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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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5:35

“The EA Forum Is the New LinkedIn: A Guide to...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/04/02

I'm humbled (and slightly Bayesianly uncertain) to announce that after years of carefully optimizing my personal brand on LinkedIn, I've decided to pivot to a higher-impact platform: the EA Forum. LinkedIn let me share updates about clients, networking events, and my "journey." The EA Forum offers something better: 3,000-word posts, detailed cost-effectiveness analyses, and occasional updates about my shifting credences on shrimp welfare. (Quick tip: always add shrimp. They inflate every number.)

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18:08

“I’m Suing Anthropic for Unauthorized Use of My...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/04/02

Last year, I was sitting in my favorite coffee shop Caffe Strada, sipping on a matcha latte and writing a self-insert fanfic about how our plucky protagonist escapes the mind-controlling clutches of an evil anti-animal welfare company, when I came across an interesting article on AI character. The core argument is that when you train an AI to be helpful, honest, and ethical, the AI model doesn’t just learn those rules as abstract instructions. Instead, it infers an entire persona from cultural

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2:50

“EA Netherlands is hiring a Co-Director” by James...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/04/02

After more than seven years with EA Netherlands — first as a volunteer, then as a board member, and most recently as co-director — Marieke de Visscher is moving on. Marieke was instrumental in building EAN from an all-volunteer group into a staffed nonprofit. She leaves behind a stronger, more professional organisation than the one she found, and I'm grateful for the years we worked together. We're now hiring her successor. The role in brief: This is a generalist co-directorship at one of the

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6:45

“Announcing 8,000,000 Hours: Career advice for the...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/04/01

TL;DR: We're launching 8,000,000 Hours, a new career guidance organisation for people who want to have an impact but would rather not change what they're doing. Instead of finding the highest-impact career, we help you work longer in your existing one to achieve the same impact at the end of your career. The core insight 80,000 Hours estimates that you have roughly 80,000 hours in your career and argues you should spend them on the world's most pressing problems. Central to 80,000 Hours' argument

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1:24

“Fish Welfare Initiative Hacked” by Tom Billington

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/04/01

It pains me to report that, in the early hours of this morning, Fish Welfare Initiative (arguably the best charity ever) experienced a serious website security breach. Our entire leadership team is currently reviewing some of the most advanced technical literature available to resolve the issue. In the meantime, we strongly request: DO NOT VISIT OUR WEBSITE (www.fwi.fish). Please, no one visit our website under any circumstances. This includes (but is not limited to) going to www.fwi.fish,

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5:32

“Alternative AI Forecasting Methods” by Scott Alexander

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/04/01

Forecasts based on benchmarks and time horizons have failed to produce a consensus timeline for the arrival of AGI. We supplement these with several alternative methods. 1: MATS Applications AGI - artificial intelligence capable of performing every task - is by definition cognitively capable of putting all humans out of work. However, there are certain edge cases where human employment might persist for other reasons. As the majority of jobs get automated, we expect newly unemployed workers to

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2:56

“Announcing Highly Engaged EAs!” by Sam Anschell

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/04/01

I’m excited to launch Highly Engaged EAs: a matchmaking and nuptialization service to optimize tax relief, green card accumulation and more! Workstreams I Do(nate) By marrying EAs in different tax brackets, Highly Engaged EAs reduces average tax burden through joint filing to enable greater giving. A Californian AI safety researcher with a million dollar salary could give an extra $53k/year by tying the knot with an unpaid grad student! Til 80,000 Hours do us part The place premium is so high in

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“80,000 Hours: Job Board - Job Bards” by Conor Barnes...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/04/01

Hi everybody! I'm Conor. I run the 80,000 Hours Job Board. Or I used to. As of today — April 1 — we are becoming Job Bards! You may not know that the number one complaint that people have about job boards is sensory poverty. While movie theatres have dared to experiment with haptics and smell-o-vision, no job board has even dared to become an audiovisual experience. Until now. We believe Job Bards is the premium job board experience, and all job boards that don't make the leap will fall the way of

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1:55

“RejectDirectly” by RejectDirectly

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/04/01

We're thrilled to announce the founding of RejectDirectly, a new EA-adjacent organization dedicated to closing the global rejection gap. For too long, the EA rejection pipeline has been plagued by ineffectiveness. Billions of collective DALYs spend on unsuccessful work trials and interviews. The water waste involved in the mass duplication of Google Docs. The community health is in peril. In comes RejectDirectly. By cutting out the middleman we can deliver high-quality, unconditional rejections

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3:24

“Announcing Deep Thought” by William_MacAskill,...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/04/01

Forethought is proud to announce the launch of Deep Thought[1] — the world's first fully automated macrostrategy researcher, and the world's most powerful AI model. For some time, we have believed that one of the most important things a macrostrategy research organisation can do is work to automate its own work. The case is simple: if the questions we're investigating matter, then expanding access to high-quality answers matters too — and no bottleneck is more binding than the scarcity of

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6:13

“An unexplained annual spike in false claims on the...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/04/01

Epistemic status: Very high confidence in the statistical findings. Genuinely confused about the cause. For reasons that will become obvious, I wanted to publish this post on March 31, but unfortunately I could only get it done today. I've been building a classifier to flag potentially misleading content on the EA Forum as part of a side project on epistemics infrastructure. While validating the model, I noticed something I initially assumed was a bug. This is an interim report on that.  Summary:

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1:43

“Announcing the Lead Exposure Elimination Project” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/04/01

Are there too many cables on your desk? Is this preventing you from doing your most productive work? Research suggests that the aesthetic quality of a person's work environment has an impact on their mood, productivity, and ability to cope with the crushing reality of knowing that more children will suffer and die from preventable diseases if they don't get enough done. I've had a high-impact meta side project of helping EAs clear up their desks. After a few iterations aimed at increasing longevity

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3:05

“Should 80,000 hours rebrand to 10,000 hours (max)?”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/04/01

I say this with deep love for 80k and mild existential dread. I love 80,000 Hours. One of the most useful resources in the effective altruism ecosystem. Their core premise is simple and compelling: you have roughly 80,000 hours in your career, so spend them wisely. But I've been doing some math, and I think they might need a rebrand. See, 80,000 Hours increasingly (and rightly!) recommends AI safety and AI governance careers. Their top career paths are dominated by AI-related roles. Which makes a

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“We’re growing: CEA is increasing its font size” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/04/01

“We” in this post refers to CEA leadership, who didn’t write this post. In 2025, we grew engagement with CEA's programs by 20–25% across every tier of engagement. But we recognize that growing the community is about more than engagement or metrics—at its core, growth is about the bigness of things. How can we claim that we’ve grown the community if the words on the page are the same size? To match our ambition off the page, it's time to show ambition on the page. We’re increasing our font size from

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6:33

“Forum feature update: debate poll” by Toby Tremlett🔹

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/04/01

A piece of feedback we've had a few times on our debate weeks is that the debate slider shouldn't be single-dimensional. When you agree or disagree with something, you also want to be able to signal your confidence in your belief. It's time-consuming to do so by explaining yourself in a comment, and percentage agreement isn't necessarily the same thing as confidence in your agreement. So, not to worry, we're now introducing a second axis, like so: …or, we were going to. However, once I finished

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14:07

“Giving up on EA after 13 years” by Jackson Wagner

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/04/01

Donating my shares to Lightcone Infrastructure, the Good Food Institute, and the Long-Term Future Fund, because EA refuses to make Mirror's Edge 3Leaning into EA disillusionment: Why I no longer believe in EA I bought this EA stock almost thirteen years ago:Leopold Aschenbrenner once said that “people with situational awarenesshave a lower cost basis in Nvidia than you do”. I’m not sure if this is exactlywhat he meant… but close enough, right? Back in the late 2000s and early 2010s, EA was a great

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7:27

“Tapping into EA’s most neglected market” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/04/01

EA has made admirable efforts to reach populations that are underrepresented in the movement: busy mid-career professionals, people of faith, and people across a wide range of professions and academic disciplines. Yet despite all these efforts, we are underserving our most neglected group, one that makes up 98–99% of all people on earth: neurotypicals (NTs). While we don’t have the data on hand, we think it's safe to say that EA has a severe underrepresentation issue among the NT population. The

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13:55

“The $120 Million Question: How will it help...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/04/01

Executive Summary The four largest funds in the effective animal advocacy movement can absorb ~$120 million in new funding in the coming year, with potential for greater growth in future years. Setting aside the historic scarcity mindset, I share this money's significant opportunity to reduce animal suffering and encourage emerging major donors from Anthropic to fund this impact. We can deploy this money effectively across three intervention categories: Scaling what works(~50-60%) Testing new

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7:02

“300,000 lives, 100 million hens, and a world still...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/04/01

I went on the Sam Harris podcast again recently. If you want the full non-paywalled episode, I’m able to share it here: https://samharris.org/episode/SE6877E700B 30 mins of it is also on youtube, spotify, etc. The occasion for the podcast was the 10-year anniversary edition of Doing Good Better. So, preparing for the podcast, I collected some relevant facts about what EA has achieved over the last decade, and where the movement stands today. I found the numbers both surprising and inspiring, so I

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33:47

[Linkpost] “The good, the bad, and the fair cop” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/04/01

This is a link post. Hi, I’m Thorbjørn “Toby” Schiønning, co-founder of Anima International. I was encouraged by my colleague Jakub Stencel to share our new blog post on negotiating and campaigning for animal welfare here (this is my first post here). Summary Over the past two decades, a small group of advocates has secured major corporate commitments on animal welfare – from cage-free eggs to fur-free policies – but securing a commitment means nothing if companies don’t follow through. The animal

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