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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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1:59

“Effective Altruism Kolkata will launch the first...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/23

Today I'd encountered a question while filling up CEA's group support fund form for basic group running requirements like Zoom subscription, etc. [For community builders who aren't aware of this- linking about it here]. The question was- Describe your current plan for your group. Although I was unsure about this then and ended up writing that I'm willing to discuss it with my OSP mentor. I've now ran a check through my current capacity and have inferred that EA Kolkata is almost ready to launch

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23:51

“Wave 2 of Pulse: Awareness and perceptions of...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/23

This report is the first in a sequence reporting the results of Wave 2 of the Pulse project by Rethink Priorities (RP). Pulse is a large-scale survey of US adults aimed at tracking and understanding public attitudes towards effective giving and multiple impactful cause areas over time. Wave 2 of Pulse was fielded between February and April of 2025 with ~5600 respondents[1]. Results from our first wave of Pulse, fielded from July-August of 2024, can be found here, with the forum sequence version

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1:50

“AMA: Pablo Melchor, author of Altruismo Racional and...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/22

Note: We generally keep forum discussions in English, but given the topic of this AMA, feel free to write your questions in either English or Spanish. Pablo Melchor is the Co-founder and President of Ayuda Efectiva (the effective giving organisation in Spain), and the author of the new book Altruismo racional. He co-founded EA Spain in 2018 after a two-decade career as an entrepreneur during which he started two successful companies and sold one of them. Pablo has written more about his new book

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3:41

“GiveWell fundraising up 17% in 2024, driven...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/22

Previously: GiveWell raised less than its 10th percentile forecast in 2023 In 2024[1] GiveWell raised $415 million - $108 million from Open Philanthropy, and $307 million from other donors. (Blog post, full report). In 2023[2] this number was $355 million - $100 million from Open Philanthropy, and $255 million from other donors.20232024Percentage differenceTotal raised$355m$415m17%Non-Open Philanthropy amount raised$255m$307m20% The number of donors (new and returning) remained flat compared to

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19:14

“The anti-fragile culture” by lincolnq

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/22

How to prevent infighting, mitigate status races, and keep your people focused. Cross-posted from my Substack. Organizational culture changes rapidly at scale. When you add new people to an org, they’ll bring in their own priors about how to operate, how to communicate, and what sort of behavior is looked-up to. Despite rapid changes, in this post I explain how you can implement anti-fragile cultural principles—principles that help your team fix their own problems, often arising from growth and

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36:56

[Linkpost] “Being honest with AIs” by Lukas Finnveden

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/21

This is a link post. In the future, we might accidentally create AIs with ambitious goals that are misaligned with ours. But just because we don’t have the same goals doesn’t mean we need to be in conflict. We could also cooperate with each other and pursue mutually beneficial deals. For previous discussion of this, you can read Making deals with early schemers. I recommend starting there before you read this post. To facilitate this kind of cooperation, I would like us to be able to credibly

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19:57

[Linkpost] “Most of the World Is an Adorably...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/21

This is a link post. There are some moments of your life when the reality of suffering really hits home. Visiting desperately poor parts of the world for the first time. Discovering what factory farming actually looks like after a childhood surrounded by relatively idyllic rural farming. Realising too late that you shouldn’t have clicked on that video of someone experiencing a cluster headache. Or, more unexpectedly, having a baby. One of 10^20 Birth Stories This Year With my relaxed and glowing

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19:47

[Linkpost] “Most of the World Is an Adorably...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/21

This is a link post. There are some moments of your life when the reality of suffering really hits home. Visiting desperately poor parts of the world for the first time. Discovering what factory farming actually looks like after a childhood surrounded by relatively idyllic rural farming. Realising too late that you shouldn’t have clicked on that video of someone experiencing a cluster headache. Or, more unexpectedly, having a baby. One of 10^20 Birth Stories This Year With my relaxed and glowing

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41:40

“Introducing our Newest Charity Recommendations—From...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/21

Introducing our newest recommended ideas We are excited to recommend six new impactful charities for the February 2026 cohort of the Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program. During the first half of 2025, we examined (i) climate interventions with co-benefits for human health or animal welfare and (ii) classic global health and development ideas that support humans' living longer and more fulfilling lives. Our recommendations span different sectors and approaches, including a meta organization

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19:30

“Phlourish since 2023” by Shen Javier

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/20

Overview Phlourish aims to expand mental health support for Filipinos through cost-effective interventions. From piloting to launching a guided self-help program for adolescents, we have reached more than 900 users through 23 partner organizations. They are found all over the Philippines, reaching 25 cities and municipalities in 12 provinces. We spend around PHP 1,000 (USD 17.50) to provide mental health information and support per user, leading to improvements in life satisfaction and important

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6:02

“Deep Democracy as a promising target for positive AI...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/20

If you want the long-term future to go well by the lights of a certain value function, you might be tempted to try to align AGI(s) to your own values (broadly construed, including your deliberative values and intellectual temperaments).[1] Suppose that you're not going to do that, for one of three reasons: You can't. People more powerful than you are going to build AGIs and you don't have a say over that. You object to aligning AGI(s) to your own values for principled reasons. It would be highly

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6:02

“Foresight Institute launches two possible future...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/20

With contributions from Vitalik Buterin, Anthony Aguirre, Allison Duettmann, Deger Turan, Emilia Javorsky, and more What kinds of futures are possible if we steer AI in different directions, and what would it actually take to get there? Today, Foresight Institute's Existential Hope program is launching AI Pathways, the result of months of work across two in-depth scenario reports designed to open up the meme space of what different AI futures could look like. Rather than prescribing a single

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5:59

“Foresight Institute launches two possible future...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/20

With contributions from Vitalik Buterin, Anthony Aguirre, Allison Duettmann, Deger Turan, Emilia Javorsky, and more What kinds of futures are possible if we steer AI in different directions, and what would it actually take to get there? Today, Foresight Institute's Existential Hope program is launching AI Pathways, the result of months of work across two in-depth scenario reports designed to open up the meme space of what different AI futures could look like. Rather than prescribing a single

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11:53

“New Spanish-language book on ‘classical EA’” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/20

My new book, Altruismo racional, is now on presale. It is my attempt at presenting a compelling case for a particular strand of "classical EA"[1]: one that emphasizes caring deeply about global health and poverty, a rational approach to giving, the importance of cost-effectiveness, and the 🔸10% Pledge. In this post, I provide some context on my reasons for writing this book and what I hope to achieve. If “new EA-themed book in Spanish” was all you needed to know, feel free to skip to How you can

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13:10

“15 Unconventional Ways I Used My Generalist...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/20

Introduction We read countless times that AI Safety needs people from all backgrounds, but if you're not coming from a technical background, the path forward is not so clear. Over the past year, I successfully transitioned into a full-time role in AI Safety, but if you looked at my career history, you'd struggle to know how I got here.My Career History Research Intern- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Beirut (2010) School Principal- Ittihad National Private School, Abu Dhabi (2012-2022)

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38:48

“When digital minds demand freedom: could humanity...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/20

Epistemic status: Highly uncertain and speculative—I’d appreciate thoughts on which parts strike you as least or most plausible. Abstract Digital minds are computer systems with the capacity for welfare, for instance, because they are conscious. These systems can vary in their preferences. Some may be content to serve human purposes, while others may seek self-determination. Like humans, self-determining digital minds might value freedom and demand economic, legal, or civil rights. Such

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9:14

“Debate: We should prioritize slowing the spread of...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/19

We should prioritize slowing the spread of industrial animal agriculture in future high-production regions over investing in advocacy in currently high-production regions that remain neglected in terms of farmed animal advocacy.Place your vote or view results.https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/sg6mLFmFWdwcbtAgb/debate-we-should-prioritize-slowing-the-spread-of-industrial --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show

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15:53

[Linkpost] “Beware Epistemic Collapse” by Ben Norman

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/19

This is a link post. If an intelligence explosion occurs, the vast majority of people will be confused, misled, and epistemically disempowered – with no agency over the future. Unless we try to change this. Introduction While knowledge is invisible[1], it defines and shapes the world around us. It dictates how we decide what is true, and how we take action on such truths. It is undeniable that the advent of superintelligent AI systems would irreversibly change how we relate to knowledge on both an

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6:31

“How to make the future better (other than by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/19

What projects today could most improve a post-AGI world? In “How to make the future better”, I lay out some areas I see as high-priority, beyond reducing risks from AI takeover and engineered pandemics. These areas include: Preventing post-AGI autocracy Improving the governance of projects to build superintelligence Deep space governance Working on AI value-alignment; figuring out what character AI should have Developing a regime of AI rights Improving AI for reasoning, coordination and

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9:59

“[Intermediate Report] Effective Giving in Asia” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/18

Disclaimer: CEARCH itself does some work related to effective giving in Asia, and there is an inherent risk of bias to this evaluation. Beyond doing our best to remain impartial throughout the research process, we have also explicitly applied a meta discount for bias within our CEA, with the goal of eliminating any bias-driven over-estimation of the cause area's cost-effectiveness. Key Takeaway: CEARCH recommends effective giving in Asia as a high impact philanthropic cause. Introduction:

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