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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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3:09

“You’re not the only one to have life events affect...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/28

Cross-posted from Otherwise Part of my job is being available as a “contact person” at some events. The main purpose is to address problems promptly if something happened at the event, but often I end up hearing from people who are stressed about something unrelated. Sometimes they need someone to listen to what's front-of-mind for them, which has included: They lost a pregnancy and they’re dreading people asking them about it Their marriage has fallen apart They just lost a family member to

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8:05

“AI Safety Field Growth Analysis 2025” by Stephen...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/28

Summary The goal of this post is to analyze the growth of the technical and non-technical AI safety fields in terms of the number of organizations and number of FTEs working in these fields. In 2022, I estimated that there were about 300 FTEs (full-time equivalents) working in the field of technical AI safety research and 100 on non-technical AI safety work (400 in total). Based on updated data and estimates from 2025, I estimate that there are now approximately 600 FTEs working on technical AI

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3:35

“AIM is hiring!” by Ambitious Impact

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/27

We're looking for two Research Managers and a Recruitment Manager to join our team from January 2026 Our bottleneck to launching more impactful nonprofits isn't funding – it's finding the right people and ideas. We're seeking a Recruitment Manager to attract the next generation of exceptional founders and two Research Managers to identify the interventions they'll implement. With everything else in place to double our impact, these roles are the missing pieces that will help us launch 20+

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11:37

“Introducing ‘Better for Animals’: A New Public...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/25

Animal advocates use a wide variety of approaches to help animals—from running corporate campaigns to get chickens out of cages, to researching wild animal welfare science, to influencing lawmakers to support plant-based policies. But which of these approaches are the most promising, and how can they be made more effective? Evaluating and comparing them is a monumental challenge—especially as our field has less empirical research available to guide decisions than other cause areas, such as global

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19:20

“Why you should eat meat, even if you hate factory...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/25

To start off with, I’ve been vegan/vegetarian for the majority of my life. I think that factory farming has caused more suffering than anything humans have ever done. Yet, according to my best estimates, I think most animal-lovers should eat meat. Here's why: It is probably unhealthy to be vegan. This affects your own well-being and your ability to help others. You can eat meat in a way thatsubstantially reduces the suffering you cause to non-human animals How to reduce suffering of the

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5:08

“Evaluating the Infinite” by Toby_Ord

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/25

(Link-post to https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19389 ) I've written a new paper some of you may be interested in. It was written in response to the problems arising in decision theory, economics, and ethics where standard approaches to evaluating an option leads to divergent sums or integrals. This makes it hard to evaluate and compare things like unending streams of value, when each option under consideration would standardly be assigned the value <span>_+infty_</span>. This leads theorists

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4:52

“GoodWallet: Scaling Effective Giving Through...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/25

We’re building a frictionless way to turn everyday transactions into donations to the world's most effective charities, and we’re seeking funding and partners to accelerate our growth. GoodWallet: Making Effective Giving Frictionless We’re building GoodWallet, a digital wallet that makes donating to high-impact charities as simple and seamless as sending money to a friend. Our simple, flexible design supports a wide range of real-world uses, such as repayments between friends, tips for creators,

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16:11

“Why I think capacity building to make AGI go well...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/25

Note: I am the web programme director at 80,000 Hours and the view expressed here currently helps shape the web team's strategy. However, this shouldn't be taken to be expressing something on behalf of 80k as a whole, and writing and posting this memo was not undertaken as an 80k project. 80,000 Hours, where I work, has made helping people make AI go well [1]its focus. As part of this work, I think my team should continue to: Talk about / teach ideas and thinking styles that have historically been

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2:06

[Linkpost] “Bracketing Cluelessness” by JesseClifton

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/25

This is a link post. “Bracketing Cluelessness” is a philosophy paper by Sylvester Kollin, Anthony DiGiovanni, Nicolas Macé, and myself, which presents a new approach to decision-making in the face of consequentialist cluelessness. Abstract: Consequentialists must take into account all possible consequences of their actions, including those in the far future. But due to the difficulty of getting a grasp on these consequences and producing non-arbitrary probabilities for them, it seems that

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39:08

“Bracketing cluelessness: A new theory of altruistic...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/25

Audio note: this article contains 126 uses of latex notation, so the narration may be difficult to follow. There's a link to the original text in the episode description. This is a less formal overview of the key ideas in the working paper “Bracketing Cluelessness”. There is also a standalone linkpost for the paper, which I’ve split off from this post, since this one contains personal commentary (not necessarily endorsed by my co-authors).Summary We may be clueless about how our actions affect

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120:35

“AI Safety Landscape & Strategic Gaps” by MichaelDickens

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/24

The content of this report was written by me, Michael Dickens, and does not represent the views of Rethink Priorities. The executive summary was prepared by Rethink Priorities; I edited the final revision, so any mistakes are my own.Executive Summary Why AI Landscape Research and Incubating New Projects Matters TAI may be a decade or less away, and misalignment could be catastrophic. We need repeated fast, rigorous scans of the field—what exists, what works, where funding and talent are

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2:57

“No one knows what the Opportunities board is, and...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/24

Last week I asked a group of very online EAs if they’d heard of the Opportunities board. To my surprise, not one of them had. So before sharing recent updates: The Opportunities board lists opportunities that require less time or expertise than a full-time role. It includes internships, volunteer opportunities, part-time roles, events, funding opportunities, training programs, and more. If you know someone who would benefit from the board, consider letting them know it exists! We’ve rolled out

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3:08

“No one knows what the Opportunities board is, and...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/24

Last week I asked a group of very online EAs if they’d heard of the Opportunities board. To my surprise, not one of them had. So before sharing recent updates: The Opportunities board lists opportunities that require less time or expertise than a full-time role. It includes internships, volunteer opportunities, part-time roles, events, funding opportunities, training programs, and more. If you know someone who would benefit from the board, consider letting them know it exists!View the board We’ve

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11:39

“Effective Lobbyism: Lessons from 5 years of...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/24

by Johnny Stengel – Political Advisor, Lobbyist, and Member of Effective Altruism Germany e.V. Introduction When people in the Effective Altruism community talk about “policy impact,” lobbying often comes up as one of the highest-leverage activities. But the practice of lobbying is rarely demystified. What does it actually look like? Who can do it effectively? How do you measure whether your hours in Brussels or Berlin truly shifted anything? I want to share my experience — as someone who built a

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1:46

“Beyond ‘Go Vegan’: A video introducing omnivores to...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/23

We've previously shared on the forum FarmKind's calculator to help meat-eaters offset the animal welfare impact of their diet through donations (like carbon offsets). You can see our original post and the discussion about the calculator here. One thing we've heard from early adopters is "this is great, and I think my [friend/family member] would be into this, but I'm not sure how to explain it to them". Understandable! Explaining to people that even if they're not willing to change their diet,

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5:21

“Learnings from running programs for busy people (MCF...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/23

This memo was originally written for the Meta Coordination Forum 2025. I’m sharing this here (with some edits) in the hope it will be useful for others as well. (my other MCF memos are here: How High Impact Professionals (HIP) can support you; More Sharing of Top Candidates - Easy, High-Impact, Underused) Disclaimer: I wrote this fairly quickly - no further research done compared to the data we have already available. I’ve learned a lot from running programs for experienced professionals who are

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11:06

“Moving to a hub, getting older, and heading home” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/23

Intro and summary “How many chickens spared from cages is worth not being with my parents as they get older?!” - Me, exasperated (September 18, 2021) This post is about something I haven’t seen discussed on the EA forum but I often talk about with my friends in their mid 30s. It's about something I wish I'd understood better ten years ago: if you are ~25 and debating whether to move to an EA Hub, you are probably underestimating how much the calculus will change when you’re ~35, largely related to

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26:36

“Cultivated Meat: A Wakeup Call for Optimists” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/22

Summary: Consumers rejected genetically modified crops, and I expect they will do the same for cultivated meat. The meat lobby will fight to discredit the new technology, and as consumers are already primed to believe it's unnatural, it won’t be difficult to persuade them. When I hear people talk about cultivated meat (i.e. lab-grown meat) and how it will replace traditional animal agriculture, I find it depressingly reminiscent of the techno-optimists of the 1980s and ‘90s speculating about how

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28:19

“EA Career Advising Ecosystem Mapping” by Vesa...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/22

This post provides a summary mapping of the EA / EA-adjacent career advising ecosystem as well as a list of various career resources, developed by the Career Advising Meta Forum. What is theCareer Advising Meta Forum? EA and EA-adjacent organisations offer, in aggregate, dozens of incredible resources and thousands of career advising sessions per a year. However, in early 2025, we realised that there existed seemingly few collaborations across the career advising sector. In late spring 2025, we

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2:18

“[Now peer-reviewed] Price-, taste-, and...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/19

My paper, "Price-, taste-, and convenience-competitive plant-based meat analogues would not currently replace the majority of meat consumption: A narrative review", first posted as a pre-print here on the EA Forum, is now published in the peer-reviewed journal Appetite.The work has undergone many improvements since it was first posted, so it may be worthwhile taking another look now, although the overall conclusion hasn't changed. In particular: The new section "Studies of price and

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