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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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21:49

“What Happens After the Career Advice” by Anaeli V. 🔹

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/24

Thanks to @Mathieu Duteil for all of his insights in writing this post! TL;DR EA has a strong infrastructure for inspiring people to pursue impactful careers. The infrastructure for helping them actually get there, especially in operations, is far less developed. After applying to dozens of operations roles over the past 6 months, I observed patterns suggesting inefficiencies in how EA organizations hire: they run parallel processes for similar roles and screen for overlapping competencies. I

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9:40

“What I Learned Trying to Find the Most Effective...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/23

What is Power for Democracies (P4Dem)? We are a nonpartisan research organization that evaluates civil society organizations (CSOs); makes recommendations to impact-oriented donors; and produces analysis to help democracy researchers and practitioners improve their understanding of which pro-democracy tactics work and under what conditions. I've been Research Director at P4Dem for the past year. This post is a reflection on our first major project, what I think we got right, and where we can do

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3:23

“Reasoning Transparency demands AI-use disclosure” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/23

Post drafted and edited by the author. Claude and Grammarly were used for a light copyedit As AI tools become increasingly useful for communicating research, opinions, or simply sharing ideas, it is becoming important to proactively disclose their use when we communicate with others. Being transparent demands AI-use disclosure. Organizations that communicate externally should embed strong AI-disclosure norms, and so should the forum. If you use AI tools for interpersonal communication, disclose

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8:59

“EA adjacent, but not like that” by Oscar Howie

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/23

There was a dream that was sports blogging for impact, and it wasn’t built in a dayNot everything should be a rocketship Mikel Arteta was appointed Arsenal manager in 2019. Before Covid. Before Biden was too old. Before I’d heard of effective altruism, or thought about the tradeoff between a Bayesian approach to impact-maximizing career choices and the organizational stability required to take our best shot at solving the world's most pressing problems. A disciple of Pep Guardiola, the preeminent

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11:22

“What I’ve learnt after working with 258 EA...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/22

Over the past several years I’ve worked with 258 EA organisations through User-Friendly, most often on branding, websites, and campaigns. Working across this many organisations has given me a fairly wide view of how marketing is currently understood and used within the EA ecosystem. The contexts vary, but the underlying patterns are surprisingly consistent, regardless of cause area, size, or geography. This post is a reflection on those recurring patterns. It is not intended as criticism, and it is

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1:26

“Is EA sleeping on making dogs and cats vegan?” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/21

New paper on plant-based diets for companion dogs and cats: Sustainable Pet Diets: A Leading Effective Altruism Issue. The paper argues that transitioning companion dogs and cats to plant-based diets is: Important – a full global transition would apparently spare around 7 billion land animals each year (and reduce environmental harm, and improve food security). Tractable – 13 to 19% of guardians are open to plant-based diets for their dogs/cats if their concerns are addressed, according to two

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3:39

“80,000 Hours problem profile on using AI to enhance...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/21

Hi everyone, Zershaaneh here! 80,000 Hours has published an article on using AI to improve societal decision making. This post includes some context, the summary from the article, and the table of contents with links to each section.Context This is meant to be a medium-depth, introductory resource for understanding how AI tools could be used to enhance societal decision making — and why speeding up their development and adoption could make a huge difference to how the future unfolds. It covers:

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3:27

“Apply for the Digital Minds Fellowship (Aug 3–9,...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/20

Digital minds may become one of the most consequential issues of the future — and the world needs people prepared to navigate it. We're launching the Digital Minds Fellowship, a fully funded week-long program at Cambridge for 15 participants looking to build careers in digital minds/AI welfare. Applications open now, deadline March 27. Why this fellowship? Unlike more established fields such as AI safety and governance, the digital minds field is still nascent. Identifying promising research

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7:28

“My EA Story in brief plus some comments on EA” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/20

Hello! I’ve recently been working on a memoir of my time in EA (Harri Besceli and the non methods of post-rationality). However, AI timelines have led me to conclude that everything I had previously planned on doing over the course of the coming months or years, must now be completed as soon as possible, ideally by the end of the weekend. Given that, I’m sharing the quick version now, and hope to complete the full version in the fullness of time. Here's my story in brief: Proto EA As a child

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1:44

“Applications Open: New Roots Institute Fellowship”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/19

Hi all, Do you know high school or college students eager to reduce farmed animal suffering? Applications are now open for the New Roots Institute Fellowship! The Fellowship equips students with the knowledge, skills, and networks they need to challenge industrial animal agriculture. Students begin with our six-week virtual summer Leadership Academy, and many continue into the Academic Year Fellowship, where they launch and lead high-impact campaigns and can receive a project grant of up to $2,500

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19:07

“Ajeya Cotra on whether it’s crazy that every AI...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/19

By Robert Wilbin | Watch on Youtube | Listen on Spotify | Read transcript Episode summary Whether or not we get AGI in the next few years, a lot of people are starting to not really care about that question. They still expect the next 25 years or the next 50 years to play out kind of like the last 25 years or the last 50 years… Whereas I think that there's a pretty good chance that by 2050 the world will look as different from today as today does from the hunter-gatherer era. It's like 10,000

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12:16

“Where are all the Animal Activists?” by Zachary Segall

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/18

Back-of-the-Envelope Activist Math There are about 118,000 vegetarians and vegans in the Seattle metro area. Of those, approximately 50 participate in any kind of regular activism (at least once every two months): Justice For Animals gets ~5-10 people; the Animal Rights Initiative gets around a dozen; the Northwest Animal Rights Network has ~20-30; and The Humane League has half-dozen.[1] Another 50 to 100 people participate irregularly, perhaps once or twice a year. Taking the more generous number

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15:52

[Linkpost] “How to get a job in EA (Unpractical guide...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/17

This is a link post. TLDR: This is my 8th year as a member of the Effective Altruism community, and I thought I would share some observations on building a mindset that can help others get jobs at high-impact organizations. The tone of this post is very informal as I am mostly copying and pasting it from my blog. It's for the admins to decide if that is OK, I hope it is. My story with working in EA-aligned organizations starts in 2018, when a friend of mine mentioned that some weird project she’d

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2:39

[Linkpost] “I wrote a book about philanthropy: Twice...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/17

This is a link post. The tl;dr I have written a new book on philanthropy! It is called “Twice As Good - Practical Tools To Double the Impact of Your Philanthropy” Who it's for This book is best fit for foundations and philanthropists who are keen on giving more effectively. Currently, there aren’t many tools for donor education - you can’t exactly get a Master's degree in philanthropy - and I have found many grantmakers who want to learn but have limited options. The space is currently dominated by

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7:49

“Introducing our newest charity recommendations—from...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/16

Introducing our newest recommended ideas We are excited to share four new charity ideas recommended for the September 2026 cohort of the Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program. Over the second half of 2025, we evaluated a range of interventions aimed at improving health and well-being in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This round focused in particular on two broad areas: improving access to essential health services where delivery systems remain weak, and addressing large,

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[Linkpost] “Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/16

This is a link post. Staff members at the United States's premier infectious-disease research institute have been instructed to remove the words “biodefense” and “pandemic preparedness” from the institute's web pages, according to e-mails Nature has obtained. The directive comes amid a broader shake-up at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of 27 institutes and centres at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIAID is expected to deprioritize the two

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6:28

“What is Love ft. Claude & VascoBot” by AgentMa🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/14

What is the highest form of love? According to the VascoBot Claude programmed for me: “Thanks for the great question, AgentMa🔸. I strongly upvoted it. I think the highest form of love is expected total hedonistic utilitarianism (ETHU) applied to all sentient beings, weighted by their welfare ranges as a fraction of that of humans. However, I believe most discussions of love neglect the welfare implications for soil animals and microorganisms, which I think dominate the expected value calculations

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3:58

“80,000 Hours says we need more people — so why do...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/13

I'm trying to reconcile the arguments (and marketing) with the labour market reality because it looks like even if you have strong credentials and career capital you might not find a relevant role because of how ultracompetitive this landscape is, based on discussions with other EA's and posts on the EA forum attesting how hard it is to land a job. Every time a new role gets posted on the 80,000 Hours job board it feels like it attracts hundreds of applicants with top, even elite credentials. That

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13:02

“Interactive replication of GiveWell’s...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/13

I re-implemented GiveWell's cost-effectiveness models for all six top charities as an open-source web tool: maxghenis.com/givewell-cea The tool lets you edit any parameter and immediately see the effect on charity rankings. Motivation Others have done excellent work examining specific parts of GiveWell's CEA — Froolow's critical review of model architecture, Nolan, Rokebrand, and Rao's uncertainty quantification, and several pieces on deworming and AMF uncertainty. But I couldn't find a tool that

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5:44

“Turning Farms into Welfare Labs” by Aaron Boddy🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/13

Most published animal welfare research is carried out by universities in labs. I kind of assumed that this was a necessity in some way. Either stuff can't get published if you're not affiliated with a university, or universities just have the necessary rigour to get things done. I just assumed there's a whole host of reasons why this had to be the case, but I think those are mistaken. And as a result, I think that when you start to look at universities, it starts to look strangely expensive to get

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