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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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1:54

[Linkpost] “Pause House, Blackpool” by Greg_Colbourn ⏸️

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/13

This is a link post. Are you passionate about pushing for a global halt to AGI development? An international treaty banning superintelligent AI? Pausing AI? Before it's too late to prevent human extinction? Would you like to live with a group of like-minded people pushing for the same? Do you want to do much more, but don’t have the financial means to support yourself volunteering? Then apply to stay at Pause House. I (Greg Colbourn), am offering free accommodation, (vegan) food, and a small stipend

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4:31

“I’m an EA who benefitted from rationality” by...

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2025/10/13

This is my personal take, not an organizational one. Originally written May 2025, revived for Draft Amnesty Week. When I discovered the beginnings of EA, it felt like coming home. I had finally found a group of people who cared as much as I did about saving lives. When I discovered rationality not long after, it felt new. The intensity of LessWrong was both offputting and fascinating to me, and I read a lot of the site in the summer of 2011. I had studied sociology and was used to thinking in

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5:51

[Linkpost] “Bloomberg Businessweek: ‘How Generations...

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2025/10/12

This is a link post. I’m a journalist covering animal suffering in agriculture. Yesterday, Bloomberg Businessweek published a story from "Chicks on Speed: Big Chicken's Push for Faster Birds, But Slower Reform", a cross-border investigation I’ve been working on with five other European journalists: Julia Dauksza, Tracy Keeling, Wojciech Oleksiak, Andrei Petre and Paul Tullis. This work was made possible by the support from Journalismfund Europe. More about the investigation So far, our work has

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12:49

“The 5 Obstacles I Had to Overcome to Become Vegan”...

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2025/10/11

Today, I became vegan. Just 24 hours ago, I couldn’t have imagined this would be the case — at least not so soon. Reading Óscar Horta's Making A Stand For Animals[1] (MASFA, from now on) hit me like a freight train as I turned page after page, chapter after chapter. Now there was something I could no longer unsee — something that compelled me to act in accordance. Internally, this feels like the first major moral decision I’ve made in my life. I had made important decisions before to align with my

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7:15

“You can raise $3 for The Humane League just by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/11

TLDR: Through the end of October, we are giving $3 (Up to $5k total) to The Humane League for each new person who tries out Tab for Ending Animal Suffering . It is a free browser extension that uses a few ads on your new tab page to raise money for non-profits. In the post, I share a little bit about what we've learned so far, and also ask for ideas on places to get the word out. As a longtime forum lurker, I'm excited to make my first post and share my newest project: Tab for Ending Animal

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20:47

“Building an Impact-focused Community” by Kevin Xia...

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2025/10/10

Acknowledgements: A huge thank you to the Hive team and the many community builders who have shared their wisdom with us over the years. This post is an attempt to synthesize those lessons. Special thanks to Therese Veith, Gergő Gáspár, Sam Chapman, Sarah Tegeler, and John Salter for reviewing this post. All mistakes and oversights are our own.TL;DR: This post walks through some of our key insights from building Hive, a global community for farmed animal advocates, and other communities within and

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7:38

“Ambitious Impact (AIM) is hiring for Research and...

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2025/10/10

About AIM Ambitious Impact (AIM), formerly Charity Entrepreneurship, launches organizations that cost-effectively improve human and animal lives at scale. Since 2018, we’ve incubated over 50 charities, now estimated to improve the lives of more than 75 million people and 1 billion animals worldwide. Our alumni have been backed by GiveWell, Open Philanthropy, the Gates Foundation, and Animal Charity Evaluators. We believe that talented, dedicated entrepreneurs can solve the world's biggest problems

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8:45

[Linkpost] “Interview with a drone expert on the...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/10

This is a link post. A conversation with Paul Scharre, author of Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, who joins us to talk about how AI's superhuman command and control abilities will change the battlefield why offense/defense balance isn’t a well-defined concept “race to the bottom” dynamics for autonomous weapons how a US/taiwan conlict in the age of drones might play out and more… Transcript Rai Sur 00:00:36 Today we’re speaking with Paul Scharre. Paul is the

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2:16

“We’re scaling our job board to help people find...

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2025/10/10

We think there are many impactful roles out there that aren’t sufficiently on people's radar, to the detriment of both people looking to get hired and orgs looking to hire them. Because of that, we’ve been working to significantly scale and improve our job board, especially in the context of underrepresented opportunities (across cause areas, regions, and orgs that we think are currently not getting enough attention in EA). So far, we’ve prioritized increasing the number and diversity of roles (to

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1:06

[Linkpost] “How well can large language models...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/09

This is a link post. When will artificial intelligence (AI) match top human forecasters at predicting the future? In a recent podcast episode, Nate Silver predicted 10–15 years. Tyler Cowen disagreed, expecting a 1–2 year timeline. Who's more likely to be right? Today, the Forecasting Research Institute is excited to release an update to ForecastBench—our benchmark tracking how well large language models (LLMs) forecast real-world events—with evidence that bears directly on this debate. We’re also

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31:04

“What to do about near-term cluelessness in animal...

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2025/10/09

(Context: I’m not an expert in animal welfare. My aim is to sketch a potentially neglected perspective on prioritization, not to give highly reliable object-level advice.)SummaryWe seem to be clueless about our long-term impact. We might therefore consider it more robust to focus on neartermist causes, in particular animal welfare.[1] But if we also take seriously our deep uncertainty about our impact on animals, what implications does this have for animal welfare prioritization? This post will

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40:22

[Linkpost] “How AI may become deceitful,...

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2025/10/09

This is a link post. Disclaimers: I am a computational physicist, not a machine learning expert: set your expectations of accuracy accordingly. All my text in this post is 100% human-written without AI assistance. Introduction: The threat of human destruction by AI is generally regarded by longtermists as the most important cause facing humanity. The essay collection “essays on longtermism” includes two essays arguing in favour of this hypothesis: this essay is primarily a response to the latter

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5:45

“Experts & markets think authoritarian capture of the...

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2025/10/08

The following is a quick collection of forecasting markets and opinions from experts which give some sense of how well-informed people are thinking about the state of US democracy. This isn't meant to be a rigorous proof that this is the case (DM me for that), just a collection which I hope will get people thinking about what's happening in the US now. Before looking at the forecasts you might first ask yourself: What probability would I put on authoritarian capture?, and At what probability of

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14:45

“AGI × Animals Wargame” by Sentient Futures,...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/08

In September 2025 in Warsaw prior to CARE, 19 animal movement leaders came together to participate in the first ever AGI and animal welfare wargame. TLDR: Great-power moves and food-security shocks repeatedly overrode animal welfare efforts; standard campaigning tactics like mass mobilization struggled under political crackdowns and were overshadowed by government's concerns about public unrest in the face of war risks. Executive Summary What this was A strategic tabletop exercise designed to test

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15:07

“AGI × Animals Wargame” by Sentient Futures (formerly...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/08

In September 2025 in Warsaw prior to CARE, 19 animal movement leaders came together to participate in the first ever AGI and animal welfare wargame. It was a strategic tabletop exercise designed to test whether current animal-advocacy theories of change held under fast AI progression and geopolitical stress. Participants were selected based on their potential strategic influence on the direction of the animal movement and assigned roles according to their pre-existing domain expertise which ranged

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3:11

“You Should Get a Reusable Mask” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/08

A pandemic that's substantially worse than COVID-19 is a seriouspossibility. If one happens, having a good mask could save your life. A high quality reusable mask is only $30 to $60, and I think it's well worth it to buy one for yourself. Worth it enough that I think you should order one now if you don't have one already. But if you're not convinced, let's do some rough estimation. COVID-19 killed about 0.2% of people (20M of 8B). The 1918 flu killed more like 2.5% (50M of 2B)

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6:40

“Request for Proposals: Meta Charity Funders - Fall...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/07

Summary We’re launching the fifth round of Meta Charity Funders — a selective funding opportunity for promising meta charities, i.e. organisations that support or mobilise others to have a large positive impact. Last round (Spring 2025), MCF awarded ~$550k to 10 charities, including effective giving initiatives and specialised community- and capacity-building groups. Apply for funding by October 31st 23:59 GMT or join the circle as a funder (more information below)! We expect all applicants to

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5:38

“Free-Wheeling, Personality-Driven EA Conversations”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/07

Chana Messinger (80k's head of video, formerly of CEA's Community Health team) and I (Matt Reardon, formerly of 80k) have been recording Expected Volume (Apple, Spotify),[1] a podcast of unscripted conversations between us and and some great guests from across the community, including: Andy Masley Phil Trammell Conor Barnes Daniel Filan Alex Lawsen Trevor Levin Julia Wise Topics vary widely, but we often touch on EA history, community dynamics, politics, and religion, with some personal

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9:47

“Aspiring AI Safety Researchers: Consider ‘Atypical...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/06

Housekeeping notes: This was hastily written; there might be some bad phrasing here and there – Forgive me! This advice may not apply to everyone. It was inspired a lot by my personal experience moving away from research and into “other” roles in AI safety, starting around September 2024. I’ve previously written a little bit about why I’ve enjoyed fieldbuilding and why I’ve found it valuable in the bottom of this other post as well) _____ TLDR: Non-research roles in AI safety don't appear to get

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52:02

“Utilitarians Should Accept that Some Suffering...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/06

Note to competition judges: feedback extremely welcome! Preface Relationship to "The Case for Strong Longtermism" This post engages with themes central to Greaves and MacAskill's "The Case for Strong Longtermism" in Essays on Longtermism, offering not a refutation but an important reframing of how we should think about far-future moral priorities. While Greaves and MacAskill compellingly argue that far-future effects dominate the moral importance of our actions today, my argument suggests that the

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