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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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1:51

“Seeking Guest Teacher to Represent EA at UNC” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/19

I’m a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, and I’m looking for a guest speaker to talk about utilitarianism and effective altruism in my spring course on “Pursuing the Good Life.” Think of this as an invitation to make your best pitch to college students that they should live well by putting philosophy into practice. The class will survey answers to the question “What is the good life?” from a variety of philosophical and religious traditions. I’m inviting guest teachers who can share with the class both

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8:22

“80 People attended our animal welfare career event....

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/18

This summer, we organized our first animal welfare career event, and the response exceeded our expectations. We brought together over 80 students and professionals for a half-day in-person event, all united by a single question: How can I make the biggest possible difference for animals through my career? We designed the day to answer that question practically. At the event, speakers from research, nonprofits, and business shared concrete strategies for creating impact. A hands-on workshop also

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8:02

“Why haven’t we seen a promising longtermist...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/18

The word "longtermism" was first used publicly, here on the Effective Altruism Forum, in 2017. In the intervening eight years, a few books on longtermism have been written, many papers have been published, and countless forum posts, blog posts, tweets, and podcasts have discussed the topic. Why haven’t we seen a promising longtermist intervention yet? For clarity, longtermist interventions should meet the following criteria: Promising: the intervention seems like a good idea and has strong

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11:18

“Announcing RoastMyPost” by Ozzie Gooen

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/18

Today we're releasing RoastMyPost, a new experimental application for blog post evaluation using LLMs. Try it Here. TLDR RoastMyPost is a new QURI application that uses LLMs and code to evaluate blog posts and research documents. It uses a variety of LLM evaluators. Most are narrow checks: Fact Check, Spell Check, Fallacy Check, Math Check, Link Check, Forecast Check, and others. Optimized for EA & Rationalist content with direct import from EA Forum and LessWrong URLs. Other links use

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0:57

[Linkpost] “The Best Treatment for the Most Painful...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/18

This is a link post. Peter Singer's latest column on Project Syndicate is about cluster headaches. Sufferers of cluster headaches, also known as "suicide headaches," will do anything to stop what is possibly the most painful condition known to medicine, including using illegal drugs like psilocybin and LSD. Given strong evidence that psychedelics work, why aren't doctors allowed to prescribe them? He also urges readers to sign our open letters on clusterfree.org. Please sign and ask others to sign

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6:54

“Contra Yascha Mounk on ‘The World Happiness Report...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/17

Here is Yascha's original article.For context, the WHR aggregates 1,000 sampled individuals from almost every country on Earth, who are asked to rate their lives on a scale of 1–10 (known as the Cantril Ladder). It produces a ranking with Nordic countries quite high, and developing countries quite low, with some surprises in between. Yascha's main critiques seem to be: The Cantril Ladder measures life satisfaction rather than momentary happiness There is a seeming inverse correlation between

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33:09

“Rerunning the Time of Perils” by William_MacAskill

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/16

This post is an experiment in two ways that I explain in comments here and here. But you don't need to read those comments before reading this post. 1. Introduction In What We Owe the Future I argued that even very severe non-extinction catastrophes are unlikely to permanently derail civilisation. Even if a catastrophe killed 99.9% of people (leaving 8 million survivors), I'd put the chance we eventually re-attain today's technological level at well over 95%. On the usual longtermist picture, this

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10:23

“Ten big wins in 2025 for farmed animals” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/16

Note: This post was crossposted from the Coefficient Giving 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. It can feel hard to help factory-farmed animals. We’re up against a trillion-dollar global industry and its army of lobbyists, marketeers, and apologists. This industry wields vast political influence in nearly every nation and sells its products to most people on earth. Against that, we are a

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41:22

“12+ Reasons to Donate to ClusterFree” by algekalipso

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/16

By Andrés Gómez Emilsson, ClusterFree Co-Founder & Member of Advisory Board TL;DR: To motivate action and feel genuine internal alignment around a decision, sometimes we need to see it from many different angles. Even when a single reason should be enough, we need to motivate our entire internal coalition of subagents! Hence, all of these reasons to support ClusterFree in its mission: Summary of the 12+ Reasons to Support This Cause Watchreal people rapidly improve -Video testimonials of

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11:15

“How to navigate giving to neglected animals: guides...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/15

TLDR: Rethink Priorities has released three separate donor guides for farmed insects, farmed shrimp, and wild animal welfare—fields with enormous impact potential but challenging information environments. Our guides clarify the funding landscapes, identify strategic bottlenecks, and highlight promising opportunities. We're also launching a Neglected Animals Giving Network in early 2026 to provide donors with private briefings and personalized guidance. Complete our expression-of-interest form or

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7:37

“EA orgs overhire comms and underhire growth” by Anna...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/15

TL;DR Across EA job boards and Forum postings, 70–90% of "marketing-related" roles are comms-focused, while only ~10–20% relate to digital acquisition, funnels, growth, or retention. Several marketers in EA report that our ecosystem is 4–5 years behind standard digital marketing practices—particularly in experimentation, targeting, lifecycle marketing, and channel attribution. This imbalance has real opportunity costs: many high-leverage programs (training, fellowships, campaigns, fundraising,

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8:46

“I give because it’s the most rational way to spend...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/15

I really enjoyed reading the "why I donate" posts in the past week, so much so that I felt compelled to add my reflections, in case someone finds my reasons as interesting as I found theirs. 1. My money needs to be spent on something, might as well spend it on the most efficient things The core reason I give is something that I think is under-represented in the other posts: the money I have and earn will need to be spent on something, and it feels extremely inefficient and irrational to spend it on

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8:20

“A Life That Cannot Be A Failure” by Bentham’s Bulldog

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/14

Crosspost. The core philosophical argument for giving is strikingly simple: charitable donations can prevent lots of death and suffering at a comparatively minor cost. For a few thousand dollars, you can save someone's life. By taking the Giving What We Can pledge—which I have taken, and I would encourage you to take—and giving away 10% of your lifetime income, you can save hundreds of lives without sacrificing anything of remotely comparable value. Taking the pledge likely does more good than

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13:01

“Giving Green’s 2025 Top Climate Nonprofits,...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/14

Climate action looks very different today than it did just a year ago. A new administration in the White House has reshaped the landscape, and climate donors face both setbacks and opportunities. We at Giving Green have spent the past year mapping out how smart donations can maintain (and accelerate) momentum under these new circumstances, both in the U.S. and globally. Our year-end climate giving guide, published in November, distills this work. In this post, we will cover: Giving Green's

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21:11

[Linkpost] “Your Goal Isn’t Really to Get a Job” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/14

This is a link post. It's to build the skills required to solve the problems that you want to solve in the world [I am a career advisor at 80,000 Hours. This post is adapted from a talk I gave on career capital to some ambitious altruistic students. If you prefer slides, you can access them here. These ideas are informed by my work at 80k but reflects my personal views.] I’m often asked how to have an impactful fulfilling career. My four word answer is “get good, be known.” My “fits on a postcard”

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2:39

“You Can Just Buy Far-UVC” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/13

Far-UVC is something people havetalked about for years in a "that would be great, if you could buy it" sort of way. Coming soon, once someone actually makes a good product. But the future is now, and it costs $500. Many diseases spread through the air, which is inconvenient for us as creatures that breathe air. You can go outside, where the air is too dilute to spread things well, but it's cold out there, and sometimes wet. You can run an air purifier, but cleaning lots of air

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6:31

“I donate because I love humanity” by Aaron Gertler 🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/13

In 2016,[1] I wrote the following: Why do I give? I’ve lived a very fortunate life. I was born into a well-off American family, the son of two parents with college degrees. I attended a famous university. I didn’t deserve any of this; if I’d been born somewhere else, my life would have gone very differently. I give because I’d like to share the results of my luck with the less fortunate. I also give because I think that human happiness is the best thing in the world (in all its forms: love,

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6:49

“New 80k problem profile: extreme power...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/12

I recently wrote 80k's new problem profile on extreme power concentration (with a lot of help from others - see the acknowledgements at the bottom). It's meant to be a systematic introduction to the risk of AI-enabled power concentration, where AI enables a small group of humans to amass huge amounts of unchecked power over everyone else. It's primarily aimed at people who are new to the topic, but I think it's also one of the only write-ups there is on this overall risk,[1]so might be interesting

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4:28

“You can be very helpful to first-timers at EA...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/12

Confidence level: timecapped at around one hour. Mostly based on my own experience, first as a new, curious attendee at EA events, and later as someone trying to be helpful to even newer attendees at these events. Looking back on my first EA events, a handful of 1:1s and interactions have stood out as being outstandingly useful in guiding my EA path. I've noticed that these were 1:1s where the more experienced attendee was not just answering my questions, but structuring the meeting in order to

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5:52

“Why I donate: some selfish reasons” by Kestrel🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/12

This year, I have given money to a range of EA cause areas. Most of it has either been towards global health and development, or EA infrastructure I believe does or could lead to effective fundraising for global health and development. The following are a list of very selfish personal reasons why I like to do this. I feel the selfless reasons have been adequately covered elsewhere, so I'm intentionally leaving them off. I get to ignore ineffective charity adverts. In order to genuinely convince

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