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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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6:21

[Linkpost] “Request for Proposals: Effective Careers”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/17

This is a link post. We are excited to announce a new Request for Proposals (RFP) for effective career organizations, defined as initiatives devoted to providing mentorship, advice, and opportunities to help people pursue highly impactful careers. Through this RFP, we aim to identify and support additional efforts in the effective careers space and streamline the application process for potential grantees. Motivation The Effective Giving & Careers program supports a variety of effective career

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32:32

“How to not do decision theory backwards” by Anthony...

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2026/03/17

(Subtitle: “And ethics, and epistemology, and…”. Cross-posted from my Substack.) We want to make decisions for good reasons. But I worry some common approaches to decision theory stray from this purpose. They start with a bottom-line verdict, “I should choose this action”, then use this verdict to justify claims about how to make decisions. While I feel sympathetic to this move at times, I ultimately think it's backwards. And embedding such a move within a more nuanced methodology, like reflective

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0:26

“Peter Thiel is actively convincing billionaires to...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/17

Article in Fortune by Jake Angelo: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/peter-thiel-actively-convincing-billionaires-174212328.html ---First published: March 17th, 2026 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/h4r4dw6rjMizifk8E/peter-thiel-is-actively-convincing-billionaires-to-abandon --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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0:26

“Peter Thiel is actively convincing billionaires to...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/17

Article in Fortune by Jake Angelo: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/peter-thiel-actively-convincing-billionaires-174212328.html --- First published: March 17th, 2026 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/h4r4dw6rjMizifk8E/peter-thiel-is-actively-convincing-billionaires-to-abandon --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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17:18

[Linkpost] “Going Bigger: How We’re Scaling Effective...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/16

This is a link post. Overview The mission of the Effective Giving & Careers fund at Coefficient Giving is to support people to have a greater positive impact through their donations and careers. We launched the program in 2022. Since then, we’ve made over 60 grants totaling >$30m across four main areas: Effective Giving: Raising funds for highly cost-effective global health and development programs Talent: Helping people transition into impactful careers Incubation: Launching new high-impact

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14:44

“Criticisms of What We Owe The Future” by James Brobin

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/16

This is a crosspost from my blog post. In this post, I’m going to offer a series of criticisms of William MacAskill's What We Owe The Future (or WWOTF for short.) It has been almost four years since the book was released, but I still think it's worth criticizing since it remains a foundational text for longtermism. (For those who don’t know, longtermism is the view that working to positively shape the far future is a key moral priority of our time.) In the first section of this post, I will offer

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6:27

“Brain Farming is No Longer Hypothetical” by Novel...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/16

Background On March 10th, 2026, DayOne announced that it will build biological data centers in Singapore and Melbourne. "Biological" here means that the computational infrastructure will involve live human neurons grown on silicon chips, maintained by life support systems that keep the cells alive through nutrient delivery and waste removal. Human brain cells are efficient information processors, and it is not surprising that commercial interests have begun to take notice. Cortical Labs, the

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7:27

“GHD discussion here is slowly dying” by NickLaing

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2026/03/15

Epistemic status: A bit sad (I know that's not an epistemic status) The best development Forum on the internet? 3 years ago a headline “FTX SBF blah blah blah” triggered my memory “oh that's right, that effective altruism thing”. A few years earlier I had read “Doing Good Better” in our Northern Ugandan hut, and was excited by how the ideas matched my experience of seeing the BINGOs [1] on the ground here doing not-much-good at all. Soon after my wife dragged me to Cambridge for a year and I

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18:42

“You need user buy-in to scale your impact” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/15

Core premise: for many impact-focused programs, it's not enough to have a plausible theory of change; you also need buy-in from your users. All products/interventions have users, even if they’re not your intended beneficiaries. Successfully meeting real user needs is usually a necessary (but not sufficient) condition for scaling a cost-effective program; users who are bought-in are more likely to follow through with the recommended high-impact actions, and programs with strong demand can scale more

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13:17

“Electrical stunning does not yet ensure prolonged...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/13

This post is a summary of our literature review of seabream, seabass, and small rainbow trout electrical stunning studies, which you can find on RP's website. It was cross-posted from our Substack. Rainbow trout, gilthead seabream, and European seabass are the top three most farmed fish species in Europe, by number of individual fish. We estimate that ~400 million gilthead seabream, ~200 million European seabass, and ~200 million small rainbow trout were slaughtered for European consumption in

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6:27

“Incoming money, integrity, and collective action...

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2026/03/13

EA has been an unusually high-trust community. This has pros and cons. That trust comes with a lot of what makes EA great: people are unusually likely to help each other if they think it will be good overall, reports can discuss with managers whether they should leave for another job, and grantees can be unusually frank with grantmakers. As discussions grow on the forum about Anthropic employees potentially donating large amounts of equity to EA charities, I want to discuss below a few risks I

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10:34

“Make Cruelty Unprofitable Again” by LewisBollard

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/13

Note: This post was crossposted from the Coefficient Giving Farm Animal Welfare Research Newsletter by the Forum team, with the author's permission. The author may not see or respond to comments on this post. Subtitle: How to crack the cruelty collective action problem Last month, eight large UK fast food chains — including KFC, Nando's, and Burger King — scrapped their pledges to adopt higher-welfare chicken standards under the Better Chicken Commitment. They blamed supply shortages, demand

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7:47

“Your outreach is written for people who already...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/12

A few months ago I was talking to a software engineer at Google. On paper, a dream job. But she was frustrated. She felt like she wasn't contributing enough to the world and was seriously considering putting her engineering career aside to go study psychology. A whole decade-long academic track, starting from scratch. I told her there are actually many ways to create a massive impact with exactly the technical background she already has. So I sent her to read about it on the EA websites. She landed

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6:56

“GiveWell’s 2025 Grantmaking: Record Grants, Expanded...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/12

This post was originally published on the GiveWell blog. You can view the original version here. In our 2025 grantmaking year, GiveWell approved $418 million in grants to highly cost-effective programs in order to save and improve lives as much as we can. Through years of deliberate groundwork, we’ve been growing our research capacity and scope in order to direct substantially more funding to the most impactful opportunities we can find. Last year's grantmaking reflects this growth, and we will be

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4:09

“We do not live by course alone” by Joe Rogero

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/12

In my occasional advising calls with aspiring AI Safety folks, one of the most common questions I get is “What courses should I take next?” I often find myself replying: “None; go do stuff instead.” Fabricando fit faber. By making, one becomes a maker. There are a lot of courses in AI safety and governance. I’ve helped teach a few. Some are quite good! But after the tenth or twentieth person tells me “I’ve read If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies and taken BlueDot's AGI Strategy and the CAIS AI

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20:30

“What I didn’t expect about being a funder” by JamesÖz 🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/11

Crossposted from my blog I am very fortunate to have my job in many ways – I get to talk to, learn from, and give money to amazing people and nonprofits all around the world. I get to allocate a modest amount of resources to incredible organisations that I think are doing some of the best work to improve the world. I don’t have to fundraise for my or my team's salaries anymore. However, there are some things I’ve learned since becoming a philanthropic grantmaker that were either surprising or

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7:19

“New Video: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/11

If you just want a link to the video, watch it here!What's AI in Context? AI in Context is 80,000 Hours’ Video Program's YouTube channel, hosted by Aric Floyd. We’re trying to do high production documentary storytelling about transformative AI and its risks. You can see our retrospective on our first two videos here.Why this topic? We loved making our first two videos. We’re Not Ready for Superintelligence recently crossed 10M views, and our video about MechaHitler crossed 3M. But when we

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17:07

“The joys of cash benchmarking” by ozymandias

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/10

I. Imagine you run a charity which gives cows to people in the developing world. Your new boyfriend is a statistician and you want to impress him, so you’ve decided to look into this Monitoring and Evaluation thing he keeps going on about. So you give a bunch of people cows and then follow up a year later, and sure enough the people you gave the cows to are richer, healthier, and happier. You proudly tell this to your boyfriend and expect to reap rewards in the form of admiration, cuddles, and a

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41:49

“The case for AI safety capacity-building work” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/10

I work on the capacity-building team on the Global Catastrophic Risks-half of Coefficient Giving (formerly known as Open Philanthropy). Our remit is, roughly, to increase the amount of talent aiming to prevent unprecedented, globally catastrophic events. These days, we’re mostly focused on AI, and we’ve funded a number of projects and grantees that readers of this post might be familiar with– including MATS, BlueDot Impact, Constellation, 80,000 Hours, CEA, the Curve, FAR.AI's events, university

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21:00

“Recreation of EA-Pioneer Igor Kiriluk” by turchin

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/03/09

On 3 September 2022, Igor Kiriluk suddenly died (see EA Forum obituary). He was a great communicator and organized the first Moscow EA meetup. He had been active in the transhumanist scene since 2003 and even attracted the founders of KrioRus to transhumanism. He worked as community glue and visited every meetup. On 5 January 2026, his closest friend Veter (Sergey Kamenev) had a dream that Igor's sideload (a mind-model based on an LLM) was created and that Igor calls him and suggests they celebrate

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