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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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8:46

“I give because it’s the most rational way to spend...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/15

I really enjoyed reading the "why I donate" posts in the past week, so much so that I felt compelled to add my reflections, in case someone finds my reasons as interesting as I found theirs. 1. My money needs to be spent on something, might as well spend it on the most efficient things The core reason I give is something that I think is under-represented in the other posts: the money I have and earn will need to be spent on something, and it feels extremely inefficient and irrational to spend it on

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8:20

“A Life That Cannot Be A Failure” by Bentham’s Bulldog

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/14

Crosspost. The core philosophical argument for giving is strikingly simple: charitable donations can prevent lots of death and suffering at a comparatively minor cost. For a few thousand dollars, you can save someone's life. By taking the Giving What We Can pledge—which I have taken, and I would encourage you to take—and giving away 10% of your lifetime income, you can save hundreds of lives without sacrificing anything of remotely comparable value. Taking the pledge likely does more good than

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13:01

“Giving Green’s 2025 Top Climate Nonprofits,...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/14

Climate action looks very different today than it did just a year ago. A new administration in the White House has reshaped the landscape, and climate donors face both setbacks and opportunities. We at Giving Green have spent the past year mapping out how smart donations can maintain (and accelerate) momentum under these new circumstances, both in the U.S. and globally. Our year-end climate giving guide, published in November, distills this work. In this post, we will cover: Giving Green's

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21:11

[Linkpost] “Your Goal Isn’t Really to Get a Job” by...

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2025/12/14

This is a link post. It's to build the skills required to solve the problems that you want to solve in the world [I am a career advisor at 80,000 Hours. This post is adapted from a talk I gave on career capital to some ambitious altruistic students. If you prefer slides, you can access them here. These ideas are informed by my work at 80k but reflects my personal views.] I’m often asked how to have an impactful fulfilling career. My four word answer is “get good, be known.” My “fits on a postcard”

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2:39

“You Can Just Buy Far-UVC” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/13

Far-UVC is something people havetalked about for years in a "that would be great, if you could buy it" sort of way. Coming soon, once someone actually makes a good product. But the future is now, and it costs $500. Many diseases spread through the air, which is inconvenient for us as creatures that breathe air. You can go outside, where the air is too dilute to spread things well, but it's cold out there, and sometimes wet. You can run an air purifier, but cleaning lots of air

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6:31

“I donate because I love humanity” by Aaron Gertler 🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/13

In 2016,[1] I wrote the following: Why do I give? I’ve lived a very fortunate life. I was born into a well-off American family, the son of two parents with college degrees. I attended a famous university. I didn’t deserve any of this; if I’d been born somewhere else, my life would have gone very differently. I give because I’d like to share the results of my luck with the less fortunate. I also give because I think that human happiness is the best thing in the world (in all its forms: love,

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6:49

“New 80k problem profile: extreme power...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/12

I recently wrote 80k's new problem profile on extreme power concentration (with a lot of help from others - see the acknowledgements at the bottom). It's meant to be a systematic introduction to the risk of AI-enabled power concentration, where AI enables a small group of humans to amass huge amounts of unchecked power over everyone else. It's primarily aimed at people who are new to the topic, but I think it's also one of the only write-ups there is on this overall risk,[1]so might be interesting

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4:28

“You can be very helpful to first-timers at EA...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/12

Confidence level: timecapped at around one hour. Mostly based on my own experience, first as a new, curious attendee at EA events, and later as someone trying to be helpful to even newer attendees at these events. Looking back on my first EA events, a handful of 1:1s and interactions have stood out as being outstandingly useful in guiding my EA path. I've noticed that these were 1:1s where the more experienced attendee was not just answering my questions, but structuring the meeting in order to

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5:52

“Why I donate: some selfish reasons” by Kestrel🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/12

This year, I have given money to a range of EA cause areas. Most of it has either been towards global health and development, or EA infrastructure I believe does or could lead to effective fundraising for global health and development. The following are a list of very selfish personal reasons why I like to do this. I feel the selfless reasons have been adequately covered elsewhere, so I'm intentionally leaving them off. I get to ignore ineffective charity adverts. In order to genuinely convince

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4:18

“Why I donate: seems easy, seems obvious, I rarely...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/12

I’ve been reading the other Why I Donate Week posts with interest. One of the main things that struck me reading them was something like: it seems like giving is a big part of these people's lives – which is beautiful and I love it. But I mostly don’t relate to it in a very similar way myself, so I thought I’d write this for a different perspective!I took the 10% Pledge in 2017, and have been giving at least 10% since then.[1] Currently I give in a vaguely Further-Pledge-like way, i.e. everything

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12:00

“The Further Pledge: Voluntary Simplicity” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/12

Conscious Meaning We share every moment with trillions of other conscious beings. Some are much like us, and others experience the world very differently. Creatures without a language to structure their thoughts, some who see broader spectrums of light or others who might experience the world in comparative slow motion. Each conscious moment immediately slips into the past largely unobserved and forgotten. They fall through time like snow to become frozen in the past. Always to have happened just

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19:34

“Announcing four new charities!” by Ambitious Impact

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/11

We are thrilled to introduce four new charities from our latest Charity Entrepreneurship incubation round! Collectively, they have secured $696,000 in seed funding to kickstart their ventures. Read on to learn more about these newly incubated organisations and how you can support their impact journeys! Short Summaries First Embrace Over 2 million babies die every year. That's 4 babies every minute. 80% of these are low-birth-weight (LBW) newborns. We can change this. Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC)

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1:07

[Linkpost] “Malaysia’s Islamic Authority Declares...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/11

This is a link post. Malaysia's Islamic authority declares cultivated meat can be halal - a first for a Muslim-majority country The Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia – JAKIM), through the National Muzakarah Committee, has issued a landmark religious ruling (fatwa) stating that cultivated meat can be halal if certain basic conditions are met. This declaration comes just months after Malaysia completed an expansive National Cultivated Meat Feasibility Study,

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16:03

[Linkpost] “Most Externalities are Solved with...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/11

This is a link post. [Subtitle.] Econ 101 Needs More Progress Studies This is a crosspost for Most Externalities are Solved with Technology, Not Coordination by Maxwell Tabarrok, which was originally published on Maximum Progress on 14 March 2025. The basic externalities story goes like this: Some things, like air quality or scientific discoveries, have effects which spread to millions of people without cost or reward to the creator. Actions with unpunished costs are over-produced and actions with

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0:46

[Linkpost] “The world’s largest insect farming...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/10

This is a link post. A commercial court has pronounced the judicial liquidation of French insect agriculture pioneer Ÿnsect following a hearing held earlier this week. The company, once seen as the poster-child for protein production via insect farming, now “calls for the acquisition of assets to continue its mission,” according to an official statement. ---First published: December 10th, 2025 Source:

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5:01

“Donation Election 2025 Winners” by Toby Tremlett🔹

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/10

Thanks to everyone who voted and/or donated to the Donation Election! Winners The winners this year are: The EA Animal Welfare Fund ($6693.75) The Shrimp Welfare Project ($4259.66) The Against Malaria Foundation ($4259.66) We used a ranked-choice voting to determine the winner. 314 of you voted, and 44 of you donated (thank you!). Below you can see how many people ranked the three winners 1–10 (based on initial votes). PS - just in the nick of time, Forum users donated enough to qualify for a

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7:02

“I Donate because I am Christian” by NickLaing

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/10

And Effective Altruism has put my faith community to shame The BeginningWhen I became a Christian age 15 my life began to transform, but sadly my first external play was proclaiming no sex before marriage and saying F#$% a bit less (I’ve since resumed). Two years later at premed, Tuesday was my only night with no tutorial so I joined a church group, which was weirdly labelled “Social Justice”. I had zero clue what this was aboutt, maybe preventing bullying at school?. Our leader Jo opened with a

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5:18

“Why I donate - and why I’m committing to a dynamic...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/10

Background: I've been donating since 2018, but I only signed the giving pledge last week. Thanks to @Amalie Farestvedt 🔸 from GWWC, Anthony Wong and others for helping me with the decision. My reasons for donating Like most EAs, I want to do good, and recognize that my money can go a hell of a way to helping other people, animals, or preventing bad things from happening. I'm so grateful that there are incredibly impactful opportunities out there. But, less commonly in EA, I also think... that I

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4:56

“The funding conversation we left unfinished” by jenn

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/10

People working in the AI industry are making stupid amounts of money, and word on the street is that Anthropic is going to have some sort of liquidity event soon (for example possibly IPOing sometime next year). A lot of people working in AI are familiar with EA, and are intending to direct donations our way (if they haven't started already). People are starting to discuss what this might mean for their own personal donations and for the ecosystem, and this is encouraging to see. It also has me

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4:47

“Why I donate (& pledge) - Responsibility, life...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/09

My decision to take the Giving What We Can (now the 10%) Pledge in September 2020 was based on the responsibility I felt with my great power, improving my own quality of life and the logic of it all. However, these thoughts were all quite unconscious back then and my decision to take the pledge was immediate as soon as I learned about it. To celebrate "Why I donate week" I decided to think through my reasoning, which was implicit back then, in more detail: With great power comes great

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