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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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30:37

“Is the AI Industry in a Bubble?” by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/16

This post has two parts: first, a (non-exhaustive) survey of some indications that the AI industry might be in a financial bubble. Second, an analysis that combines these indications with technical considerations relevant to whether the AI industry is in a bubble. Definition of a "bubble" Here's the Wikipedia definition of a bubble: An economic bubble (also called a speculative bubble or a financial bubble) is a period when current asset prices greatly exceed their intrinsic valuation, being the

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3:31

“Wild Animal Initiative: When does research become...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/16

Wild animal suffering is vast, neglected, and morally urgent. I’m strongly in favour of building a field that can eventually deliver safe, scalable welfare improvements for free-living animals. I also recognise that this area is technically complex and requires foundational research. But after reading WAI's latest annual report, I simply have to ask: When does any of this work actually reduce wild animal suffering? WAI themselves say that ‘it's reasonable to ask whether this will all be worth

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8:59

“EAGxIndia 2025: A Call for Safety/Caution” by Nishit

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/15

As members of the EA community in India, we feel compelled to register our concern about the timing & location of EAGxIndia 2025, scheduled for 13–14 December in New Delhi [1]. December is peak smog season in Delhi—a time when the city's air quality predictably descends into hazardous territory. The average reading breaches 400 (‘Severe' category per the CPCB), with ambient PM2.5 concentration up to 30 times higher than the WHO's recommended safety threshold. As of this drafting, the National

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4:25

“Everyday Clean Air” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/15

When the next pandemic hits our ability to stop it will depend on theinfrastructure we already have in place. A key missing piece is clean indoor air. An airborne pathogen can be very hard to contain, and we would want to move fast to limit spread. But how quickly we can get measures in place, and how thoroughly they would work, depends critically on the base we have to build up from. Indoor air today is dirty by default. The air you breathe in is air others have breathed out, complete

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15:25

“Prioritise soil animals over farmed invertebrates?”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/15

Summary I would say the total welfare of soil animalsis overdetermined to be much larger than that of farmed invertebratesin absoluteterms. The individual welfare per animal-year of soil ants and termites should not differ much from that of farmed invertebrates, and I calculatethe population of soil ants and termites is3.93 M times that of farmed black soldier fly(BSF) larvae and mealworms, and 652 k times that of farmed shrimps. Projects targeting soil animals receive way less funding than ones

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11:23

“High-impact projects fighting biodiversity loss” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/15

Cross-post from the EcoResilience Initiative blog. Recently we highlighted precision fermentation as our top biodiversity intervention due to its potential to permanently reduce deforestation within 5-10 years. The fact that it is currently underfunded, is highly scalable, is at a stage with high leverage, and could have a massive global impact makes it stand out above other methods to reduce future biodiversity loss. But within the domain of “precision fermentation” where is the best place to send

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2:36

[Linkpost] “Request for Proposals: AI for Forecasting...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/15

This is a link post. Our Forecasting team just launched a new RFP focused on using AI to improve human reasoning in a structured and quantified way. The team plans to make grants in the $100k-$1M range for projects lasting between 6 months and 2 years; proposals will be accepted until at least January 30, 2026. The RFP includes two areas of interest: AI for forecasting: We are looking for proposals for AI models that help to make forecasts more accurate or more relevant. We are primarily interested

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7:06

“How to network: lessons from 80,000 Hours’ advising...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/15

This post was originally published as a blog post on the 80,000 Hours website. Everyone talks about the importance of networking for a successful career. And they’re right — the people you connect with will shape your habits, the ideas you’re exposed to, and your job opportunities. But how do you actually network well? I (Zershaaneh) asked this question to 80,000 Hours' career advisors, who have helped thousands of people break into high-impact roles. Here's what they recommended.How to network The

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28:45

“If wild animal welfare is intractable, everything is...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/14

Author's note: This is an adapted version of my recent talk at EA Global NYC (I’ll add a link when it's available). The content has been adjusted to reflect things I learned from talking to people after my talk. If you saw the talk, you might still be interested in the “some objections” section at the end. Summary Wild animal welfare faces frequent tractability concerns, amounting to the idea that ecosystems are too complex to intervene in without causing harm. However, I suspect these concerns

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8:01

“Why I Think OSP matters for Group Organisers |...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/14

TL;DR: Applications close Sunday, November 16th. If you're thinking about starting an EA group or improving an existing one, OSP gives you a mentor, structure, and resources to help you run a great group. Apply here! Current and past OSP participants - please share your experience in the comments! Applications for OSP's Spring 2026 round close this Sunday, November 16th. OSP is CEA's mentorship programme for university and city group organisers - it pairs you with an experienced mentor for

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2:30

“Possible Anthropic billionaires: discussion thread”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/14

Anthropic was started by a bunch of EAs/ EA interested people, and it still contains a bunch of EAs/ EA interested people. On plausible assumptions (i.e. if Anthropic stays an extremely valuable AI company, it goes public at some point in the next few years, and at that point, employees who have equity sell some of it), several ~EA-aligned employees of Anthropic could become (multi?) billionaires. They may want to spend that money quickly, especially if they expect the world to be unpredictable

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2:39

“Historical EA funding data: 2025 update” by Jacco...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/14

Long time lurker, first time poster - be nice please! :) I was searching for summary data of EA funding trends, but couldn't find anything more recent than Tyler's post from 2022. So I decided to update it. If this analysis is done properly anywhere, please let me know. The spreadsheet is here (some things might look weird due to importing from Excel to sheets) Observations EA grantmaking appears on a steady downward trend since 2022 / FTX. The squeeze on GH funding to support AI / other

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11:50

“Epistemic Spot Check: Expected Value of Donating to...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/14

Political advocacy is an important lever for reducing existential risk. One way to make political change happen is to support candidates for Congress. In October, Eric Neyman wrote Consider donating to Alex Bores, author of the RAISE Act. He created a cost-effectiveness analysis to estimate how donations to Bores's campaign change his probability of winning the election. It's excellent that he did that—it's exactly the sort of thing that we need people to be doing. We also need more people to

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12:58

[Linkpost] “Should you donate through funds?” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/13

This is a link post. For most people, we think there's a strong case for giving through grantmaker-led philanthropic funds rather than donating to specific organizations. Examples of public philanthropic funds include: GiveWell's All Grants Fund (see July 2025 report) EA Funds’ Animal Welfare Fund (see June 2025 report) Longview's Emerging Challenges Fund (see Q4 2025 Report) If you are looking to develop a significant philanthropic portfolio, we’d recommend contributing to private funds

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1:16

“Courses and communities that can increase your...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/13

Through our various services, we’ve found that sharing curated resources is a great way to help people increase their impact. With that in mind, we’re excited to share two new collections: A list offree online courses covering skills like writing, coding, and marketing, plus introductions to various high-priority cause areas. A list ofimpactful communities spanning different causes, professions, and affiliations. While most of these will be familiar to people within EA, you may find some you

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22:11

“How to start a 501(c)3 nonprofit as quickly as...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/13

Cross-posted from Good Structures. This is absolutely not legal advice, and all people considering launching organizations should consult with lawyers. You can launch a 501(c)3 really quickly if you want. If you have a funder lined up, you can go from an idea to having a nonprofit with 501(c)3 status and with staff on payroll within around 40 days. I think this is around the fastest you can consistently do this, though if lucky, you can make it happen a bit faster (I just think you’re significantly

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4:23

“Effective Altruists Should Promote Frugality” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/13

There are three ways EAs typically do good: Donating to effective charities. Working on high impact cause areas. Getting others to become EAs. All of these require either time and/or money. To donate to effective charities, one needs to have a sufficiently high level of financial security to justify their donation. If someone wants to work in a high impact cause area, they need enough time and money to pursue their desired career. Lastly, if one wants to get others to become EAs, they need enough

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4:52

“‘Essays on Longtermism’ Competition Winners” by Toby...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/13

The winners of the ‘Essays on Longtermism’ competition are: First place: Aaron Bergman, for Utilitarians Should Accept that Some Suffering Cannot be “Offset” - $1000 prize.Joint second place[1]: Arepo, for Fruit-picking as an existential risk — EA Forum- $500 prize David Goodman, for Information Preservation as a Longtermist Intervention- $500 prize We had 67 entries, many of which are underrated. You can read all of the entries here.SummariesUtilitarians Should Accept that Some Suffering Cannot

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10:11

“Improving Impact Infrastructure in the Talent Space”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/13

TL;DR Funding for talent-focused organisations (TFOs) in EA remains highly concentrated, with more than 80% coming from Open Philanthropy and EA Funds. To understand whether clearer impact reporting could unlock new funding for the space, this pre-study interviewed seven funders. While historical impact data isn't the main decision criterion for most funders, an improved impact reporting infrastructure could potentially open up more funding to the talent space. In addition, a shared reporting

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3:26

“Some hardworking dads in EA” by Julia_Wise🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/13

It's hard to divide anything 50/50. In many families, even if both parents have paid jobs, one parent will lean into parenting more, and the other will lean harder into paid work. In male/female couples it's usually the woman who owns more of the parenting work, and that can feel unfair if the arrangement comes from assumptions rather than a willing choice. I want to highlight some counter-examples from the effective altruism space, to show it's really possible to make an intentional choice about

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