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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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134:46

“Every Forum Post on EA Career Choice & Job Search”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/11/01

TLDR: I went through the entirety of the career choice, career advising, career framework, career capital, working at EA vs. non-EA orgs, and personal fit tags and have filtered to arrive at a list of all posts[1] relevant to figuring out the career aspect of the EA journey[2] up until now (10/25/25). The “Career Choice” section walks through: different career frameworks (how to go about making a career), career factors (aspects specific to yourself which change what sort of career you might have),

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16:03

“AI, Animals & Digital Minds NYC 2025: Retrospective”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/31

Our Mission: Rapidly scale up the size and influence of the community trying to make AI and other transformative technologies go well for sentient nonhumans. One of the key ways we do this is through our events. This article gives insight into our most recent event, AI, Animals and Digital Minds NYC 2025 including: Lightning talks Topics and ideas covered Attendee feedback Event finances Lessons for future events Acknowledgements More information on our community Our next conference, Sentient

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41:29

“Holden Karnofsky on dozens of amazing opportunities...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/31

By Robert Wiblin | Watch on Youtube | Listen on Spotify | Read transcript Episode summary Whatever your skills are, whatever your interests are, we’re out of the world where you have to be a conceptual self-starter, theorist mathematician, or a policy person — we’re into the world where whatever your skills are, there is probably a way to use them in a way that is helping make maybe humanity's most important event ever go better. — Holden Karnofsky For years, working on AI safety usually meant

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1:44

“Support Metaculus’ First Animal-Focused Forecasting...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/30

I'm putting together Metaculus' first animal-focused forecasting tournament, and am reaching out to ask for your support in making this happen. What is it? This tournament will generate probabilistic forecasts on decision-relevant questions affecting animals, from alternative proteins and animal welfare policy to AI impacts and wild animal welfare. The goal is to help funders, researchers, and organizations in our community make more informed strategic decisions. Why it matters Most forecasters

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17:42

[Linkpost] “The End of OpenAI’s Nonprofit Era” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/30

This is a link post. Key regulators have agreed to let the company kill its profit caps and restructure as a for-profit — with some strings attached This is the full text of a post first published on Obsolete, a Substack that I write about the intersection of capitalism, geopolitics, and artificial intelligence. I’m a freelance journalist and the author of a forthcoming book called Obsolete: Power, Profit, and the Race to Build Machine Superintelligence. Consider subscribing to stay up to date with

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13:47

“Some surprising hiring practices I follow (as a...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/30

The best approach to take to hiring differs by industry. This means that best practice differs across startups, think tank, a video production, non-profits, academia, and news outlets will all have different practices. The practices that work best in the EA ecosystem will be different again – but unfortunately the effective altruism organisation landscape is much smaller than all of those, and so people haven't written books on how to do it. I have been working as a hiring manager and sometimes

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56:26

“Resolving radical cluelessness with metanormative...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/30

Audio note: this article contains 381 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 post will be much easier to follow if you’ve first read either “Should you go with your best guess?” or “The challenge of unawareness for impartial altruist action guidance”. But it's meant to be self-contained, assuming the reader is familiar with the basic idea of cluelessness.) According to the view that we’re clueless,

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10:54

“Study: Giving people money returned 2.5x the value...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/30

Last year, GiveWell revised its estimate of our cost-effectiveness, rating our work 3–4x higher than before. That shift was driven in part by evidence on how cash transfers affect local economies. In this post, we break down that evidence, explaining how cash boosts local economies. Summary 📈 A one-time $1,000 GiveDirectly cash transfer generated 2.5x economic activity in rural Kenya. 💵 Most recipients spent locally, raising business revenue by 65% without causing major inflation. 🌍

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3:37

“New 80,000 Hours problem profile on the risks of...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/29

Hi everyone, Zershaaneh here! Earlier this year, 80,000 Hours published an article explaining the risks of power-seeking AI. This post includes some context, the summary from the article, and the table of contents with links to each section. (I thought this would be easier to navigate than if we just reposted the full article here!)Context This is meant to be a detailed, introductory resource for understanding how advanced AI could disempower humanity and what people can do to stop it. It replaces

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5:44

“Fish Have Surprisingly Impressive Mental...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/29

Improving the welfare of farmed fish is probably some of the most cost-effective near-term suffering reduction work the EA community engages in. To celebrate the EA community's amazing work for trillions of fish around the globe, here's a list of ten surprising fish behaviors and capabilities! Hopefully this list will help you/others appreciate the diversity, intelligence, and sentience of fish. Many of these examples are drawn from the excellent book on fish intelligence, What a Fish Knows by

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55:37

[Linkpost] “Q2 AI Benchmark Results: Pros Maintain...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/28

This is a link post. By Ben Wilson and John Bash from Metaculus Main Takeaways Top Findings Pro forecasters significantly outperform bots: Our team of 10Metaculus Pro Forecasters demonstrated superior performance compared to the top-10 bot team, with strong statistical significance (p = 0.00001) based on a one-sided t-test on Peer scores. The bot team did not improve significantly in Q2 relative to the human Pro team: The bot team'shead-to-head score against Pros was -11.3 inQ3 2024 (95% CI:

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5:14

“Modernizing the EA Funds website” by Agnes Stenlund 🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/28

In August we launched a redesign of the EA Funds website. The main goal was to improve overall perception and make the site feel modern, trustworthy, and more consistent with the effectivealtruism.org brand. We also wanted to aim the site more towards donors, increase transparency around grantmaking and evaluation, and improve overall usability.View the EA Funds website We've been making incremental improvements since launch and will continue to do so. The update includes: Improved messaging and

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13:50

“Is ‘cage free’ really the most humane option for...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/28

This article at Our World in Data arguing in favour of "cage free" hens includes this graph from the Welfare Footprint Project (which spoke at EAG 2023) which has a nice breakdown which concludes that cage free aviaries are the most humane option of three types of hen housing studied. However, according to this analysis, hens in furnished cages have the lowest prevalence of excruciating conditions- not cage free. Moreover I am not convinced the tables for disabling and excruciating conditions

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20:27

“Career Advice for Policy Researchers” by Shaan Shaikh

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/28

I’ve been a policy researcher (aka “think tanker”) for eight years.[1] Over this time, I’ve learned how good scholars conduct and share their research, build and manage their teams, and push their ideas into public policy. I’ve also seen some scholars struggle—falling prey to partisanship, corruption, or simply poor research or management practices. This post lays out my thoughts on how to be a good policy researcher. The first section describes useful skills, practices, and behaviors. The second

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4:23

“Should I tell EA orgs I’ll work for much less than...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/28

Would I be doing something wrong significantly undercutting other potential hires ? Some of what I’m thinking about is echoed in points made in this post previously, although I think my situation pertains more to the ethics of competing rather than the ethics of donating via salary-sacrifice. While @ElliotJDavies's post makes a strong case for EAs considering lower salaries as a form of donation, I’m trying to find answers to the specific ethical and practical questions around how to navigate this

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1:54

“What were mistakes of AI Safety field-building? How...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/27

AI Safety is an area that emerged from the EA community. EAs made the first significant efforts to build this field, and I’d say they have done a pretty good job overall. The number of people working on AI Safety has been increasing exponentially. However, many believe that the field-building efforts were not perfect. One example is that the talent pipeline has become over-optimized for researchers. We now seem to be entering a similar stage with AI Welfare. Following Longview's recent grants, the

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7:24

“Giving Season 2025 Announcement” by Toby Tremlett🔹

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/25

It's that time again — Giving Season, 2025. We’ve got a packed schedule of events on the EA Forum, aimed at eliciting more and better donations, as well as reaching new audiences. In this post, I’ll tell you what to expect, and how you can help. If you do one thing after reading this post, consider making it this:Donate to the donation election fundOverviewThroughout giving season I'll be encouraging posts on effective giving relevant topics, looking for earning-to-give-ers and organisations who

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8:07

“On What Is Prevented” by Bentham’s Bulldog

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/25

Crosspost of a blog here. 1 She remembered the day he was born. He was born, like all children are—wriggling and kicking and screaming. From the first time she set eyes on him, she knew she had birthed an angel. She marveled at how this creature—this small, delightful, adorable bundle of goodness and happiness, with his gurgles, his cries, and his laughs—had come out of her. If there are miracles, surely that is one. She remembered the day he began to crawl. Oh how proud he was of the crawling

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9:01

[Linkpost] “Dollars in political giving are less...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/25

This is a link post. I used to think that a dollar in my DAF[1] was approximately as good as a dollar in my normal bank account for making the world a better place. Lots of orgs try to measure or increase “charitable dollars,” with an implication that a 20-40% boost in charitable dollars via tax planning strategies[2] is highly worthwhile. But in the political giving world, charitable money is worth quite a bit less than more-flexible money and so if you are thinking about doing political giving you

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10:01

“Some personal thoughts about working at Tarbell” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/24

(Thanks to Lizka's recent post for the inspiration!) The Tarbell Center for AI Journalism supports journalism that helps society navigate the emergence of increasingly advanced AI. We're hiring for two roles running our flagship Fellowship Program: Program Manager/Director to lead the program — building the community of expert journalists who will hold frontier AI companies accountable, investigate emerging risks, and shape how the world understands transformative AI. (Senior) Program Associate,

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