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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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1:36

“EU CITIZENS: Animal welfare consultation closing...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/14

There is an important consultation happening right now on revising EU animal welfare laws - covering cages, import standards, male chick culling, and welfare indicators. If you're an EU Citizen, I encourage you to take 15-30 minutes over the next few days to respond. Deadline: July 16th (midnight CET) Who can respond: European citizens, animal advocacy organisations, scientists, industry groups, farmers etc. (Non-EU citizens can respond but we expect this will carry less weight) Format: 4,000

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14:00

“Debate: organisations using Rethink Priorities’...

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2025/07/14

Organisations using Rethink Priorities’ mainline welfare ranges should consider effects on soil nematodes, mites, and springtails.disagreeagreeOrganisations using Rethink Priorities’ mainline welfare ranges, and not planning to consider effects on [...] ---Outline:(00:47) Summary(02:29) I think organisations using RP's mainline welfare ranges should consider effects on soil nematodes, mites, and springtails(05:23) Effects on soil nematodes should not be neglected just because they are unlikely to be

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3:09

“Is EA still ‘talent-constrained’?” by SiobhanBall

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2025/07/14

Since January I’ve applied to ~25 EA-aligned roles. Every listing attracted hundreds of candidates (one passed 1,200). It seems we already have a very deep bench of motivated, values-aligned people, yet orgs still run long, resource-heavy hiring rounds. That raises three things: Cost-effectiveness: Are months-long searches and bespoke work-tests still worth the staff time and applicant burnout when shortlist-first approaches might fill 80% of roles faster with decent candidates? Sure, there can

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24:30

“Reflecting on One Year of Mieux Donner: Launching...

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2025/07/13

As we mark one year since the launch of Mieux Donner, we wanted to share some reflections on our journey and our ongoing efforts to promote effective giving in France. Mieux Donner was founded through the Effective Incubation Programme by Ambitious Impact and Giving What We Can. TLDR Prioritisation is important. And when the path forward is unclear, trying a lot of different potential priorities with high productivity leads to better results than analysis paralysis. Ask yourself what the purpose

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31:02

“AI, Animals, & Digital Minds 2025: Retrospective” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/12

Key takeaway We need less breadth and more depth. Much of the early growth and success of the movement at the intersection of AI, animals and digital minds has come from exchanging ideas, people and resources across these fields. We think we are now approaching a point where more specialisation and a greater focus on action will lead to the most valuable outcomes. Aim The aim of AI, Animals, & Digital Minds (AIADM) 2025 was to bring together leaders in AI and non-human ethics to share ideas,

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6:26

“Sanity Check - Givewell’s New Incentives estimate...

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2025/07/12

TLDR: On a VERY rough Sanity check[1], GiveWell's New Incentives “lived saved” numbers seem perhaps twice as high as is plausible. On seeing this wonderful graph from a GiveWell Back-check of New Incentives, I thought to myself wow New Incentives saved 27,000 lives - that's insane but feels quite high.So I decided to spend a surprisingly fun 90 minutes of my life doing a sanity check of a back-check. The things I do for joy... Due to the speedrun nature, I might have got a baisc input wrong, made

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4:19

[Linkpost] “METR: Measuring the Impact of Early-2025...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/11

This is a link post. This seems like an important piece of work - an RCT on the use of AI capabilities for developers. The TL;DR of the paper is The devil is in the details of course. This post by Steve Newman does a good job of working through some of them. I have highlighted some considerations from it: The methodology was as follows: METR recruited 16 developers from major open-source projects. Each developer selected a list of coding tasks from their todo list, breaking up large projects into

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16:12

“Can for-profit companies create significant, direct...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/11

Thank you to @Jacintha Baas, @Judith Rensing, and the @CE team for your help in editing and improving this post. Introductory Context Hi, I’m Trish. This is my first post on the EA forum. I spent the past decade building VC-funded, high-growth startups (from pre-revenue to $10M+, from founding team to 250+ employees; pre-funding through Series B), and supporting 100s of early-stage founders through the communities at On Deck and Unreasonable Group. Last year, I joined the team at AIM to help build

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1:30

[Linkpost] “The Rising Premium of Life” by Linch

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/11

This is a link post. I'm interested in a simple question: Why are people all so terrified of dying? And have people gotten more afraid? (Answer: probably yes!) In some sense, this should be surprising: Surely people have always wanted to avoid dying? But it turns out the evidence that this preference has increased over time is quite robust. It's an important phenomenon that has been going on for at least a century, it's relatively new, I think it underlies much of modern life, and yet pretty much

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8:00

“Lessons from the Iraq War about AI policy” by Buck

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/11

I think the 2003 invasion of Iraq has some interesting lessons for the future of AI policy. (Epistemic status: I’ve read a bit about this, talked to AIs about it, and talked to one natsec professional about it who agreed with my analysis (and suggested some ideas that I included here), but I’m not an expert.) For context, the story is: Iraq was sort of a rogue state after invading Kuwait and then being repelled in 1990-91. After that, they violated the terms of the ceasefire, e.g. by ceasing to

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4:53

“Career Conversations Week: July 21-27” by Toby...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/10

TLDR: July 21-27 will be a themed week on the EA Forum for posting career-related quick takes and posts. We'll also have career advisors available throughout the week to answer questions. Last time we ran a career conversations week, it led to some great posts, including: Mistakes, flukes, and good calls I made in my multiple careers- Catherine Low Who Is a Good Fit for a Career in Nonprofit Entrepreneurship?- Charity Entrepreneurship Monetary and social incentives in longtermist careers- Vaidehi

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2:36

[Linkpost] “What is NZ’s comparative advantage?” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/10

This is a link post. Living in New Zealand can sometimes feel like an obstacle to doing good effectively. We’re far from the EA hubs in the UK/US, and from opportunities for direct work on global health & development. But are there any areas where we might have an advantage? Here are some possibilities that the community has been discussing recently: As a low-risk environment for AI training. Alethios argues that NZ's legislative environment and geothermal resources could make us a good

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14:24

“10 of Founders Pledge’s biggest grants” by Matt_Lerner

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/10

This is a crosspost of a recent post by Hannah Yang, FP Research's comms lead, on Founders Pledge's website. I thought it was important to post this on the Forum because it's unclear to me what people know about FP, and because I often encounter various misconceptions — the three most common being that we focus only on climate (we don't), that we're driven primarily by member interests (we're not), and that we don't move very much money (see below). Many of the grants below are advised grants —

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6:20

“The relative range heuristic” by Karthik Tadepalli

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/10

This is a rough explanation of relative ranges, a heuristic that I've found very helpful for quickly comparing two options that trade off between two dimensions. Consider the following examples of tradeoffs: Should we prioritize helping small animals or large animals? There are more small animals, but large animals have a higher capacity for suffering. Should we fund medical research on the most promising candidates across diseases, or should we focus only on the most important diseases? Broad

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18:11

[Linkpost] “My kidney donation” by Molly Hickman

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/09

This is a link post. I donated my left kidney to a stranger on April 9, 2024, inspired by my dear friend @Quinn Dougherty (who was inspired by @Scott Alexander, who was inspired by @Dylan Matthews). By the time I woke up after surgery, it was on its way to San Francisco. When my recipient woke up later that same day, they felt better than when they went under. I'm going to talk about one complication and one consequence of my donation, but I want to be clear from the get: I would do it again in a

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35:08

“A Vegan Case for Eating Sardines and Anchovies” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/08

Note: This post is written in a personal capacity. The views expressed here are our own and do not represent those of any organisation we're affiliated with. We're grateful to Bob Fischer, Tobias Leenaert, Pablo Moleman, Felix Werdermann, and Kevin Xia for their valuable input and feedback, which does not imply endorsement of the arguments presented. While we've done our best to base this post on careful research and reasoning, we don't claim to be experts on this topic. Our aim is not to assert a

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18:15

“Organising Bookclub: How to Create a Vegan World” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/08

1. Introduction One of the first activities I organized in Effective Altruism 3 years ago, after I participated in the first Dutch Effective Altruism Introductory course 3.5 years ago, was a bookclub on Tobias Leenaert's book How to Create a Vegan World. The proximate cause was that this was organized earlier once by Marieke de Visscher but not again and I also wanted to participate. I ran it 3 or 4 times and am quite enthusiastic about it, so I want to share the format here to enable (and

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24:54

[Linkpost] “How I failed to donate my kidney” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/08

This is a link post. Cross-posted from my personal blog after strong encouragement from two people. The text is partially personal musings over my journey through the pre-surgery process, and partially a review of arguments why it might or might not make sense for a person who cares about effective altruism to donate a kidney. Some of the content is specific to where I am based in (Finland), and some of the content is less honed than I'd like, but if I didn't timebox my writing and just push

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44:42

“A shallow review of what transformative AI means for...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/08

Epistemic status: This post — the result of a loosely timeboxed ~2-day sprint[1] — is more like “research notes with rough takes” than “report with solid answers.” You should interpret the things we say as best guesses, and not give them much more weight than that.Summary There's been some discussion of what “transformative AI may arrive soon” might mean for animal advocates. After a very shallow review, we’ve tentatively concluded that radical changes to the animal welfare (AW) field are not yet

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4:06

“The current market price for animal welfare is zero”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/07

This is a lightly-edited memo I wrote for the 2025 Animal Advocacy Strategy Forum, which were encouraged to be highly opinionated to generate strategy discussion. I actually wrote more about Shrimp Welfare Project's exploration of Credits here, but I think this 2-minute pitch for the value of Credits is useful to publish on its own. In 2011, Jayson Lusk published a paper titled The Market for Animal Welfare: The idea, in short, is to create a separate market for animal welfare that is decoupled

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