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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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23:36

“AI discourse analyzed (we looked at essays, Twitter,...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/26

AI In Group Discourse I wanted to programmatically analyze the AI in-group ecosystem and discourse using AI as an exploration in sensemaking during my time in the “AI for Human Reasoning” FLF fellowship. I also analyzed the EA Forum itself in an earlier fellowship sensemaking MVP. Sidenote: I’m very interested in the potential for “AI uplift” to increase the impact of EA-aligned orgs by removing bottlenecks, automating flows, processing unstructured data, etc. I’ve founded a successful B2B SaaS

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11:51

“Scared to Pledge? 5 financial steps for confident...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/26

Cross-posted from the @High Impact Professionals blog - see the original here. -- In my years of working with people on their financial plans for giving, I’ve met many wonderful individuals who feel morally compelled to take a giving pledge. Intellectually, they are fully aware that they are in a position to help others. But emotionally, they aren’t ready to commit to a pledge. The sticking point here is a common thought many of us have: “Do I have enough?” Do I have enough to keep my 🔸10% Pledge

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5:44

“3 doubts about veganism” by emre kaplan🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/26

I keep thinking about what kind of identity would be useful for building a powerful animal advocacy movement. Here are 3 features of veganism that I often think about which make me doubt its usefulness.Too maximalist The official definition of veganism by the inventors of the term is the following: “Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose”

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19:59

“How to Talk to Journalists” by utilistrutil

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/25

TLDR: Just pick up the phone. Agree on permissions for information before you share it (see Step 4). I have worked as a professional journalist covering AI for over a year, and during that time, multiple people working in AI safety have asked me for advice on engaging with journalists. At this point, I've converged on some core lessons, so I figured I should share them more widely. I've also reviewed some of the prior art about how to talk to journalists on LessWrong and found it unsatisfying. The

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14:57

“The Unjournal: Bridging the Rigor/Impact Gaps for...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/25

Overview The Unjournal is a 501(c)(3) that commissions rigorous public expert evaluations of impactful research. We've built a strong team, completed more than 55 evaluation packages, built a database of impactful research, launched a Pivotal Questions initiative, and are systematically evaluating research from EA-aligned organizations We argue that 1. EA-driven research would benefit from external expert scrutiny to improve decision-making. 2. Academic research contains valuable insights but

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2:10

“URGENT: Easy Opportunity to Help Many Animals” by...

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2025/11/24

Crosspost. (I think this is a pretty important post to get the word out about, so I’d really appreciate you restacking it). The EU is taking input into their farm animal welfare policies until December 12. Animals in the EU are kept confined in a space about the size of a piece of paper, never able to express their natural behaviors or move around much, constantly standing against wire meshing. They suffer constantly because of inadequate animal welfare laws. These animals deserve better than a

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8:35

“We won’t solve non-alignment problems by doing...

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2025/11/24

Even if we solve the AI alignment problem, we still face non-alignment problems, which are all the other existential problems[1] that AI may bring.People have written research agendas on various imposing problems that we are nowhere close to solving, and that we may need to solve before developing ASI. An incomplete list of topics: misuse; animal-inclusive AI; AI welfare; S-risks from conflict; gradual disempowerment; risks from malevolent actors; moral error. The standard answer to these

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2:42

“Meet the Candidates: Donation Election 2025” by Toby...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/24

The Donation Election has begun! You can vote here, find out more about the voting system here, and donate to the Donation Election fund here. This post introduces our candidates. We’re splitting by cause area for easy reading, but you’ll be voting on them all together. Note that: There will likely be a few more candidates added in the next few days (candidates who wrote marginal funding posts but haven't let me know whether they'd like to participate in the election yet). It is possible that,

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5:28

“Marginal Funding at EAIF” by hbesceli

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/24

Summary So far in 2025, EAIF has made 34 grants for a total of $2.4M and we expect to grant a total of $2.8M by the end of the year. For EAIF to continue at the same level of grantmaking in 2026, we need to raise $1.9M in funding. EAIF's Grantmaking The Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) aims to increase the impact of projects that use the principles of effective altruism, by increasing their access to talent, capital, and knowledge. EAIF is part of EA Funds, which has recently merged

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16:02

“How Apart Research would use marginal funding to...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/23

TLDR: Apart Research incubates talent and research in AI Safety. We use high-volume weekend hackathons to filter for talent, then support them through the Studio and Fellowship programs. Track Record Highlights include placements at leading AIS orgs (e.g. METR, CAIF), alumni starting their own AIS orgs (e.g. Geodesic Resesarch, Asymmetric Security) and impactful research output, including an ICLR 2025 Oral (top 1.8%) on AIS Evals. Our work has also been used by Anthropic, UK AISI and the EU AI

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4:48

“Caring about Bugs Isn’t Weird” by Bob Fischer

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/23

I’ve spoken with hundreds of entomologists at conferences the world over. While there's clearly some self-selection (not everyone wants to talk to a philosopher), my experience is consistent: most think it's reasonable to care about the welfare of insects. Entomologists don’t regard it as the last stop on the crazy train; they don’t worry they’re getting mugged; they don’t think the idea is just utilitarianism run amok. Instead, they see some concern for welfare as stemming from a common-sense

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31:34

“State of EA Poland in 2025, Goals for 2026, and...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/23

TL;DR Despite operational setbacks, EA Poland made solid progress on the goals outlined in our December 2024 post: In February, we published and promotedThe Life You Can Save in Polish, generating 2,153 downloads. In August, we launchedDobra Kariera- a local high-impact career initiative. Published and promoted the80,000 Hours Guidein Polish (80 000 Godzin), generating2,052downloads. Conducted 25 career 1-1s. In October, we got AI Safety Poland to a new level, with a strong team, dedicated career

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28:19

“Where I Am Donating in 2025” by MichaelDickens

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/23

Last year I gave my reasoning on cause prioritization and did shallow reviews of some relevant orgs. I'm doing it again this year.Cross-posted to my website. Cause prioritization In September, I published a report on the AI safety landscape, specifically focusing on AI x-risk policy/advocacy. The prioritization section of the report explains why I focused on AI policy. It's similar to what I wrote about prioritization in my 2024 donations post, but more fleshed out. I won't go into detail on

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7:44

[Linkpost] “OpenAI Locks Down San Francisco Offices...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/23

This is a link post. A message on OpenAI's internal Slack claimed the activist in question had expressed interest in “causing physical harm to OpenAI employees.” OpenAI employees in San Francisco were told to stay inside the office on Friday afternoon after the company purportedly received a threat from an individual who was previously associated with the Stop AI activist group. “Our information indicates that [name] from StopAI has expressed interest in causing physical harm to OpenAI employees,” a

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7:25

“Strategic Alliances for a Viable Earth can reduce...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/22

Overview Strategic Alliances for a Viable Earth (SAVE) aims to reduce the risk of crossing ecological and social tipping points by having a systemic approach on the interconnected crises that are present today. This is done by connecting actors who have the power to reduce these risks with experts and organizations who know how to reduce these risks by using the networks in SAVE. SAVE is composed of diverse, highly networked, impact-driven, experienced policy advisors; climate activists; management

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6:51

“Replacing feeder rodents for pet snakes” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/22

TLDR: Hundreds of millions of mice and rats are bred and killed each year as feeder animals for pet snakes, in conditions that resemble the worst of factory farming. We are developing a convenient, cost-competitive, and nutritionally complete snake food made from beef meat, organs, and bones to displace frozen feeder rodents. Cattle to mice is up to 1 to 100,000 replacement and a very strong welfare tradeoff. Products will be on the market in 2026, and will start displacing feeder rodents

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6:49

“OFTW: Early Results from New Growth Strategy” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/22

Why marginal funding matters for the front door of effective giving. TLDR/ Overview: One for the World's mission is to scale the effective giving movement on poverty and public health. As such, we’re the tip of the spear for effective giving in the English-speaking world. We’ve focused on two target segments: MBA students and early-career professionals in tech, consulting, and finance. This year we’ve seen strong early momentum: pledges up 4× YTD (July 1 → now), ≈$300k moved since July 1, improved

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17:27

“Invest in Futures: Support MSI Reproductive Choices...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/21

Summary MSI Reproductive Choices is one of the largest providers of reproductive health services globally. Last year we served more than 23.8 million people and are on track to exceed that in 2025. We work in 36 countries and are highly cost-effective. On average, we can provide a woman with a year of protection from unintended pregnancy for $6.50 You can read more about our cost-effectiveness here. USAID was by far the largest global donor to family planning, and its dissolution has put the

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7:34

“Announcing ClusterFree: A cluster headache advocacy...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/21

Today we’re announcing a new cluster headache advocacy and research initiative: ClusterFree Learn more about how you (and anyone) can help.Our mission ClusterFree's mission is to help cluster headache patients globally access safe, effective pain relief treatments as soon as possible through advocacy and research. Cluster headache (also known as ‘suicide headache’) is considered the most painful condition known to mankind. We believe it is one of the largest sources of preventable extreme suffering

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2:45

“Forethought likely has room for more funding” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/21

I lead Forethought: we research how to navigate the transition to superintelligent AI, and then help people to address the issues we identify. I think we might soon be funding constrained, in the sense that we’ll have more people that we’d like to hire than funding to hire them. (We’re currently in the middle of a hiring round. While we’re still evaluating candidates, we’ve been pleasantly pleased with our applicant pool, and we think that we might want to end up making offers to (or offering

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