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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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12:46

[Linkpost] “Why I’m still going out to bat for the EA...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/09/30

This is a link post. From the looks of it, next week might be rough for people who care about Effective Altruism. As CEA acting CEO Ben West pointed out on the forum: “Sam Bankman-Fried's trial is scheduled to start October 3, 2023, and Michael Lewis's book about FTX comes out the same day. My hope and expectation is that neither will be focused on EA … Nonetheless, I think there's a decent chance that viewing the Forum, Twitter, or news media could become stressful for some people, and you may want

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12:46

[Linkpost] “Why I’m still going out to bat for the EA...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/09/30

This is a link post. From the looks of it, next week might be rough for people who care about Effective Altruism. As CEA acting CEO Ben West pointed out on the forum: “Sam Bankman-Fried's trial is scheduled to start October 3, 2023, and Michael Lewis's book about FTX comes out the same day. My hope and expectation is that neither will be focused on EA … Nonetheless, I think there's a decent chance that viewing the Forum, Twitter, or news media could become stressful for some people, and you may want

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6:31

“Open Philanthropy is hiring for multiple roles...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/09/29

It's been another busy year at Open Philanthropy; after nearly doubling the size of our team in 2022, we’ve added over 30 new team members so far in 2023. Now we’re launching a number of open applications for roles in all of our Global Catastrophic Risks (GCR) cause area teams (AI Governance and Policy, Technical AI Safety, Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness, GCR Cause Prioritization, and GCR Capacity Building[1]).The application, job descriptions, and general team information are available

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1:23

“Our tofu book has launched!! (Upvote on Amazon)” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/09/27

As some of you know, I’m working on growing the US market for Chinese tofus. I believe it could be a way to significantly reduce animal suffering, while shifting American dining culture. We just launched our book - Broken Cuisine - which introduces five of these tofus to Western home cooks. The goal is to spark curiosity and demand for these ingredients, so that we can convince retailers to carry them.Do you have five minutes right now to take an action?Download our FREE e-book on Amazon. (If

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15:14

[Linkpost] “GWWC’s new community strategy” by Giving...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/09/26

I’m extremely excited to announce the launch of our new community strategy that aims to connect our existing community better, and inspire more people to join us – I’ve been working on this for the past few months and am thrilled to finally share it! Over the almost two years I’ve been working with Giving What We Can, I’ve seen how important our community is — whether it's a supportive network to ask questions, a friendly face in a new city, or a shared sense that none of us are alone in wanting to

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13:14

“Net global welfare may be negative and declining” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/09/26

OverviewThe total moral value of the world includes humans as well as all other beings of moral significance. As such, a picture of the overall trajectory of net global welfare that accounts for both human and non-human populations is important context for thinking about the future on any timescale, and about the potential impacts of transformative technologies.There's compelling evidence that life has gotten better for humans recently, but the same can’t be said for other animals, especially given

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1:56

“AMA: Andy Weber (U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/09/26

Andy Weber was the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical & Biological Defense Programs from 2009 to 2014. He's now a senior fellow at the Council on Strategic Risks. You might also know him from his appearance on the 80,000 Hours Podcast. Ask him anything![1]He’ll try to answer some questions on Friday, September 29 (afternoon, Eastern Time), and might get to some earlier. I (Lizka) am particularly excited that Andy can share his experience in nuclear (and other kinds of)

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1:54

[Linkpost] “New page on animal welfare on Our World...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/09/25

Our team at Our World in Data just launched a new page on animal welfare! There you can find a brand new Animal Welfare Data Explorer, 22 interactive charts, and 4 new articles:How many animals get slaughtered every day?How many animals are factory-farmed?Do better cages or cage-free environments really improve the lives of hens?Adopting slower-growing breeds of chicken would reduce animal suffering significantlyOn Our World in Data, we cover many topics related to reducing human suffering:

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33:01

“Two Years of Shrimp Welfare Project: Insights and...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/09/25

Summary Shrimp Welfare Project launched in Sep 2021, via the Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program. We aim to reduce the suffering of billions of farmed shrimps. This post summarises our work to date, what we plan to work on going forward, and clarifies areas where we’re not focusing our attention. This post was written to coincide with the launch of our new (Shr)Impact page on our website. We have four broad workstreams: corporate engagement, farmer support, research, and raising issue

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32:03

“Two Years of Shrimp Welfare Project: Insights and...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/09/25

SummaryShrimp Welfare Project launched in Sep 2021, via the Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program. We aim to reduce the suffering of billions of farmed shrimps. This post summarises our work to date, what we plan to work on going forward, and clarifies areas where we’re not focusing our attention. This post was written to coincide with the launch of our new (Shr)Impact page on our website.We have four broad workstreams: corporate engagement, farmer support, research, and raising issue

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12:42

“Monetary and social incentives in longtermist...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/09/23

In this post I talk about several strong non-epistemic incentives and issues that can influence people to pursue longtermist[1]career paths (and specifically x-risk reduction careers and AI safety[2]) for EA community members.For what it's worth, I personally I am sympathetic to longtermism, and to people who want to create more incentives for longtermist careers, because of the high urgency some assign to AI Safety and the fact that longtermism is a relatively new field. I am currently running

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3:06

“Debate series: should we push for a pause on the...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/09/23

In March of this year, 30,000 people, including leading AI figures like Yoshua Bengio and Stuart Russell, signed a letter calling on AI labs to pause the training of AI systems. While it seems unlikely that this letter will succeed in pausing the development of AI, it did draw substantial attention to slowing AI as a strategy for reducing existential risk.While initial work has been done on this topic (this sequence links to some relevant work), many areas of uncertainty remain. I’ve asked a group

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1:27

“Will MacAskill has stepped down as trustee of EV UK”...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/09/21

Earlier today, Will MacAskill stepped down from the board of Effective Ventures UK[1], having served as a trustee since its founding more than a decade ago. Will has been intending to step down for several months and announced his intention to do so earlier this year. Will had initially planned to remain on the board until we brought on additional trustees to replace him. However, given that our trustee recruitment process has taken longer than anticipated, and given also that Will continues to be

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24:50

“The Case for AI Safety Advocacy to the Public” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/09/20

tl;dr: Advocacy to the public is a large and neglected opportunity to advance AI Safety. AI Safety as a field is unfamiliar with advocacy, and it has reservations, some founded and others not. A deeper understanding of the dynamics of social change reveals the promise of pursuing outside game strategies to complement the already strong inside game strategies. I support an indefinite global Pause on frontier AI and I explain why Pause AI is a good message for advocacy. Because I’m American and

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3:40

“My life would be much harder without the Community...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/09/19

I don't have much time to get into this, but I heard rumblings, saw a post, and wrote a comment, and now I'm making a post of my own because this information feels worth spreading now. I will not be going into much more details, for reasons that should be obvious.For those that don't know me, I'm a therapist who has been working in the community for about 5 years now, and has been almost exclusively working with the community since early 2020, though I've been scaling down my therapy practice to

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1:44

“Relationship between EA Community and AI safety” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/09/18

Personal opinion only. Inspired by filling out the Meta coordination forum survey. Epistemic status: Very uncertain, rough speculation. I’d be keen to see more public discussion on this questionOne open question about the EA community is it's relationship to AI safety (see e.g. MacAskill). I think the relationship EA and AI safety (+ GHD & animal welfare) previously looked something like this (up until 2022ish):With the growth of AI safety, I think the field now looks something like this:It's an

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27:41

[Linkpost] “Map of the biosecurity landscape (list of...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/09/17

When talking to newcomers to the field of biosecurity, I often felt annoyed that there wasn't a single introductory resource I could point them to that gives an overview of all the biosecurity-relevant organizations, upskilling opportunities, and funders. With the help of a lot of contributors, I started this Google doc to provide such a resource. I'm sure that we missed some relevant organizations, and it'd be lovely if some people were to comment on the doc with additional information!I'll copy

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“AI Pause Will Likely Backfire” by nora

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/09/16

Should we lobby governments to impose a moratorium on AI research? Since we don’t enforce pauses on most new technologies, I hope the reader will grant that the burden of proof is on those who advocate for such a moratorium. We should only advocate for such heavy-handed government action if it's clear that the benefits of doing so would significantly outweigh the costs.[1] In this essay, I’ll argue an AI pause would increase the risk of catastrophically bad outcomes, in at least three different

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12:27

“Mistakes, flukes, and good calls I made in my...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/09/15

I’m Catherine, and I'm one of the Community Liaisons working in CEA's Community Health and Special Projects Team. This is a personal post about my career. I’m somewhat to the right of the main age peak of the EA community😬 .So I’ve had a lot of time to make mistakes sub-optimal choices in my career. It has been a long and odd road from my childhood/teenage dream jobs (train driver, Department of Conservation ranger, vet and then physicist) to where I am now.Train I planned to drive. Endangered

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11:17

“Mistakes, flukes, and good calls I made in my...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/09/15

I’m Catherine, and I'm one of the Community Liaisons working in CEA's Community Health and Special Projects Team. This is a personal post about my career. I’m somewhat to the right of the main age peak of the EA community😬 .So I’ve had a lot of time to make mistakes sub-optimal choices in my career. It has been a long and odd road from my childhood/teenage dream to become a train driver, Department of Conservation ranger, vet and then physicist.Train I planned to drive. Endangered parrot I planned

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