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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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11:08

“From proven to fit-for-purpose: what GiveDirectly’s...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/02

Summary 💸 We’ve sent nearly $1b to people in poverty — next up: $5b by 2035 through smarter, faster, recipient-first programs in our mission to accelerate the end of extreme poverty. 🛠️ From cash for new moms to planning nudges and AI tools, we’re piloting designs that could have much more impact per dollar and be scaled by governments. 🎯 We continue to hold new innovations to a high bar: they must be respectful, scalable, and more impactful than our standard program. 🚀 We’re seeking another

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7:18

“AMA: Tom Ough, Senior Editor at UnHerd, Author of...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/01

Tom will answer the questions in the comments between 7 and 9 pm UK time on August 6th. Tom Ough is a Senior Editor at UnHerd, co-host of the Anglofuturism podcast, and the author of a new book, ‘The Anti-Catastrophe League’. For the last few years, he has been writing in a range of publications about global catastrophic risks, and (sometimes relatedly) how Britain can prosper by adopting new technologies. Previously, he worked as a journalist at The Telegraph, where he wrote for nearly seven

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21:46

“Preventing Animal Suffering Lock-in: Why Economic...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/31

Abstract This post explores how emerging economic systems could lock in harmful defaults for animals and outlines a research agenda to identify opportunities and begin the groundwork for embedding animal welfare into future frameworks before it's too late. Acknowledgements: Thanks to Ian Andrews, Kevin Xia and Andrew McCallum for thoughtful feedback on an earlier draft of this post. All mistakes are my own. TL;DR Our economic system commodifies ~ 1.6 trillion animals annually. This system is being

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7:19

“A deep-dive case study of an impact-focused career”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/30

This is a post about my impact-focused career journey, with a few tentative lessons drawn out: Unofficial work gets you hired Even if an organisation has a need, they don’t always advertise it You can create your own roles More on those below. But first, some context. I’m Jamie Harris, the Courses Project Lead at The Centre for Effective Altruism, where I lead a team running online programs that inspire and empower talented people to explore the best ways they can help others. That's my full-time

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1:21

“New guide for people interested in impactful...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/30

With all the current interest in finding and landing impactful roles, we’re excited to share a significantly revised version of our career guide! Spanning 8 chapters, it covers topics like matching your motivations to good opportunities, developing your career hypotheses, applying in a way that maximizes your odds of success, and diagnosing and overcoming obstacles in the job hunt. It's meant to help people at all stages, whether you’re unsure what your path to impact should be or you have a pretty

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6:36

“Career Conversations: Highlights and Retrospective”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/29

Highlights I enjoyed Career Conversations Week, and I’m thankful to all who took part. There were so many great posts that many of them are under-read/ under-rated. So I’d highly recommend reading a random post from the tag, and adding (or subtracting) karma. I particularly enjoyed: My colleague Rika's 6 years of building an EA-aligned career from an LMIC. As Geoffrey points out in a comment, the concrete details here make the post practically useful as well as motivational. Annika Burman's Why You

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12:25

“Why You Should Become a University Group Organizer”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/29

Confidence Level: I’ve been an organizer at UChicago for over a year now with my co-organizer, Avik. I also started the UChicago Rationality Group, co-organized a 50-person Midwest EA Retreat, and have spoken to many EA organizers from other universities. A lot of this post is based on vibes and conversations with other organizers, so while it's grounded in experience, some parts are more speculative than others. I’ll try to flag the more speculative points when I can (the * indicates points that

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7:44

“Request for Proposals - Strategic Animal Funding...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/29

About this Funding Opportunity We are a group of donors looking to support cost-effective and high-impact farmed animal welfare and protection nonprofits, particularly during a critical growth phase where targeted funding can have a significant impact. Twice a year, we grant a total of ±$500k divided among the most promising applicants, with a typical grant size of $50k. Grants will initially be one-off support, though renewals may be possible in some cases at the discretion of individual donors

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13:18

“Writing about my job: Community Liaison” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/29

People often tell me that they wish they had more insight into what I actually do in my role on the Community Health team. I’ve finally gotten around to writing something thanks to @Dion🔸 , who has been asking me for quite a while to write about what I do, and emphasising that this is something people would be interested in reading. I also sit opposite @Toby Tremlett🔹 who's running career conversations week – thanks for the encouragement to write this, Toby. People often seem to write these when

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7:49

“My First Pledge Anniversary: Thoughts of an Average...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/29

I donate money each month. The money is gone. The end. While this is essentially what the 10% Pledge boils down to, it's been a surprisingly intense and exciting journey psychologically. As I just had my first anniversary, it seemed appropriate to think back and re-evaluate. I always love reading about the experiences of other pledgers, so I thought I might as well share some of my thoughts. The Pledge's Influence It's hard to admit, but: I am not a generous person, especially not with my time. You

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8:34

“Providence or fate? I sometimes pinch mysel” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/29

TLDR: A story from Childhood, to Medicine, to Effective Altrusim, to managing our Non-Profit OneDay Health I don’t think I can add much to the incredible career advice from this week, so, I thought it might be interesting to tell the story of how my "career"[1], I ended up shaped by Effective Altruism, even when I only read “the book” at age 30. Maybe some of you will resonate with some of it. Not AI - my actual roof I sometimes wake up as the morning peeks into our hut and stare at the most

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12:19

“Please, no more group brainstorming” by OllieBase

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/28

And other ways to make event content more valuable. I organise and attend a lot of conferences, so the below is correct and need not be caveated based on my experience, but I could be missing some angles here. When you imagine a session at an event going wrong, you’re probably thinking of the hapless, unlucky speaker. Maybe their slides broke, they forgot their lines, or they tripped on a cable and took the whole stage backdrop down. This happens sometimes, but event organizers usually remember to

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16:42

“Building an EA-aligned career from an LMIC” by Rika...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/28

This is Part 1 of a multi-part series, shared as part of Career Conversations Week. The views expressed here are my own and don't reflect those of my employer. TL;DR: Building an EA-aligned career starting from an LMIC comes with specific challenges that shaped how I think about career planning, especially around constraints: Everyone has their own "passport"—some structural limitation that affects their career more than their abilities. Reframing these from unfair barriers to data about my

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35:38

“How much should we value averting a Day Lived in...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/27

Warning: Discussions of extreme pain and suffering. In the US, one QALY is valued at around $100,000–$150,000 [1]. In the UK, a WELLBY is valued at £13,000 [2]. Such thresholds help governments and philanthropists decide whether interventions are cost-effective and worth implementing. However, these metrics (plus the DALY) are largely insensitive to instances of extreme suffering (at least in their current form), so if we want to perform cost-effectiveness analyses of interventions aimed at

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12:55

“Introducing SB53.info” by Miles Kodama

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/26

Today I'm launching SB53.info, a resource to help the public understand California's Senate Bill 53. The site shows the text of SB 53 enriched with annotations to explain its political and scientific context. What does SB 53 do? In a nutshell, SB 53 says seven things. These are the four I consider most important: Every large AI developer must write, publish, and follow a safety policy (§ 22757.12.a). Every year starting in 2030, a large AI developer must get an independent auditor to verify that

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3:42

“Two months into EA: Why I’m rethinking my approach...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/25

Summary: Discovering EA recently has made me reconsider how I think about my career and impact. Instead of switching sectors entirely, I'm exploring how to bring EA principles into the work I'm already doing. I stumbled onto EA about two months ago through a friend who kept mentioning "cost-effectiveness" in conversations about development work. Initially, I was skeptical, another framework claiming to solve everything? But the more I read, the more I realized I'd been wrestling with many of these

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6:31

“Why I Just Took The Giving What We Can Pledge” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/25

Crosspost of my blog article. I just took the Giving What We Can pledge, which is a pledge to give away at least 10% of my income over the course of my life to highly effective charities. I think you should take it too! We live in a time of unprecedented prosperity and abundance. Americans today live like kings in the ancient past. We have access to technology that would have been considered magic even just a few hundred years ago. Even relatively poor Americans are richer than nearly everyone who

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20:59

“Ten AI safety projects I’d like people to work on”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/25

The Forum Team crossposted this with permission from Secret Third Thing. The author may not see comments. Listicles are hacky, I know. But in any case, here are ten AI safety projects I'm pretty into. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I think there's a real chance that AI systems capable of causing a catastrophe (including to the point of causing human extinction) are developed in the next decade. This is why I spend my days making grants to talented people working on projects that could

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7:42

“Effective Altruism: An Unmanifesto” by ozymandias

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/24

The most common way to identify the effective altruism movement is by pointing. Effective altruists are: The people who try to help the global poor in ways backed up by randomized controlled trials, generally favoring public health programs. The people who try to improve conditions for farmed animals through corporate outreach and policy advocacy, and who care about weird groups of animals like insects and wild animals. The people who spend a lot of time worrying that we’re going to make

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5:31

“Google to co-founding a global health charity:...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/24

Martyn James | Co-founder of Clear Solutions Martyn spent more than a decade at Google in technical partnership roles before exploring a career transition, realising that he was starting to feel a bit restless in his career. “Life was good,” he recalls, “but I wanted to do something a little more worthwhile.” Martyn first heard about effective altruism (EA) in passing around 2013 from a colleague, though he wasn’t initially interested in the space. “I remember Googling it and thinking, ‘it's a

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