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EA Forum Podcast (All audio)

Audio narrations from the Effective Altruism Forum, including curated posts, posts with 30 karma, and other great writing. If you"d like fewer episodes, subscribe to the "EA Forum (Curated & Popular)" podcast instead.

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5:52

“Why I donate: some selfish reasons” by Kestrel🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/12

This year, I have given money to a range of EA cause areas. Most of it has either been towards global health and development, or EA infrastructure I believe does or could lead to effective fundraising for global health and development. The following are a list of very selfish personal reasons why I like to do this. I feel the selfless reasons have been adequately covered elsewhere, so I'm intentionally leaving them off. I get to ignore ineffective charity adverts. In order to genuinely convince

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4:18

“Why I donate: seems easy, seems obvious, I rarely...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/12

I’ve been reading the other Why I Donate Week posts with interest. One of the main things that struck me reading them was something like: it seems like giving is a big part of these people's lives – which is beautiful and I love it. But I mostly don’t relate to it in a very similar way myself, so I thought I’d write this for a different perspective!I took the 10% Pledge in 2017, and have been giving at least 10% since then.[1] Currently I give in a vaguely Further-Pledge-like way, i.e. everything

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12:00

“The Further Pledge: Voluntary Simplicity” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/12

Conscious Meaning We share every moment with trillions of other conscious beings. Some are much like us, and others experience the world very differently. Creatures without a language to structure their thoughts, some who see broader spectrums of light or others who might experience the world in comparative slow motion. Each conscious moment immediately slips into the past largely unobserved and forgotten. They fall through time like snow to become frozen in the past. Always to have happened just

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19:34

“Announcing four new charities!” by Ambitious Impact

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/11

We are thrilled to introduce four new charities from our latest Charity Entrepreneurship incubation round! Collectively, they have secured $696,000 in seed funding to kickstart their ventures. Read on to learn more about these newly incubated organisations and how you can support their impact journeys! Short Summaries First Embrace Over 2 million babies die every year. That's 4 babies every minute. 80% of these are low-birth-weight (LBW) newborns. We can change this. Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC)

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1:07

[Linkpost] “Malaysia’s Islamic Authority Declares...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/11

This is a link post. Malaysia's Islamic authority declares cultivated meat can be halal - a first for a Muslim-majority country The Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia – JAKIM), through the National Muzakarah Committee, has issued a landmark religious ruling (fatwa) stating that cultivated meat can be halal if certain basic conditions are met. This declaration comes just months after Malaysia completed an expansive National Cultivated Meat Feasibility Study,

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16:03

[Linkpost] “Most Externalities are Solved with...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/11

This is a link post. [Subtitle.] Econ 101 Needs More Progress Studies This is a crosspost for Most Externalities are Solved with Technology, Not Coordination by Maxwell Tabarrok, which was originally published on Maximum Progress on 14 March 2025. The basic externalities story goes like this: Some things, like air quality or scientific discoveries, have effects which spread to millions of people without cost or reward to the creator. Actions with unpunished costs are over-produced and actions with

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0:46

[Linkpost] “The world’s largest insect farming...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/10

This is a link post. A commercial court has pronounced the judicial liquidation of French insect agriculture pioneer Ÿnsect following a hearing held earlier this week. The company, once seen as the poster-child for protein production via insect farming, now “calls for the acquisition of assets to continue its mission,” according to an official statement. ---First published: December 10th, 2025 Source:

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5:01

“Donation Election 2025 Winners” by Toby Tremlett🔹

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/10

Thanks to everyone who voted and/or donated to the Donation Election! Winners The winners this year are: The EA Animal Welfare Fund ($6693.75) The Shrimp Welfare Project ($4259.66) The Against Malaria Foundation ($4259.66) We used a ranked-choice voting to determine the winner. 314 of you voted, and 44 of you donated (thank you!). Below you can see how many people ranked the three winners 1–10 (based on initial votes). PS - just in the nick of time, Forum users donated enough to qualify for a

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7:02

“I Donate because I am Christian” by NickLaing

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/10

And Effective Altruism has put my faith community to shame The BeginningWhen I became a Christian age 15 my life began to transform, but sadly my first external play was proclaiming no sex before marriage and saying F#$% a bit less (I’ve since resumed). Two years later at premed, Tuesday was my only night with no tutorial so I joined a church group, which was weirdly labelled “Social Justice”. I had zero clue what this was aboutt, maybe preventing bullying at school?. Our leader Jo opened with a

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5:18

“Why I donate - and why I’m committing to a dynamic...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/10

Background: I've been donating since 2018, but I only signed the giving pledge last week. Thanks to @Amalie Farestvedt 🔸 from GWWC, Anthony Wong and others for helping me with the decision. My reasons for donating Like most EAs, I want to do good, and recognize that my money can go a hell of a way to helping other people, animals, or preventing bad things from happening. I'm so grateful that there are incredibly impactful opportunities out there. But, less commonly in EA, I also think... that I

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4:56

“The funding conversation we left unfinished” by jenn

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2025/12/10

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 event soon (for example possibly IPOing sometime next year). A lot of people working in AI are familiar with EA, and are intending to direct donations our way (if they haven't started already). People are starting to discuss what this might mean for their own personal donations and for the ecosystem, and this is encouraging to see. It also has me

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4:47

“Why I donate (& pledge) - Responsibility, life...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/09

My decision to take the Giving What We Can (now the 10%) Pledge in September 2020 was based on the responsibility I felt with my great power, improving my own quality of life and the logic of it all. However, these thoughts were all quite unconscious back then and my decision to take the pledge was immediate as soon as I learned about it. To celebrate "Why I donate week" I decided to think through my reasoning, which was implicit back then, in more detail: With great power comes great

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7:25

[Linkpost] “Is EA prepared for an influx of new,...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/09

This is a link post. Let's imagine a story. I am a mid- to upper-ranking member of OpenAI or Anthropic. I offload some of my shares and wish to give some money away. If I want to give to a specific charity or Coefficient, fair enough. If I am so wealthy or determined that I can set up my own foundation, also fair enough. What do I do if I wish to give away money effectively, but don't agree with Coefficient's processes, and haven't done enough research to have chosen a specific charity? Is EA

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12:50

“How I hope the EA community will respond to the AI...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/09

Keep this post on ice and uncork it when the bubble pops. It may mean nothing to you now; I hope it means something when the time comes. This post is written with an anguished heart, from love, which is the only good reason to do anything.Blue Bay by Jack Mancino I hope that the AI bubble popping is like the FTX collapse 2.0 for effective altruism. Not because it will make funding dry up — it won't. And not because it will have any relation to moral scandal — it won't. But it will be a financial

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7:16

“On Comparative Advantage & AGI” by Charles Dillon 🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/09

Cross-posted from my substack. Epistemic status: pretty confident, but willing to believe I’ve missed something somehow, hoping somebody smart will point it out if so. Level: pretty introductory, though assumes a bit of economics knowledge - if you’ve thought carefully or extensively about this particular topic I don’t expect you to find much of it novel. Introduction In a world with advanced Artificial General Intelligence, how do non-capital owners survive if their labour is outcompeted by AI

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4:05

“Why I donate” by MoritzEA🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/08

Four years ago, I decided to donate at least 10% of my income going forward. Here are four reasons why. Any single reason below would probably be enough on its own. Together, they make this one of the clearest positive and rewarding decisions I've ever made. 1. I think it's the right thing to do I follow Peter Singer's arguments. From any consistent moral framework I can support, I end up in the same place: given the coincidence of being born in a rich country, I should be helping others

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3:03

“Online EAGs are underrated (FBB #11)” by gergo

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/08

I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while, but EA Connect gave me the final motivational push :) Many EAs I talk to seem to treat online vs. offline conferences like this: Online: “I will register and listen in for the most interesting talks, but otherwise won’t spend much time at the conference.” “I will let people book a call with me, but I won’t actively source 1-1s.” Offline: “I will book as many 1-1s as I can reasonably take (or more) to get the most out of the conference.” I think

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0:31

“A song about career planning” by Nia🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/07

I've written a song about career planning - maybe some of you can relate to it ;} You can listen (and get a fortune) here: https://www.everyonelikestobea.fish/ ---First published: December 5th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/hAd7PpCmQrBdc4Zmr/a-song-about-career-planning --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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3:14

[Linkpost] “The Conscious Nematode: Exploring...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/05

This is a link post. This is a linkpost for The Conscious Nematode: Exploring Hallmarks of Minimal Phenomenal Consciousness in Caenorhabditis Elegans by Diego Becerra, Andrea Calixto, and Patricio Orio, which was originally published on the International Journal of Psychological Research in October 2023. Below are the abstract, summary of the evidence for consciousness in Caenorhabditis (C.) elegans, and my quick thoughts. Abstract While subcellular components of cognition and aﬀectivity that

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0:31

“Peter Wildeford talks about risks from AI on the...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/05

Ronny Chieng strikes again, this time featuring Peter Wildeford and the risks from AI on the Daily Show: ---First published: December 5th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/epuSKFdGD82cxZAGd/peter-wildeford-talks-about-risks-from-ai-on-the-daily-show --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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