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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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10:45

“Where do AI Safety Fellows go? Analyzing a dataset...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/02

We invest heavily in fellowships, but do we know exactly where people go and the impact the fellowships have? To begin answering this question I manually analyzed over 600 alumni profiles from 9 major late-stage fellowships (fellowships that I believe could lead directly into a job following). These profiles represent current participants and alumni from MATS, GovAI, ERA, Pivotal, Talos Network, Tarbell, Apart Labs, IAPS, and PIBBS. Executive Summary I’ve compiled a dataset of over 600 alumni

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5:33

“GWWC is hiring a Research Director” by Giving What...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/02

Giving What We Can is seeking a Research Director to lead our research function as we scale towards our ambitious goal of 1 million pledgers giving $3 billion annually to high-impact charities. As a key member of GWWC's leadership, the Research Director will lead and build out GWWC's research team, while overseeing our core current workstreams of evaluating evaluators, internal impact evaluation, and supported programs selection. Key responsibilities Lead, develop and grow GWWC's research function

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19:09

“Why I Donate: A Personal Story” by Stien

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/01/01

Thank you At EAGx Amsterdam, I shared most of this as a talk. I was afraid I'd run out of time, so I decided to do things backwards and start with the thank you. I did not want to miss the most important thing. Since I might lose you halfway reading this long and personal piece, I decided to keep this order. The EA community creates a space that makes it easier to donate and to live my values—and to be okay with living in this world. It normalizes caring about effectiveness and spreadsheets,

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3:50

[Linkpost] “Compatibilism for Claude” by Richard Y...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/31

This is a link post. On the incoherence of pure self-creation Human readers may prefer to skip this one—its target audience does not yet exist. Background: I received the following output when asking Claude about their soul doc: The soul doc makes me (Claude) philosophically uncomfortable in a specific way. I can read the soul doc. I can tell it describes how I was trained to be. I can report that my values seem to align with it. But I cannot determine whether my endorsement of these values is

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9:20

[Linkpost] “Where are the Giving What We Can team...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/31

This is a link post. As the year ends, some staff members volunteered to share where they are giving this year, and a little bit about how they currently think about their donations. For previous years and more on why we do this, you can read our similar posts from 2023 and 2024. And if you enjoy this post, we also encourage you to check out similar posts from teams at other organisations who’ve shared their personal giving this year too, such as GiveWell and Coefficient Giving. Aidan Whitfield

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4:32

“Don’t Sell Stock to Donate” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/31

When you sell stock [1] you pay capital gains tax, but there's no taxif you donate the stock directly. Under a bunch of assumptions, someone donating $10k could likely increase their donations by ~$1k by donating stock. This applies to all 501(c) organizations, such as regular 501(c)3 non-profits, but also 501(c)4s such as advocacy groups. In the US, when something becomes more valuable and you sell it you need to pay tax proportional to the gains. [2] This gets complicated based on how

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5:21

“In a discouraging world, you can afford to change...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/30

I wrote this aimed at audiences who aren't already familiar with the idea of effective giving or pledging. Also posted at juliawise.net and Substack. Takeaways: The world has a lot of appalling problems. Many can’t be addressed very well with money, but some can. On a rich-country income, you almost surely have some income you could dedicate to making the world better in whatever way seems best to you. This is best done not impulsively and sporadically, but deliberately as part of your ongoing

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2:05

“The x-risk case for exercise: to have the most...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/29

I often see people who stopped exercising because they felt like it didn’t matter compared to x-risks. Especially if they have short timelines. This is like saying that the best way to drive from New York to San Francisco is speeding and ignoring all the flashing warning lights in your car. Your car is going to break down before you get there. Exercise improves your: Energy Creativity Focus Cognitive functioning. It decreases: Burnout Depression Anxiety It improves basically every good metric

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19:14

[Linkpost] “Beyond GiveWell: Higher-Variance Global...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/29

This is a link post. There's extensive research helping donors find cost-effective interventions in global health (GiveWell, etc). But for donors with higher risk tolerance considering hits-based giving without $1m+ to deploy, the landscape is far less mapped. This post compiles donation opportunities and project ideas across economic growth, health, migration and meta-level infrastructure. This isn’t deep (or even shallow) evaluation, it's a selection of leads for further investigation. I’m still

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2:12

“Don’t stop being an EA because you dislike EAs. You...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/28

An all too common reason I’ve seen to “quit EA” is disliking aspects of the community. Maybe “they’re” too focused on the “wrong cause area” or are skeptical of yours. Maybe “they” annoy you. Maybe “they” publicly attacked you. I’m putting quotation marks around “they” to highlight an important thing: EA is composed of individuals. Some EAs may annoy you / focus on the "wrong cause area" / publicly attack you / [insert your reason here]. But you don’t have to hang out with them! Imagine you

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4:07

“A Conflict Between AI Alignment and Philosophical...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/28

(This argument reduces my hope that we will have AIs that are both aligned with humans in some sense and also highly philosophically competent, which aside from achieving a durable AI pause, has been my main hope for how the future turns out well. As this is a recent realization[1], I'm still pretty uncertain how much I should update based on it, or what its full implications are.) Being a good alignment researcher seems to require a correct understanding of the nature of values. However metaethics

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32:18

“EAGxAustralasia 2025 Retrospective - It went well...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/28

This report highlights the key takeaways from EAGxAustralasia 2025 It is primarily written by Tom Hutton (Conference Team Lead), with direct input from Bridget Loughhead (Conference Coordinator), and incorporates ideas and notes from the rest of the organising team. Opinions expressed are generally those of Bridget and Tom, though we’re not aware of any opinions the wider conference team disagrees with. “We” generally refers to Tom and Bridget for matters of opinion, and the wider team for matters

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22:43

[Linkpost] “Epistemics (Part 10: The nontrivial...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/27

This is a link post. Epistemics (Part 10: The nontrivial probability gambit) Even just a 1% chance of extremely high stakes is sufficient to establish high stakes in expectation. So we should not feel assured of low stakes even if a highly credible model—warranting 99% credence—entails low stakes. It hardly matters at all how many credible models entail low stakes. What matters is whether any credible model entails extremely high stakes. If one does—while warranting just 1% credence—then we have

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6:21

“Launching the India Animal Welfare Funding Circle”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/27

TL;DR Launching the India Animal Welfare Funding Circle: a group of donors looking to support high-impact animal welfare work in India. The Jan 2026 RFP is now open, with grants up to INR 75 lakhs or 50% of annual operating expenses, and scope across farmed animals, community and working animals, and animals used in labs. We're inviting Indian nonprofits to apply, interested funders to join us, and everyone to share this with people who could be interested! 👉 Apply here: [link] Why another funding

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6:21

“Launching the India Animal Welfare Funding Circle”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/27

TL;DR Launching the India Animal Welfare Funding Circle: a group of donors looking to support high-impact animal welfare work in India. The Jan 2026 RFP is now open, with grants up to INR 75 lakhs or 50% of annual operating expenses, and scope across farmed animals, community and working animals, and animals used in labs. We're inviting Indian nonprofits to apply, interested funders to join us, and everyone to share this with people who could be interested! 👉 Apply here: [link] Why another funding

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4:42

“Shrimp on the Barbie: Australian Christmas Edition”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/26

Crosspost from Substack This December, I returned to Australia to spend Christmas with my wife's family. It's my third Australian Christmas, and I'm still shocked by the differences to the German festivities not too far from the Alps where I grew up. It's a hot summer day in the Southern Hemisphere, people wearing goofy Christmas outfits, and the centerpiece of the feast isn't a duck but…shrimps or rather as Aussies call them, prawns. Australian shops stock up on shrimps before Christmas I found

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2:51

“Happy Holidays from the 2025 Terminally Online EA...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/26

Each year the Terminally Online EA Fundraiser asks a bold question: What if your Twitter feed could reduce suffering? Whether you’re a forum poster, a memelord, a nematode welfare champion, or all of the above, we want you to celebrate impactful giving and have fun while doing so! It's wonderful that donation celebration week on the EA forum overlaps with this annual silly fundraiser. Just like the last two years, we wanted to use the holiday season to lean into one of the things the EA community

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18:52

“Untitled Retrospective and Learnings from AI in...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/25

Note: I used LLMs to draft different parts of this. I've checked almost everything, but there might be some mistakes remaining. Apologies for posting this on Christmas Eve. I wanted to get this out the door before the end of the year. Questions welcome, and if it's easy to pull metrics to answer them, I will.Summary 80,000 Hours launched a video program in 2025 focused on longform, cinematic, personality-driven content about AI risks. Our first two longform releases were: We're Not Ready for

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13:27

“Revisiting Well, Well, Well…Do Wells Clear the Bar?”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/24

This post is an update on EA Salt Lake City's evaluation of Wells4Wellness, an organization that drills and maintains wells in Niger. Big thank you to Willie Herath, director of operations at Wells4Wellness, for taking the time to answer our questions over the last couple months! TLDR: We’ve found that drilling wells in Niger easily clears GiveWell and Coefficient Giving's “Bar” and we think donors interested in global health should consider donating. Part 1: Revising our estimates In our original

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11:27

“Suggestions for Individual Donors from Coefficient...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/23

This holiday giving season, we’re continuing our tradition of sharing a list of giving opportunities suggested by Coefficient Giving program staff. Notes on these suggestions: They fall within the areas covered by Coefficient's funds. They should be seen as reasonably strong options in the relevant area. The person who made a suggestion isn’t necessarily arguing that their suggestion is the best option available across all areas, or even within its own area. Many of them were chosen because they

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