EA Forum Podcast (All audio)

6:14

“Cross-Cause Fund: our first distribution round” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/29

As you might know, we’ve recently launched the Rethink Priorities Cross-Cause Fund (CCF), a pooled fund that allocates donations across high-impact giving opportunities in Global Health and Development, Animal Welfare, and Global Catastrophic Risks. Thanks to generous donors and supporters, we have now completed our first distribution round, allocating more than $700,000 across the funds in our model, following its current recommended split. A quick recap The CCF exists because cross-cause

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10:30

“GWWC’s effective giving ecosystem strategy 2026/27”...

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2026/07/29

Written by Sjir Hoeijmakers (CEO) and Lucas Moore (Senior Partnerships Manager), Giving What We Can following the Effective Giving Summit 2026.The core proposition GWWC provides three public goods to the effective giving ecosystem, and these are the only ecosystem work we should take on for now: Convening: the EG Summit and Evaluators Forum Information node: the ecosystem annual pulse survey and associated update, money moved(not public) and total number of donors(not public) sheets, ecosystem

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13:59

“Updates on the effective giving ecosystem 2026” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/29

Written by Lucas Moore (Senior Partnerships Manager), Giving What We Can for the Effective Giving Summit 2026. Published with some elements redacted. This memo provides a high-level overview of the effective giving landscape as of May 2026. It builds on the memo we wrote for last year's summit (later published with some elements redacted) and is based largely on the 2026 EG pulse survey and money moved sheet (not public). Please leave a comment if you'd like us to clarify anything. All figures are

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10:43

“Never born, then maybe died twice” by NickLaing

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/28

“Your balls are baked aren’t they, mate”. He would not have been bornThanks Lyndon, that describes the situation. Like almost 1 in 10 modern men, my sperm weren’t up to the task - at least not the old fashioned way. So IVF it was - the miracle that now feels almost commonplace. We landed on the moon and Woodstock changed music forever. But in 1969 a quieter event transformed the world. The first human embryo was fertilised “In vitro”, outside the body. Yet 10 years passed before one was inserted

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10:08

“The Featured Page” by Toby Tremlett🔹

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/28

The EA Forum does a lot of things. It's a place to talk about EA community issues, share jobs, updates from organisations, ask for support with new projects, meet people etc… All of this is good, but as we all know, not all good things are equally good.One of the most impactful things the EA Forum does is enable us to have important conversations that could meaningfully shift the focus of funding and talent in the community. As EA grows, I want the Forum to maintain that function, and, indeed, get

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6:04

“Job: Executive Director of CEEALAR (EA Hotel)” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/28

TL;DR: We're hiring an Executive Director to lead CEEALAR through its most ambitious phase yet. Beyond running our existing Blackpool hotel, you'll plan and spearhead our expansion into London, including its fundraising and staffing. This is a project that is designed to 10 to 20 times our impact. We need someone who can be both a reliable custodian of what exists and a driving leader of what comes next. Full-time, £40,000-£50,000 (with significantly more contingent on successfully fundraising and

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9:18

“Moving on from the EA Forum” by Sarah Cheng 🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/27

Hello Forum friends! I'm posting today to let you know that I recently left CEA to join 80,000 Hours, as a product engineer on the Career Services Team. This means I'm no longer running the Online Team, the EA Forum, and the moderation team. I've handed the Forum and mod team to @Toby Tremlett🔹, and @Rory Fenton is leading the Online Team on an interim basis. I sat on this draft for a while. I've been at CEA for almost 5 years and it's been a wild ride — there's a lot I could write about! I didn't

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11:52

″$1 billion grant to GiveWell: How Might This Change...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/27

TL;DR The 1 billion dollars grant from Coefficient Giving to GiveWell is very exciting and will improve the lives of millions. Is it a change in the equilibrium of funding for implementation organisations within the cost-effectiveness focused global health and development space? I argue that it could be and share some thoughts of what the implications of that may mean. Disclosure: I am the CEO of Fortify Health, an organisation that has received funding from GiveWell. I also sit on the Governance

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4:05

“The Long (Self-)Correction” by Wei Dai

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/27

I propose the Long Self-Correction[1] as an alternative name/idea/concept to AI Pause and Long Reflection. Problem with AI Pause: Pause until when, and for what purpose? Presumably to make AI (that we'll build later) safer, but the deeper problem is that humans aren't safe, and can't safely serve as builders, overseers, or alignment targets for powerful AIs. Problem with Long Reflection: It seems to imply that the main problem with humans is that we just haven't had enough time to think, that

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4:50

“Amsterdam Insect Protest” by Bentham’s Bulldog

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/26

(Please share with your friends in the Netherlands). On August 5, in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, there's a protest that could help shut down the world's largest insect farm. It's at Teleportboulevard 105 1043 EJ Amsterdam, Netherlands. Read more at this link. There's also a zoom call on Wednesday 29th July at 12:30pm (CEST) with more info. This is a super important protest, so if you’re in the Netherlands, please show up! This single farm, Protix, raises tens of billions of farmed insects

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3:40

“Coefficient Giving just gave GiveWell $1 billion....

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/25

Linkpost for my Substack piece, lightly adapted. Disagreement very welcome. What happened Coefficient Giving (cG) announced a $1 billion gift to GiveWell on 23rd July. This increases a previous commitment of 175 million dollars for 2026. cG say this could be a one-off surge, but it has implications for other donors either way. Both organisations have lowered their funding thresholds this year (GiveWell from 8x their benchmark to 6x, Coefficient from 2,000x their benchmark to 1,000x). Even if

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21:03

“Two Coefficient Givings beat one twice as big” by...

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2026/07/24

Why the AI windfall should build new grantmakers, not just bigger ones Originally published at my Funding Anthropalypse Substack. Imagine you could live in one of two worlds in 2027. In the first, Coefficient Giving is twice as big. In the second, there are two Coefficient Givings of the same size. Which seems better to you? Having considered it for a while, I would choose the second world. Put plainly, two Coefficient Givings beat one twice as big. I think the potential $37bn+ AI windfall is a

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18:05

“So you want to start something for animals: a map of...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/23

Tl;dr: A few years ago, if you wanted to found an animal advocacy organisation, there was basically one incubator. Now there are at least nine programs, plus several adjacent accelerators, and the hard part has shifted from finding support to choosing the right kind. This post maps the main options across focus, format, funding, and fit, so you can spend your energy on your idea rather than on decoding the landscape. AI disclosure: I asked Claude to research the current programs and draft the

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14:30

“Introducing Impact List: a ranking of...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/23

TL;DR: I'm releasing a website that ranks philanthropists according to EA principles and research, and allows users to re-rank the list using their own assumptions. I'd like feedback and help making it better. I'd especially like ideas for how to make the results more trustworthy. Funding may be available. I recently built Impact List (impactlist.xyz), a site which ranks people by their positive impact via donations. The goal is to make the list popular enough that people care about their ranking

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48:50

“The current bottleneck is political will, not...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/23

Motivation: If we want to move from Plan D to Plan A or S, I believe the first step is to collectively agree on the problem. We are far from it, and there is a lot we can do. Abstract: We already know enough to act.I wish we were in a world where research was the bottleneck, but the main constraint on AI safety is no longer a shortage of clever policy ideas: best practices already exist and are not being applied or enforced, and a serious international (or even just national) regulatory regime

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3:59

“Marginal Victories: career advising and...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/21

TL;DR: Marginal Victories is a new initiative to provide 1:1 career advising, opportunities, and resources for people exploring high-leverage U.S. democracy preservation and political work. Built by impact-oriented people doing pro-democracy work, the early MVP is now up at marginalvictories.org. Fill out the 10-minute form now to receive these resources as they become available over the next few weeks. Why this should exist Over the past year, through 1:1 conversations I’ve had with people

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4:01

“Marginal Victories: career advising and...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/21

TL;DR: Marginal Victories is a new initiative to provide 1:1 career advising, opportunities, and resources for people exploring high-leverage U.S. democracy preservation and political work. Built by impact-oriented people doing pro-democracy work, the early MVP is now up at marginalvictories.org. Fill out the 10-minute form now to receive these resources as they become available over the next few weeks. Why this should exist Over the past year, through 1:1 conversations I’ve had with people

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4:00

“Marginal Victories: career advising and...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/21

TL;DR: Marginal Victories is a new initiative to provide 1:1 career advising, opportunities, and resources for people exploring high-leverage U.S. democracy preservation and political work. Built by impact-oriented people doing pro-democracy work, the early MVP is now up at marginalvictories.org. Fill out the 10-minute form now to receive these resources as they become available over the next few weeks. Why this should exist Over the past year, through 1:1 conversations I’ve had with people

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1:35

“Free, client-funded daily 1:1 accountability...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/21

Hi everyone! I'm Guillermo, and I work with GoalsWon. We run a pro bono program: for every paying client we take on, we open a free spot for someone in the high-impact community (the paid side directly funds the giving-back side). Over the years, we've coached hundreds of people in AI safety, animal welfare, and global health, and we're opening up more spots now. How it works: You get a real human coach (not a bot!) doing daily check-ins on your goals (work, study, or personal), plus a monthly

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5:16

“I’m stepping down as Hive’s Executive Director, and...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/21

Tl;dr: After four years, I'm stepping down as ED of Hive to found a new organization in the movement. Hive is hiring its next Executive Director. Applications close August 9. Apply here or attend our webinar on July 30 to learn more. Why I'm stepping down This was not an easy decision. I love this team and this job and have greatly enjoyed founding and leading Hive over the last 4 years. Hive is in the strongest position it has ever been. That is exactly why now is the right time. As funding flows

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