's how old he will be when he dies. The aforementioned scene is likely to become

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1:44

“EA Forum audio: help us choose the new voice” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/12/12

We’re thinking about changing our narrator's voice.There are three new voices on the shortlist. They’re all similarly good in terms of comprehension, emphasis, error rate, etc. They just sound different—like people do.We think they all sound similarly agreeable. But, thousands of listening hours are at stake, so we thought it’d be worth giving listeners an opportunity to vote—just in case there’s a strong collective preference. Listen and votePlease listen

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Podcast and transcript: Allan Saldanha on...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/12/11

Me and Allan recorded this podcast on Tuesday 10th December, based on the questions in this AMA. I used Claude to edit the transcript, but I've read over it for accuracy. ---

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“Factory farming as a pressing world problem” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/12/04

This is a link post. 80,000 Hours recently updated our problem profile on factory farming, and we now rank it among the most pressing problems in the world. We're sharing the summary of the article here, and there's much more detail at the link. The author, Benjamin Hilton, published the article with us before moving on to a new role outside of 80k back in July, so he may have limited ability to engage with comments. But we welcome feedback and may incorporate it into future updates. Summary History

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25:03

“Testing Framings of EA and Longtermism” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/11/13

Rethink Priorities has been conducting a range of surveys and experiments aimed at understanding how people respond to different framings of Effective Altruism (EA), Longtermism, and related specific cause areas. There has been much debate about whether people involved in EA and Longtermism should frame their efforts and outreach in terms of Effective altruism, Longtermism, Existential risk, Existential security, Global priorities research, or by only mentioning specific risks, such as AI safety

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14:22

“Stepping down from GWWC: So long, and thanks for all...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/09/11

This is a link post. It's a rare privilege to lead an organisation that embodies the very ideals that shaped your life. I’ve been fortunate to have been given that opportunity for the last four years. My journey with Giving What We Can began long before I became its CEO. Like many members, I started as a curious onlooker, lurking for many years after first googling something along the lines of “what's the best charity?” and slowly being drawn to the idea of effective giving. I vividly remember the

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5:59

“FarmKind’s Illusory Offer” by Jeff Kaufman

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/08/14

While the effective altruism movement has changed a lot over time, oneof the parts that makes me most disappointed is the steady creep of donation matching. It's not that donation matching is objectively very important, but the early EA movement's principled rejection of a very effective fundraising strategy made it clear that we were committed to helping people understand the real impact of their donations. Over time, as people have specialized into different areas of EA, with

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30:32

“Case-control survey of EAGx attendees finds no...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/07/28

Prepared by James Fodor and Miles Tidmarsh EAGxAustralia 2023 Committee Abstract EAGx conferences are an important component of the effective altruism community, and have proven a popular method for engaging EAs and spreading EA ideas around the world. However, to date relatively little publicly available empirical evidence has been collected regarding the long term impact of such conferences on attendees. In this observational study we aimed to assess the extent to which EAGx conferences bring

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27:23

“Case-control survey of EAGx attendees finds no...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/07/28

Prepared by James Fodor and Miles Tidmarsh EAGxAustralia 2023 Committee Abstract EAGx conferences are an important component of the effective altruism community, and have proven a popular method for engaging EAs and spreading EA ideas around the world. However, to date relatively little publicly available empirical evidence has been collected regarding the long term impact of such conferences on attendees. In this observational study we aimed to assess the extent to which EAGx conferences bring

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2:08

“Warren Buffett changes giving plans (for the worse)”...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/07/19

This is a link post. Folks in philanthropy and development definitely know that the Gates Foundation is the largest private player in that realm by far. Until recently it was likely to get even larger, as Warren Buffet had stated that the Foundation would receive the bulk of his assets when he died. A few weeks ago, Buffet announced that he had changed his mind, and was instead going to create a new trust for his assets, to be jointly managed by his children. It's a huge change, but I don't think

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30:17

“Rethink Priorities’ Moral Parliament Tool” by Derek...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/07/19

Link to tool: https://parliament.rethinkpriorities.org (1 min) Introductory Video (6 min) Basic Features Video Executive Summary This post introduces Rethink Priorities’ Moral Parliament Tool, which models ways an agent can make decisions about how to allocate goods in light of normative uncertainty. We treat normative uncertainty as uncertainty over worldviews. A worldview encompasses a set of normative commitments, including first-order moral theories, values, and attitudes toward risk. We

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14:14

“Detecting Genetically Engineered Viruses With...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/06/30

This is a link post. This represents work from several people at the NAO. Thanks especially to Dan Rice for implementing the duplicate junction detection, and to @Will Bradshaw and @mike_mclaren for editorial feedback. Summary If someone were to intentionally cause a stealth pandemic today, one of the ways they might do it is by modifying an existing virus. Over the past few months we’ve been working on building a computational pipeline that could flag evidence of this kind of genetic engineering,

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