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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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3:50

“I Am Not a Good Fit: Reflections on My Journey with...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/30

I have hesitated for some time before writing this, but I feel it is worth sharing. Perhaps others have felt this way too. Looking at EA priorities and opportunities, I have come to realize I am not a good fit for any EA funding opportunity, and getting help has been particularly difficult. I am a faculty member at the Department of Microbiology, Plateau State University. I did not train in the US but in Nigeria, and this usually comes with its limitations. However, I have always tried to make

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3:59

“I Am Not a Good Fit: Reflections on My Journey with...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/30

I have hesitated for some time before writing this, but I feel it is worth sharing. Perhaps others have felt this way too. Looking at EA priorities and opportunities, I have come to realize I am not a good fit for any EA funding opportunity, and getting help has been particularly difficult. I am a faculty member at the Department of Microbiology, Plateau State University. I did not train in the US but in Nigeria, and this usually comes with its limitations. However, I have always tried to make

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19:25

“Reflections on EA Spain’s First National Retreat” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/30

Introduction We recently hosted a weekend-long, 22 person retreat in Spain to bring together budding EA communities from the two biggest cities: Barcelona and Madrid, as well as EAs from other parts of the country. In this post, we’ll walk through a brief history of community building in Spain, why we chose to do the retreat, how we think it went, and what our plans are for the near future. We think the How did we plan the retreat? and Lessons Learned sections will be particularly valuable for other

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7:57

“CEA is hiring for a Chief of Staff (Events Team)” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/30

The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) is seeking a strong operator to join our Events team as Chief of Staff, providing essential support to scale up the effective altruism community's largest conference series and event portfolio.Apply now About CEA and the Events team The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA, that's us!) is an organization dedicated to building and stewarding a global community of people who are thinking carefully about the world's most pressing problems and taking action to

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16:42

“Generative AI is not causing YCombinator companies...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/29

Generative AI is not causing YCombinator companies to grow more quickly than usual (yet) Epistemic status: I think you should interpret this as roughly something like “GenAI is not so powerful that it shows up in the most obvious way of analyzing the data, but maybe if someone did a more careful analysis which controlled for e.g. macroeconomic trends they would find that GenAI is indeed causing faster growth.” Some people have asked me to consider going back to earning-to-give, and so I am

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3:42

“The ‘community’ tag is problematic” by Arepo

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/29

It was originally introduced as a way to separate out FTX-scandal related tags. Now that that purpose is no longer relevant it serves as a noisy but biased way of de facto deprioritising posts. It's also very top-down: ironically, the community can't tag or untag community; only CEA can do that. I worry this has lead to a consistent bias in CEA posts not receiving the tag - see e.g. this recent post, which is about as community-oriented as anything I've seen on the forum. [1] As an experiment, see

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5:01

[Linkpost] “Not stepping on bugs” by Yadav

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/29

This is a link post. I let a tooth rot for over a year. It was my upper right second molar, the one just before the wisdom tooth. Every time I ate something hard, like a peanut, it would wedge into the decay and shoot a spike of pain through my upper jaw. I was lazy, so I ignored it until it got worse. And then it did. One afternoon in June, a truly terrible toothache set in. Before I could get an emergency dental appointment, I found myself standing in the shower, letting hot water run over my head

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3:43

“AI Consciousness: A Centrist Manifesto” by J. Birch

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/29

One of my goals for this year was to write a piece setting out my own views on the topic of AI consciousness and the possible paths forward. I wrote it because I realized that I'd co-authored a string of pieces (Butlin et al. 2023; Long et al. 2024; Keeling et al. 2024; Caviola et al. 2025; Colombatto et al. 2025) and yet none of these quite captured my personal position as of 2025. I've also given media interviews but they're always a bad way to explain your views clearly. To make matters worse,

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5:49

[Linkpost] “Why I’m excited about AI safety talent...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/28

This is a link post. Just a couple of weeks ago, I hit my two-year mark at Open Philanthropy. I’ve learned a lot over this period, but I’ve been especially surprised by how great the ROI is on AI safety talent development programs after digging into the numbers. Consider this graph: I’ve heard at least four examples in the last ~year or so of this dynamic playing out at AI safety organizations that run fellowship programs.1 This amount of applications isn’t the norm per se, but it happens often

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7:20

“Applications Open for Impact Accelerator Program for...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/28

High Impact Professionals (HIP) is excited to announce that applications are now open for the next round of our Impact Accelerator Program (IAP). The IAP is a 6-week program designed to equip experienced (mid-career/senior) EA-aligned professionals (not currently working at a high-impact organization) with the knowledge and tools necessary to make a meaningful impact and empower them to start taking actionable steps right away. To date, the program's high action focus has proven to be successful:

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3:52

“Save The Date: EA Connect 2025” by David Solar 🔹,...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/28

EA Connect 2025 will take place on 5–7 December Join EAs from over 75 countries for three days of learning and connection, all from wherever you are in the world. EA Connect 2025 removes the barriers of travel, visas, and geography, making it easier than ever to engage with the global EA community and discover your next steps for impact. If you've been approved for an EAG, EAGx, or Summit this year, you are extremely likely to be accepted to EA Connect 2025! Vision for the conference EA Connect

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5:08

“Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning: A Simple...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/28

This is content that The Mission Motor created for our website, but we felt it could potentially benefit some readers here, too. Thanks to Ameer Virani, Haven King-Nobles, and Samantha Kagel for reviewing this post. Tl;DR Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) is aset of tools and practices that act like your organization's dashboard. It shows what's working, warns when something's off, and steers you toward maximum impact. Running an organization is hard. You're constantly faced with

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8:21

“High-impact & urgent funding opportunity - Rodent...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/27

Context: I’m a senior fellow at Conservation X Labs (CXL), and I’m seeking support as I attempt to establish a program on humane rodent fertility control in partnership with the Wild Animal Initiative (WAI) and the Botstiber Institute for Wildlife Fertility Control (BIWFC). CXL is a biodiversity conservation organization working in sustainable technologies, not an animal welfare organization. However, CXL leadership is interested in simultaneously promoting biodiversity conservation and animal

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3:27

[Linkpost] “Research: People do not allocate enough...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/27

This is a link post. [Study authors: Adam Elga, Jian-Qiao Zhu, Thomas L. Griffiths] Summary: When asked to divide a fixed budget to fight several independent existential risks, experimental participants did not allocate enough resources to the risks with lowest probability of survival. Excerpts: if we face catastrophes with survival probabilities of 4% and 40%, it is more valuable to increase the probability of surviving the first catastrophe from 4% to 9% than it is to increase the probability of

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2:29

“UK Mass Lobby Day to End Cages on the 21st October”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/27

On Tuesday, 21st October, a coalition of UK animal advocacy organisations (UK Voters for Animals, Animal Equality UK, The Humane League UK, Animal Rising, and Open Cages UK) is hosting a mass lobby day in Westminster to advocate for banning cages for farmed animals in UK. The opportunity: We're aiming to bring 100+ UK residents[1] and voters to Parliament for meetings with their MPs about legislating to ban cages for farmed animals. The UK still confines millions of animals to cages each year:

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3:53

[Linkpost] “The NAO is Hiring for Partnerships,...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/27

This is a link post. In our work so far, the Nucleic Acid Observatory has focused on the technical core of a pathogen-agnostic early warning system: how do you go from sample to detection? This has included developing new sample processing protocols, designing and implementing computational algorithms, and efficacy modeling. We’ve recently received funding from Open Philanthropy to expand our scope: we’re now aiming to take on the problem of early warning from end to end. This means ensuring systems

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3:54

“You’re Enough” by lynettebye

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/26

I told someone recently I would respect them if they only worked 40 hours a week, instead of their current 50-60. What I really meant was stronger than that. I respect people who do the most impactful work they can — whether they work 70 hours a week because they can, 30 hours so they can be home with their kid, or 15 hours because of illness or burnout. I admire those who go above and beyond. But I don’t expect that of everyone. Working long hours isn’t required to earn my respect, nor do I

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9:21

“Nonpartisanship is also the mindkiller (albeit a...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/25

Tl;dr I argue that maintaining nonpartisan norms on the EA Forum, in public communications by influential community members, and in funding decisions may be more costly than people realize. Lack of discussion in public means that people don’t take political issues as seriously as they should, research which depends on understanding the political situation doesn’t get done, and the community moves forward with a poor model of probably the most consequential actor in the world for any given cause

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16:39

“The Effective Altruist Approach to Politics...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/24

A not entirely inaccurate gloss on the effective altruist approach to politics is that it's absurdly progressive: Source: 2022 Effective Altruism Survey. But I think the overwhelmingly left and center-left nature of effective altruism hides a number of ways that effective altruists differ from many (but not all) people on the left. Liberalism Effective altruists are liberals in the political philosophy sense. “Liberalism” is a loose term that refers to a wide variety of beliefs, many of which

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10:00

“Constructing scalable, funding-neutral EA...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/24

(This is the rough transcript/summary of a session I am delivering this weekend at EA in the Lakes, and I will be referring people to this post from it.) As a long-time (non-EA) community events organiser, I have a lot of skills and connections in the provision of budget-friendly community events around and near my town. Some young adult approached me at one of them and said they were an "Effective Altruist" and would I please help them learn to organise events for their young adult philosophy

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