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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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4:04

[Linkpost] “Gabrielle Young: 1995-2025” by Rowan...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/12

This is a link post. I am deeply saddened to share that Gabrielle Young, a much-loved member of the EA NZ community and personal friend, died last month. This is an absolutely devastating loss, and our hearts go out to Gabby's friends and family, including her parents and her sister Brigette. While most of us knew her through EA, Gabby was an incredibly vibrant person with a diverse range of interests. She brought an infectious enthusiasm to everything she did, from software development to parkour

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2:09

“EA UK is hiring a new Director!” by abrahamrowe

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/12

Shape and lead the future of effective altruism in the UK — apply to be the Director of EA UK. The UK has the world's second-largest EA community, with London having the highest concentration of EAs globally. This represents a significant opportunity to strengthen and grow the effective altruism movement where it matters most. The EA UK board is recruiting for a new Director, as our existing Director is moving on to another opportunity. We believe that the strongest version of EA UK is one where

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4:58

“Conflicted on AI Politics” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/11

About twice as many Americans think AI is likely to have a negative effect as a positive one. At a high level I agree: we're talking about computers that are smart in ways similar to people, and quickly getting smarter. They're also faster and cheaper than people, and again getting more so. There are a lot of ways this could go, and many of them are seriously bad. I'm personally most worried about AI removing the technical barriers that keep regular people from creating pandemics,

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17:13

“When is it important that open-weight models aren’t...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/11

Recently, Anthropic released Opus 4 and said they couldn't rule out the model triggering ASL-3 safeguards due to the model's CBRN capabilities. That is, they say they couldn't rule out that this model had "the ability to significantly help individuals or groups with basic technical backgrounds (e.g., undergraduate STEM degrees) create/obtain and deploy CBRN weapons" (quoting from Anthropic's RSP). More specifically, Anthropic is worried about the model's capabilities in assisting with bioweapons

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8:09

“AI companies’ eval reports mostly don’t support...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/10

AI companies claim that their models are safe on the basis of dangerous capability evaluations. OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic publish reports intended to show their eval results and explain why those results imply that the models' capabilities aren't too dangerous.[1] Unfortunately, the reports mostly don't support the companies' claims. Crucially, the companies usually don't explain why they think the results, which often seem strong, actually indicate safety, especially for biothreat and

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11:44

“The Unparalleled Awesomeness of Effective Altruism...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/09

Crosspost from my blog. I just got back from Effective Altruism Global London—a conference that brought together lots of different people trying to do good with their money and careers. It was an inspiring experience. When you write about factory farming, insect suffering, global poverty, and the torment of shrimp, it can, as I’ve mentioned before, feel like screaming into the void. When you try to explain why it's important that we don’t torture insects by the trillions in insect farms, most

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37:09

“Notify Health Vaccination Reminders - Our first...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/09

TL;DR This post introduces Notify Health, an AIM-incubated charity that reduces vaccine-preventable child deaths in Nigeria via SMS and voice vaccination reminders. Nigeria has the highest number of children missing vaccines globally by count. Over 50% of missed vaccines are caused in part by caregivers forgetting or misunderstanding the schedule. SMS and call vaccination reminders are a scalable solution that has strong evidence of effectiveness. A meta-analysis in LMICs shows sizable effects, and

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5:06

“One of the Highest-Impact Things You Can Do? Run an...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/07

TL;DR Starting an Effective Altruism (EA) group might be one of the highest-impact opportunities available right now. Here's how you can get involved: University students:Apply to the Centre for Effective Altruism's Organiser Support Programme (OSP)by Sunday, June 22. City or national group organisers:You’re invited, too. See details here! Interested in mentorship?Apply to mentor organisersby Wednesday, June 18. Know someone who could be an organiser or mentor?Forward this post or recommend them

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6:10

“Don’t Panic About Democracy in EA” by James Herbert,...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/07

At EAG London 2024, Zach Robinson (CEA's new CEO) highlighted strengthening EA institutions as a top priority. One avenue is democratizing EA organisations. While there's been abstract discussion on democracy within EA, concrete examples are rare. EA Norway's governance model — and similar structures in EA Sweden, Denmark, and Finland — offers a practical illustration. In this post, we provide an overview of how things work at EA Norway. We don’t make strong arguments or claims about this being the

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13:21

“More Everything Forever - a new book critique of EA”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/07

Adam Becker recently published More Everything Forever. From the initial blurbs and early reactions, I expected it to be broadly representative of the now familiar leftist critique of Effective Altruism, Rationalism, and adjacent communities: essentially a highly critical summary of what is often referred to as TESCREAL. This expectation has proven accurate. I’ve been summarizing each chapter carefully while also adding my own commentary along the way. Since Chapter 4 is the main (though not

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4:03

[Linkpost] “Gabrielle Young: 1995-2025” by Rowan...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/06

This is a link post. I am deeply saddened to share that Gabrielle Young, a much-loved member of the EA NZ community and personal friend, died last month. This is an absolutely devastating loss, and our hearts go out to Gabby's friends and family, including her parents and her sister Brigette. While most of us knew her through EA, Gabby was an incredibly vibrant person with a diverse range of interests. She brought an infectious enthusiasm to everything she did, from software development to parkour

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13:04

[Linkpost] “Lessons learned from two years supporting...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/06

This is a link post. Summary The purpose of this post is to summarize the achievements and learnings at Impact Ops in its first two years. Impact Ops provides consultancy and hands-on support to help high-impact organizations upgrade their operations. We’ve grown from three co-founders to a team of 11 specialists and supported 50+ high-impact organizations since our founding in April 2023. We deliver specialist operations services in areas where we have deep experience, including finance,

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10:36

“‘Technical Support Units’ - A Dubious GiveWell...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/05

TLDR: This 6 million dollar TSU grant doesn’t seem to fit GiveWell's ethos and mission, and I don’t see the grant as high EV compared to other GiveWell grants. Disclaimer: Despite my concerns I still think this grant likely has a higher EV than 80% of Global Health funding out there. GiveWell are my udonor, and given how much thought, research, and passion goes into every grant they give, I’m quite likely to be wrong here! What makes GiveWell Special?I love to tell people what makes GiveWell

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7:16

“Introducing Freelancing For Good: a community,...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/05

TL;DR: Freelancing For Good is a platform and community for impact-driven freelancers, featuring a job board, Slack community, and vetted freelancer directory. We’re helping freelancers find meaningful work - and helping EA orgs find and hire aligned talent more easily. Hello everyone! After almost two years of testing, iterating, and building based on community feedback, we’re excited (and a little nervous!) to share Freelancing For Good with the EA Forum. What is Freelancing For Good (FFG)

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1:22

“RFP for Charity Evaluations and Recommendations...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/05

ACE is seeking a qualified independent consultant to conduct a feasibility study for our Charity Evaluations and Recommendations program. We are looking for a partner who is experienced with planning and conducting a feasibility study (or similar work), is familiar with the animal advocacy movement, (ideally) the effective altruism movement and meta-fundraising. The plan should a) assess our current approach to charity evaluations and recommendations alongside viable alternative approaches, and b)

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5:58

“Announcing SparkWell” by andrewleeke, Jeffrey Poche

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/05

We’re excited to announce SparkWell! What is SparkWell? SparkWell is an Anti Entropy program designed to help high-impact nonprofit projects test ideas, develop operational capabilities, and launch as independent entities. We provide a temporary home for a diverse range of promising initiatives. Why have we built this? We believe that we’re living through a transformational period in history. Catastrophic risks loom large, whether from climate change, factory farming, pandemics, nuclear or cyber

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18:30

“The Tiny Flicker of Altruism” by Mjreard

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/05

This is a Forum Team crosspost from Substack. between status, power, and identity, is there any room for the real thing? Dan Williams’ 2024 posts on altruism and cynicism struck a chord with me. In the posts, Dan reflects on the basic and, as far as I can tell, well-accepted story of the origins of altruistic sentiment in humans. Glossing over considerable detail: cooperation and trust create gains from trade and social interdependence that improves the genetic fitness of all the individuals

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8:45

“Tacit knowledge: how I *exactly* approach EAG(x)...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/04

Crossposted on Substack.Preamble I have been asked to share a few tips on how to get the most out of the conference as part of the opening talk of this year's EAGxPrague. I decided to focus on the tacit knowledge I have. This is because there is a lot of useful advice on how to get the most out of conferences, but I feel they usually offer general tips, as opposed to really getting into the weeds. Here is a slightly more polished version of the transcript I prepared. I also added some pictures: Hi,

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4:01

“Chicken reforms and veg advocacy may contribute to...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/04

Recognizing the small animal replacement problem (SARP) led many animal advocates to, broadly, warn against strategies to help animals that build upon environmental and/or health arguments (see, e.g., Carpendale 2022; Sokk 2021; Bryant 2024; Hazo 2022; Ozden & Dullaghan 2022). More specifically, this includes strategies such as advocating against red meat consumption (see Mathur 2022; CE Team 2018; Rouk 2022) or against subsidies for meat and other animal products (Ryba 2022), and pushing for a

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31:10

“Notes on dynamism, power, & virtue” by Lizka

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/04

This is very rough — it's functionally a collection of links/notes/excerpts that feel related. I don’t think what I’m sharing is in a great format; if I had more mental energy, I would have chosen a more-linear structure to look at this tangle of ideas. But publishing in the current form[1] seemed better than not sharing at all.I sometimes feel like two fuzzy perspective-clusters[2] are pulling me in opposite directions: Cluster 1: “Getting stuff done, building capacity, being willing to make

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