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5:41

“Locking myself into a room until I donate €1M.” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/20

Disclaimer: While the ideas and content are my own, I used AI to improve the writing, style, and grammar. Can relentless obsession turn into €1,000,000 worth of good? That is the question I am determined to answer for myself. Until I reach my goal of earning and donating €1,000,000, I will, figuratively speaking, lock myself in my room and dedicate nearly all of my waking hours to my full-time job and building my “founding to give” business alongside it. I must admit that this is not an original

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13:19

“If you’re agentic, work in biosecurity” by...

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2026/07/19

Disclaimer: Although I work on the Groups Team at CEA, I’m writing this in a personal capacity, and this post does not constitute an endorsement by CEA. Agency - the realisation that you really can just do things. TL;DR Biosecurity needs people (of any background) who are agentic and have a high execution velocity and track record. The field is ready to absorb individuals who feel a heroic responsibility to build teams and start organisations that own key ecosystem gaps. You do not need a

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34:42

“A Complete Overview of Our AI Safety Talent...

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2026/07/18

Summary Making AI safe and good requires many people to be ready to address crucial problems. However, our current “pipelines” for finding, training, and accelerating talented individuals who could work on these problems are “leaky”, meaning there are many ways they can be improved. This post shows my full overview of the AI safety talent pipeline: where people come from, where they go to learn more, and why this is impactful. I also describe some “leaks” in the pipeline: stages that are

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8:16

“Help us launch AI safety university groups by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/17

TL;DR University groups are among the most reliable producers of AI safety talent, yet dozens of top schools that could sustain a group don't have one. We're launching the AI Safety Seeding Initiative (aisafetyseeding.org) in partnership with Kairos to identify latent founders at these schools, support them in the group's earliest stages, and prepare them to apply to Pathfinder and launch this fall. You can help us find potential founders. If you know a student at a strong university without an

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1:27

“announcing High Impact Aliens” by tzukitchan

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2026/07/17

highimpactaliens.com - "80K advising calls" but for 30min debugging US visa work-authorization challenges, and an accountability support group. goals: help EAs and AIS folks over 30min advisory calls to quickly know their options to work in the USA, navigate the confusion (and frustration). connect them to a Signal groupchat community consisting of people who have gone thru the process how you can help: please spread widely to your org's HR / People Ops team or people who are going through

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10:36

“How (not) to fundraise from Anthropic staff” by Jack...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/16

Adapted from my Substack, Funding Anthropalypse. Short version: if you want a share of the coming Anthropic and OpenAI windfall - the $37bn+ that could be in play next year - the way in is to become 'legibly excellent', so the evaluators and donors that frontier lab staff already trust point them to you. The way to blow it is to cold email them. Despite previous attempts to discourage it, this is still happening, and EA needs to do better on this as a community. Someone in a WhatsApp group recently

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1:26

“My TED Talk on ending childhood lead poisoning is...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/15

This week is a big one for the lead poisoning community. The TED Talk I gave in April about lead poisoning just went live, and it's nearly at 100,000 views. Watch it here: In the talk, I describe a crisis affecting more than one billion children, the toll it takes on their health and futures, and the main sources of exposure. Most importantly, I share our path to solving it. This momentum did not evolve by itself. The EA community was among the first to recognize lead poisoning as both important

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17:01

“Spiro: an update 2.5 years on and a fundraising ask...

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2026/07/15

Summary Back in November 2023 I posted here to launch Spiro and raise our first 198 thousand dollars. Two and a half years later this is an update and a fundraiser for the next step. The short version: we've now reached over-5,900 people with TB preventive medicine, including over 3,000 children under five years old. Our early results have held up well and GiveWell made us a grant last year. Now there's an urgent opportunity in front of us: US funding for community TB contact tracing across half of

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12:48

“The “third wave” of philanthropy needs a new...

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2026/07/15

Cross-posting from Substack. It's written for a broad audience not necessarily familiar with effective giving or altruism, so some of it may be a bit introductory for an EA audience. That said, I expect most of the points and examples will be new (and hopefully useful) to many. Can we do better than traditional philanthropy and impact investing? Nan Ransohoff argues that AI wealth is about to bring a “third wave” of tens of billions of dollars a year into philanthropy, and that we’ll need many more

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6:44

“The EA Opportunities Board now has full-time roles”...

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2026/07/13

The Effective Altruism Opportunities board now lists full-time roles alongside internships, fellowships, and volunteering opportunities. We’re aiming for it to be a curated home for EA opportunities across all cause areas. If you’re actively looking for a role you might want to check out the board, and if you’re only passively looking you might want to sign up for the newsletter to get a weekly digest of impactful roles. History The Effective Altruism Opportunities Board was originally aimed at

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28:38

“Thresholds for funding existential risk...

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2026/07/13

This is some very old work I never published in the EA forum; publishing it now because I want to add it to my Estimating value series, mark the end of an era & reference it elsewhere. I don't think I could produce this work today since I've lost the youthful innocence to think it'd be worth the effort given the idosyncrasies of funding institutions. Thanks to SoGive for commissioning this piece a few years ago; you can see the original here. 1. Review of estimation strategies The following are

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26:22

“Counting animals: Stable population size is not...

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2026/07/13

AI Use Note: Main body text entirely human written. Claude (Opus 4.8) helped develop models of animal life histories in the appendix.Cross-posted from Good Structures.Executive Summary Animal advocates sometimes make claims like “there are X of this animal, and Y>X of this animal, so Y might be a better target to focus on.” For example, you could imagine someone making a claim like “there are 20 quadrillion ants, so they are a higher priority to work on than Pacific salmon (wild population

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12:58

“Let’s taboo the V-word” by lincolnq

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2026/07/13

“How long have you been v*g*n?” This is one of the most common icebreakers at animal protection events. It's a baseline assumption, and it mostly holds true: if you’re out advocating for animals not to be tortured or abused, realistically these days you are v**n, or close. And it makes for good conversation. It seems fairly safe to assume when you meet strangers. But this assumption is hurting the movement in a way which we don’t always notice: someone new comes into the space, has a few

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1:06

“A huge way you can help pigs in 5-20 minutes (in the...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/12

Thanks to the work of advocates and donors inside and outside of this movement, the Farm Bill draft released by Senate Agriculture Chair John Boozman did not include the dangerous Save Our Bacon Act. This was a huge win towards protecting millions of animals from extreme confinement and other cruel farming practices in the US. The next step is calling or emailing your Senators, telling them to reject any attempt to slip the amendment into the bill, and oppose any Farm Bill that includes it. You

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6:27

“Announcing the Safe Pareto Improvements (SPI)...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/11

CLR is excited about safe Pareto improvements (SPIs) as a way to mitigate downsides from conflict between AIs. SPIs are a class of interventions on how agents negotiate that makes them all better off, no matter how they would have negotiated without the SPI.Among many candidate interventions against AI conflict, SPIs stand out to us as unusually robust — see the introduction of our agenda on the topic. And in discussions with people who’ve thought a lot about conflict risks, we’ve found there's

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13:46

“EA in the Lakes 2026 report” by Kestrel🔸

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2026/07/11

I ran another "EA in the Lakes" event. This basically entailed renting a community hostel (Pardshaw Quaker Centre) in the Lake District, UK, for 3 nights Friday-Monday. I posted some adverts up to attract some EAs looking for a holiday and did not evaluate applications. Here's my report on how it went.Ennerdale Water (and Crag Fell, my favourite hill) We followed the same format as last time of keeping morning and evenings open for attendee-contributed sessions (one EA and one non-EA topic in each

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0:56

“Yuval Harari: philanthropy principles + 3 AI-focused...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/08

Yuval Harari recently participated in a call to discuss philanthropy for those working in AI. He produced this handout with some general principles for philanthropy and his three top charities for people working in AI. They are: - Karya (ethical data cooperative in India) - LawZero (developing advanced non-agenic AI) - AI Futures Project (forecasting AI's future) I will share this post with his office, so I would guess that he'll see any detailed comments that anyone chooses to share. ---

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1:00

“Yuval Harari: philanthropy principles + 3 AI-focused...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/08

Yuval Harari recently participated in a call to discuss philanthropy for those working in AI. He produced this handout [edit: document updated by Harari] with some general principles for philanthropy and his three top charities for people working in AI. They are: - Karya (ethical data cooperative in India) - LawZero (developing advanced non-agenic AI) - AI Futures Project (forecasting AI's future) I will share this post with his office, so I would guess that he'll see any detailed comments that

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8:58

″~85% of Major Hotels Groups and 80% of Restaurant...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/08

TL;DR As of Q1 2026,80% of major restaurant chain locations in the Philippines, including the country's three largest restaurant groups, have committed to sourcing only cage-free eggs, representing 47 brands and over 11,200 outlets nationwide. Note that prior to 2022,no Philippine-based company had a public CF egg policy commitment. 84% of major hotel group locations are also committed, up from just20% in 2020—at which point every single committed hotel was an international chain. This shift

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1:46

“Giving What We Can’s first YouTube Video is out...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/07/08

Hello! I'm Justin Portela. I got hired by GWWC to make YouTube videos after AI in Context did such a kickass job. My channel is using that same cinematic, high-production value beauty to talk about everything in the EA universe that isn't AI. My first video is out now. It's about an obscure and unknown World Health Organization Meeting in 1955 that helped shape the conditions that have left up to 40 million people dead of malaria in sub-saharan Africa. I think it's pretty dope. I hope you do

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