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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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5:49

[Linkpost] “Why I’m excited about AI safety talent...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/28

This is a link post. Just a couple of weeks ago, I hit my two-year mark at Open Philanthropy. I’ve learned a lot over this period, but I’ve been especially surprised by how great the ROI is on AI safety talent development programs after digging into the numbers. Consider this graph: I’ve heard at least four examples in the last ~year or so of this dynamic playing out at AI safety organizations that run fellowship programs.1 This amount of applications isn’t the norm per se, but it happens often

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7:20

“Applications Open for Impact Accelerator Program for...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/28

High Impact Professionals (HIP) is excited to announce that applications are now open for the next round of our Impact Accelerator Program (IAP). The IAP is a 6-week program designed to equip experienced (mid-career/senior) EA-aligned professionals (not currently working at a high-impact organization) with the knowledge and tools necessary to make a meaningful impact and empower them to start taking actionable steps right away. To date, the program's high action focus has proven to be successful:

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3:52

“Save The Date: EA Connect 2025” by David Solar 🔹,...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/28

EA Connect 2025 will take place on 5–7 December Join EAs from over 75 countries for three days of learning and connection, all from wherever you are in the world. EA Connect 2025 removes the barriers of travel, visas, and geography, making it easier than ever to engage with the global EA community and discover your next steps for impact. If you've been approved for an EAG, EAGx, or Summit this year, you are extremely likely to be accepted to EA Connect 2025! Vision for the conference EA Connect

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5:08

“Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning: A Simple...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/28

This is content that The Mission Motor created for our website, but we felt it could potentially benefit some readers here, too. Thanks to Ameer Virani, Haven King-Nobles, and Samantha Kagel for reviewing this post. Tl;DR Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) is aset of tools and practices that act like your organization's dashboard. It shows what's working, warns when something's off, and steers you toward maximum impact. Running an organization is hard. You're constantly faced with

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8:21

“High-impact & urgent funding opportunity - Rodent...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/27

Context: I’m a senior fellow at Conservation X Labs (CXL), and I’m seeking support as I attempt to establish a program on humane rodent fertility control in partnership with the Wild Animal Initiative (WAI) and the Botstiber Institute for Wildlife Fertility Control (BIWFC). CXL is a biodiversity conservation organization working in sustainable technologies, not an animal welfare organization. However, CXL leadership is interested in simultaneously promoting biodiversity conservation and animal

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3:27

[Linkpost] “Research: People do not allocate enough...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/27

This is a link post. [Study authors: Adam Elga, Jian-Qiao Zhu, Thomas L. Griffiths] Summary: When asked to divide a fixed budget to fight several independent existential risks, experimental participants did not allocate enough resources to the risks with lowest probability of survival. Excerpts: if we face catastrophes with survival probabilities of 4% and 40%, it is more valuable to increase the probability of surviving the first catastrophe from 4% to 9% than it is to increase the probability of

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2:29

“UK Mass Lobby Day to End Cages on the 21st October”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/27

On Tuesday, 21st October, a coalition of UK animal advocacy organisations (UK Voters for Animals, Animal Equality UK, The Humane League UK, Animal Rising, and Open Cages UK) is hosting a mass lobby day in Westminster to advocate for banning cages for farmed animals in UK. The opportunity: We're aiming to bring 100+ UK residents[1] and voters to Parliament for meetings with their MPs about legislating to ban cages for farmed animals. The UK still confines millions of animals to cages each year:

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3:53

[Linkpost] “The NAO is Hiring for Partnerships,...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/27

This is a link post. In our work so far, the Nucleic Acid Observatory has focused on the technical core of a pathogen-agnostic early warning system: how do you go from sample to detection? This has included developing new sample processing protocols, designing and implementing computational algorithms, and efficacy modeling. We’ve recently received funding from Open Philanthropy to expand our scope: we’re now aiming to take on the problem of early warning from end to end. This means ensuring systems

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3:54

“You’re Enough” by lynettebye

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/26

I told someone recently I would respect them if they only worked 40 hours a week, instead of their current 50-60. What I really meant was stronger than that. I respect people who do the most impactful work they can — whether they work 70 hours a week because they can, 30 hours so they can be home with their kid, or 15 hours because of illness or burnout. I admire those who go above and beyond. But I don’t expect that of everyone. Working long hours isn’t required to earn my respect, nor do I

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9:21

“Nonpartisanship is also the mindkiller (albeit a...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/25

Tl;dr I argue that maintaining nonpartisan norms on the EA Forum, in public communications by influential community members, and in funding decisions may be more costly than people realize. Lack of discussion in public means that people don’t take political issues as seriously as they should, research which depends on understanding the political situation doesn’t get done, and the community moves forward with a poor model of probably the most consequential actor in the world for any given cause

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16:39

“The Effective Altruist Approach to Politics...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/24

A not entirely inaccurate gloss on the effective altruist approach to politics is that it's absurdly progressive: Source: 2022 Effective Altruism Survey. But I think the overwhelmingly left and center-left nature of effective altruism hides a number of ways that effective altruists differ from many (but not all) people on the left. Liberalism Effective altruists are liberals in the political philosophy sense. “Liberalism” is a loose term that refers to a wide variety of beliefs, many of which

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10:00

“Constructing scalable, funding-neutral EA...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/24

(This is the rough transcript/summary of a session I am delivering this weekend at EA in the Lakes, and I will be referring people to this post from it.) As a long-time (non-EA) community events organiser, I have a lot of skills and connections in the provision of budget-friendly community events around and near my town. Some young adult approached me at one of them and said they were an "Effective Altruist" and would I please help them learn to organise events for their young adult philosophy

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1:59

“Effective Altruism Kolkata will launch the first...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/23

Today I'd encountered a question while filling up CEA's group support fund form for basic group running requirements like Zoom subscription, etc. [For community builders who aren't aware of this- linking about it here]. The question was- Describe your current plan for your group. Although I was unsure about this then and ended up writing that I'm willing to discuss it with my OSP mentor. I've now ran a check through my current capacity and have inferred that EA Kolkata is almost ready to launch

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23:51

“Wave 2 of Pulse: Awareness and perceptions of...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/23

This report is the first in a sequence reporting the results of Wave 2 of the Pulse project by Rethink Priorities (RP). Pulse is a large-scale survey of US adults aimed at tracking and understanding public attitudes towards effective giving and multiple impactful cause areas over time. Wave 2 of Pulse was fielded between February and April of 2025 with ~5600 respondents[1]. Results from our first wave of Pulse, fielded from July-August of 2024, can be found here, with the forum sequence version

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1:50

“AMA: Pablo Melchor, author of Altruismo Racional and...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/22

Note: We generally keep forum discussions in English, but given the topic of this AMA, feel free to write your questions in either English or Spanish. Pablo Melchor is the Co-founder and President of Ayuda Efectiva (the effective giving organisation in Spain), and the author of the new book Altruismo racional. He co-founded EA Spain in 2018 after a two-decade career as an entrepreneur during which he started two successful companies and sold one of them. Pablo has written more about his new book

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3:41

“GiveWell fundraising up 17% in 2024, driven...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/22

Previously: GiveWell raised less than its 10th percentile forecast in 2023 In 2024[1] GiveWell raised $415 million - $108 million from Open Philanthropy, and $307 million from other donors. (Blog post, full report). In 2023[2] this number was $355 million - $100 million from Open Philanthropy, and $255 million from other donors.20232024Percentage differenceTotal raised$355m$415m17%Non-Open Philanthropy amount raised$255m$307m20% The number of donors (new and returning) remained flat compared to

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19:14

“The anti-fragile culture” by lincolnq

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/22

How to prevent infighting, mitigate status races, and keep your people focused. Cross-posted from my Substack. Organizational culture changes rapidly at scale. When you add new people to an org, they’ll bring in their own priors about how to operate, how to communicate, and what sort of behavior is looked-up to. Despite rapid changes, in this post I explain how you can implement anti-fragile cultural principles—principles that help your team fix their own problems, often arising from growth and

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36:56

[Linkpost] “Being honest with AIs” by Lukas Finnveden

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/21

This is a link post. In the future, we might accidentally create AIs with ambitious goals that are misaligned with ours. But just because we don’t have the same goals doesn’t mean we need to be in conflict. We could also cooperate with each other and pursue mutually beneficial deals. For previous discussion of this, you can read Making deals with early schemers. I recommend starting there before you read this post. To facilitate this kind of cooperation, I would like us to be able to credibly

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19:47

[Linkpost] “Most of the World Is an Adorably...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/21

This is a link post. There are some moments of your life when the reality of suffering really hits home. Visiting desperately poor parts of the world for the first time. Discovering what factory farming actually looks like after a childhood surrounded by relatively idyllic rural farming. Realising too late that you shouldn’t have clicked on that video of someone experiencing a cluster headache. Or, more unexpectedly, having a baby. One of 10^20 Birth Stories This Year With my relaxed and glowing

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19:57

[Linkpost] “Most of the World Is an Adorably...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/21

This is a link post. There are some moments of your life when the reality of suffering really hits home. Visiting desperately poor parts of the world for the first time. Discovering what factory farming actually looks like after a childhood surrounded by relatively idyllic rural farming. Realising too late that you shouldn’t have clicked on that video of someone experiencing a cluster headache. Or, more unexpectedly, having a baby. One of 10^20 Birth Stories This Year With my relaxed and glowing

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