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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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1:51

“Offering higher salaries than social-sector peers”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/23

My - purely anecdotal - sense is that GiveWell pays more than many of its social sector peers. I imagine for many employees, their compensation at GiveWell exceeds what they'd earn if they took the next-best available job (as judged by the employee), which is often also in the social sector. This would create some "job lock" where people will stay at GiveWell even if they think they can do more good elsewhere; that extra good is outweighed by their higher material well-being if they stay at

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3:32

“New Documentary on AI and Animals” by Animal_Ethics

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/23

Following the release of the documentary Seantience early this year, Animal Ethics will launch a new film in early 2026: AI &Animals. This documentary examines how advances in AI may affect the lives of nonhuman animals, both negatively and positively. You can watch the teaser here. The film features advocates and academics discussing: How AI systems could increase animal suffering in factory farming How AI-driven research and monitoring can scale efforts to reduce wild animal suffering, and

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42:56

“How AI is affecting farmed aquatic animals. Part 1:...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/23

AI in aquaculture research at Rethink Priorities Rethink Priorities’ How AI is affecting farmed aquatic animals is a three-part series that examines AI technologies being developed to address challenges in the aquaculture industry. As global aquaculture faces economic and technical constraints, this series examines whether and how the industry is turning to AI solutions to facilitate expansion. The series evaluates the innovation, deployment, and animal welfare impacts of these technologies to help

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9:10

“Whose expected value? Making sense of EA...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/22

Cross-posted from my Substack. Summary. I state the “Ideal Reflection” principle, which says that our beliefs should match our expectations of what an ideal version of ourselves would believe. I argue that Ideal Reflection can help rationalize how Effective Altruists use the concept of expected value, and that whether we accept Ideal Reflection has important real-world implications. Here's an aspect of Effective Altruist discourse that has confused me for the longest time: EAs will often talk

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15:11

“How I Attempted to Measure the Impact of My...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/22

TL;DR: Working as Lead Outreach Manager at a mental health nonprofit in Japan, I realized we couldn't answer a basic question funders kept asking: "What's your actual impact?" We had activity metrics (workshops delivered, calls answered) but no outcome metrics. So I built a cost-effectiveness framework using national police data and our publicly available financial records to create a model-based estimate of potential impact. Under plausible assumptions (25% intervention effectiveness), the program

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9:10

“Join our EA Coworking Hub in Southeast Asia this...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/22

Da Nang EA Coworking Hub Feb 1st – Apr 1st · Da Nang, Vietnam A 2-month coworking + coliving hub for impact-focused professionals who want to do meaningful work alongside a like-minded community! What is this? The Da Nang Impact Hub is a temporary coworking and coliving setup for people working on impact-focused work. The goal is simple: make it easier to do focused work and build real connections with other like-minded professionals, without needing to be in expensive cities like SF or London to

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11:24

“Longview is hiring: What Longview is like (from my...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/21

Longview is aiming to grow from our current team size (24) to 35+ in 2026. We’re inviting applications for ~nine open roles (see below) and I realised many potential applicants might not have a good sense of what Longview is and is like in 2025. Inspired by Lizka & Cb, this post aims to (1) update people about where Longview is at in 2025 and (2) share some of my experience from my 4+ years here. Disclaimer: I am writing only from my perspective. Roles, personalities, and subjective

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5:52

“Contradict my take on OpenPhil’s past AI beliefs” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/21

At many points now, I've been asked in private for a critique of EA / EA's history / EA's impact and I have ad-libbed statements that I feel guilty about because they have not been subjected to EA critique and refutation. I need to write up my take and let you all try to shoot it down. Before I can or should try to write up that take, I need to fact-check one of my take-central beliefs about how the last couple of decades have gone down. My belief is that the Open Philanthropy Project, EA

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6:35

“My friend is in jail, and the world is our...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/19

Zoe Rosenberg made national headlines for rescuing chickens. The animal movement should keep experimenting with creative tactics. I. MY FRIEND IS IN JAIL Last week, my friend Zoe Rosenberg was incarcerated. She joins the nearly two million Americans confined to jails and prisons, and the one billion animals caged within our nation's factory farms. The government will subject her to solitary confinement for 23 hours of the day, and it is already depriving her of the proper care to treat her Type I

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1:51

“Seeking Guest Teacher to Represent EA at UNC” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/19

I’m a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, and I’m looking for a guest speaker to talk about utilitarianism and effective altruism in my spring course on “Pursuing the Good Life.” Think of this as an invitation to make your best pitch to college students that they should live well by putting philosophy into practice. The class will survey answers to the question “What is the good life?” from a variety of philosophical and religious traditions. I’m inviting guest teachers who can share with the class both

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8:22

“80 People attended our animal welfare career event....

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/18

This summer, we organized our first animal welfare career event, and the response exceeded our expectations. We brought together over 80 students and professionals for a half-day in-person event, all united by a single question: How can I make the biggest possible difference for animals through my career? We designed the day to answer that question practically. At the event, speakers from research, nonprofits, and business shared concrete strategies for creating impact. A hands-on workshop also

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8:02

“Why haven’t we seen a promising longtermist...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/18

The word "longtermism" was first used publicly, here on the Effective Altruism Forum, in 2017. In the intervening eight years, a few books on longtermism have been written, many papers have been published, and countless forum posts, blog posts, tweets, and podcasts have discussed the topic. Why haven’t we seen a promising longtermist intervention yet? For clarity, longtermist interventions should meet the following criteria: Promising: the intervention seems like a good idea and has strong

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11:18

“Announcing RoastMyPost” by Ozzie Gooen

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/18

Today we're releasing RoastMyPost, a new experimental application for blog post evaluation using LLMs. Try it Here. TLDR RoastMyPost is a new QURI application that uses LLMs and code to evaluate blog posts and research documents. It uses a variety of LLM evaluators. Most are narrow checks: Fact Check, Spell Check, Fallacy Check, Math Check, Link Check, Forecast Check, and others. Optimized for EA & Rationalist content with direct import from EA Forum and LessWrong URLs. Other links use

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0:57

[Linkpost] “The Best Treatment for the Most Painful...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/18

This is a link post. Peter Singer's latest column on Project Syndicate is about cluster headaches. Sufferers of cluster headaches, also known as "suicide headaches," will do anything to stop what is possibly the most painful condition known to medicine, including using illegal drugs like psilocybin and LSD. Given strong evidence that psychedelics work, why aren't doctors allowed to prescribe them? He also urges readers to sign our open letters on clusterfree.org. Please sign and ask others to sign

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6:54

“Contra Yascha Mounk on ‘The World Happiness Report...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/17

Here is Yascha's original article.For context, the WHR aggregates 1,000 sampled individuals from almost every country on Earth, who are asked to rate their lives on a scale of 1–10 (known as the Cantril Ladder). It produces a ranking with Nordic countries quite high, and developing countries quite low, with some surprises in between. Yascha's main critiques seem to be: The Cantril Ladder measures life satisfaction rather than momentary happiness There is a seeming inverse correlation between

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33:09

“Rerunning the Time of Perils” by William_MacAskill

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/16

This post is an experiment in two ways that I explain in comments here and here. But you don't need to read those comments before reading this post. 1. Introduction In What We Owe the Future I argued that even very severe non-extinction catastrophes are unlikely to permanently derail civilisation. Even if a catastrophe killed 99.9% of people (leaving 8 million survivors), I'd put the chance we eventually re-attain today's technological level at well over 95%. On the usual longtermist picture, this

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10:23

“Ten big wins in 2025 for farmed animals” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/16

Note: This post was crossposted from the Coefficient Giving Farm Animal Welfare Research Newsletter by the Forum team, with the author's permission. The author may not see or respond to comments on this post. It can feel hard to help factory-farmed animals. We’re up against a trillion-dollar global industry and its army of lobbyists, marketeers, and apologists. This industry wields vast political influence in nearly every nation and sells its products to most people on earth. Against that, we are a

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41:22

“12+ Reasons to Donate to ClusterFree” by algekalipso

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/16

By Andrés Gómez Emilsson, ClusterFree Co-Founder & Member of Advisory Board TL;DR: To motivate action and feel genuine internal alignment around a decision, sometimes we need to see it from many different angles. Even when a single reason should be enough, we need to motivate our entire internal coalition of subagents! Hence, all of these reasons to support ClusterFree in its mission: Summary of the 12+ Reasons to Support This Cause Watchreal people rapidly improve -Video testimonials of

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11:15

“How to navigate giving to neglected animals: guides...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/15

TLDR: Rethink Priorities has released three separate donor guides for farmed insects, farmed shrimp, and wild animal welfare—fields with enormous impact potential but challenging information environments. Our guides clarify the funding landscapes, identify strategic bottlenecks, and highlight promising opportunities. We're also launching a Neglected Animals Giving Network in early 2026 to provide donors with private briefings and personalized guidance. Complete our expression-of-interest form or

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7:37

“EA orgs overhire comms and underhire growth” by Anna...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/15

TL;DR Across EA job boards and Forum postings, 70–90% of "marketing-related" roles are comms-focused, while only ~10–20% relate to digital acquisition, funnels, growth, or retention. Several marketers in EA report that our ecosystem is 4–5 years behind standard digital marketing practices—particularly in experimentation, targeting, lifecycle marketing, and channel attribution. This imbalance has real opportunity costs: many high-leverage programs (training, fellowships, campaigns, fundraising,

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