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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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9:27

“Will morally motivated actors steer us towards a...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/10

To what extent, in the future, will we get widespread, accurate, and motivational moral convergence - where future decision-makers avoid all major moral mistakes, are motivated to act to promote good outcomes, and are able to do so? And, even if we only get partial convergence, to what extent can we get to a near-best future by different groups, with very different moral views, coming together to compromise and trade? In a new essay, Convergence and Compromise, Fin Moorhouse and I (Will) discuss

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7:00

[Linkpost] “Notes and updates on GPT-5” by Yadav

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/10

This is a link post. (I wrote this quickly for my own edification. It isn't original thinking; it condenses takes I’ve read on X over the past few days. Where relevant I’ve linked tweets. I hope it's helpful for people.) Watching an OpenAI launch now feels like watching an Apple keynote in the early 2010s. As a kid, I was giddy about which new, unaffordable iPhone would drop. I’ll probably look back on my twenties as the years I felt the same mix of excitement and perhaps fear about whatever OpenAI

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6:05

“A reflection on EA Global London: 2025” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/08

This past June, we hosted EA Global: London 2025. This was my second EAG as Program Lead and one that ended up feeling like a real milestone for the project. I’ve been reflecting on why that was, and so I wanted to share a few thoughts on what stood out to me, what we’re proud of, and what we’re doing next. The best EAG yet (by the numbers) This was our largest EAG to date, with 1,596 people in attendance. It was also our best-performing EAG based on two other important metrics: net

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3:29

“Apply now: Group Support Grants are back!” by Uni...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/08

TLDR Group Support Grants are back, with payout processing[1] from 11th August! Rapid Group Funding is merging into Group Support Grants (but you can still request fast-track processing) Apply here! We are delighted to announce that Group Support Grant payouts are resuming from 11th August 2025. This follows our previous announcement that payouts would be paused during June and July.We’re welcoming all EA groups[2] - regardless of type, size or location - to apply now! Historically, we think

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7:25

“Not inevitable, not impossible” by LewisBollard

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/08

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. Why ending the worst abuses of factory farming is an issue ripe for moral reform I recently joined Dwarkesh Patel's podcast to discuss factory farming. I hope you’ll give it a listen — and consider supporting his fundraiser for FarmKind's Impact Fund. (Dwarkesh is matching all donations up to

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6:35

“Consider thanking whoever helped you” by Kevin Xia 🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/08

TL;DR: If a (meta) org had a meaningful impact on you (in line with what they hope to achieve), you should probably tell them. It is essential for their impact reporting, which is essential for them to continue operating. You are likely underestimating just how valuable your story is to them. It could be thousands of dollars worth. Thanks to Toby Tremlett, Lauren Mee and Sofia Balderson for reviewing a draft version of this post. All mistakes are my own. 1. Many organisations shaped my career — yet

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14:43

“How hard to achieve is eutopia?” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/07

This is a summary of the new paper “No Easy Eutopia”, here. How easy is it to get to a future that's pretty close to ideal? You could think of reaching eutopia as like an expedition to sail to an uninhabited island. The expedition is more likely to reach the island to the extent that: The island is bigger, more visible, and closer to the point of departure; The ship's navigation systems work well, and are aimed toward the island; The ship's crew can send out smaller reconnaissance boats, and not

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1:51

“Take the 2025 EA Forum user survey” by Sarah Cheng

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/07

It's time once again for our annual EA Forum user survey! :) Thank you to everyone who filled it in last year — those results were especially helpful for developing our current Forum strategy. From today through August 20[1], we’re running an updated version of the survey for 2025. All questions are optional, as is a section at the end about other CEA programs. We estimate the survey will take you 10-20 minutes to complete[2] (less if you skip questions, longer if you write particularly detailed

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27:26

“EA as Antichrist: Understanding Peter Thiel” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/06

“The Antichrist probably presents as a great humanitarian, it's redistributive, it's an extremely great philanthropist, as an effective altruist, all of those kinds of things.” - Peter Thiel Effective altruism has more than its share of critics. But Peter Thiel, the billionaire cofounder of PayPal and Palantir, is unusual in that, when he describes us as the “Antichrist,” he does not mean this as a generic slur but rather as a specific claim that we oppose Jesus Christ in the Second Coming. This

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23:20

[Linkpost] “Calibrating Your Ambition: Knowing When...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/06

This is a link post. TL;DR Calibrating your ambition is a skill. Overshooting can lead to burnout; undershooting can mean missed opportunities. The sweet spot lies in setting goals that stretch you and suit your current context. Use tools like assessing your starting point, clarifying your “why,” zooming out on your timeline, and recalibrating with curiosity. You probably won’t get it exactly right—but that's the point. Calibration is practice, not a one-time decision. Acknowledgements: Thanks a lot

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0:57

[Linkpost] “As of July 2025, 92% of cage-free egg...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/06

This is a link post. The Open Wing Alliance 2025 cage-free fulfillment report shows that 92% of cage-free egg commitments with deadlines of 2024 or earlier have been fulfilled, up from 89% last year. The report details a regional breakdown of progress around the world. Thanks to OWA groups and others for continuing to hold companies around the world accountable for their commitments. ---First published: August 5th, 2025 Source:

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2:48

“Frog Welfare” by Chad Brouze

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/05

This morning I was looking into Switzerland's new animal welfare labelling law. I was going through the list of abuses that are now required to be documented on labels, and one of them made me do a double-take: "Frogs: Leg removal without anaesthesia." This confused me. Why are we talking about anaesthesia? Shouldn't the frogs be dead before having their legs removed? It turns out the answer is no; standard industry practice is to cut their legs off while they are fully conscious. They remain

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12:46

“Application for the 2026 Charity Entrepreneurship...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/05

We’re excited to announce that we’ve reopened applications for the following Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program Cohorts: February 9th - April 5th 2026 August - September 2026 (exact dates TBD) This post summarises the six new charity ideas recommended for the February 2026 Cohort (which can also be read and shared as a standalone post here). Applications close on September 21st. For the full application timeline and program details, visit our website.Apply now Why should you apply to

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3:20

“MHFC Spring Update” by Peter Brietbart, Lily Y,...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/04

Hi all! The Spring 2025 round of the Mental Health Funding Circle went well, and we're thrilled to be supporting seven organisations we believe are doing evidence-informed and deeply impactful work across global mental health and wellbeing. This round saw $731,000 committed by participating funders. We had many more strong applications than we were able to fund. The shortlist reflects tricky decisions among a pool of fantastic candidates, many of whom we hope to support in future rounds. Here's

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9:16

“Should we aim for flourishing over mere survival?...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/04

Today, Forethought and I are releasing an essay series called Better Futures, here.[1] It's been something like eight years in the making, so I’m pretty happy it's finally out! It asks: when looking to the future, should we focus on surviving, or on flourishing? In practice at least, future-oriented altruists tend to focus on ensuring we survive (or are not permanently disempowered by some valueless AIs). But maybe we should focus on future flourishing, instead. Why? Well, even if we survive, we

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25:08

“EA Survey 2024: Geography” by Jamie E, David_Moss

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/04

Summary Countries The USA (34.4%) and the UK (13.5%) remain the countries with the largest proportions of EA respondents. We observed that 32% of respondents came from Europe (excluding the UK), while 20% came from the rest of the world. In previous years, we observed a decline in the percentage of respondents from these countries. This trend seems like it might have decreased or plateaued since 2022. This year, for the first time, we looked at EAs’ countries of origin as well as their current

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22:56

“Most Animals Have Bad Lives” by Bentham’s Bulldog

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/04

Imagine waking up tomorrow in a world very different from our own. There is no society, nor do you have any friends or acquaintances. You must fend for yourself, acquiring your own food. Disease runs rampant. The world is filled with monsters that are trying to kill and eat you, often slowly over the course of many minutes. You’re constantly hungry, thirsty, and in discomfort from temperature extremes. Then, after about a week of this brutal existence, you die painfully—from starvation, being eaten

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15:36

“Alcohol is so bad for society that you should...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/03

This is a cross post written by Andy Masley, not me. I found it really interesting and wanted to see what EAs thought of his arguments. This post was inspired by similar posts by Tyler Cowen and Fergus McCullough. My argument is that while most drinkers are unlikely to be harmed by alcohol, alcohol is drastically harming so many people that we should denormalize alcohol and avoid funding the alcohol industry, and the best way to do that is to stop drinking. This post is not meant to be an

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17:23

“Animal advocates should respond to transformative AI...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/02

AI is advancing incredibly fast. We might see AI systems that are better than most humans at many tasks within a few years. This would change things drastically for animals in factory farms, in the wild, and beyond… and therefore animal advocates’ strategies should change, too. In this post, I argue: Based on recent trends in AI capabilities and advances in training techniques, truly transformativeAI could arrive soon, e.g. by 2030. This matters for animal advocates(if you agree it could arrive

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9:44

“SB-1047 Documentary: The Post-Mortem” by Michaël Trazzi

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/02

Below some meta-level / operational / fundraising thoughts around producing the SB-1047 Documentary I've just posted on Manifund (see previous Lesswrong / EAF posts on AI Governance lessons learned). The SB-1047 Documentary took 27 weeks and $157k instead of my planned 6 weeks and $55k. Here's what I learned about documentary production Total funding received: ~$143k ($119k from this grant, $4k from Ryan Kidd's regrant on another project, and $20k from the Future of Life Institute). Total money

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