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Audio narrations from the Effective Altruism Forum, including curated posts and posts with 125 karma. If you"d like more episodes, subscribe to the "EA Forum (All audio)" podcast instead.

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7:52

“EA is good, actually” by Amy Labenz

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/11/28

The last year has been toughThe last year has been tough for EA. FTX blew up in the most spectacular way and SBF has been found guilty of one of the biggest frauds in history. I was heartbroken to learn that someone I trusted hurt so many people, was heartbroken for the people who lost their money, and was heartbroken about the projects I thought would happen that no longer will. The media piled on, and on, and on.The community has processed the shock in all sorts of ways — some more productive than

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10:48

“AMF – Reflecting on 2023 and looking ahead to 2024”...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/11/24

Rob Mather, CEO, AMF, 25 November 20232023 has been a very busy year for AMF, more on 2024 later.ImpactAMF's team of 13 is in the middle of a nine-month period during which we are distributing, with partners, 90 million nets to protect 160 million people in six countries: Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, South Sudan, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia.The impact of these nets is expected to be, ± 20%, 40,000 deaths prevented, 20 million cases of malaria averted and a US$2.2 billion improvement

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2:05

“The passing of Sebastian Lodemann” by ClaireB, amanda

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/11/23

With immense sadness, we want to let the community know about the passing of Sebastian Lodemann, who lost his life on November 9th, 2023, in a completely unexpected and sudden accident. Those who have met him know how humble and kind he was, in addition to being a brilliant and energetic person full of light. Sebastian was deeply altruistic, curious, and took seriously both the challenges facing our world, and its potential. He loved connecting with humans from across the globe and supporting as

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7:46

“A Thanksgiving gratitude post to EA” by Joy Bittner

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/11/23

Despite the complicated and imperfect origins of American Thanksgiving, what's worth preserving is the moment it offers for society to step back and count our blessings. And in this moment, I want to express my gratitude to the EA community. It's been a hard year for EA, and many of us have felt increasing levels of disillusionment. Still, a huge thank you to each of you for being part of this messy, but beautiful family.What I love about EA is that at our core, we are people who look around and see

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11:44

“GWWC’s evaluations of evaluators” by Sjir...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/11/22

The Giving What We Can research team is excited to share the results of our first round of evaluations of charity evaluators and grantmakers! After announcing our plans for a new research direction last year, we have now completed five[1] evaluations that will inform our donation recommendations for this giving season. There are substantial limitations to these evaluations, but we nevertheless think that this is a significant improvement on the status quo, in which there were no independent

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37:23

“Rethink Priorities needs your support. Here’s what...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/11/21

In honor of “Marginal Funding Week” for 2023 Giving Season on the EA Forum, I’d like to tell you what Rethink Priorities (RP) would do with funding beyond what we currently expect to raise from our major funders, and to emphasize that RP currently has a significant funding gap even after taking these major funders into account.A personal appealHi. I know it's traditional in EA to stick to the facts and avoid emotional content, but I can’t help but interject and say that this fundraising appeal is a

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9:00

“The EA Animal Welfare Fund (Once Again) Has...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/11/20

Just as~2 years ago, the EA Animal Welfare Fund has significant room for more funding. This could be a pretty important point that informs end of year giving for a number of donors who are looking to make donations within the animal sector. Briefly, here's why the Animal Welfare Fund has some pretty significant room for more funding at this point:Right now, there's currently ~$1M in the Animal Welfare Fund.We also now have 50 grants, summing to ~$4.5M in grants under evaluation.Between mid-last year

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28:31

“Open Phil Should Allocate Most Neartermist Funding...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/11/19

Thanks to Michael St. Jules for his comments.Key TakeawaysThe evidence that animal welfare dominates in neartermism is strong.Open Philanthropy (OP) should scale up its animal welfare allocation over several years to approach a majority of OP's neartermist grantmaking.If OP disagrees, they should practicereasoning transparency by clarifying their views:How much weight does OP's theory of welfare place on pleasure and pain, as opposed to nonhedonic goods?Precisely how much more does OP value one unit

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2:14

[Linkpost] “Sam Altman fired from OpenAI” by Larks

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/11/17

The board of directors of OpenAI, Inc, the 501(c)(3) that acts as the overall governing body for all OpenAI activities, today announced that Sam Altman will depart as CEO and leave the board of directors. Mira Murati, the company's chief technology officer, will serve as interim CEO, effective immediately.A member of OpenAI's leadership team for five years, Mira has played a critical role in OpenAI's evolution into a global AI leader. She brings a unique skill set, understanding of the company's

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10:20

“Spiro - New TB charity raising seed funds” by Habiba...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/11/17

SummaryWe (Habiba Banu and Roxanne Heston) have launched Spiro, a new TB screening and prevention charity focused on children. Our website is here.We are fundraising $198,000 for our first year. We’re currently reaching out to people in the EA network. So far we have between 20%-50% of our budget promised and fundraising is currently one of the main things we’re focusing on.The major components of our first year budget are co-founder time, country visits, and delivery of a pilot program, which aims

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55:44

“New report: ‘Scheming AIs: Will AIs fake alignment...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/11/15

(Cross-posted from my website) I’ve written a report about whether advanced AIs will fake alignment during training in order to get power later – a behavior I call “scheming” (also sometimes called “deceptive alignment”). The report is available on arXiv here. There's also an audio version here, and I’ve included the introductory section below. This section includes a full summary of the report, which covers most of the main points and technical terminology. I’m hoping that the summary will provide

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22:03

[Linkpost] “Kids or No Kids” by KidsOrNoKids

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/11/12

This post summarizes how my partner and I decided whether to have children or not. We spent hundreds of hours on this decision and hope to save others part of that time. We found it very useful to read the thoughts of people who share significant parts of our values on the topic and thus want to "pay it forward" by writing this up. In the end, we decided to have children; our son is four months old now and we’re very happy with how we made the decision and with how our lives are now (through a

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16:42

“A robust earning to give ecosystem is better for EA...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/11/11

(Written in a personal capacity, and not representing either my current employer or former one)In 2016, I founded Utility Farm, and later merged it with Wild-Animal Suffering Research (founded by Persis Eskander) to form Wild Animal Initiative. Wild Animal Initiative is, by my estimation, a highly successful research organization. The current Wild Animal Initiative staff deserve all the credit for where they have taken the organization, but I’m incredibly proud that I got to be involved early in the

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13:16

“Takes from staff at orgs with leadership that went...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/11/09

I spoke with some people who worked or served on the board at organizations that had a leadership transition after things went seriously wrong. In some cases the organizations were EA-affiliated, in other cases only tangentially related to the EA space.This is an informal collection of advice the ~eight people I spoke with have for staff or board members who might find themselves in a similar position. I bucketed this advice into a few categories below. Some are direct quotes and others are

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5:47

“Announcing Athena - Women in AI Alignment Research”...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/11/08

Athena is a new research mentorship program fostering diversity of ideas in AI safety research. We aim to get more women and marginalized genders into technical research and offer the support needed to thrive in this space. Applications for scholars are open until December 3rd, 2023Apply as a scholar: hereApply as a mentor or speaker: hereFinancial aid is available for travel expenses for the in-person retreat to those otherwise unable to attend without itProgram StructureA 2-month hybrid mentorship

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16:01

“10 years of Earning to Give” by AGB

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/11/07

General note: The bulk of this post was written a couple of months ago, but I am releasing it now to coincide with the Effective Giving Spotlight week. I shortly expect to release a second post documenting some observations on the community building funding landscape. IntroductionWay back in 2010, I was sitting in my parents' house, watching one of my favourite TV shows, the UK's Daily Politics. That day's guest was an Oxford academic by the name of Toby Ord. He was donating everything above £18000

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10:24

“Clean water - the incredible 30% mortality reducer...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/11/04

TLDR: The best research we have shows that clean water may provide a 30% mortality reduction to children under 5. This might be the biggest mortality reduction of any single global health intervention, yet we don’t understand why it works.Here, I share my journey exploring a life-saving intervention that we don’t fully understand, but really should. I may err a little on the side of artistic license - so if you find inaccuracies please forgive me, correct me or even feel free to just tear me to

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9:09

[Linkpost] “How Long Do Policy Changes Matter? New...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/11/02

A key question for many interventions' impact is how long the intervention changes some output counterfactually, or how long the intervention washes out. This is often the case for work to change policy: the cost-effectiveness of efforts to pass animal welfare ballot initiatives, nuclear non-proliferation policy, climate policy, and voting reform, for example, will depend on (a) whether those policies get repealed and (b) whether they would pass anyway. Often there is an explicit assumption, e.g.,

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3:25

“Are 1-in-5 Americans familiar with EA?” by David_Moss

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/11/02

YouGov recently reported the results of a survey (n=1000) suggesting that about “one in five (22%) Americans are familiar with effective altruism.”[1]We think these results are exceptionally unlikely to be true. Their 22% figure is very similar to the proportion of Americans we previously found claim to have heard of effective altruism (19%) in our earlier survey (n=6130). But, after conducting appropriate checks, we estimated that much lower percentages are likely to have genuinely heard of EA[2]

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17:35

“Alvea’s Story, Wins, and Challenges [Unofficial]” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/11/01

IntroA few months ago, the other (former) Alvea executives and I made the difficult decision to wind Alvea down and return our remaining funding to investors. In this post, I’ll share an overview of Alvea's story and highlight a few of our wins and challenges from my perspective as an Alvea Co-Founder and former CTO, in hopes that our experiences might be useful to others who are working on (or considering) ambitious projects to solve the biggest problems in the world. I’m sharing everything below

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