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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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13:18

“Writing about my job: Community Liaison” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/29

People often tell me that they wish they had more insight into what I actually do in my role on the Community Health team. I’ve finally gotten around to writing something thanks to @Dion🔸 , who has been asking me for quite a while to write about what I do, and emphasising that this is something people would be interested in reading. I also sit opposite @Toby Tremlett🔹 who's running career conversations week – thanks for the encouragement to write this, Toby. People often seem to write these when

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7:49

“My First Pledge Anniversary: Thoughts of an Average...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/29

I donate money each month. The money is gone. The end. While this is essentially what the 10% Pledge boils down to, it's been a surprisingly intense and exciting journey psychologically. As I just had my first anniversary, it seemed appropriate to think back and re-evaluate. I always love reading about the experiences of other pledgers, so I thought I might as well share some of my thoughts. The Pledge's Influence It's hard to admit, but: I am not a generous person, especially not with my time. You

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8:34

“Providence or fate? I sometimes pinch mysel” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/29

TLDR: A story from Childhood, to Medicine, to Effective Altrusim, to managing our Non-Profit OneDay Health I don’t think I can add much to the incredible career advice from this week, so, I thought it might be interesting to tell the story of how my "career"[1], I ended up shaped by Effective Altruism, even when I only read “the book” at age 30. Maybe some of you will resonate with some of it. Not AI - my actual roof I sometimes wake up as the morning peeks into our hut and stare at the most

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12:19

“Please, no more group brainstorming” by OllieBase

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/28

And other ways to make event content more valuable. I organise and attend a lot of conferences, so the below is correct and need not be caveated based on my experience, but I could be missing some angles here. When you imagine a session at an event going wrong, you’re probably thinking of the hapless, unlucky speaker. Maybe their slides broke, they forgot their lines, or they tripped on a cable and took the whole stage backdrop down. This happens sometimes, but event organizers usually remember to

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16:42

“Building an EA-aligned career from an LMIC” by Rika...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/28

This is Part 1 of a multi-part series, shared as part of Career Conversations Week. The views expressed here are my own and don't reflect those of my employer. TL;DR: Building an EA-aligned career starting from an LMIC comes with specific challenges that shaped how I think about career planning, especially around constraints: Everyone has their own "passport"—some structural limitation that affects their career more than their abilities. Reframing these from unfair barriers to data about my

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35:38

“How much should we value averting a Day Lived in...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/27

Warning: Discussions of extreme pain and suffering. In the US, one QALY is valued at around $100,000–$150,000 [1]. In the UK, a WELLBY is valued at £13,000 [2]. Such thresholds help governments and philanthropists decide whether interventions are cost-effective and worth implementing. However, these metrics (plus the DALY) are largely insensitive to instances of extreme suffering (at least in their current form), so if we want to perform cost-effectiveness analyses of interventions aimed at

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12:55

“Introducing SB53.info” by Miles Kodama

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/26

Today I'm launching SB53.info, a resource to help the public understand California's Senate Bill 53. The site shows the text of SB 53 enriched with annotations to explain its political and scientific context. What does SB 53 do? In a nutshell, SB 53 says seven things. These are the four I consider most important: Every large AI developer must write, publish, and follow a safety policy (§ 22757.12.a). Every year starting in 2030, a large AI developer must get an independent auditor to verify that

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3:42

“Two months into EA: Why I’m rethinking my approach...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/25

Summary: Discovering EA recently has made me reconsider how I think about my career and impact. Instead of switching sectors entirely, I'm exploring how to bring EA principles into the work I'm already doing. I stumbled onto EA about two months ago through a friend who kept mentioning "cost-effectiveness" in conversations about development work. Initially, I was skeptical, another framework claiming to solve everything? But the more I read, the more I realized I'd been wrestling with many of these

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6:31

“Why I Just Took The Giving What We Can Pledge” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/25

Crosspost of my blog article. I just took the Giving What We Can pledge, which is a pledge to give away at least 10% of my income over the course of my life to highly effective charities. I think you should take it too! We live in a time of unprecedented prosperity and abundance. Americans today live like kings in the ancient past. We have access to technology that would have been considered magic even just a few hundred years ago. Even relatively poor Americans are richer than nearly everyone who

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20:59

“Ten AI safety projects I’d like people to work on”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/25

The Forum Team crossposted this with permission from Secret Third Thing. The author may not see comments. Listicles are hacky, I know. But in any case, here are ten AI safety projects I'm pretty into. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I think there's a real chance that AI systems capable of causing a catastrophe (including to the point of causing human extinction) are developed in the next decade. This is why I spend my days making grants to talented people working on projects that could

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7:42

“Effective Altruism: An Unmanifesto” by ozymandias

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/24

The most common way to identify the effective altruism movement is by pointing. Effective altruists are: The people who try to help the global poor in ways backed up by randomized controlled trials, generally favoring public health programs. The people who try to improve conditions for farmed animals through corporate outreach and policy advocacy, and who care about weird groups of animals like insects and wild animals. The people who spend a lot of time worrying that we’re going to make

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5:31

“Google to co-founding a global health charity:...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/24

Martyn James | Co-founder of Clear Solutions Martyn spent more than a decade at Google in technical partnership roles before exploring a career transition, realising that he was starting to feel a bit restless in his career. “Life was good,” he recalls, “but I wanted to do something a little more worthwhile.” Martyn first heard about effective altruism (EA) in passing around 2013 from a colleague, though he wasn’t initially interested in the space. “I remember Googling it and thinking, ‘it's a

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2:04

“Are enough EAs earning to give?” by Toby Tremlett🔹

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/24

Here's a Career Conversations Week debate for you:The percentage of EAs earning to give is too lowPlace your vote or view results.disagreeagree Clarifications: We can treat the [...] ---Outline:(00:22) Clarifications:(01:03) Reading list:---First published: July 23rd, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CazfSjmhK8SuDfLpf/are-enough-eas-earning-to-give --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the

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9:16

“Writing about my job: Program Director” by Gavriel...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/24

I'm the 1Day Sooner program director for indoor air quality (IAQ). In practice, that means I research indoor air cleaning interventions (including how they work and their associated economics) and do relevant public communication and policy analysis. I spend most of my time reading academic literature, writing about IAQ (for policy or general audiences), and talking to people. 1Day Sooner is small and idiosyncratic.[1] I don't know if my job description generalizes well to older and/or larger

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12:10

“Building EA Projects With an Unrelated Full-Time...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/24

Epistemic Status: These observations come from my personal experience trying to advance a specific idea (Profit for Good) while working full-time as a lawyer on unrelated work. I'm sharing my impressions and frustrations, which may or may not generalize to others developing EA-aligned projects outside traditional pathways—whether that's creating new theories, developing interventions, researching neglected areas, organizing communities, or working on any high-impact initiative while maintaining an

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35:26

“Do short AI timelines make other cause areas...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/24

The cause prioritization landscape in EA is changing. Prominent groups have shut down, others have been founded, and everyone's trying to figure out how to prepare for AI. This is the third in a series of posts critically examining the state of cause prioritization and strategies for moving forward.Executive Summary An increasingly common argument is that we should prioritize work in AI over work in other cause areas (e.g. farmed animal welfare, reducing nuclear risks) because the impending AI

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16:21

“Writing about my job: Content Strategist @ CEA” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/23

Posts from my ancestors: Aaron Gertler | Lizka Vaintrob I love my job. I didn't expect to be in a job that I could be proud of just a few years after university, but now I am[1]. I'm very grateful for that. Sometimes I've heard people worry that a job in meta-effective altruism would be unmotivating, but I disagree. When I see a great conversation happening on the Forum, a valuable post existing because I nudged someone, or someone making a move to more impactful work because of a link in the EA

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3:55

“We need people working for non-EA orgs” by Dave...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/23

This forum—and the EA community surrounding it—is a bit of an echo chamber. We need people who care about EA values in the rest of the world for several reasons: influence and evangelism, cross-pollination, reality checks, and pragmatism. Influence and evangelism The only way for EA to grow is to expose non-EAs to EA concepts. We need people working in all sectors and organizations who can be EA evangelists and ambassadors. This is especially important in roles like government policy and oversight

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1:54

“A reflection: I worked too much” by Lucas Lewit-Mendes

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/23

Over the past 4-5 years, I have poured a lot of time and energy into "doing good", through a combination of community building, policy advocacy, and volunteering with EA charities. On reflection, I think I have worked too much, and I negelected other important parts of my life. I am writing this in the hope that this gives some people permission to reflect on their workload and consider cutting back. I have been doing these projects while studying or working a chill 9-to-5 job, neither of which

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9:36

[Linkpost] “The state of global catastrophic risk...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/23

This is a link post. The following text presents a condensed summary of "The state of global catastrophic risk research: a bibliometric review" by Jehn et al. (2025), published in Earth System Dynamics. The paper represents the first systematic bibliometric analysis of global catastrophic risk (GCR) and existential risk (ER) literature, examining a large number of documents to map the field's development, identify research clusters, and assess current challenges. The full paper includes extensive

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