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EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular)

Audio narrations from the Effective Altruism Forum, including curated posts and posts with 125 karma. If you"d like more episodes, subscribe to the "EA Forum (All audio)" podcast instead.

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7:30

“The privilege of native English speakers in reaching...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/12/20

Huge thanks to Konrad Seifert, Marcel Steimke, Ysaline Bourgine, Milena Canzler, Alex Rahl-Kaplan, Marieke de Visscher, and Guillaume Vorreux for the valuable feedback provided on drafts of this post, and to many others for the conversations that lead to me writing it. Views & mistakes are my own. TL;DR Being a non-native English speaker makes one sound less convincing. However, poor inclusion of non-native English speakers means missed perspectives in decision-making. Hence, it's a vicious

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8:26

“What is the current most representative EA AI x-risk...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/12/20

I tend to disagree with most EAs about existential risk from AI. Unfortunately, my disagreements are all over the place. It's not that I disagree with one or two key points: there are many elements of the standard argument that I diverge from, and depending on the audience, I don't know which points of disagreement people think are most important. I want to write a post highlighting all the important areas where I disagree, and offering my own counterarguments as an alternative. This post would

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54:17

“Effective Aspersions: How the Nonlinear...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/12/19

The New York Times Picture a scene: the New York Times is releasing an article on Effective Altruism (EA) with an express goal to dig up every piece of negative information they can find. They contact Émile Torres, David Gerard, and Timnit Gebru, collect evidence about Sam Bankman-Fried, the OpenAI board blowup, and Pasek's Doom, start calling Astral Codex Ten (ACX) readers to ask them about rumors they'd heard about affinity between Effective Altruists, neoreactionaries, and something called

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31:11

“Bringing about animal-inclusive AI” by Max Taylor

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/12/18

I’ve been working in animal advocacy for two years and have an amateur interest in AI. All corrections, points of disagreement, and other constructive feedback are very welcome. I’m writing this in a personal capacity, and am not representing the views of my employer. Many thanks to everyone who provided feedback and ideas. Introduction. In a previous post, I set out some of the positive and negative impacts that AI could have on animals. The present post sets out a few ideas for what an

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5:34

“GWWC is spinning out of EV” by Luke Freeman

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/12/13

Giving What We Can (GWWC) is embarking on an exciting new chapter: after years of support, we will be spinning out of the Effective Ventures Foundation UK and US (collectively referred to as “EV”), our parent charities in the US and UK respectively, to become an independent organisation. Rest assured that our core mission, commitments, and focus on effective giving remain unchanged. We believe this transition will allow us to better serve our community and to achieve our mission more effectively

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4:37

“EV updates: FTX settlement and the future of EV” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/12/13

We’re announcing two updates today that we believe will strengthen the effective altruism ecosystem. FTX updates First, we’re pleased to say that both Effective Ventures UK and Effective Ventures US have agreed to settlements with the FTX bankruptcy estate. As part of these settlements, EV US and EV UK (which I’ll collectively refer to as “EV”) have between them paid the estate $26,786,503, an amount equal to 100% of the funds the entities received from FTX and the FTX Foundation (which I’ll

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59:31

“Nonlinear’s Evidence: Debunking False and Misleading...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/12/12

Recently, Ben Pace wrote a well-intentioned blog post mostly based on complaints from 2 (of 21) Nonlinear employees who 1) wanted more money, 2) felt socially isolated, and 3) felt persecuted/oppressed. Of relevance, one has accused the majority of her previous employers, and 28 people of abuse - that we know of. She has accused multiple people of threatening to kill her and literally accused an ex-employer of murder. Within three weeks of joining us, she had accused five separate people of abuse:

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5:44

“PEPFAR, one of the most life-saving global health...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/12/10

Summary: International funding and coordination to tackle HIV/AIDS and support health systems in lower- and middle-income countries, is at risk of not being renewed by US Congress, due to demands that it should be linked to new abortion-related restrictions in recipient countries. This program is estimated to have saved over 20 million lives since it was launched by the Bush Administration in 2003, and even now averts over a million HIV/AIDS deaths annually. Since it has also helped support

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80:39

“PhD on Moral Progress - Bibliography Review” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/12/10

Epistemic Status: I've researched this broad topic for a couple of years. I've read about 30+ books and 100+ articles on the topic so far (I'm not really keeping count). I've also read many other works in the related areas of normative moral philosophy, moral psychology, moral epistemology, moral methodology, and metaethics, since it's basically my area of specialization within philosophy. This project will be my PhD thesis. However, I still have 3 years of the PhD to go, so a substantial amount of

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11:17

“Early findings from the world’s largest UBI study”...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/12/06

Summary of findings 2 years in: A monthly universal basic income (UBI) empowered recipients and did not create idleness. They invested, became more entrepreneurial, and earned more. The common concern of “laziness” never materialized, as recipients did not work less nor drink more. Both a large lump sum and a long-term UBI proved highly effective. The lump sum enabled big investments and the guarantee of 12 years of UBI encouraged savings and risk-taking. A short-term UBI was the least impactful

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14:41

“EA thoughts from Israel-Hamas war” by ezrah

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/12/06

I'm Ezra, CEO of EA Israel, but am writing this in a personal capacity. My goal in writing this is to give the community a sense of what someone from a decent-sized local EA group is going through during a time of national crisis. I'll try to keep the post relatively apolitical, but since this is such a charged topic, I'm not sure I'll succeed. I will say that I’m quite nervous about the responses to the post, since the forum can sometimes lean towards criticism. Ideally, I’d want people who are

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16:46

“EA Infrastructure Fund’s Plan to Focus on...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/12/06

Summary.EA Infrastructure Fund (EAIF)[1]has historically had a somewhat scattershot focus within “EA meta.” This makes it difficult for us to know what to optimize for or for donors to evaluate our performanceWe propose that we switch towards focusing our grantmaking on Principles-First EA[2]This includes supporting:research that aids prioritization across different cause areasprojects that build communities focused on impartial, scope sensitive and ambitious altruisminfrastructure, especially

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8:09

“Effective Giving Incubation - apply to CE & GWWC’s...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/12/05

Charity Entrepreneurship in collaboration with Giving What We Can is opening a new program to launch 4-6 new Effective Giving Initiatives (EGIs) in 2024. We expect them to raise millions in counterfactual funding for highly impactful charities, even in their first few years.[Applications are open now] In recent years Doneer Effectief, Effektiv Spenden & Giving What We Can have moved huge sums of money ($1.4m, $35m and $330m, respectively) to the best charities globally. We aim to build on their

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16:37

“What do we really know about growth in LMICs? (Part...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/12/02

To EAs, "development economics" evokes the image of RCTs on psychotherapy or deworming. That is, after all, the closest interaction between EA and development economists. However, this characterization has prompted some pushback, in the form of the argument that all global health interventions pale in comparison to the Holy Grail: increasing economic growth in poor countries. After all, growth increases basically every measure of wellbeing on a far larger scale than any charity intervention, so it's

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12:55

[Linkpost] “Doing Good Effectively is Unusual” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/12/01

tl;dr: It actually seems pretty rare for people to care about the general good as such (i.e., optimizing cause-agnostic impartial well-being), as we can see by prejudged dismissals of EA concern for non-standard beneficiaries and for doing good via indirect means.Introduction.Moral truisms may still be widely ignored. The moral truism underlying Effective Altruism is that we have strong reasons to do more good, and it's worth adopting the efficient promotion of the impartial good among one's life

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“Effektiv Spenden’s Impact Evaluation 2019-2023...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/12/01

effektiv-spenden.org is an effective giving platform in Germany and Switzerland that was founded in 2019. To reflect on our past impact, we examine Effektiv Spenden's cost-effectiveness as a "giving multiplier" from 2019 to 2022 in terms of how much money is directed to highly effective charities due to our work. We have two primary reasons for this analysis:To provide past and future donors with transparent information about our cost-effectiveness;To hold ourselves accountable, particularly in a

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0:41

[Linkpost] “In Continued Defense Of Effective...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/11/29

In Continued Defense Of Effective Altruism — Scott Alexanderhttps://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ML6hxqM6g6mXewJtZ/in-continued-defense-of-effective-altruism-scott-alexander Linkpost URL:https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-continued-defense-of-effective --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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8:56

“How I feel about my GWWC Pledge” by Michael Townsend

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/11/29

I took the GWWC Pledge in 2018, while I was an undergraduate student. I only have a hazy recollection of the journey that led to me taking the Pledge. I thought I’d write that down, reflect on how I feel now, and maybe share it.In high-school, I was kind of cringeI saw respected people wear suits, and I watched (and really liked) shows like Suits.I unreflectively assumed I’d end up the same. The only time I would reflect on it was to motivate myself to study for my upcoming exams — I have memories

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7:52

“EA is good, actually” by Amy Labenz

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/11/28

The last year has been toughThe last year has been tough for EA. FTX blew up in the most spectacular way and SBF has been found guilty of one of the biggest frauds in history. I was heartbroken to learn that someone I trusted hurt so many people, was heartbroken for the people who lost their money, and was heartbroken about the projects I thought would happen that no longer will. The media piled on, and on, and on.The community has processed the shock in all sorts of ways — some more productive than

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10:48

“AMF – Reflecting on 2023 and looking ahead to 2024”...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/11/24

Rob Mather, CEO, AMF, 25 November 20232023 has been a very busy year for AMF, more on 2024 later.ImpactAMF's team of 13 is in the middle of a nine-month period during which we are distributing, with partners, 90 million nets to protect 160 million people in six countries: Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, South Sudan, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia.The impact of these nets is expected to be, ± 20%, 40,000 deaths prevented, 20 million cases of malaria averted and a US$2.2 billion improvement

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