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Audio narrations from the Effective Altruism Forum, including curated posts and posts with 125 karma. If you"d like more episodes, subscribe to the "EA Forum (All audio)" podcast instead.

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9:29

Future of Humanity Institute 2005-2024: Final Report

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/04/17

This is a link post. Anders Sandberg has written a “final report” released simultaneously with the announcement of FHI's closure. The abstract and an excerpt follow. Normally manifestos are written first, and then hopefully stimulate actors to implement their vision. This document is the reverse: an epitaph summarizing what the Future of Humanity Institute was, what we did and why, what we learned, and what we think comes next. It can be seen as an oral history of FHI from some of its members. It

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3:40

“Announcement: We are rebranding to Shrimpactful...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/04/01

Impactful Animal Advocacy is thrilled to announce that after careful consideration and complex moral calculations, we have decided to rebrand to Shrimpactful Animal Advocacy. Why shrimp, you ask? Well, we've crunched the numbers and determined that improving the welfare of shrimp is one of the highest-impact opportunities in the animal advocacy space. Source: https://foodimpacts.org/ In light of this strong evidence, Shrimpactful Animal Advocacy will be laser-focusing all of our efforts and

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4:41

[Linkpost] “Open Philanthropy: Our Progress in 2023...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/03/31

Like many organizations, Open Philanthropy has had multiple founding moments. Depending on how you count, we will be either seven, ten, or thirteen years old this year. Regardless of when you start the clock, it's possible that we’ve changed more in the last two years than over our full prior history. We’ve more than doubled the size of our team (to ~110), nearly doubled our annual giving (to >$750M), and added five new program areas. As our track record and volume of giving have grown, we are

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“Announcement on the future of Wytham Abbey” by Rob...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/03/30

The Wytham Abbey Project is closing. After input from the Abbey's major donors, the EV board took a decision to sell the property. This project's runway will run out at the end of April. After this time, the project will cease operations, and EV UK will oversee the sale of the property. The Wytham Abbey team have been good custodians of the venue during the time they ran this project, and EV UK will continue to look after this property as we prepare to sell. The proceeds of the sale, after the cost

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8:31

“Killing the moths” by Bella

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/03/25

This post was partly inspired by, and shares some themes with, this Joe Carlsmith post. My post (unsurprisingly) expresses fewer concepts with less clarity and resonance, but is hopefully of some value regardless. Content warning: description of animal death. I live in a small, one-bedroom flat in central London. Sometime in the summer of 2023, I started noticing moths around my flat. I didn’t pay much attention to it, since they seemed pretty harmless: they obviously weren’t food moths, since they

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“Unflattering aspects of Effective Altruism” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/03/25

I've been writing a few posts critical of EA over at my blog. They might be of interest to people here:Unflattering aspects of Effective Altruism Alternative Visions of Effective Altruism Auftragstaktik Hurdles of using forecasting as a tool for making sense of AI progress Brief thoughts on CEA's stewardship of the EA Forum Why are we not harder, better, faster, stronger? ...and there are a few smaller pieces on my blog as well. I appreciate comments and perspectives anywhere, but

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“The current limiting factor for new charities” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/03/21

TLDR: we think the limiting factor for new charities has shifted from founder talent to early stage funding being the top limiting factor. We have historically written about limiting factors and how they affect our thinking about the highest impact areas. For new charities, over the past 4-5 years, fairly consistently, the limiting factor has been people; specifically, the fairly rare founder profile that we look for and think has the best chance at founding a field-leading charity. However, we

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2:59

“The current limiting factor for new charities” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/03/21

TLDR: we think the limiting factor for new charities has shifted from founder talent to early stage funding being the top limiting factor. We have historically written about limiting factors and how they affect our thinking about the highest impact areas. For new charities, over the past 4-5 years, fairly consistently, the limiting factor has been people; specifically, the fairly rare founder profile that we look for and think has the best chance at founding a field-leading charity. However, we

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5:52

“The Scale of Fetal Suffering in Late-Term Abortions”...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/03/20

This is a draft amnesty post. Summary. It seems plausible that fetuses can suffer from 12 weeks of age, and quite reasonable that then can suffer from 24 weeks of age. Some late-term abortion procedures seem that they might cause a fetus excruciating suffering. Over 35,000 of these procedures occur each year in the US alone. Further research would be desired on interventions to reduce this suffering, such as mandating fetal anesthesia for late-term abortions. BackgroundMost people agree that a

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5:52

“EA ‘Worldviews’ Need Rethinking” by Richard Y Chappell

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/03/19

I like Open Phil's worldview diversification. But I don't think their current roster of worldviews does a good job of justifying their current practice. In this post, I'll suggest a reconceptualization that may seem radical in theory but is conservative in practice. Something along these lines strikes me as necessary to justify giving substantial support to paradigmatic Global Health & Development charities in the face of competition from both Longtermist/x-risk and Animal Welfare competitor

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26:31

“How we started our own EA charity (and why we...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/02/26

This post shares our journey in starting an Effective Altruism (EA) charity/project focused on Mediterranean fish welfare, the challenges we faced, our key learnings, and the reasons behind our decision to conclude the project. Actual research results are published in a Literature review and article. Key points The key points of this post are summarized as follows: We launched a project with the goal of enhancing fish welfare in Mediterranean aquaculture. We chose to limit our project to

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26:31

“How we started our own EA charity (and why we...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/02/26

This post shares our journey in starting an Effective Altruism (EA) charity/project focused on Mediterranean fish welfare, the challenges we faced, our key learnings, and the reasons behind our decision to conclude the project. Actual research results are published in a Literature review and article. Key points The key points of this post are summarized as follows: We launched a project with the goal of enhancing fish welfare in Mediterranean aquaculture. We chose to limit our project to

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15:26

“Things to check about a job or internship” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/02/12

A lot of great projects have started in informal ways: a startup in someone's garage, or a scrappy project run by volunteers. Sometimes people jump into these and are happy they did so. But I’ve also seen people caught off-guard by arrangements that weren’t what they expected, especially early in their careers. I’ve been there, when I was a new graduate interning at a religious center that came with room, board, and $200 a month. I remember my horror when my dentist checkup cost most of a month's

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9:04

“My Donations 2023 - Marcus Abramovitch” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/02/11

Summary $8003.98 Charity Entrepreneurship $5000 Insect Institute $5000 Shrimp Welfare Project $5000 Rethink Priorities $5000 Animal Ethics $1000 Wild Animal Initiative Background I think it's good to keep track of and explain donations. It creates a record to get better over time and gives others insights into how you donate. I officially made $45000 in 2023. I earned some investment income from some other sources though this is hard to quantify. I also had some savings from previous years so

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“Mathilde Danès (1994-2024)” by Elisa Autric, update🔹

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/02/08

It is with great sadness that we share with you the passing of our fellow community member and beloved friend Mathilde Danès, at age 29. A dedicated EA, animal advocate, and children's rights supporter, Mathilde had discovered the effective altruism community in 2016-2017, and the farm animal advocacy movement not long after. In 2018, she co-founded a local EA chapter in Lille, where she then lived. Other notable accomplishments of hers, among the many altruistic actions she took, include catering

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“Altruism sharpens altruism” by Joey 🔸

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/12/26

I think many EAs have a unique view about how one altruistic action affects the next altruistic action, something like altruism follows a power law in terms of its impact, and altruistic acts take time/energy/willpower; thus, it's better to conserve your resources for these topmost important altruistic actions (e.g., career choice) and not sweat it for the other actions. However, I think this is a pretty simplified and incorrect model that leads to the wrong choices being taken. I wholeheartedly

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In Continued Defense Of Effective Altruism — Scott...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/11/29

This is a link post. --- First published: November 29th, 2023 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ML6hxqM6g6mXewJtZ/in-continued-defense-of-effective-altruism-scott-alexander Linkpost URL:https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-continued-defense-of-effective --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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12:57

“GWWC’s evaluations of evaluators” by Sjir...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/11/22

The Giving What We Can research team is excited to share the results of our first round of evaluations of charity evaluators and grantmakers! After announcing our plans for a new research direction last year, we have now completed five[1] evaluations that will inform our donation recommendations for this giving season. There are substantial limitations to these evaluations, but we nevertheless think that they are a significant improvement on the status quo, in which there were no independent

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13:58

“Takes from staff at orgs with leadership that went...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/11/09

I spoke with some people who worked or served on the board at organizations that had a leadership transition after things went seriously wrong. In some cases the organizations were EA-affiliated, in other cases only tangentially related to the EA space. This is an informal collection of advice the ~eight people I spoke with have for staff or board members who might find themselves in a similar position. I bucketed this advice into a few categories below. Some are direct quotes and others are

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12:47

[Linkpost] “Why I’m still going out to bat for the EA...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/09/30

This is a link post. From the looks of it, next week might be rough for people who care about Effective Altruism. As CEA acting CEO Ben West pointed out on the forum: “Sam Bankman-Fried's trial is scheduled to start October 3, 2023, and Michael Lewis's book about FTX comes out the same day. My hope and expectation is that neither will be focused on EA … Nonetheless, I think there's a decent chance that viewing the Forum, Twitter, or news media could become stressful for some people, and you may want

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