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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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3:24

“Consider Preordering If Anyone Builds It, Everyone...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/14

Note: I work at MIRI, but not on the comms team. I don’t work on the book directly and am writing this post in my personal capacity, but do think it would be great if a lot of people read the book. Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares have written a book about why artificial superintelligence might cause human extinction. The book is called If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. It is out September 16th and is available for preorder now. The book is good Having read it, I can say it's genuinely good

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1:23

“A big milestone: 10,000 10% pledgers!” by Giving...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/13

Giving What We Can has reached 10,000 🔸10% pledgers! We see this as an important milestone on the road to a cultural norm, and we’ve made a video to celebrate: If you’re a 🔸10% or 🔹Trial pledger, we’d love for you to post about the 10k milestone on your social channels! You can find templates here. And if you are a 🔸10% pledger, a sincere thank you for being part of the first 10,000! As our former executive director Luke Freeman wrote back in 2020: “The world is made up of individual people

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3:37

“CEEALAR has a new Executive Director” by CEEALAR

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/13

We are pleased to announce that our new Executive Director, Attila Ujvari, has started work. Up until now, CEEALAR has been led by Greg Colbourn, our Founder. Greg has been in the role of Executive Director in a part-time*, unpaid capacity from the start. Since being founded in 2018 as the EA Hotel, CEEALAR has grown into a grant-supported charity and increased in capacity by 70%, expanding to the adjoining building, and facing many trials and tribulations along the way. We have hosted hundreds of

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24:21

“ITN 201: pitfalls in ITN BOTECs” by Lizka

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/13

The fact that the ITN framework[1] can help us prioritize between problems feels almost magical to me. But when I see ITN BOTECs in the wild, I’m often very skeptical. It seems really easy for these estimates to be inadvertent “conclusion-laundering” — regurgitating the author's opinions in a quantitative or more robust-seeming form without actually providing any independent signal. And even when that's not the case, the bottom-line estimates can seem so noisy and ungrounded that I trust them less

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10:29

“The Bone-Chilling Evil of Factory Farming” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/13

Crosspost of my blog post. Factory farming is evil. I know, I know, I’ve made this point before. I’ve described, in depth, the way we treat animals. I’ve described that we stuff billions of chickens into tiny cages where they can’t turn around or flap their wings—where their frail bones are broken three times on average over the course of their brief lives, where they inhale nothing but feces deposits from the caged birds above them. I’ve described the results of a report which estimated that

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6:12

“The trajectory of the future could soon get set in...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/11

Is there anything we can do to make the longterm future go better other than preventing the risk of extinction? My paper, Persistent Path-Dependence, addresses that question. I suggest there are a number of mechanisms that are fairly likely to be developed within our lifetimes that would result in extremely persistent path-dependent effects of predictable expected value. These include the creation of AGI-enforced institutions, a global concentration of power, the widespread settlement of space, the

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2:09

“Virtual offices available on EA Gather Town” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/11

With Gather Town announcing a sharp price hike and removal of their free tier, I wanted to remind both organisations and remote-workers/students/anyone individually interested that the EA Gather is still available - and currently free for marginal use.[1] Individuals Just show up and start coworking :) The starting map is a shared space, so you can feel free to join anyone on there, even those in offices (orgs who want privacy have their offices on a different map). Use this invite link if you want

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5:37

“Upcoming EA conferences in 2025” by frances_lorenz,...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/11

We’re already in the second half of 2025 and there are still an incredible number of EAGx and Summit events coming up, as well as the first ever EA Global: New York City. We’re so excited to continue watching the EA community connect and grow. Below is our conference schedule for the rest of the year. We’re supporting the first EAGx in Brazil, and inaugural EA conferences in France, Vietnam, New Zealand, and Turkey. We hope to reach more people than ever before. Please spread the word, especially

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10:24

“A Million Is Made Out Of A Million Ones” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/11

Maybe my favorite quote ever is from a recent Scott Alexander article, but in order to explain it, I will have to provide some context. Scott's recent piece, My Heart of Hearts, is broadly about why we should value ethical consistency. In it, he described his emotional reaction to the Gaza conflict in the following way: A few months ago, I read an article by an aid worker in Gaza recounting the horrors he’d seen. Among a long litany, one stood out. A little kid came into the hospital with a

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16:31

[Linkpost] “With the Future of the World in Your...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/10

Audio note: this article contains 69 uses of latex notation, so the narration may be difficult to follow. There's a link to the original text in the episode description. This is a link post. How long should you think about a problem that could determine the future of all existence? A mathematical journey from simple bets to existential risks. Imagine a simple game. There's a jar full of pebbles, and you’re offered a bet. If you can estimate the number of pebbles to within 10%, you win $100,000. If

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4:23

“Having children is a deeply personal choice. Do not...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/10

First off, every ethical argument for having children is dominated by other options that are more effective. 1) If you’re worried about population issues, just donate $10k to bednets. That's roughly the equivalent of two extra children existing in the world. If you only care about population issues in your own country, then there are undoubtedly charities that save/create more lives in your own country that are cheaper than having your own children. I would also recommend questioning your

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2:51

[Linkpost] “Of Marx and Moloch: How My Attempt to...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/10

This is a link post. This is a personal essay about my failed attempt to convince effective altruists to become socialists. I started as a convinced socialist who thought EA ignored the 'root causes' of poverty by focusing on charity instead of structural change. After studying sociology and economics to build a rigorous case for socialism, the project completely backfired as I realized my political beliefs were largely psychological coping mechanisms. Here are the key points: Understanding the

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9:27

“Will morally motivated actors steer us towards a...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/10

To what extent, in the future, will we get widespread, accurate, and motivational moral convergence - where future decision-makers avoid all major moral mistakes, are motivated to act to promote good outcomes, and are able to do so? And, even if we only get partial convergence, to what extent can we get to a near-best future by different groups, with very different moral views, coming together to compromise and trade? In a new essay, Convergence and Compromise, Fin Moorhouse and I (Will) discuss

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7:00

[Linkpost] “Notes and updates on GPT-5” by Yadav

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/10

This is a link post. (I wrote this quickly for my own edification. It isn't original thinking; it condenses takes I’ve read on X over the past few days. Where relevant I’ve linked tweets. I hope it's helpful for people.) Watching an OpenAI launch now feels like watching an Apple keynote in the early 2010s. As a kid, I was giddy about which new, unaffordable iPhone would drop. I’ll probably look back on my twenties as the years I felt the same mix of excitement and perhaps fear about whatever OpenAI

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6:05

“A reflection on EA Global London: 2025” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/08

This past June, we hosted EA Global: London 2025. This was my second EAG as Program Lead and one that ended up feeling like a real milestone for the project. I’ve been reflecting on why that was, and so I wanted to share a few thoughts on what stood out to me, what we’re proud of, and what we’re doing next. The best EAG yet (by the numbers) This was our largest EAG to date, with 1,596 people in attendance. It was also our best-performing EAG based on two other important metrics: net

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3:29

“Apply now: Group Support Grants are back!” by Uni...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/08

TLDR Group Support Grants are back, with payout processing[1] from 11th August! Rapid Group Funding is merging into Group Support Grants (but you can still request fast-track processing) Apply here! We are delighted to announce that Group Support Grant payouts are resuming from 11th August 2025. This follows our previous announcement that payouts would be paused during June and July.We’re welcoming all EA groups[2] - regardless of type, size or location - to apply now! Historically, we think

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7:25

“Not inevitable, not impossible” by LewisBollard

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/08

Note: This post was crossposted from the Open Philanthropy Farm Animal Welfare Research Newsletter by the Forum team, with the author's permission. The author may not see or respond to comments on this post. Why ending the worst abuses of factory farming is an issue ripe for moral reform I recently joined Dwarkesh Patel's podcast to discuss factory farming. I hope you’ll give it a listen — and consider supporting his fundraiser for FarmKind's Impact Fund. (Dwarkesh is matching all donations up to

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6:35

“Consider thanking whoever helped you” by Kevin Xia 🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/08

TL;DR: If a (meta) org had a meaningful impact on you (in line with what they hope to achieve), you should probably tell them. It is essential for their impact reporting, which is essential for them to continue operating. You are likely underestimating just how valuable your story is to them. It could be thousands of dollars worth. Thanks to Toby Tremlett, Lauren Mee and Sofia Balderson for reviewing a draft version of this post. All mistakes are my own. 1. Many organisations shaped my career — yet

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14:43

“How hard to achieve is eutopia?” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/07

This is a summary of the new paper “No Easy Eutopia”, here. How easy is it to get to a future that's pretty close to ideal? You could think of reaching eutopia as like an expedition to sail to an uninhabited island. The expedition is more likely to reach the island to the extent that: The island is bigger, more visible, and closer to the point of departure; The ship's navigation systems work well, and are aimed toward the island; The ship's crew can send out smaller reconnaissance boats, and not

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1:51

“Take the 2025 EA Forum user survey” by Sarah Cheng

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/08/07

It's time once again for our annual EA Forum user survey! :) Thank you to everyone who filled it in last year — those results were especially helpful for developing our current Forum strategy. From today through August 20[1], we’re running an updated version of the survey for 2025. All questions are optional, as is a section at the end about other CEA programs. We estimate the survey will take you 10-20 minutes to complete[2] (less if you skip questions, longer if you write particularly detailed

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