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Audio narrations from the Effective Altruism Forum, including curated posts and posts with 125 karma. If you"d like more episodes, subscribe to the "EA Forum (All audio)" podcast instead.

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8:43

“Select examples of adverse selection in longtermist...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/08/23

Sometimes, there is a reason other grantmakers aren't funding a fairly well-known EA (-adjacent) project. This post is written in a professional capacity, as a volunteer/sometimes contractor for EA Funds’ Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF), which is a fiscally sponsored project of Effective Ventures Foundation (UK) and Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc. I am not and have never been an employee at either Effective Ventures entity. Opinions are my own and do not necessarily represent that of any of my

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10:21

“An Elephant in the Community Building room.” by Kaleem

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/08/21

These are my own views, and not those of my employer, EVOps, or of CEA who I have contracted for in the past and am currently contracting for now. This was meant to be a strategy fortnight contribution, but it's now a super delayed/unofficial, and underwritten strategy fortnight contribution. [1] Before you read this:This is pretty emotionally raw, so please 1) don’t update too much on it if you think I’m just being dramatic 2) I might come back and endorse or delete this at some point. I’ve put off

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20:52

“Beware surprising and suspicious convergence” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/08/21

Imagine this: Oliver: … Thus we see that donating to the opera is the best way of promoting the arts. Eleanor: Okay, but I’m principally interested in improving human welfare. Oliver: Oh! Well I think it is also the case that donating to the opera is best for improving human welfare too. Generally, what is best for one thing is usually not the best for something else, and thus Oliver's claim that donations to opera are best for the arts and human welfare is surprising. We may suspect bias:

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27:07

[Classic post] “Beware surprising and suspicious...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/08/21

Imagine this: • > Oliver: … Thus we see that donating to the opera is the best way of promoting the arts.> > Eleanor: Okay, but I’m principally int… --- First published: January 24th, 2016 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/omoZDu8ScNbot6kXS/beware-surprising-and-suspicious-convergence --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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78:56

“Price-, Taste-, and Convenience-Competitive...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/08/18

Plant-based meats, like the Beyond Sausage or Impossible Burger, and cultivated meats have become a source of optimism for reducing animal-based meat usage. - Public health, environmental, and animal welfare advocates aim to mitigate the myriad harms of meat usage. - The price, taste, and convenience (PTC) hypothesis posits that if plant-based meat is competitive with animal-based meat on these three criteria, the large majority of current consumers would replace animal-based meat with plant-based

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6:56

[Classic post] “Effective Altruism is a Question (not...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/08/17

What is the definition of Effective Altruism? What claims does it make? What do you have to believe or do, to be an Effective Altruist? I don’t think that any of these questions make sense. It’s not surprising that we ask them: if you asked those questions about feminism or secularism, Islamism or libertarianism, the answers you would get would be relevant and illuminating. Different proponents of the same movement might give you slightly different answers, but synthesising the answers of several

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42:03

[Linkpost] “20 concrete projects for reducing...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/08/16

This is a blog post, not a research report, meaning it was produced quickly and is not to Rethink Priorities’ typical standards of substantiveness and careful checking for accuracy.Super quick summaryThis is a list of twenty projects that we (Rethink Priorities’ Existential Security Team) think might be especially promising projects for reducing existential risk, based on our very preliminary and high-level research to identify and compare projects.You can see an overview of the full list here. Here

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29:21

“Why some people disagree with the CAIS statement on...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/08/15

SummaryPrevious research from Rethink Priorities found that a majority of the population (59%) agreed with a statement from the Center for AI Safety (CAIS) thatstated “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.” 26% of the population disagreed with this statement. This research piece does further qualitative research to analyze this opposition in more depth.The most commonly mentioned theme among those

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8:38

“Two Years Community Building, Ten Lessons...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/08/10

Today is my two-year anniversary with EA NYC, where I serve as director. To say I've learned a lot would be a tremendous understatement. The more visible parts of that learning are often technical: who's doing what in which organization, why [niche thing I'd never heard of] is actually really important, what mentorship opportunities exist for people with [these very specific qualities], how to wrangle 100+ people into a group photo and still have everyone visible. (I've gotten super good at that

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9:50

“Update on cause area focus working group” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/08/10

Prompted by the FTX collapse, the rapid progress in AI, and increased mainstream acceptance of AI risk concerns, there has recently been a fair amount of discussion among EAs whether it would make sense to rebalance the movement’s portfolio of outreach/recruitment/movement-building activities away from efforts that use EA/EA-related framings and towards projects that instead focus on the constituent causes. In March 2023, Open Philanthropy’s Alexander Berger invited Claire Zabel (Open Phil), James

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3:16

“Best Use of 2 Minutes this Month (U.S.)” by Rockwell

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/08/07

Actions that have a large impact sometimes don't feel like much. To counteract that bias, I'm sharing arguably the best use of two minutes this month for those in the U.S.BackgroundIn May, the US Supreme Court upheld the ability of US states to require certain standards for animal products sold within their borders, e.g. California's Prop 12, which banned the sale of animal products that involve certain intensive confinement practices.It was a huge victory! But after their defeat in the Supreme

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[Linkpost] “I saved a kid’s life today” by michel

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/08/07

I'm working writing more, quicker, and not directly for an EA Forum audience. This is a post copied over from my blog.I wonder what they’re doing today, the kid whose life I saved. Maybe playing with other kids in their village. Maybe seeking shade with his or her siblings, trying to escape the sub-Saharan African heat. Maybe being held by their mother or grandmother, nurtured.Whatever they’re doing today, some day they’ll grow up, and they’ll live. They’ll have a first kiss, a favorite dance, a

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15:48

“Soaking Beans - a cost-effectiveness analysis” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/08/06

TLDR: On early-stage analysis, persuading people to soak their beans before cooking could cost-effectively save Sub-saharan Africans a significant amount of money, and modestly reduce carbon emissions. (great uncertainty)IntroductionAcross East Africa, hundreds of millions of people cook and eat beans multiple times every week. In Uganda where I live, beans make up an estimated 25% of the average Ugandan’s calorie intake and 40% of their daily protein intake.[1]Unfortunately cooking beans takes an

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8:43

“How can we improve Infohazard Governance in EA...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/08/05

Or: “Why EA biosecurity epistemics are whack”The effective altruism (EA) biosecurity community focuses on reducing the risks associated with global biological catastrophes (GCBRs). This includes preparing for pandemics, improving global surveillance, and developing technologies to mitigate the risks of engineered pathogens. While the work of this community is important, there are significant challenges to developing good epistemics, or practices for acquiring and evaluating knowledge, in this

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15:27

[Linkpost] “My favorite AI governance research this...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/08/04

I collected my favorite public pieces of research on AI strategy, governance, and forecasting from 2023 so far.If you're a researcher, I encourage you to make a quick list of your favorite pieces of research, then think about what makes it good and whether you're aiming at that with your research.To illustrate things you might notice as a result of this exercise:I observe that my favorite pieces of research are mostly aimed at some of the most important questions[1]– they mostly identify a very

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19:54

“University EA Groups Need Fixing” by Dave Banerjee

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/08/03

(Cross-posted from my website.) I recently resigned as Columbia EA President and have stepped away from the EA community. This post aims to explain my EA experience and some reasons why I am leaving EA. I will discuss poor epistemic norms in university groups, why retreats can be manipulative, and why paying university group organizers may be harmful. Most of my views on university group dynamics are informed by my experience with Columbia EA. My knowledge of other university groups comes from

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19:06

“University EA Groups Need Fixing” by Dave Banerjee

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/08/03

I recently resigned as Columbia EA President and have stepped away from the EA community. This post aims to explain my EA experience and some reasons why I am leaving EA. I will discuss poor epistemic norms in university groups, why retreats can be manipulative, and why paying university group organizers may be harmful. Most of my views on university group dynamics are informed by my experience with Columbia EA. My knowledge of other university groups comes from conversations with other organizers

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18:49

“Problems with free services for EA projects” by Lizka

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/08/03

EA-motivated specialists sometimes offer free or subsidized versions of normally expensive services to EA projects. I think this is often counterproductive and outline my reasoning in this post.The key problem with free services is thatwe don’t have market-based information about their quality, so the beneficiaries of a free service might be getting less value than it might appear they are getting. As a result, service providers waste their time providing expensive services to people who wouldn’t

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13:03

“Reflections on my time on the Long-Term Future Fund”...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/08/02

I'm stepping down as chair of the Long-Term Future Fund. I'm writing this post partially as a loose set of reflections on my time there, and partially as an overall update on what's going on with the fund, as I think we should generally be transparent with donors and grantees, and my sense is the broader community has fairly little insight into the fund's current operations. I'll start with a brief history of what's happened since I joined the fund, and its impact, and move to a few reflections on

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23:53

“Thoughts on far-UVC after working in the field for 8...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/07/31

Views expressed in this article are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employerSecureBio.SummaryFar-UVC has great promise, buta lot of work still needs to be doneThere still are many important open research questions that need to be answered before the technology can become widely adoptedRight now, a key priority is to grow the research field and improve coordinationThe main reason far-UVC is so promising is that widespread installationcould passively suppress future pandemics before

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