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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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11:58

“Applying to EA orgs? My thoughts as a new recruiter”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/20

In the spirit of Draft Amnesty Week, and in light of Ambitious Impact currently hiring for staff roles - one recruitment manager (or director) and two researchers - I thought I’d share some of my recent reflections on finding impactful careers as a new recruiter in an EA org. “Why is it so hard to get hired to do good?” First, I want to validate this point and say that I totally agree; it is (stupidly) hard. I personally applied to 16 EA orgs and spent >100 hours job searching, doing work

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27:56

[Linkpost] “Considerations around career costs of...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/20

This is a link post. Crossposted from LW. I didn't write this, but I know the author and think they're reasonable; I'm sharing it because it might be helpful. I think the direct effects of large donations strongly outweigh the personal side effects for almost everyone, but (if you don't already donate to Democrats) you should think before donating to Democrats if you really might work in a Republican administration, and if you're planning to donate <$1000 to Democrats you should consider instead

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5:53

“If We Can’t End Factory Farming, Can We Really Shape...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/20

Veganism as the Alignment Test for Longtermism Longtermism asks us to imagine the vastness of the future—trillions of lives, billions of years—and to act today as though those lives matter. It is a stirring vision, but it rests on a fragile assumption: that humanity is capable of aligning on a mission, coordinating across cultures and centuries, and acting with compassion at scale. Before we leap to the stars, we should ask whether we can pass the first test right in front of us: ending factory

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27:26

“What are the most effective global health charities...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/20

This post is written as part of the Draft Amnesty Week; it's an idea I've been thinking about for a while. Most of the figures here are rough, “best-guess” estimates, so please suggest improvements! Summary Most global health charities and evaluations focus on Lives Saved or DALYs (Disability-Adjusted Life Years), which generally only focus on post-birth outcomes However, according to (in my view) reasonable assumptions, birth is an arbitrary dividing line, and unborn children and potential lives

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11:14

“Navigating donation dilemmas: customizable Moral...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/20

Executive Summary Donors often navigate difficult choices among projects that have different outcomes and promote different values. Standard cost-effectiveness analyses allow us to see how changing assumptions (e.g., regarding moral weights or probabilities of success) can change our evaluations of individual interventions. However, they are less apt for dealing with uncertainty about these assumptions or navigating disagreements among stakeholders. Our Moral Parliament Toolallows users to navigate

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23:07

“Are longtermist ideas getting harder to find?” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/19

Imagine you are a junior advisor to the boss of some major EA longtermism-sympathetic org (OpenPhil, CEA, 80K, etc). You are tasked with reading the Essays on Longtermism compilation, and collating any novel insights that could significantly change what we should be doing. That is, we want essays that make ‘big, if true’ claims, and present interesting arguments for them. To be clear, this is a high bar! Novelty is hard, and action-relevance is even harder for orgs that have already thought a lot

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13:37

“How I expect TAI to impact developing countries” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/18

This is aDraft Amnesty Week draft.It may not be polished, up to my usual standards, fully thought through, or fully fact-checked. Commenting and feedback guidelines: I'm posting this to get it out there and hopefully elicit discussion but am pretty uncertain about this post as I am not that familiar with global development and am also relatively new to AI safety. So I could be overlooking some important factors. I would welcome any feedback, particularly from those with experience working with

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34:22

“Emerging evidence on treating cluster headaches with...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/18

DMT, the smallest microdose of maybe 5mg with a vape pen stops the worst pain known, in literally 10–20 seconds. Acid and mushrooms as well, but they take time to come up. Even the smallest sub-perceptual dose of DMT stops the pain. - Yiftach Yerushalmy, cluster headache patient One inhalation [of DMT] will end the attack for most people. Everybody is reporting the exact same thing. […] It could end that attack in less than a minute. […] You can take one inhalation, you can wait 30 seconds, and

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13:50

“AGI by 2032 is extremely unlikely” by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/17

Note: This is a somewhat rough post published as part of Draft Amnesty Week 2025. I very, very strongly believe there's essentially no chance of artificial general intelligence (AGI) being developed within the next 7 years.[1] Previously, I wrote a succinct list of reasons to doubt near-term AGI here. For example, it might come as a surprise that around three quarters of AI experts don’t think scaling up large language models (LLMs) will lead to AGI! For a more technical and theoretical view

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14:03

“AGI by 2032 is extremely unlikely” by Yarrow Bouchard🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/17

Note: This is a fairly rough post I adapted from some comments I recently wrote that I worked hard enough on that I figured I should probably make them into a post. So, although this post is technically not a draft, it isn't written how I would write a post — it's less polished and more off the cuff. If you think I should remove the Draft Amnesty tag, please say so, and I will! I very, very strongly believe there's essentially no chance of artificial general intelligence (AGI) being developed

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8:21

“Heavy Metals in Huel” by Kashvi Mulchandani 🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/17

This is aDraft Amnesty Week draft.It may not be polished, up to my usual standards, fully thought through, or fully fact-checked. Commenting and feedback guidelines: This draft lacks the polish of a full post, but the content is almost there. The kind of constructive feedback you would normally put on a Forum post is very welcome. This is a Forum post that I wouldn't have posted without the nudge of Draft Amnesty Week. Fire away! (But be nice, as usual) Thank you to @Jian Xin Lim 🔸 for

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8:28

“Heavy Metals in Huel” by Kashvi Mulchandani

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/17

This is aDraft Amnesty Week draft.It may not be polished, up to my usual standards, fully thought through, or fully fact-checked. Commenting and feedback guidelines: Keep one and delete the rest (or write your own): I'm posting this to get it out there. I'd love to see comments that take the ideas forward, but criticism of my argument won't be as useful at this time. This draft lacks the polish of a full post, but the content is almost there. The kind of constructive feedback you would normally

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8:27

“Heavy Metals in Huel” by Kashvi Mulchandani 🔹

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/17

This is aDraft Amnesty Week draft.It may not be polished, up to my usual standards, fully thought through, or fully fact-checked. Commenting and feedback guidelines: This draft lacks the polish of a full post, but the content is almost there. The kind of constructive feedback you would normally put on a Forum post is very welcome. This is a Forum post that I wouldn't have posted without the nudge of Draft Amnesty Week. Fire away! (But be nice, as usual) Thank you to @Jian Xin Lim 🔸 for

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2:45

“Entertainment for EAs” by Toby Tremlett🔹

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/17

I’ve used the phrase “entertainment for EAs” a bunch to describe a failure mode that I’m trying to avoid with my career. Maybe it’d be useful for other people working in meta-EA, so I’m sharing it here as a quick draft amnesty post. There's a motivational issue in meta-work where it's easy to start treating the existing EA community as stakeholders. The real stakeholders in my work (and meta-work in general) are the ultimate beneficiaries — the minds (animal, human, digital?) that could benefit

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5:07

“EA needs organic optics, not ‘no’ optics (hollywood...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/17

I know the movement may feel enticed to forgo optics, but ironically it seems like now would be the better time to care about them. For example, the forthcoming "The Altruists" at Netflix on FTX and now Luca Guadagnino's "Artificial" just wrapped (which is very specifically focused on the 5-day board firing of Sam Altman and will obviously cover the EA/AI safety movements). Knowing how antagonistic OpenAI is being toward any kind of policy work limiting AI companies development, and the only

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15:19

“Why Many EAs May Have More Impact Outside of...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/17

Many thanks to @Felix_Werdermann 🔸 @Engin Arıkan and @Ana Barreiro for your feedback and comments on this, and for the encouragement from many people to finally write this up into an EA forum post. For years, much of the career advice in the Effective Altruism community has implicitly (or explicitly) suggested that impact = working at an EA nonprofit. That narrative made sense when the community and its talent pool were smaller. But as EA grows, it's worth reassessing whether we’re

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4:59

[Linkpost] “Maybe ask for help more?” by SofiaBalderson

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/16

This is a link post. TL;DR: Self-reliance matters, but asking for help can often turn good work into great work. It saves time, builds trust, and strengthens the movement. In this short post, I recommend a few ways you can ask for help in your work and community. At a recent leadership gathering, we were discussing how many of us have too many tasks on our plates. Someone said something that stuck with me: “Ask your team for help. They want to help you and the org succeed.” It hit home. In

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1:52

“Introducing Senterra Funders: the new name for...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/15

As of today, Farmed Animal Funders is now Senterra Funders. Senterra Funders is a donor community of 49 individual and institutional funders, each giving $250,000+ annually to end factory farming and build sustainable food systems. We offer expert philanthropic advising, collaborative giving opportunities, and a vibrant community, while also working to increase the pool of funding for the movement to end factory farming. Why a new name? As we’ve implemented our strategy to reach new funders, we

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16:35

“Longtermism: An Impracticable Attempt to Reason Our...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/15

"If we recognise that it is a part of human nature to be prepared to sacrifice for others principally through emotive relationships and a lived experience of solidarity and empathy, we are left facing the awkward reality that, as a facet of cosmic complexity, utilitarianism, so well equipped to recognise the need to develop our relationship with future generations, may not be well equipped to do anything about it." A common frustration for those visiting Rome is the impossibility of seeing

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14:39

“A personal take on why you should work at...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/15

idenBasic facts: Forethought is hiring; applyfor a research roleby 1 November. The two open positions are for (i) “Senior Research Fellows” — people who can lead their own research directions, and (ii) “Research Fellows” — people who aren’t ready to lead an agenda yet, but who could work with others and develop their worldviews and research taste. Forethought is also open to hiring “visiting fellows” who would join for a 3-12-month stint. And you can refer peopleto get a bounty of up to £10,000

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