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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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7:23

“Marginally More Effective Altruism” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/09

There's a huge amount of energy spent on how to get the most QALYs/$. And a good amount of energy spent on how to increase total $. And you might think that across those efforts, we are succeeding in maximizing total QALYs. I think a third avenue is under investigated: marginally improving the effectiveness of ineffective capital. That's to say, improving outcomes, only somewhat, for the pool of money that is not at all EA-aligned. This cash is not being spent optimally, and likely never will be

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7:28

“When the world feels unstable, don’t let that drive...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/09

I drafted this in May. I’m just getting this post out the door now, but the atmosphere feels similar. I’m feeling unusually worried right now about problems in the world. I'm typically skeptical when people claim things are uniquely bad—and I counter their claim with some uplifting graph from Our World in Data. But recent developments around AI timelines, global political changes, and cuts to important global health programs, have left me more pessimistic than usual. I'm reminded of physicist

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23:23

“Who should found high-impact NGOs in the Global...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/08

Reflections from an Incubation Program in Latin America This is the second in a series of posts about a nonprofit incubation program we’re running in Spanish-speaking Latin America, funded by Open Philanthropy. The goal is to support the creation of new, evidence-based organizations that implement cost-effective interventions adapted to local contexts. You can find the first post here. We have finished selecting the first cohort of founders. In this post we will introduce the framework used to

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3:43

[Linkpost] “Room for optimism on cultured meat?” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/08

This is a link post. ACX/Scott Alexander's summary: But now a new report comes out arguing that the previous reports were wrong, that lab-grown meat production is going much better than the earlier reports thought possible, and it's more or less cost-effective already for the simplest products! Again, mixed reactions, and although some of the numbers are indisputable the analysis itself this is by a VC firm with lab-based meat investments. From the report: Not long after Humbird's analysis was

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8:58

“Announcing: The ‘Essays on Longtermism’ Competition”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/08

‘Essays on Longtermism: Present Action for the Distant Future’ was recently published by Oxford University Press. It's open access — you can read it for free here[1]. The book covers the case for longtermism, ways to forecast and evaluate the future, discussions of our priorities in light of longtermism, and the prospects for longtermism in institutions. David Thorstad goes into more detail on the book's contents here. An academic book like this is published in the hope that it will generate more

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9:16

“Essays on longtermism” by David Thorstad

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/08

Introduction We are pleased to announce the publication of Essays on Longtermism, now available from Oxford University Press. This is the first peer-reviewed edited volume on longtermism, containing an introduction and 30 substantive chapters, which are all available open access here. (Please bear with us as we work through a few issues with the ebook). The book is edited by Hilary Greaves (University of Oxford), Jacob Barrett (Vanderbilt University), and David Thorstad (Vanderbilt University)

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4:48

“How big a deal is donating 10% of your income...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/07

Why 10%? Because that's the number of the 10% Pledge. No other reason. How big a deal is donating 10% of your pre-tax income really? On the one hand, 10% of one's income feels like a lot of money no matter how much you make. But on the other hand, incomes vary tremendously such that no matter how much you make, giving away 10% of your income won't change your relative income rank by much. If you're an American who income is higher than 20% / X% / 80% of Americans, then your effective income

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4:48

“How big a deal is donating 10% of your income...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/07

Why 10%? Because that's the number of the 10% Pledge. No other reason. How big a deal is donating 10% of your pre-tax income really? On the one hand, 10% of one's income feels like a lot of money no matter how much you make. But on the other hand, incomes vary tremendously such that no matter how much you make, giving away 10% of your income won't change your relative income rank by much. If you're an American who income is higher than 20% / X% / 80% of Americans, then your effective income

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10:13

“Rejected from all the ‘EA’ Jobs you applied for -...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/06

Hi, have you been rejected from all the 80K listed EA jobs you’ve applied for? It sucks, right? Welcome to the club. What might be comforting is that you (and I) are not alone. EA Job listings are extremely competitive, and in the classic EA career path, you just get rejected over and over. Many others have written about their rejection experience, here, here, and here. Even if it is quite normal for very smart, hardworking, proactive, and highly motivated EAs to get rejected from high-impact

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10:04

“My TED Talk” by LewisBollard

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/05

Note: This post was crossposted from the Open Philanthropy Farm Animal Welfare Research Newsletter by the Forum team, with the author's permission. The author may not see or respond to comments on this post. How I decided what to say — and what not to I’m excited to share my TED talk. Here I want to share the story of how the talk came to be, and the three biggest decisions I struggled with in drafting it. The backstory Last fall, I posted on X about Trump's new Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke

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10:16

“What failure looks like for animals” by Alistair...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/04

Introduction Inspired by Paul Christiano's 2019 piece What failure looks like, we sketch a range of ways in which a future with powerful AI may go badly for animals. We suggest: At some point in the future, AI is likely to become very powerful (e.g. AGI, TAI, ASI). This point may be soon (e.g. by 2030). Powerful AI is likely to have a huge impact on animals. We don’t know what this impact on animals will be, and it could be very bad or catastrophic. Here are two philosophical assumptions we make

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8:28

“Is Now an Unusually Good Time to Pursue Political...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/04

Some quick but important disclaimers: I'm definitely not an expert in the topics discussed, and the thoughts I've put together here are not particularly rigorous. This is really just a call for broader discussion of this topic, and a request for people to consider acting on or evaluating the "Next Steps" below. This article was largely written with animal welfare considerations in mind. Though you could substitute in different cause areas, this obviously introduces different considerations (I

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16:00

“EA in the Lakes - Reflections” by Kestrel🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/03

This is a set of personal reflections from running EA in the Lakes, a lower-cost retreat in the northern UK. (we've also got some great photos of reflections in water sources, if that's more your thing.) -- The organising team: I was the organising team. To be fair, my housemate (who works in mental health) was going to come along and do participant welfare / shuttle driving but then had to be at counselling supervision, and my backup event cook friend got a paid cooking job that weekend as well

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1:41

[Linkpost] “Assessing Near-Term Accuracy in the...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/03

This is a link post. Forecasting Research Institute just released a new report: Assessing Near-Term Accuracy in the Existential Risk Persuasion Tournament In June–October 2022, we convened 169 people to participate in the “Existential Risk Persuasion Tournament” (XPT). The XPT participants included both superforecasters with proven forecasting track records and domain experts with subject-matter expertise. The tournament incentivized accurate forecasting and persuasive argumentation about long-term

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8:26

“Chip Production Policy Won’t Matter as Much as You’d...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/02

tl;dr - If timelines are short, it's too late, and if they are long (and if we don't all die,) the way to win the "AI race" is to generate more benefit from AI, not control of chip production. In AI policy, there's a lot of focus on the speed frontier AI develops and becomes increasingly important for the economy, and creates substantial new risks of loss of control. There is also a lot of focus on the chips needed for training and running the frontier models, which involves industrial policy

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78:55

“Anthropic’s leading researchers acted as moderate...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/02

In 2021, a circle of researchers left OpenAI, after a bitter dispute with their executives. They started a competing company, Anthropic, stating that they wanted to put safety first. The safety community responded with broad support. Thought leaders recommended engineers to apply, and allied billionaires invested.[1] Anthropic's focus has shifted – from internal-only research and cautious demos of model safety and capabilities, toward commercialising models for Amazon and the military. Despite the

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1:51

“I bet superforecaster David Manheim 2 k$ that the...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/02

I and David Manheim, a Good Judgement's superforecaster, agreed on the following bet on 19 May 2025: If the mean monthly unemployment rate in the United States (US) in 2027, as reportedby the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED), is higher than 8 %, I donate2 k$ to an organisation or fund of David's choice in January 2028. Otherwise, David donates 1 k$ to an organisation or fund of my choice in January 2028. Currently, it wouldbe the Centre for Exploratory Altruism Research's (CEARCH's) High

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3:52

“Why Experienced Founders Should Still Consider...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/01

The AIM incubation program was always built a little like the incubation program I wish I'd had when I was much younger and founding Charity Science Outreach or Charity Science Health. For me, founding was going to happen with or without a program, and yet even 10 years and three projects into founding, I'm still seriously considering going through my own program if I found again (I'm considering both the AIM charity program and the AIM Founding to Give program). I think the value proposition for

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6:26

“Want to make the future go well for animals? Apply...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/09/01

🚀 Applications are now live for two future-facing animal welfare fellowships from Sentient Futures! Application Deadlines: Prioritizing Neglected Animals Fellowship: Learner deadline: September 15 Facilitator deadline: September 23 AI×Animals Fellowship: Learner deadline: October 8 Facilitator deadline: September 17 AI×Animals Fellowship AI×Animals is an 8-week program preparing learners for impactful careers at the intersection of AI and animal welfare. As part of the fellowship, learners

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12:39

“AI Safety’s Talent Pipeline is Over-optimised for...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/31

Thank you to all the wonderful people who've taken the time to share their thoughts with me. All opinions are my own: Will Aldred, Jonah Boucher, Deena Englander, Dewi Erwan, Bella Forristal, Patrick Gruban, William Gunn, Tobias Häberli, James Herbert, Adam Jones, Michael Kerrison, Schäfer Kleinert, Chris Leong, Cheryl Luo, Sobanan Narenthiran, Alicia Pollard, Will Saunter, Nate Simmons, Sam Smith, Chengcheng Tan, Simon Taylor, Ben West, Peter Wildeford, Jian Xin.Executive Summary There is broad

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