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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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89:35

“Shrimp: The animals most commonly used and killed...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/09/10

Citation: Romero Waldhorn, D., & Autric, E. (2022, December 21). Shrimp: The animals most commonly used and killed for food production. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/b8n3t SummaryDecapod crustaceans or, for short, decapods[1](e.g., crabs, shrimp, or crayfish) represent a major food source for humans across the globe. If these animals are sentient, the growing decapod production industry likely poses serious welfare concerns for these animals.Information about the number of decapods used for

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2:28

“An Incomplete List of Things I Think EAs Probably...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/09/08

There has already been ample discussion of what norms and taboos should exist in the EA community, especially over the past ten months. Below, I'm sharing an incomplete list of actions and dynamics I would strongly encourage EAs and EA organizations to either strictly avoid or treat as warranting a serious—and possibly ongoing—risk analysis.I believe there is a reasonable risk should EAs:Live with coworkers, especially when there is a power differential and especially when there is a direct report

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55:54

“Sharing Information About Nonlinear” by Ben Pace

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/09/07

Epistemic status: Once I started actively looking into things, much of my information in the post below came about by a search for negative information about the Nonlinear cofounders, not from a search to give a balanced picture of its overall costs and benefits. I think standard update rules suggest not that you ignore the information, but you think about how bad you expect the information would be if I selected for the worst, credible info I could share, and then update based on how much worse (or

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2:37

“Nick Beckstead is leaving the Effective Ventures...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/09/06

On 23rd August, Nick Beckstead stepped down from the boards of Effective Ventures UK and Effective Ventures US.For context, EV UK and EV US host and fiscally sponsor several (mostly EA-related) projects, such as CEA, 80,000 Hours and various others (see more here).Since November 2022, Nick has been recused from all board matters related to the collapse of FTX. Over time, it became clear that Nick’s recusal made it difficult for him to add sufficient value to EV and its projects for it to be worth

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25:09

[Linkpost] “What I would do if I wasn’t at ARC Evals”...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/09/06

In which: I list 9 projects that I would work on if I wasn’t busy working on safety standards at ARC Evals, and explain why they might be good to work on. Epistemic status: I’m prioritizing getting this out fast as opposed to writing it carefully. I’ve thought for at least a few hours and talked to a few people I trust about each of the following projects, but I haven’t done that much digging into each of these, and it’s likely that I’m wrong about many material facts. I also make little claim to

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4:47

“Want to make a difference on policy and governance?...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/09/05

I sometimes get a vibe that many people trying to ambitiously do good in the world (including EAs) are misguided about what doing successful policy/governance work looks like. An exaggerated caricature would be activities like: dreaming up novel UN structures, spending time in abstract game theory and ‘strategy spirals[1]’, and sweeping analysis of historical case studies.Instead, people that want to make the world safer with policy/governance should become experts on very specific and boring

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11:41

“Who Is a Good Fit for a Career in Nonprofit...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/09/04

TLDR: This post is part of a sequence we’ve prepared for the Career Conversations Week on the EA Forum. This article provides a concise overview of the traits that Charity Entrepreneurship deems most valuable for a career in nonprofit entrepreneurship. We intend to provide you with a deeper understanding of our criteria when evaluating applications for our Incubation Program. Additionally, we hope this post assists you in self-assessing whether this career path aligns with your aspirations and

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13:25

“The Lives We Can Save” by Omnizoid

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/09/03

I work as a Resident Assistant at my college. Last year, only a few weeks into me starting, I was called at night to come help with a drunk student. I didn’t actually help very much, and probably didn’t have to be there. I didn’t even have to write up the report at the end. At one point I went outside to let medical services into the building, but mostly I just stood in a hallway.The person in question was so drunk they couldn’t move. They had puked in the bathroom and were lying in the hallway

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2:14

“Should I patent my cultivated meat method?” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/09/01

Congrats on having invented something exciting! Usually, the best way to get innovative new technology into the hands of beneficiaries quickly is to get a for-profit company to invest with a promise of making money. This can happen via licensing a patent to an existing manufacturer, or creating a whole startup company and raising venture capital, etc. One of the things such investors want to see is a 'moat': something that this company can do that no other company can easily copy. A patent/exclusive

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8:00

“Learning from our mistakes: how HLI plans to...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/09/01

Hi folks, in this post we’d like to describe our views as the Chair (Peter) and Director (Michael) of HLI in light of the recent conversations around HLI’s work. The purpose of this post is to reflect on HLI’s work and its role within the EA community in response to community member feedback, highlight what we’re doing about it, and engage in further constructive dialogue on how HLI can improve moving forward. HLI hasn’t always got things right. Indeed, we think there have been some noteworthy

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53:41

[Classic post] “In defence of epistemic modesty” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/08/31

This piece defends a strong form of epistemic modesty: that, in most cases, one should pay scarcely any attention to what you find the most persuasiv… --- First published: October 29th, 2017 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/WKPd79PESRGZHQ5GY/in-defence-of-epistemic-modesty --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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67:08

“In defence of epistemic modesty” by Gregory Lewis

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/08/31

This piece defends a strong form of epistemic modesty: that, in most cases, one should pay scarcely any attention to what you find the most persuasive view on an issue, hewing instead to an idealized consensus of experts. I start by better pinning down exactly what is meant by ‘epistemic modesty’, go on to offer a variety of reasons that motivate it, and reply to some common objections. Along the way, I show common traps people being inappropriately modest fall into. I conclude that modesty is a

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13:40

“Progress report on CEA’s search for a new CEO” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/08/31

Progress report on CEA’s search for a new CEOI[1] wanted to give an update on the Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA)’s search for a new CEO.We (Claire Zabel, Max Dalton, and Michelle Hutchinson) were appointed by the Effective Ventures boards to lead this search and make a recommendation to the boards. The committee is advised by James Snowden, Caitlin Elizondo, and one experienced executive working outside EA. We previously announced the search and asked for community input in this post.Note, we

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11:37

“Preliminary Analysis of Intervention to Reduce Lead...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/08/29

Pure Earth is a GiveWell Grantee dedicated to reducing lead exposure in low- and middle-income countries. In collaboration with Stanford University and the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), a preliminary cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) was performed to assess the effectiveness of an intervention in Bangladesh. The CEA presents an encouraging outlook, with a cost per disability-adjusted life year (DALY)-equivalent averted estimated at just under US$1. As

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13:30

[Classic post] “Integrity for consequentialists” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/08/28

For most people I don't think it's important to have a really precise definition of integrity. But if you really want to go all-in on consequentialis… --- First published: November 14th, 2016 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CfcvPBY9hdsenMHCr/integrity-for-consequentialists-1 --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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10:43

“How much do EAGs cost (and why)?” by Eli_Nathan

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/08/26

TL;DR: EAGs from 2022–2023 each cost around $2M–$3.6M USD at around $1.5k–2.5k per person per event.These events typically cost a lot because the fixed costs of running professional events in the US and UK are surprisingly high.We’re aiming to get these event costs down to ≤$2M each moving forwards.We’ve already started to cut back on spending and will continue to do so, whilst also raising default ticket prices to recoup more of our costs.Throughout this post, for legibility I discuss the direct

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61:26

“Nuclear winter - Reviewing the evidence, the...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/08/25

Nuclear winter is a topic that many have heard about, but where significant confusion can occur. I certainly knew little about the topic beyond the superficial prior to working on nuclear issues, and getting up to speed with the recent research is not trivial. Even then there are very large uncertainties around the topic, and different teams have come to different conclusions, which are unlikely to be resolved soon. However, this does not mean that we cannot draw some conclusions on nuclear winter

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21:30

“Empowering Numbers: FEM since 2021” by hhart,...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/08/23

∼250,000 new contraceptive users, ∼20 million new listeners and up to ∼60x cost effectivenessTL;DR:In 2021, FEM launched our pilot: a 3-month family planning radio campaign, educating listeners about maternal health and effective contraception. Our ads and shows played up to 860 times in Kano state in northern Nigeria, reaching ~5.6 million. An independent survey showed that in 11 months, contraceptive use increased by ~75% among all women in the state. Since then, we launched a 9-month campaign,

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65:46

“Impact obsession: Feeling like you never do enough...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/08/23

SummaryImpact obsessionis a potentially unhelpful way of relating to doing good which we’ve observed among effectivealtruists, including ourselves. (More)What do we mean by impact obsession?One can distinguish unhealthyand healthyforms of impact obsession. (More)Common characteristics include an overwhelming desire for doing the most good one can do, basing one’s self-worth on one’s own impact, judging it by increasingly demanding standards (“impact treadmill”), overexerting oneself, neglecting or

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