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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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4:07

[Linkpost] “[Funded Fellowship] AI for Human...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/05/19

This is a link post. The Future of Life Foundation is launching a fellowship on AI for Human Reasoning.Fellowship on AI for Human Reasoning Apply by June 9th | $25k–$50k stipend | 12 weeks, from July 14 - October 3 Join us in working out how to build a future which robustly empowers humans and improves decision-making. FLF's incubator fellowship on AI for human reasoning will help talented researchers and builders start working on AI tools for coordination and epistemics. Participants will

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20:07

“‘Most painful condition known to mankind’: A...

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2025/05/18

Article 5 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: "Obviously, no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." OK, it doesn’t actually start with "obviously," but I like to imagine the commissioners all murmuring to themselves “obviously” when this item was brought up. I’m not sure what the causal effect of Article 5 (or the 1984 UN Convention Against Torture) has been on reducing torture globally, though the physical integrity

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24:00

“Do primitive sentient organisms feel extreme pain?...

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2025/05/18

Notes The following text explores, in a speculative manner, the evolutionary question: Did high-intensity affective states, specifically Pain, emerge early in evolutionary history, or did they develop gradually over time? Note: We are not neuroscientists; our work draws on our evolutionary biology background and our efforts to develop welfare metrics that accurately reflect reality and effectively reduce suffering. We hope these ideas may interest researchers in neuroscience, comparative cognition,

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16:09

“Christians Should Be Effective Altruists” by...

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2025/05/18

1 The Christian duty to give to the poor (This is a crosspost from my blog). Most Christians aren’t effective altruists and most effective altruists aren’t Christians. But in my view, the reason for this is sociological; there's no deep conflict between the two ideas. Christians should be effective altruists—they should look to give effectively, just as others should. I’ve written a long piece rebutting the main objections to effective altruism. In short, I think the core idea behind effective

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15:24

[Linkpost] “What OpenAI Told California’s Attorney...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/05/18

This is a link post. In a previously unreported letter, the AI company defends its restructuring plan while attacking critics and making surprising admissions This is the full text of a post first published on Obsolete, a Substack that I write about the intersection of capitalism, geopolitics, and artificial intelligence. I’m a freelance journalist and the author of a forthcoming book called Obsolete: Power, Profit, and the Race to Build Machine Superintelligence. Consider subscribing to stay up to

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1:46

[Linkpost] “Money Stuff on charity-adjusted...

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2025/05/16

This is a link post. One reason to make a lot of money is to get a good spot on the league table of rich people. [...] Being the richest person in the world does seem cooler than being the second-richest person on the world, though I doubt that your consumption basket changes much between those two spots. [...] And so you might imagine that the design of the league tables could motivate behavior. Put another way: Had the Oracle of Omaha held onto his stake through the years, he’d have a net worth of

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0:48

“Alert on the Toner-Rodgers paper” by Eva

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2025/05/16

This influential paper purported to show that AI greatly increased innovation. MIT has asked for it to be retracted. There are some dodgy signals, like the student in question apparently registering a domain name associated with a firm, which then complained to WIPO about it. It could still be the case that AI greatly increases innovation, but, currently I wouldn't trust this paper. ---First published: May 16th, 2025 Source:

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11:29

“Three lower-cost options for running the EA Forum”...

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2025/05/16

During our recent team retreat, the CEA Online Team discussed the state of our various projects, what potential new projects we could spend our capacity on, and what data and M&E we could use to determine how to prioritize our time. As part of our discussion about the state of the EA Forum, we considered a few ways we could run it at a lower cost. I thought others might be interested so I'm sharing a version here. I'd be curious to hear where people agree or disagree. Note that this was

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10:58

“Asymmetries, AI and Animal Advocacy” by Kevin Xia 🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/05/16

Thanks to Jeff, Max Taylor, Joanna Michalska, Albert Didriksen and Koen van Pelt for feedback on this post. All mistakes are my own. This post does not necessarily reflect the views of my employer.AI development is happening fast and the implications could be numerous and fundamentally transformative for the animal movement. There is a lot to be won, but a lot at risk as well.[1] But I don’t think one needs to be convinced of short AGI timelines to pay close attention to what is going on in AI. You

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0:30

“The Daily Show did a segment on EA and Shrimp...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/05/16

First published: May 16th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/LeCJqzdHZZB3uBhZg/the-daily-show-did-a-segment-on-ea-and-shrimp-welfare --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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4:13

“Emergency pod: Don’t believe OpenAI’s ‘nonprofit’...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/05/16

We just published an interview: Emergency pod: Don't believe OpenAI's "nonprofit" spin (with Tyler Whitmer). Listen on Spotify, watch on Youtube, or click through for other audio options, the transcript, and related links. Episode summary There's memes out there in the press that this was a big shift. I don’t think [that's] the right way to be thinking about this situation… You’re taking the attorneys general out of their oversight position and replacing them with shareholders who may or may not

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3:57

“PSA: EA Forum Feedback Service” by Justis

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/05/16

This is a modified version of a similar announcement on LessWrong, where the same service exists. At the bottom of the EA Forum post editor, if you have at least 200 global karma, you may have noticed this button. Occasionally, someone clicks the button, and is jumpscared when it starts an Intercom chat with a professional editor (me), asking what sort of feedback they'd like. So, that's what it does. It's a summon Justis button. Once you request feedback, please either share the draft with me

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12:46

“Teaching Hindi Literacy with an AI tutor” by Tom...

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2025/05/15

Executive Summary Problem:70% of 10-year-oldsin Low-and-Middle Income Countries can’t read. In India, foundational literacy remains critically low, especially in Hindi-speaking regions. Intervention:An AI-powered app based on a proven pedagogy, which achieved +0.4 SDlearning gains (equivalent to ~2 years of business as usual schooling) in 45-day RCTsinvolving thousands of government school students, using paper books. The app will guide 15-minute daily home sessions via parents' smartphones

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1:24

“Peter Singer & Rutger Bregman present the Profit for...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/05/15

Profit for Good Conference — 11 June 2025 (livestream) Peter Singer and the School for Moral Ambition are hosting the first Profit for Good conference on Wednesday 11 June. Speakers include Peter Singer, Rutger Bregman, Humanitix co-founder Adam McCurdie, Newman's Own Foundation CEO Alex Amouyel, BRAC CEO Asif Saleh, and others building companies that commit most or all profits to charity. Programme & details: see agenda / register for the free “pay-what-you-want” livestream here → [conference

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1:22

“Help ACE Improve Our Programs—Your Feedback...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/05/15

At Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE), we are committed to ensuring that every donation is put to the best possible use. As part of this commitment, we are conducting an internal assessment of our programmatic work and we would love to hear from you. We are seeking your input to better understand how familiar the EA community is with our work, how people use our work, and the positive and negative effects our charity evaluations, recommendations, and grants have on organizations and individuals

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3:49

“[urgent] Americans, call your Senators and tell them...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/05/15

Americans, we need your help to stop a dangerous AI bill from passing the Senate. What's going on? The House Energy & Commerce Committeeincluded a provision in its reconciliation bill that wouldbanAI regulation by state and local governments for the next10 years. Several states have led the way in AI regulation while Congress has dragged its heels. Stopping state governments from regulating AI might be okay,if we could trust Congress to meaningfully regulate it instead.But we can’t. This

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8:26

“$100,000 bounty for finding $1M in legal and...

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2025/05/15

[Note: I (the primary author) am writing this entirely in a personal capacity. Funding for the bounty and donations mentioned in this post comes entirely from personal savings and the generosity of friends and family. Colleagues at Open Philanthropy (my employer) reviewed this post at my request, but this project is completely unaffiliated with Open Philanthropy.] In 2023, GiveWell reported that it received over $250M from more than 30,000 donors, excluding Open Philanthropy. I expect (though

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4:10

“GiveWell Publishes its Contraception...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/05/14

GiveWell recently published a cost-effectiveness analysis on contraception: Valuing Contraception in GiveWell's Cost-Effectiveness Analysis | GiveWell. At MSI Reproductive Choices, we welcome GiveWell's cost-effectiveness analysis on contraception in low and middle-income countries. The findings affirm what we’ve long seen: access to contraception transforms lives – not just for individuals, but for entire families and communities – unlocking better health, greater autonomy, and expanded economic

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16:09

“How To Help Neglected Animals” by Bentham’s Bulldog

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/05/14

Crossposted from my blog: 1 Reasons to care (Please share this article so that more people read it and give to these extremely high-impact organizations. It takes roughly two seconds to restack an article, and has some chance of helping thousands or millions of animals). "I say!" murmured Horton. "I've never heard tell Of a small speck of dust that is able to yell. So you know what I think? . . . Why, I think that there must Be someone on top of that small speck of dust! Some sort of a creature of

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8:20

“Too Soon” by Gordon Seidoh Worley

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/05/13

It was a cold and cloudy San Francisco Sunday. My wife and I were having lunch with friends at a Korean cafe. My phone buzzed with a text. It said my mom was in the hospital. I called to find out more. She had a fever, some pain, and had fainted. The situation was serious, but stable. Monday was a normal day. No news was good news, right? Tuesday she had seizures. Wednesday she was in the ICU. I caught the first flight to Tampa. Thursday she rested comfortably. Friday she was diagnosed with

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