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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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6:27

“Reducing suffering of insects through colours of...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/31

Epistemic status: low, uncertain if this is useful Crossposted from my Substack. As part of EA Bath's Path to Impact fellowship, we are running a project where we pick a theory we have learnt from the intro fellowship, apply it to a cause area, and list some interventions we have researched that can help that cause area. Theory ITN Framework I think the ITN Framework is super important. For those who do not know what it is, it stands for Importance Tractability Neglectedness Where Importance is

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“Choose our next debate week” by Toby Tremlett🔹

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/31

As promised, here are the top ten suggestions for our next debate week. This thread will be pinned throughout the week. The statement with the highest karma when I get into work at 9am on Monday the 2nd of February, will be the subject of our debate week in March[1]. Comments (beyond those we are voting on) are disabled to make the voting easier. If you need to comment something, please do so here, or just dm me if you have feedback. Note that you are voting on the topic, not the precise wording

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23:12

“The reality of long-term EA community building:...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/30

We are Melanie and Anthony, the two community builders at EA Barcelona. In this post, we share where the group stands today and reflect on key learnings from nearly three years of grant-funded community building. We hope these reflections are useful to other community builders, funders, and CEA, particularly around what it realistically takes to build and sustain EA communities over multiple years, from funding stability and feedback loops to the personal sustainability of professional community

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2:21

“Applications Open for Impact Accelerator Program for...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/30

High Impact Professionals (HIP) is excited to announce that applications are now open for the next round of the Impact Accelerator Program (IAP). The IAP is a 6-week program, supporting experienced professionals transitioning into high-impact careers. To date, 359 people have completed the program. As a result: 76 participants have transitioned into high-impact careers—including founding new charities, starting founding-to-give companies, and joining high-impact organizations such as GiveWell,

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9:44

“Request for Proposals for AI x Animals” by Kevin Xia...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/29

TL;DR We are launching a pooled fund for projects at the AIxAnimals intersection. We are open to a broad set of ideas, but prioritize those in the following categories: Empowering Animal Advocates Strategic Field-building and Coordination Actionable Research and Strategic Foresight Applyhere by April 30th. Introduction Over the next decade, AI will increasingly shape how we produce food, manage ecosystems, and interact with animals, presenting some of the most significant risks and opportunities

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10:12

“Beware of non-evidence-based argumentation” by fergusq

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/29

Recently, many people have given increasingly short timelines for AGI. What unites many of these statements is the thorough lack of any evidence. Instead, many resort to narrative arguments, ad-hoc predictive models, and mistaken arguments. In this post, I will cover these different types of non-evidence-based arguments. I have described my views on AI risk previously in this post, which I think is still relevant. I have also laid down a basic argument against AI risk interventions in this comment

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3:18

“Rational Overconfidence: Why “Good Judgment” Fails...

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2026/01/29

TL;DR: Calibration is essential for observers but dangerous for actors. in decision-dependent environments, "accurate" forecasting creates self-fulfilling prophecies of failure. To maximize expected value, you often need to strategically break your own calibration. Effective Altruism prioritizes calibration, using metrics like Brier scores to ensure our internal maps match the territory. This "Scout Mindset" is the gold standard for Observers—those predicting events they cannot influence, like

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0:42

[Linkpost] “Remembering William Foege” by JP Addison🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/29

This is a link post. Dr. William Foege, a leader of one of humanity's greatest public health victories — the global eradication of smallpox — died Saturday. He was 89. For his efforts to eradicate smallpox, Foege was the co-winner of the 2020 Future of Life Award along with Viktor Zhdanov. ---First published: January 28th, 2026 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Q4bd6YTGgM3hhFEsB/remembering-william-foege Linkpost

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4:43

“Do your job unreasonably well” by MaxDalton

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/27

I've just started a blog about EA-org-style management, together with Brenton of 80k. You can subscribe on Substack if you like. Here's the most recent post! I think often people treat “development” as an add-on that's quite different from their work. I think it's better to have the development and the work deeply integrated. The failure mode This is how I used to approach dev goals: Pick a goal that's kinda related to your job, but not very. A common one when I worked at CEA was “learn more

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20:21

[Linkpost] “Unfalsifiable stories of doom” by Vasco...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/27

This is a link post. This is a crosspost for Unfalsifiable stories of doom by Matthew Barnett, Ege Erdil, and Tamay Besiroglu, which was originally published on Mechanize's website on 25 November 2025. Matthew Barnett, Ege Erdil, Tamay Besiroglu November 25, 2025 Our critics tell us that our work will destroy the world. We want to engage with these critics, but there is no standard argument to respond to, no single text that unifies the AI safety community. Nonetheless, while this community lacks a

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27:08

[Linkpost] “How I’m thinking about the next 3 years”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/27

This is a link post. Publicly pondering about how to spend the next 100 megaseconds before “the discontinuity". Here are some thoughts about the future, and what people like me should be doing. By people like me, I mean anyone who is: Suffering-focused: Not necessarily full neg-utilitarian black-pilled, but someone who prioritizes the elimination of (extreme) suffering as an ethical emergency above other goals. Anti-speciesist/anti-substratist: Cares strongly about non-humans, with significant

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3:25

“Killing the wasps” by Aaron Boddy🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/27

I've been pushing a moral dilemma to one side in my mind for a few months now. After Killing the ants and Killing the moths, here's the third installment in the unofficial "invertebrate trilogy." One of the bedrooms in my flat keeps getting wasps in. I think they're crawling through gaps in our old English windows. They arrive low-energy. Some fly around briefly, but mostly they just crawl up and down the glass (or along the floor) and slowly die. Sometimes I gather them up in a cup and release

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5:33

“Animal Microgrants: Request for Proposals” by Ben...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/27

Summary We’re a funding circle looking to give microgrants to promising individuals (and very small organisations) focused on farm animal advocacy. The microgrants will be around £500 to £2500 ($670 to $3300). We’re more likely to fund smaller requests, but we’ll consider exceptional opportunities up to £5000 ($6700). Applicants should expect to hear back from us by the end of March.In total, we expect to give between £15,000 ($20,000) and £43,000 ($59,000).[1] Please complete our Request for

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4:19

[Linkpost] “Aerodrop: far-UVC lamp giveaway” by Austin

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/26

This is a link post. We're giving away 100 Aerolamp DevKits, a lamp that kills germs with far-UVC. Are you sick of getting sick in your group house? Want to test out fancy new tech that may revolutionize air safety?Claim your Aerolamp What is far-UVC? Far-UVC is a specific wavelength of ultraviolet light that kills germs, while being safe to shine on human skin. You may have heard of UV disinfection, used in eg hospitals and water treatment. Unfortunately, conventional UVC light can also cause skin

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16:27

“Why I reject the longtermist argument against...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/26

I think accelerating AI is justified largely because of the enormously positive impacts I expect it to bring to billions of people alive today: faster medical developments, dramatically increased economic prosperity, and much greater product variety from technological innovation. Some have asked me: why do I focus on these short-term impacts of accelerating AI to justify my pro-acceleration view, rather than on the impacts that might occur over the upcoming billions of years? The first thing worth

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36:14

[Linkpost] “Are Short AI Timelines Really...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/26

This is a link post. This is a rough research note – we’re sharing it for feedback and to spark discussion. We’re less confident in its methods and conclusions. Summary Different strategies make sense if timelines to AGI are short than if they are long. In deciding when to spend resources to make AI go better, we should consider both: The probability of each AI timelines scenario. The expected impact, given some strategy, conditional on that timelines scenario. We’ll call the second component

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2:21

“Proposing Inkwell: “Inkhaven” for EAs” by DC

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/25

I thought it'd be cool if EA were to have its own version of Inkhaven or Halfhaven. I am writing this to gauge interest! Basics: it would be online-only, on a Discord server and take place from March 1-31. Every day, you write a blog post of at least 500 words by your timezone's midnight. You'll be in a small sub-group who provide feedback and keep each other accountable to posting, with optional coworking calls. Sign up here. If we hit 10 people, we'll go through with it. LOGISTICS Let's port

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[Linkpost] “My Career Plan: Launching Elevate...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/25

This is a link post. At this point, I am confident that philanthropy is the best area for me to work in, and I have a clearer sense of what I plan to do in the area. Broad Area: Philanthropy Over time, I have become increasingly convinced that philanthropy is the right area for me. I think this applies both broadly to many people considering impact and more specifically to me from a personal fit perspective. Broadly, I find the area exciting for a few reasons. Much like starting a charity incubator

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22:18

“Do we get automated alignment research before an AI...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/24

TLDR: Will AI-automation first speed up capabilities or safety research? I forecast that most areas of capabilities research will see a 10x speedup before safety research. This is primarily because capabilities research has clearer feedback signals and relies more on engineering than on novel insights. To change this, researchers should now build and adopt tools to automate AI Safety research, focus on creating benchmarks, model organisms, and research proposals, and companies should grant

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31:47

“Reflections on FarmKind’s January media campaign” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/24

Summary In January 2025, FarmKind ran a provocative media campaign which used controversial media messaging and materials to promote ‘offsetting’ as an option for individuals who are concerned about factory farming but are currently unwilling or unable to change their diet. The campaign raised an estimated $16,700--$59,300 (explained in our Results section below) and generated a number of media ‘hits’ including TV and created some debate that many advocates have told us they found productive

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