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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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8:48

“My lover, effective altruism” by Natalie_Cargill

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/04/18

Crossposted from Substack. This post is part of a 30-posts-in-30-days ordeal at Inkhaven. All suboptimalities are the result of that. This is part 2, here is part 1 in my EA mini series! On my way to my tenth EAG in a decade, my brother-in-law explained effective altruism to me. At first, he couldn’t quite remember if he’d heard the phrase before. But he searched the corners of his mind until the definition made itself known: “yeah, it's just a bunch of wankers who pretend to have social impact,

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12:07

“Reconciling Cost-Effectiveness and Cheap Enough” by...

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2026/04/17

Two frameworks, one question: whose finances are we talking about, and to what end? As the development sector gathers at the Skoll World Forum in Oxford this week, against a backdrop of sharp cuts to official development assistance — the US has ended 83% of USAID's programmes, the UK has cut its aid budget by 40%, and the OECD projects an overall ODA decline of 9–17% in 2025 alone, with projected consequences for millions of lives — two financial frameworks are converging in the sector's

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1:21

[Linkpost] “In Development Magazine Launch” by Lauren...

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2026/04/17

This is a link post. We're announcing a new development magazine: In Development. Our goal is to promote discourse on development without dogma. In other words, we public stories doing deep dives into pressing development issues, backed up by evidence, argument, and experience. The first piece is by Paul Niehaus, an Economics Professor at the University of California, San Diego, and co-founder of GiveDirectly. He talks about the complementary role of evidence in the evolution of GiveDirectly,

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8:10

“A brief update on EA Funds, and a recruitment...

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2026/04/17

I joined CEA as Director of EA Funds 3 months ago. I have two goals with this post: Sharing some early thoughts about what I've found and where I think EA Funds is headed. Announcing that we're now searching for a Head of the EA Infrastructure Fund, a hire I think is one of the most important ones we'll make this year.Where EA Funds stands For those less familiar, EA Funds channels individual donations to high-impact work through four cause-specific funds: the Animal Welfare Fund (AWF), the

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10:49

“The AI people have been right a lot” by Dylan Matthews

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2026/04/17

This post was crossposted from Dylan Matthew's blog by the EA Forum team. The author may not see or reply to comments. Subtitle: Try to keep an open mind as the world gets increasingly wild.The crowd at EAG 2015 (Center for Effective Altruism) In 2015, I went to my first EA (Effective Altruism) Global. It was then on-the-record for journalists, which is a rule that got changed for all subsequent events due to my actions. My exposure to EA at that time was mostly through people who took high-paying

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7:59

“None of It Is Pretend” by Bentham’s Bulldog

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2026/04/17

Crosspost. Picture a knife cutting into your stomach. Don’t just register the words. Actually take a moment to think about what it would be like. What the first moment it occurred would be like, how the pain would get deeper as the knife cuts more deeply into your flesh, the way the blood would drip down your sides and you would cry out in pain. Intense agony has a way of cutting through idealizations and rationalizations—so that the world is on fire, alight with nothing but pain. Andy Masley has

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11:40

“The Case Against Offsetting Your Diet” by Charles Berry

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2026/04/16

Summary In January 2026, the animal charity Farmkind launched a controversial news campaign advertising their ability to “offset” the impact of non-vegan diets through strategic donations to EA causes. I have now spoken with several non-vegan EAs who use Farmkind (or similar calculators) to buy “offsets” for their diets, and I think the offsetting logic is more powerful than vegans would like to admit. However, I think EAs generally draw the wrong conclusions from this line of reasoning. Even

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22:04

“You Aren’t in Charge of the Overton Window; Politics...

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2026/04/16

Sometimes, people don't say what they actually think, not because saying it would be rude or costly, but because they believe saying it now would be counterproductive. They see that the true claim is outside the Overton window. And they conclude that the strategic play is to say something weaker, something adjacent. That will let you normalize the frame without triggering the immune response. You will redesign the house a bit now so that you can slide the window later. Then, when the ground has

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33:34

“US electoral politics” by 80000_Hours, Sam Roth 🔸

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2026/04/16

Read this career review on the 80,000 Hours website. Summary In a nutshell: Who wields power in the US government is a very important determinant of outcomes for many of the world's most pressing problems, including reducing catastrophic risks from AI. The most direct ways to affect who controls the levers of government power are to work on campaigns and run for office. Because election outcomes are so important, and sufficiently tractable, we think electoral work is a great option for many

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18:31

“What 3,654 Job Postings Tell Us About Talent Needs...

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2026/04/15

Summary Based on the last 3 years of AI safety job board postings from 80, 000 Hours, I checked what skillsets are the most sought after in the field, including positions at different types of organisations, and separately, leadership roles. Here are three of the most important findings: In leadership positions, a management skillset paired with an operations, strategy, or policy skillset is the most neededcombination. Research and technical skills are not very important in this group. Information

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13:04

“Open Wing Alliance Grants: 2026 Recommendations” by...

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2026/04/15

Introduction In 2026, the Open Wing Alliance awarded ~$1.9M to 28 organizations globally. This post gives background on our grant program, strategy, and highlights some grants we are particularly excited about this year. It also gives some info on how you can become a member and apply to receive a grant. Background The Open Wing Alliance (OWA) is a coalition of over 80 member organizations located across more than 70 countries, focused on cage-free and broiler welfare corporate work. It is a

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10:07

“China’s Major Meat Supplier Just Set a Cage-Free...

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2026/04/15

This post is an update on some great and perhaps surprising progress in China that feels worth sharing, and a sincere thank-you to the people I have gotten to know through EAG SF (recap at the end). Why China, and Why Now Approximately 75% of the world's farmed animals are raised in Asia, yet the region receives a disproportionately small fraction of global animal welfare funding. Within that, China represents an enormous concentration of both suffering and—increasingly—tractable opportunity

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4:22

[Linkpost] “Imprinting: My Mistake in Cause...

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2026/04/15

This is a link post. Note: I was told by a friend to cross-post this from Substack. Let me know if I'm violating any community norms! “Here is one common failure mode for EAs. You look at 80k's list of the most important cause areas, pick the first one as the thing you want to work on, then end up doing that.” Oh. This sounds like a familiar story. * * * It's summer before college, and I’m staring blankly at the worksheet in front of me. I’m a Non-Trivial Finalist — not a Fellow yet, though I

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0:37

“I founded Longview and have written down some...

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2026/04/14

I thought it might be useful to share over here! Please see my (very new) blog -- Part 1 - https://nataliercargill.substack.com/p/how-to-fundraise-one-million-million Part 2 - https://nataliercargill.substack.com/p/how-to-fundraise-one-million-million-0cb Part 3 - https://nataliercargill.substack.com/p/how-to-prepare-for-a-donor-call-actually Questions welcome! :) ---First published: April 13th, 2026 Source:

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1:23

“Hit me up if you go to Dartmouth University!” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/04/13

I'm Shreya, a junior at Dartmouth College, where I lead our animal advocacy group. I'm currently starting a Dartmouth EA group and would love to see if there's interest from other Dartmouth EAs in either helping run the club or coming to events! I genuinely believe that organizing a university EA group — especially at a top school — is one of the most impactful things a person can do (even under short timelines!). Dartmouth is a world-class university with no EA presence, and that should change,

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13:46

“AI Safety’s Biggest Talent Gap Isn’t Researchers....

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2026/04/13

This post was cross posted to LessWrong TL;DR: One of the largest talent gaps in AI safety is competent generalists: program managers, fieldbuilders, operators, org leaders, chiefs of staff, founders. Ambitious, competent junior people could develop the skills to fill these roles, but there are no good pathways for them to gain skills, experience, and credentials. Instead, they're incentivized to pursue legible technical and policy fellowships and then become full-time researchers, even if that's

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10:49

“Introducing the Specialist Founder Track of Charity...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/04/13

Apply to build one specific, research-backed charity. Looking for mid-career professionals in public health policy and foreign aid spending. You know how the system works. Now build something that changes it. You've accumulated expertise that most people in the world simply don't have. Real relationships. Valuable networks. Professional credibility. An understanding of how decisions are actually made. That career capital is extraordinarily valuable, and there's a specific way to deploy it that

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15:30

[Linkpost] “The Anthropic IPO Is Coming. We Aren’t...

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2026/04/12

This is a link post. More money is coming than AI safety has ever seen. The capacity to deploy it doesn't exist yet.Image Source: Fortune.com This week, Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview– a model so capable at finding software vulnerabilities that the company decided to wait to release it publicly. Last month, Bloomberg reported that Anthropic's annualized revenue had hit $19 billion, doubling in under four months, and by some accounts surpassing OpenAI. It is currently one of the most

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26:25

“How scary is Claude Mythos? 303 pages in 21 minutes”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/04/11

By Robert Wiblin | Watch on Youtube | Listen on Spotify As we now know, Anthropic has built an AI that can break into almost any computer on Earth. That AI has already found thousands of unknown security vulnerabilities in every major operating system and every major browser. And Anthropic has decided it's too dangerous to release to the public; it would just cause too much harm. Here are just a few of the things that AI accomplished during testing: It found a 27-year-old flaw in the world's most

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9:23

“Leading Insect Farm Took Millions In Subsidies, Then...

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2026/04/11

Crosspost of a blog post. A recent investigation uncovered that the leading insect farming company, Ynsect, was a horrifying disaster. While company leadership soaked up millions in subsidies with sunny rhetoric about their commercial success, the dark reality inside the farm was like nothing anyone imagined. Investigators found filth clogging the machines, endangering workers. Larval bins would routinely break open, leading to repeated showers of larvae. Insects crawled all over the place, wholly

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