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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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4:23

“Should I tell EA orgs I’ll work for much less than...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/28

Would I be doing something wrong significantly undercutting other potential hires ? Some of what I’m thinking about is echoed in points made in this post previously, although I think my situation pertains more to the ethics of competing rather than the ethics of donating via salary-sacrifice. While @ElliotJDavies's post makes a strong case for EAs considering lower salaries as a form of donation, I’m trying to find answers to the specific ethical and practical questions around how to navigate this

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1:54

“What were mistakes of AI Safety field-building? How...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/27

AI Safety is an area that emerged from the EA community. EAs made the first significant efforts to build this field, and I’d say they have done a pretty good job overall. The number of people working on AI Safety has been increasing exponentially. However, many believe that the field-building efforts were not perfect. One example is that the talent pipeline has become over-optimized for researchers. We now seem to be entering a similar stage with AI Welfare. Following Longview's recent grants, the

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7:24

“Giving Season 2025 Announcement” by Toby Tremlett🔹

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/25

It's that time again — Giving Season, 2025. We’ve got a packed schedule of events on the EA Forum, aimed at eliciting more and better donations, as well as reaching new audiences. In this post, I’ll tell you what to expect, and how you can help. If you do one thing after reading this post, consider making it this:Donate to the donation election fundOverviewThroughout giving season I'll be encouraging posts on effective giving relevant topics, looking for earning-to-give-ers and organisations who

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8:07

“On What Is Prevented” by Bentham’s Bulldog

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/25

Crosspost of a blog here. 1 She remembered the day he was born. He was born, like all children are—wriggling and kicking and screaming. From the first time she set eyes on him, she knew she had birthed an angel. She marveled at how this creature—this small, delightful, adorable bundle of goodness and happiness, with his gurgles, his cries, and his laughs—had come out of her. If there are miracles, surely that is one. She remembered the day he began to crawl. Oh how proud he was of the crawling

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9:01

[Linkpost] “Dollars in political giving are less...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/25

This is a link post. I used to think that a dollar in my DAF[1] was approximately as good as a dollar in my normal bank account for making the world a better place. Lots of orgs try to measure or increase “charitable dollars,” with an implication that a 20-40% boost in charitable dollars via tax planning strategies[2] is highly worthwhile. But in the political giving world, charitable money is worth quite a bit less than more-flexible money and so if you are thinking about doing political giving you

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10:01

“Some personal thoughts about working at Tarbell” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/24

(Thanks to Lizka's recent post for the inspiration!) The Tarbell Center for AI Journalism supports journalism that helps society navigate the emergence of increasingly advanced AI. We're hiring for two roles running our flagship Fellowship Program: Program Manager/Director to lead the program — building the community of expert journalists who will hold frontier AI companies accountable, investigate emerging risks, and shape how the world understands transformative AI. (Senior) Program Associate,

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3:38

“ACS is hiring: why work here and why not” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/24

tl;dr: ACS Research is hiring for several full-time research positions in macrostrategy, LLM psychology, and ML. 1-2 year contracts in Prague, London, or San Francisco Bay Area, $80-300k. This could be a Pareto-optimal option for some of you based on research topics, incentives, salary, collaborators, and research environment. Details and applicartions here - deadline approaching soon. Also please do refer people to us: we don't offer referral bounties, but hope you can tell people to apply just

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1:45

“Software Engineering at SecureBio” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/23

I've had a lot of people reach out to me who are interested in workingon biosecurity, but have a background in software engineering / computer science. A lot of these conversations have looked something like: A: I'd be really excited to work on biosecurity, it seems really important and relatively neglected. Are you hiring for software engineers at SecureBio? Me: I wish we were, you seem really great! But I don't know when we will be, depends on funding and some strategy

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10:22

[Linkpost] “The Charity Trap: Brain Misallocation” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/23

This is a link post. In Ugandan villages where non-governmental organisations (NGOs) hired away the existing government health worker, infant mortality went up. This happened in 39%[1] of villages that already had a government worker. The NGO arrived with funding and good intentions, but the likelihood that villagers received care from any health worker declined by ~23%. Brain Misallocation “Brain drain”, - the movement of people from poorer countries to wealthier ones, has been extensively

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0:50

[Linkpost] “Statement on Superintelligence - FLI Open...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/23

This is a link post. We call for a prohibition on the development of superintelligence, not lifted before there is broad scientific consensus that it will be done safely and controllably, and strong public buy-in. Sign on the main website or Eko[1]. --- First published: October 22nd, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/nkjguqdyxzwsrGmKB/statement-on-superintelligence-fli-open-letter Linkpost

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2:56

“Canva to donate $100M over 4 years to GiveDirectly”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/23

All quotes are from their blog post "Why we chose to invest another $100 million in cash transfers", highlights are my own: Today, we’re announcing a new $100 million USD commitment over the next four years to expand our partnership with GiveDirectly and help empower an additional 185,000 people living in extreme poverty. We’re also funding new research, and pilot variants, to further understand how we can maximize the impact of each dollar. This is on top of another $50 million USD they gave to

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0:36

[Linkpost] “Consider donating to AI safety champion...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/22

This is a link post. Written in my personal capacity, and am speaking for myself and not the effective altruism community as a whole. --- First published: October 22nd, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/sCbW6kvzx2ReXru4P/consider-donating-to-ai-safety-champion-scott-wiener Linkpost URL:https://ericneyman.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/consider-donating-to-ai-safety-champion-scott-wiener/ --- Narrated by TYPE

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14:00

“AI and Animal Welfare: A Policy Case Study from...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/22

TL;DR AI systems manage hundreds of thousands of animals in NZ (billions globally) under decades-old regulations with zero AI-specific welfare provisions I spent 3 months part-time + $0 writing a policy brief highlighting this gap for local policymakers The pattern is universal: deploy first, regulate later (maybe) The resulting policy brief proposes practical solutions using existing frameworks Takeaway: this work is doable without massive resources, similar gaps likely exist in your jurisdiction

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8:11

“The First Global Accounting Standard for Nonprofits...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/22

Disclaimer: I work for the Centre for Effective Altruism, though these are purely my personal thoughts and should not be taken to represent my employer or any other organization. I'm interested in this topic as someone who values organizational transparency and financial accountability across the nonprofit sector, not because of any organizational mandate.TLDR: After 50+ years of for-profit companies having international accounting standards, nonprofits finally have their own: INPAS (International

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15:39

“How Well Does RL Scale?” by Toby_Ord

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/22

This is the latest in a series of essays on AI Scaling. You can find the others on my site. Summary: RL-training for LLMs scales surprisingly poorly. Most of its gains are from allowing LLMs to productively use longer chains of thought, allowing them to think longer about a problem. There is some improvement for a fixed length of answer, but not enough to drive AI progress. Given the scaling up of pre-training compute also stalled, we'll see less AI progress via compute scaling than you might have

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10:29

[Linkpost] “How good would a CCP-dominated AI future...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/22

This is a link post. I am not American. But compared to China, I have plenty of friends from the U.S., Australia is more culturally similar to the U.S., and I have spent more time there. So, is the fact that I support the U.S. over China in the AI race just selfish and downstream of my personal circumstances?I would like to think not. But it is worth seriously considering what the future would be like if the CCP becomes the dominant player in AI development. Dominance in AI development could (but

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6:56

“Talking about longtermism isn’t very important” by cb

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/21

Epistemic status: quickly writtren, rehashing (reheating?) old, old takes. Also, written in a grumpier voice than I’d endorse (I got rained on this morning).Some essays on longtermism came out recently! Perhaps you noticed. I overall think these essays were just fine[1], and that we should all talk less about longtermism.In which I talk about longtermism (In what follows, I’ll take “longtermism” as shorthand for: “the effects of our actions on the long term future should be a key moral

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21:10

“Fruit-picking as an existential risk” by Arepo

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/21

TLDR Longtermists usually focus on lowering p(doom) of total extinction. I argue that resource entropy (picking the low hanging fruit) between civilisations is inevitable, and might dramatically reduce p(success) after a catastrophe thinking about p(success) requires longtermists to be more explicitly ambitious - not to settle for a civilisation that never leaves Earth this ambition ironically makes the case for moving longtermist cause priorities closer to the rest of society's - though perhaps

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54:52

“Discussions of Longtermism should focus on the...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/21

Abstract Objections to longtermism often focus on issues like fanaticism, discounting, or classic reasons to doubt the tractability of positively influencing the far future. I argue that another challenge has been underdiscussed relative to those—namely, that posed by unawareness: many of the long-term possibilities most relevant to our actions are unknown to us. I develop this challenge by introducing the notion of determinative unawareness, where unknown outcomes are decisive for whether an action

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9:53

“Introducing: the Global Volcano Risk Alliance...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/21

We want to highlight two things in this post: Mike haspublished an essay in Aeon about the threat from hidden volcanoes, among other aspects, it's got some volcano science, history, climate, pandemics and storytelling in it, so something for everyone I hope! It highlights the global scale of this risk, its underappreciation in terms of governance, monitoring and funding. If you get to the end of the Aeon article, you'll see Lara Mani and I (both volcanologists) have launched the first of its kind

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