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EA Forum Podcast (All audio)

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14:36

“EA Summit: Santiago 2025 – Retrospective” by Kiran...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/18

About the Event EA Summit: Santiago 2025 took place on July 19 at the Prince of Wales Country Club in Santiago, Chile. It was a one-day event focused on: Providing anaccessible and low cost entry point to effective altruism for newcomers Fostering connections between local professionals. EA community and students Showcasing high-impact cause areas: AI safety, global health & development, animal welfare, social entrepreneurship, effective giving and biotechnology. AFTERMOVIE: EA SUMMIT:

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10:06

“Study: Giving cash to mothers cut infant deaths in...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/18

Summary 🤰🏽 A randomized study in Kenya found that giving families a $1,000 GiveDirectly cash transfer immediately cut infant deaths by 48%. 🏥 Deaths dropped most for mothers living near physician-staffed health facilities and those who received cash in the weeks before they gave birth. 🩺 GiveDirectly is launching a new program to maximize these life-saving impacts, partnering with a Kenyan community health provider to get cash to more expectant mothers. In rural Kenya, giving poor families a

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6:18

“Request for proposals - Global Health Funding Circle...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/18

If you are an organization that: Has demonstrated initial success in a cost-effectiveglobal health intervention and has the potential and willingness to scale; and Is at an inflection point, has a demonstrated funding gap, and requires additional resources to optimize programming, equip for scale, or develop your track record to attract major funding… Apply for funding today!About this Funding Opportunity We are a group of donors looking to support cost-effective and high-impact global health

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1:12

[Linkpost] “Futures with digital minds: Expert...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/16

This is a link post. We surveyed experts about the future of digital minds — computer systems capable of subjective experiences. The survey explored a wide range of difficult and speculative questions: when digital minds will first be created, how quickly their collective welfare capacity will expand, what types of digital minds will emerge, where and by whom digital minds will be built, whether their net welfare will be positive or negative, what claims they will make about consciousness and

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7:36

“Aquatic Animal Funding Recommendations” by Zoë Sigle 🔹

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/15

Executive Summary Aquatic animals—fish, shrimp, crabs, and other decapods—are the most numerous animals farmed for food, yet they receive just 11 % of global farmed animal welfare philanthropy (which is less than 0.5% of all global philanthropy). With  100 billion farmed fish and 440  billion farmed shrimp slaughtered every year, supporting high‑leverage interventions in this space offers one of the clearest opportunities to alleviate mass suffering at scale. In 2025, Farmed Animal Funders (FAF)

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8:07

“Good Governance: Unweirding Boards” by Stephen Robcraft

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/15

Introducing the 'Unweirding Boards' Sequence Over the past three months I’ve spoken with ~30 founders, board members, and staff at EA organisations, in an attempt to better understand what governance looks like within this community. These conversations have taken the form of semi-structured interviews, exploring each individual's experience of governance. Most have started broad, answering something like "what is and isn't working?", before focusing on specific challenges or opportunities for

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3:59

“We’ve migrated the EA Opportunities Board to...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/14

TL;DR: We've updated the EA Opportunities Board and migrated it over to effectivealtruism.org! 🙌Check it out here Fororganizations:submit opportunities to add to the board Forgroup organizers:request a Slack integration Forpeople interested in opportunities:sign up for our bi-weekly newsletter For everyone else:give us feedback, and share the board with someone you know who could use it Overview The EA Opportunities Board is a website that lists accessible opportunities for building skills or

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1:53

“PSA for vegan donors: GiveWell not ruling out...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/14

I’m a long-time GiveWell donor and an ethical vegan. In a recent GiveWell podcast on livelihoods programs, providing animals as “productive assets” was mentioned as a possible program type. After reaching out to GiveWell directly to voice my objection, I was informed that because GiveWell's moral weights currently don’t include nonhuman animals, animal-based aid is not categorically off the table if it surpasses their cost-effectiveness bar. Older posts on the GiveWell website similarly do not rule

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3:24

“Consider Preordering If Anyone Builds It, Everyone...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/14

Note: I work at MIRI, but not on the comms team. I don’t work on the book directly and am writing this post in my personal capacity, but do think it would be great if a lot of people read the book. Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares have written a book about why artificial superintelligence might cause human extinction. The book is called If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. It is out September 16th and is available for preorder now. The book is good Having read it, I can say it's genuinely good

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1:23

“A big milestone: 10,000 10% pledgers!” by Giving...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/13

Giving What We Can has reached 10,000 🔸10% pledgers! We see this as an important milestone on the road to a cultural norm, and we’ve made a video to celebrate: If you’re a 🔸10% or 🔹Trial pledger, we’d love for you to post about the 10k milestone on your social channels! You can find templates here. And if you are a 🔸10% pledger, a sincere thank you for being part of the first 10,000! As our former executive director Luke Freeman wrote back in 2020: “The world is made up of individual people

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3:37

“CEEALAR has a new Executive Director” by CEEALAR

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/13

We are pleased to announce that our new Executive Director, Attila Ujvari, has started work. Up until now, CEEALAR has been led by Greg Colbourn, our Founder. Greg has been in the role of Executive Director in a part-time*, unpaid capacity from the start. Since being founded in 2018 as the EA Hotel, CEEALAR has grown into a grant-supported charity and increased in capacity by 70%, expanding to the adjoining building, and facing many trials and tribulations along the way. We have hosted hundreds of

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24:21

“ITN 201: pitfalls in ITN BOTECs” by Lizka

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/13

The fact that the ITN framework[1] can help us prioritize between problems feels almost magical to me. But when I see ITN BOTECs in the wild, I’m often very skeptical. It seems really easy for these estimates to be inadvertent “conclusion-laundering” — regurgitating the author's opinions in a quantitative or more robust-seeming form without actually providing any independent signal. And even when that's not the case, the bottom-line estimates can seem so noisy and ungrounded that I trust them less

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10:29

“The Bone-Chilling Evil of Factory Farming” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/13

Crosspost of my blog post. Factory farming is evil. I know, I know, I’ve made this point before. I’ve described, in depth, the way we treat animals. I’ve described that we stuff billions of chickens into tiny cages where they can’t turn around or flap their wings—where their frail bones are broken three times on average over the course of their brief lives, where they inhale nothing but feces deposits from the caged birds above them. I’ve described the results of a report which estimated that

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6:12

“The trajectory of the future could soon get set in...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/11

Is there anything we can do to make the longterm future go better other than preventing the risk of extinction? My paper, Persistent Path-Dependence, addresses that question. I suggest there are a number of mechanisms that are fairly likely to be developed within our lifetimes that would result in extremely persistent path-dependent effects of predictable expected value. These include the creation of AGI-enforced institutions, a global concentration of power, the widespread settlement of space, the

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2:09

“Virtual offices available on EA Gather Town” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/11

With Gather Town announcing a sharp price hike and removal of their free tier, I wanted to remind both organisations and remote-workers/students/anyone individually interested that the EA Gather is still available - and currently free for marginal use.[1] Individuals Just show up and start coworking :) The starting map is a shared space, so you can feel free to join anyone on there, even those in offices (orgs who want privacy have their offices on a different map). Use this invite link if you want

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5:37

“Upcoming EA conferences in 2025” by frances_lorenz,...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/11

We’re already in the second half of 2025 and there are still an incredible number of EAGx and Summit events coming up, as well as the first ever EA Global: New York City. We’re so excited to continue watching the EA community connect and grow. Below is our conference schedule for the rest of the year. We’re supporting the first EAGx in Brazil, and inaugural EA conferences in France, Vietnam, New Zealand, and Turkey. We hope to reach more people than ever before. Please spread the word, especially

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10:24

“A Million Is Made Out Of A Million Ones” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/11

Maybe my favorite quote ever is from a recent Scott Alexander article, but in order to explain it, I will have to provide some context. Scott's recent piece, My Heart of Hearts, is broadly about why we should value ethical consistency. In it, he described his emotional reaction to the Gaza conflict in the following way: A few months ago, I read an article by an aid worker in Gaza recounting the horrors he’d seen. Among a long litany, one stood out. A little kid came into the hospital with a

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16:31

[Linkpost] “With the Future of the World in Your...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/10

Audio note: this article contains 69 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 is a link post. How long should you think about a problem that could determine the future of all existence? A mathematical journey from simple bets to existential risks. Imagine a simple game. There's a jar full of pebbles, and you’re offered a bet. If you can estimate the number of pebbles to within 10%, you win $100,000. If

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4:23

“Having children is a deeply personal choice. Do not...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/10

First off, every ethical argument for having children is dominated by other options that are more effective. 1) If you’re worried about population issues, just donate $10k to bednets. That's roughly the equivalent of two extra children existing in the world. If you only care about population issues in your own country, then there are undoubtedly charities that save/create more lives in your own country that are cheaper than having your own children. I would also recommend questioning your

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2:51

[Linkpost] “Of Marx and Moloch: How My Attempt to...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/10

This is a link post. This is a personal essay about my failed attempt to convince effective altruists to become socialists. I started as a convinced socialist who thought EA ignored the 'root causes' of poverty by focusing on charity instead of structural change. After studying sociology and economics to build a rigorous case for socialism, the project completely backfired as I realized my political beliefs were largely psychological coping mechanisms. Here are the key points: Understanding the

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