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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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9:07

“Accelerating the End of Cages: THL’s Room for More...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/18

THL exists to end the abuse of animals raised for food. Through strategic corporate negotiations, policy change, and movement building, we meaningfully reduce the suffering of millions of animals on factory farms around the world each year. THL currently has a funding gap of $3.6M for 2025. Beyond that, we have developed detailed plans to absorb over $4M in additional funding to high-impact interventions to reduce the suffering of chickens, the most widely abused land animals. With these funds, we

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70:42

“Rethink Priorities: 2025 Results, 2026 Plans and...

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2025/11/18

When Peter Wildeford and I founded Rethink Priorities (RP) in 2018, we saw a gap in the charity landscape: too few organizations were providing the rigorous comparative analysis needed to allocate resources optimally. Seven years later, thanks to the trust and support of this community, RP has become one of the few research organizations pioneering work in areas that didn't exist as distinct fields when we began. Since our early days, RP has grown into a think-and-do tank that combines careful

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9:10

“A list of resources on Cluelessness” by Jim Buhler

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2025/11/18

From summer 2024 up to summer 2025, I had been keeping track of these resources in a private Google Doc shared only with a couple of people. I realized others might benefit too, so here is the latest version, last-updated on August 7th, 2025. You'll find a few references that are missing from the list below in my post Discussions of Longtermism should focus on the problem of Unawareness (October 20th, 2025). See also DiGiovanni's Resource guide: Unawareness, indeterminacy, and cluelessness (July

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23:26

“Sentinel: Early Detection and Response for Global...

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2025/11/18

tl;dr: Sentinel is an open-source intelligence organization that rapidly identifies and reacts to global risks, particularly ones difficult to anticipate over longer time-horizons. We have filled $700K of our ~$1.6M budget and are looking to fill the rest to expand and sustain our large-scale open source monitoring for GCR.About Sentinel Sentinel is an open-source intelligence organization that focuses on rapidly identifying and reacting to global risks. During times of relative calm we build

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10:10

“Two years of doing advocacy on antimicrobial...

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2025/11/17

It's been just over two years since we launched ARMoR through the CE/AIM incubation program. Last year for marginal funding week, we wrote this post to explain the importance of antimicrobial resistance and the need for policies that incentivise the development of novel antibiotics; share some of the progress we made and lessons learned; and make the case that our work was worth supporting. This year, we will provide a short update to that post. In particular, we'll outline some important

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3:16

“The Humane and Sustainable Food Lab would spend...

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2025/11/17

Background on HSFL The Humane and Sustainable Food Lab (HSFL) is a research lab at Stanford University dedicated to accelerating the end of factory farming. We are interdisciplinary behavior scientists, e.g., we evaluate how adding plant-based options to menus, changes to choice architecture, or documentaries affect dietary choices and attitudes towards factory-farmed products. We also do more meta-level work, such as meta-analyses and re-analyses of existing research, as well as evaluations of

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14:53

“ACTRA: A Promising Crime-Prevention Intervention at...

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2025/11/17

ACTRA (Acción Transformadora), incubated through the AIM Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program, has just completed a strong first year — showing both traction and potential for impact. Said potential has led to the Happier Lives Institute awarding ACTRA an Honorable Mention for promising cost-effectiveness at scale. In this post, we will briefly outline our first year's traction, future plans, and the current opportunity to fund ACTRA. For a more thorough introduction into Cognitive

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9:31

“Faunalytics’ Funding Gap of $370,000” by JLRiedi

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2025/11/17

TL;DR: Faunalytics has an organizational funding gap of $370,000 for our 2025 budget. This funding is critical for ourorganizational stability, covering all remaining 2025 activities (including approximately $60k in final research projects) and addressing a shortfall in high-impact research already delivered this year. Securing this "Stability Gap" is the prerequisite for launching our 2026-2030 Strategic Plan. Funding beyond this gap will be directed to our “Growth Gap”: conducting new original

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10:37

“Ending Hunger for Millions of African Smallholder...

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2025/11/17

Every dollar donated to One Acre Fund will be matched 1:1 by The Life You Can Save.[1] To learn more about this ongoing campaign, visit https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/one-acre-fund-match/. What is One Acre Fund? Why Support Smallholder Farmers?According to the World Bank, half of the global extreme poor live in rural sub-Saharan Africa.[2] In these areas, where farming is the main livelihood, smallholders experience low yields and are exceptionally vulnerable to food insecurity. In fact,

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13:19

“We need to hold corporates accountable - here’s how...

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2025/11/17

In the spirit of “Marginal Funding Week” for the 2025 Giving Season on the EA Forum, we’d like to share with you The Humane League UK's (THL UK's) need for additional funding, what we would do with it, and how you can have a real impact on reducing the suffering of animals raised for food. We’re currently seeking funding for our 2025 match giving appeal. We’re hoping to raise a total of £100,000 to help us achieve our goals and continue fighting for animals long into the future. Structure of the

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12:19

“Piloting a digital treatment for COPD, the second...

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2025/11/17

TL;DR Respira Health are seeking $84k to pilot and begin scaling a virtual treatment program for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease*, the second leading cause of death in India and fourth globally (3.5 million annual deaths). Our treatment isn’t new, but our delivery model is.Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR) can cut mortality riskby 9% in just 3 sessions and is a well-evidenced treatment programme for COPD; it combines specialised physiotherapy exercises, education on health habits, and

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11:50

“Marginal funding to expand an innovative domestic...

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2025/11/17

TL;DR Who we are: NOVAH (No Violence At Home) launched in 2024 via Ambitious Impact/ Charity Entrepreneurship. We pioneer large-scale prevention of domestic violence through mass media. What we do: We produce radio drama edutainment—stories that emotionally engage listeners and change beliefs and behaviours more effectively than traditional education. Our programmes help listeners (mainly men) share decisions more equally, reduce harmful alcohol use, and better communicate at home. These changes

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9:47

“The Law Is on the Animals’ Side: Legal Impact for...

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2025/11/17

TL;DR: Legal Impact for Chickens (LIC) is a nonprofit law firm fighting factory-farm cruelty. In our four years in existence, LIC has: proven in court that animal protection organizations like LIC have the power to enforce California's animal cruelty law against ag companies, promptedCalifornia's largest poultry producer to announce it has made animal-welfare reforms, and stopped a DC butcher shop from selling foie gras. We’re now fundraising $690,000 to fill our gap for our 2026 planned budget

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30:37

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

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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...

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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?”...

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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...

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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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