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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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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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40:30

[Linkpost] “Partial Transcript of Recent Senate...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/07/27

On Tuesday, the US Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law held a hearing on AI. The hearing involved 3 witnesses – Dario Amodei (CEO of Anthopic), Yoshua Bengio (Turing Award winner, and the second-most cited AI resarcher in the world), and Stuart Russell (Professor of CS at Berkeley, and co-author of the standard textbook for AI). The hearing wound up focusing a surprising amount on AI X-risk and related topics. I originally planned on jotting down all the quotes related

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20:10

“General support for ‘General EA’” by Arthur Malone

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/07/26

TL;DR: When I say “General EA” I am referring to the cluster including the term “effective altruism,” the idea of “big-tent EA,” as well as branding and support of those ideas. This post is a response in opposition to many calls for renaming EA or backing away from an umbrella movement. I make some strategic recommendations and take something of a deep dive using my own personal history/cause prioritization as a case study for why “General EA” works (longpost is long, so there's TL;DRs for each

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22:48

“General support for ‘General EA’” by Arthur Malone🔸

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/07/26

TL;DR: When I say “General EA” I am referring to the cluster including the term “effective altruism,” the idea of “big-tent EA,” as well as branding and support of those ideas. This post is a response in opposition to many calls for renaming EA or backing away from an umbrella movement. I make some strategic recommendations and take something of a deep dive using my own personal history/cause prioritization as a case study for why “General EA” works (longpost is long, so there's TL;DRs for each

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4:28

“Launching the meta charity funding circle (MCF):...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/07/26

SummaryWe are launching the Meta Charity Funders, a growing network of donors sharing knowledge and discussing funding opportunities in the EA meta space. Apply for funding by August 27th or join the circle as a donor. See below or visit our website to learn more!If you are doing EA-aligned “meta” work, and have not received substantial funding for several years, you might be worried about funding. Over the past 10 years, Open Philanthropy and EA Funds comprised a large percent of total meta funding

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28:37

“Some thoughts on quadratic funding” by Luis Mota...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/07/26

SummaryQuadratic funding (QF) is a mechanism that has gained attention as a potential way to improve resource allocation in a number of philanthropic decision situations. In this post, I explain how the mechanism works, discuss some of its drawbacks, and discuss how these drawbacks relate to several proposed use cases. I argue that its drawbacks severely limit the practical applicability of the mechanism, and that QF will generally not be an attractive option for philanthropic

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17:47

“Underwater Torture Chambers: The Horror Of Fish...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/07/26

Crossposted from my blog. The horror of fish farmingOne of my professors in college taught a class about effective altruism—a social movement about doing good effectively. Whenever he was talking about the scale of animal suffering, all the statistics he talked about were about the suffering of non-fish. It became a running joke—friends and I would make jokes like the following: “a gunman robs a bank, kills over 4 non-fish” or “one (non-fish) death is a tragedy, a million fish deaths are a

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3:33

[Linkpost] “Shaping Humanity’s Longterm Trajectory”...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/07/19

Since writing The Precipice, one of my aims has been to better understand how reducing existential risk compares with other ways of influencing the l… --- First published: July 18th, 2023 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Doa69pezbZBqrcucs/shaping-humanity-s-longterm-trajectory Linkpost URL:http://files.tobyord.com/shaping-humanity's-longterm-trajectory.pdf --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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19:33

“Recovering from Rejection: My piece for the In-Depth...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/07/18

Formerly known as "Aaron's Epistemic Stories", which stops working as a title when it's on the Forum and people aren't required to read it.What is this post?A story about how I reacted poorly to my first few EA job rejections, and what I learned from reflecting on my mistakes.Context: When I worked at CEA, my colleague was working on EA Virtual Program curricula. She asked me to respond to this prompt:"What made you start caring about having good epistemics? What made you start trying to improve

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21:10

“Recovering from Rejection” by Aaron Gertler

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/07/18

Formerly known as "Aaron's Epistemic Stories", which stops working as a title when it's on the Forum and people aren't required to read it. What is this post? A story about how I reacted poorly to my first few EA job rejections, and what I learned from reflecting on my mistakes. Context: When I worked at CEA, my colleague was working on EA Virtual Program curricula. She asked me to respond to this prompt: "What made you start caring about having good epistemics? What made you start trying to

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26:04

“Nailing the basics – Theories of change” by Aidan...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/07/18

WHY WRITE A POST ABOUT THEORIES OF CHANGE?As participants in a movement with ‘effective’ in its name, it’s easy to think of ourselves as being above falling for the most common mistakes made in the… The original text contained 5 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: July 16th, 2023 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/9t7St3pfEEiDsQ2Tr/nailing-the-basics-theories-of-change --- Narrated by

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24:37

[Linkpost] “A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/07/17

On May 11, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld a 2018 California law, Proposition 12, which banned the sale of certain animal products that did not meet minimum welfare standards. Especially now that such ballot initiatives have withstood legal challenges, a relevant question we might ask is: how cost-effective were initiatives like Proposition 12 at reducing farmed animal suffering? Below is the executive summary of a report I wrote for Rethink Priorities analyzing the

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3:26

[Linkpost] “Fatebook: the fastest way to make and...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/07/14

Announcing Fatebook: a website that makes it extremely low friction to make and track predictions. … --- First published: July 11th, 2023 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/DWFRBzK3rAH3HFDZr/fatebook-the-fastest-way-to-make-and-track-predictions Linkpost URL:https://fatebook.io --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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18:31

“Electric Shrimp Stunning: a Potential High-Impact...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/07/14

Update: Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla (CEO of SWP) has provided some additional information in the comments. In particular: … The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration. --- First published: July 13th, 2023 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CmAexqqvnRLcBojpB/electric-shrimp-stunning-a-potential-high-impact-donation --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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[Linkpost] “Announcing Manifund Regrants” by Austin,...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/07/13

Manifund is launching a new regranting program! We will allocate ~$2 million over the next six months based on the recommendations of our regrantors. Grantees can apply for funding through our site; we’re also looking for additional regrantors and donors to join.What is regranting?Regranting is a funding model where a donor delegates grantmaking budgets to different individuals known as “regrantors”. Regrantors are then empowered to make grant decisions based on the objectives of the original

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61:11

“Are education interventions as cost effective as the...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/07/13

I would like to thank Lant Pritchett, David Roodman and Matt Lerner for their invaluable comments.You can follow these links to comments from Lant Pritchett and David Roodman.A number of EA forum posts (1, 2) have pointed out that effective altruism has not been interested in education interventions, whether that is measured by funding from GiveWell or Open Philanthropy, or writing by 80,000 hours. Based on brief conversations with people who have explored education at EA organizations and reading

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“Announcing ‘Forecasting Existential Risks: Evidence...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/07/10

This is a linkpost for "Forecasting Existential Risks: Evidence from a Long-Run Forecasting Tournament," accessible here: https://forecastingresearch.org/s/XPT.pdfToday, the Forecasting Research Institute (FRI) released "Forecasting Existential Risks: Evidence from a Long-Run Forecasting Tournament", which describes the results of the Existential-Risk Persuasion Tournament (XPT).The XPT, which ran from June through October of 2022, brought together forecasters from two groups with distinctive claims

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32:01

[Linkpost] “The Seeker’s Game – Vignettes from the...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/07/09

IntroductionLast year, one conversation left a lasting impression on me. A friend remarked on the challenges of navigating "corrupting forces" in the Bay Area. Intrigued by this statement, I decided to investigate the state of affairs in the Bay if I had the chance. So when I got the opportunity to visit Berkeley in February 2023, I prepared a set of interview questions. Can you share an experience where you had difficulty voicing your opinion? What topics are hard to clearly think about due to

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[Linkpost] “Some Observations on Alcoholism” by Devin...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/07/08

This is a tough one to post, it’s also a little off topic for the forum. I went back and forth a great deal about whether to crosspost it anyway, and ultimately decided to, since I have in some ways posted on this topic here before, and since there are several parts that are directly relevant to Effective Altruism (the last three sections all have substantial relevance of some sort). Doing this also makes it easier for this to be relatively public, and so to get some difficult conversations over

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