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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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3:38

“ACS is hiring: why work here and why not” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/24

tl;dr: ACS Research is hiring for several full-time research positions in macrostrategy, LLM psychology, and ML. 1-2 year contracts in Prague, London, or San Francisco Bay Area, $80-300k. This could be a Pareto-optimal option for some of you based on research topics, incentives, salary, collaborators, and research environment. Details and applicartions here - deadline approaching soon. Also please do refer people to us: we don't offer referral bounties, but hope you can tell people to apply just

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1:45

“Software Engineering at SecureBio” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/23

I've had a lot of people reach out to me who are interested in workingon biosecurity, but have a background in software engineering / computer science. A lot of these conversations have looked something like: A: I'd be really excited to work on biosecurity, it seems really important and relatively neglected. Are you hiring for software engineers at SecureBio? Me: I wish we were, you seem really great! But I don't know when we will be, depends on funding and some strategy

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10:22

[Linkpost] “The Charity Trap: Brain Misallocation” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/23

This is a link post. In Ugandan villages where non-governmental organisations (NGOs) hired away the existing government health worker, infant mortality went up. This happened in 39%[1] of villages that already had a government worker. The NGO arrived with funding and good intentions, but the likelihood that villagers received care from any health worker declined by ~23%. Brain Misallocation “Brain drain”, - the movement of people from poorer countries to wealthier ones, has been extensively

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0:50

[Linkpost] “Statement on Superintelligence - FLI Open...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/23

This is a link post. We call for a prohibition on the development of superintelligence, not lifted before there is broad scientific consensus that it will be done safely and controllably, and strong public buy-in. Sign on the main website or Eko[1]. --- First published: October 22nd, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/nkjguqdyxzwsrGmKB/statement-on-superintelligence-fli-open-letter Linkpost

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2:56

“Canva to donate $100M over 4 years to GiveDirectly”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/23

All quotes are from their blog post "Why we chose to invest another $100 million in cash transfers", highlights are my own: Today, we’re announcing a new $100 million USD commitment over the next four years to expand our partnership with GiveDirectly and help empower an additional 185,000 people living in extreme poverty. We’re also funding new research, and pilot variants, to further understand how we can maximize the impact of each dollar. This is on top of another $50 million USD they gave to

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0:36

[Linkpost] “Consider donating to AI safety champion...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/22

This is a link post. Written in my personal capacity, and am speaking for myself and not the effective altruism community as a whole. --- First published: October 22nd, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/sCbW6kvzx2ReXru4P/consider-donating-to-ai-safety-champion-scott-wiener Linkpost URL:https://ericneyman.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/consider-donating-to-ai-safety-champion-scott-wiener/ --- Narrated by TYPE

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14:00

“AI and Animal Welfare: A Policy Case Study from...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/22

TL;DR AI systems manage hundreds of thousands of animals in NZ (billions globally) under decades-old regulations with zero AI-specific welfare provisions I spent 3 months part-time + $0 writing a policy brief highlighting this gap for local policymakers The pattern is universal: deploy first, regulate later (maybe) The resulting policy brief proposes practical solutions using existing frameworks Takeaway: this work is doable without massive resources, similar gaps likely exist in your jurisdiction

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8:11

“The First Global Accounting Standard for Nonprofits...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/22

Disclaimer: I work for the Centre for Effective Altruism, though these are purely my personal thoughts and should not be taken to represent my employer or any other organization. I'm interested in this topic as someone who values organizational transparency and financial accountability across the nonprofit sector, not because of any organizational mandate.TLDR: After 50+ years of for-profit companies having international accounting standards, nonprofits finally have their own: INPAS (International

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10:29

[Linkpost] “How good would a CCP-dominated AI future...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/22

This is a link post. I am not American. But compared to China, I have plenty of friends from the U.S., Australia is more culturally similar to the U.S., and I have spent more time there. So, is the fact that I support the U.S. over China in the AI race just selfish and downstream of my personal circumstances?I would like to think not. But it is worth seriously considering what the future would be like if the CCP becomes the dominant player in AI development. Dominance in AI development could (but

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15:39

“How Well Does RL Scale?” by Toby_Ord

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/22

This is the latest in a series of essays on AI Scaling. You can find the others on my site. Summary: RL-training for LLMs scales surprisingly poorly. Most of its gains are from allowing LLMs to productively use longer chains of thought, allowing them to think longer about a problem. There is some improvement for a fixed length of answer, but not enough to drive AI progress. Given the scaling up of pre-training compute also stalled, we'll see less AI progress via compute scaling than you might have

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6:56

“Talking about longtermism isn’t very important” by cb

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/21

Epistemic status: quickly writtren, rehashing (reheating?) old, old takes. Also, written in a grumpier voice than I’d endorse (I got rained on this morning).Some essays on longtermism came out recently! Perhaps you noticed. I overall think these essays were just fine[1], and that we should all talk less about longtermism.In which I talk about longtermism (In what follows, I’ll take “longtermism” as shorthand for: “the effects of our actions on the long term future should be a key moral

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21:10

“Fruit-picking as an existential risk” by Arepo

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/21

TLDR Longtermists usually focus on lowering p(doom) of total extinction. I argue that resource entropy (picking the low hanging fruit) between civilisations is inevitable, and might dramatically reduce p(success) after a catastrophe thinking about p(success) requires longtermists to be more explicitly ambitious - not to settle for a civilisation that never leaves Earth this ambition ironically makes the case for moving longtermist cause priorities closer to the rest of society's - though perhaps

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54:52

“Discussions of Longtermism should focus on the...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/21

Abstract Objections to longtermism often focus on issues like fanaticism, discounting, or classic reasons to doubt the tractability of positively influencing the far future. I argue that another challenge has been underdiscussed relative to those—namely, that posed by unawareness: many of the long-term possibilities most relevant to our actions are unknown to us. I develop this challenge by introducing the notion of determinative unawareness, where unknown outcomes are decisive for whether an action

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9:53

“Introducing: the Global Volcano Risk Alliance...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/21

We want to highlight two things in this post: Mike haspublished an essay in Aeon about the threat from hidden volcanoes, among other aspects, it's got some volcano science, history, climate, pandemics and storytelling in it, so something for everyone I hope! It highlights the global scale of this risk, its underappreciation in terms of governance, monitoring and funding. If you get to the end of the Aeon article, you'll see Lara Mani and I (both volcanologists) have launched the first of its kind

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11:58

“Applying to EA orgs? My thoughts as a new recruiter”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/20

In the spirit of Draft Amnesty Week, and in light of Ambitious Impact currently hiring for staff roles - one recruitment manager (or director) and two researchers - I thought I’d share some of my recent reflections on finding impactful careers as a new recruiter in an EA org. “Why is it so hard to get hired to do good?” First, I want to validate this point and say that I totally agree; it is (stupidly) hard. I personally applied to 16 EA orgs and spent >100 hours job searching, doing work

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27:56

[Linkpost] “Considerations around career costs of...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/20

This is a link post. Crossposted from LW. I didn't write this, but I know the author and think they're reasonable; I'm sharing it because it might be helpful. I think the direct effects of large donations strongly outweigh the personal side effects for almost everyone, but (if you don't already donate to Democrats) you should think before donating to Democrats if you really might work in a Republican administration, and if you're planning to donate <$1000 to Democrats you should consider instead

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5:53

“If We Can’t End Factory Farming, Can We Really Shape...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/20

Veganism as the Alignment Test for Longtermism Longtermism asks us to imagine the vastness of the future—trillions of lives, billions of years—and to act today as though those lives matter. It is a stirring vision, but it rests on a fragile assumption: that humanity is capable of aligning on a mission, coordinating across cultures and centuries, and acting with compassion at scale. Before we leap to the stars, we should ask whether we can pass the first test right in front of us: ending factory

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27:26

“What are the most effective global health charities...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/20

This post is written as part of the Draft Amnesty Week; it's an idea I've been thinking about for a while. Most of the figures here are rough, “best-guess” estimates, so please suggest improvements! Summary Most global health charities and evaluations focus on Lives Saved or DALYs (Disability-Adjusted Life Years), which generally only focus on post-birth outcomes However, according to (in my view) reasonable assumptions, birth is an arbitrary dividing line, and unborn children and potential lives

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11:14

“Navigating donation dilemmas: customizable Moral...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/20

Executive Summary Donors often navigate difficult choices among projects that have different outcomes and promote different values. Standard cost-effectiveness analyses allow us to see how changing assumptions (e.g., regarding moral weights or probabilities of success) can change our evaluations of individual interventions. However, they are less apt for dealing with uncertainty about these assumptions or navigating disagreements among stakeholders. Our Moral Parliament Toolallows users to navigate

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23:07

“Are longtermist ideas getting harder to find?” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/10/19

Imagine you are a junior advisor to the boss of some major EA longtermism-sympathetic org (OpenPhil, CEA, 80K, etc). You are tasked with reading the Essays on Longtermism compilation, and collating any novel insights that could significantly change what we should be doing. That is, we want essays that make ‘big, if true’ claims, and present interesting arguments for them. To be clear, this is a high bar! Novelty is hard, and action-relevance is even harder for orgs that have already thought a lot

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