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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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32:43

“New Funding Round on Hardware-Enabled Mechanisms...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/30

Longview Philanthropy is launching a new request for proposals on hardware-enabled mechanisms (HEMs). We think HEMs are a promising method to enforce export controls, secure model weights, and verify compliance with international agreements on AI. We’d like to fund the development of designs, prototypes, and secure enclosures for various kinds of HEMs, as well as complementary red-teaming and field-building efforts. We plan to distribute $2M - $10M through this RFP. If you’d like to apply, please

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14:29

“EA Funds and CEA are merging” by calebp, Zachary...

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2025/04/30

Caleb is Project Lead of EA Funds. Zach is CEO of the Centre for Effective Altruism, and Oscar is CEA's Chief of Staff. EA Funds and CEA are currently separate projects within Effective Ventures. EV is winding down, and so EA Funds and CEA will spin out. We have decided to spin out as one organization rather than two, and that organization will be called CEA. Our target date for spinning out and merging is 1 July 2025.Why we’re merging We believe this is the best way to achieve our common goal of

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1:34

“New EA-adjacent Philosophy Lab” by Walter Veit

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2025/04/30

Hi everyone, I am a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Reading and currently trying to set-up at a lab focused on animal and AI sentience and welfare. Since many EAs are doing research in this area, I thought it might be useful to make an announcement here. Lab description: It is intended as an interdisciplinary group of philosophers and scientists using conceptual and computational methods to solve pressing philosophical, ethical, and scientific challenges at the intersection of the

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20:10

“My Research Process: Key Mindsets - Truth-Seeking,...

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2025/04/30

This is post 2 of a sequence on my framework for doing and thinking about research. Start here. Before I get into what exactly to do at each stage of the research process, it's worth reflecting on the key mindsets that are crucial throughout the process, and how they should manifest at each stage. I think the most important mindsets are: Truth-seeking: By default, many research insights will be false - finding truth is hard. It's not enough to just know this, you must put in active effort to be

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24:01

“Cultivating doubt: why I no longer believe...

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2025/04/30

Introduction In this post, I present what I believe to be an important yet underexplored argument that fundamentally challenges the promise of cultivated meat. In essence, there are compelling reasons to conclude that cultivated meat will not replace conventional meat, but will instead primarily compete with other alternative proteins that offer superior environmental and ethical benefits. Moreover, research into and promotion of cultivated meat may potentially result in a net negative impact

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1:37

“Should people with more forum karma have more...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/29

My upvotes/downvotes are worth 2 points each and my supervotes are worth 6. A person with between 10 and 100 karma on the forum has an upvote worth 1 and a supervote worth 2 (the scaling system is described in this code here I think) My concern is that this system lends itself to groupthink, whereby the dominant views or topics are liable to get more karma, giving holders of those views more voting power, giving users that makes posts they agree with or that they see as relevant more karma, etc

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12:40

“University Groups Should Run Socials” by Avik Garg,...

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2025/04/29

This post is for university group student organizers. We start with the big reason you should run a social, three tips we’re highly certain of, and some additional thoughts. We think ~40% of the value of this post is in a tentative answer to the question of how university groups can best provide value to members post intro fellowship; this is a question almost all university group organizers should think more deeply about. Another ~50% is in the “Big intro fellowship” section (tip 1), which is

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4:49

“Aquaculture in space” by Ben Stevenson

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/29

The Guardian reported yesterday on 'The Lunar Hatch' project, which is aiming to send fertilised sea bass eggs into space, so they can farm fish for astronauts. Lunar Hatch's ultimate aim is to create a “closed-loop food chain” on the moon, using a series of compartments. The first tanks will be filled with water from ice found at the bottom of craters at the moon's poles. The wastewater produced by fish in these tanks will be used to produce micro-algae that can then be used to feed filtering

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14:56

“The best Health Systems Strengthening...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/28

TLDR: RP's best interventions barely qualify as Health Systems Strengthening - they focus directly on the Health worker and their implementation. Not only these, but almost all HSS interventions are also measureable and should be measured! Plus some light disagreements with RP. First a huge thanks to @Open Philanthropy and @Rethink Priorities for this report - I’m not sure any serious attempt at a cost-effectiveness analysis of Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) interventions has been done before

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6:08

“Criticism on the EA Forum” by Toby Tremlett🔹

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/28

I'm writing this on behalf of the mod team. They've reviewed and commented on this post, but mistakes are mine. We want and value criticism on the EA Forum. EA organisations often make their decisions transparent to the Forum audience in a way which makes good criticism possible. But transparency has its challenges, one of which is that not all criticism is good. By ‘good’ criticism, I mean criticism which is valuable to spend time engaging with. Criticism which can improve your project, or

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19:20

“The case for multi-decade timelines [Linkpost]” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/28

At the request of @Vasco Grilo🔸 in a post that I can't get out of drafts, here's the full linkpost. Original post is below: So this post is an argument that multi-decade timelines are reasonable, and the key cruxes that Ege Erdil has with most AI safety people who believe in short timelines are due to the following set of beliefs: Ege Erdil don't believe that trends exist that require AI to automate everything in only 2-3 years. Ege Erdil doesn't believe that the software-only singularity is

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3:08

“Reflections on the $5 Minimum Donation Barrier on...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/28

I wanted to share a small but important challenge I've encountered as a student engaging with Effective Altruism from a lower-income country (Nigeria), and invite thoughts or suggestions from the community. Recently, I tried to make a one-time donation to one of the EA-aligned charities listed on the Giving What We Can platform. However, I discovered that I could not donate an amount less than $5. While this might seem like a minor limit for many, for someone like me — a student without a steady

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14:37

“It’s time to say goodbye to ‘functionally equivalent...

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2025/04/27

The idea that we can substitute carbon-based neurons with functionally equivalent artificial neurons (made of, say, silicon) is at the heart of many discussions about consciousness. For me, this used to be a load-bearing argument for caring about digital consciousness, and I think it still is for many people, including at Anthropic. However, it doesn’t withstand closer scrutiny, so I think it's time to let go of this dearly beloved intuition. This post was inspired by the video “Consciousness Isn't

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13:09

“How I Think About My Research Process: Explore,...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/26

This is the first post in a sequence about how I think about and break down my research process. Post 2 is coming soon. Thanks to Oli Clive-Griffin, Paul Bogdan, Shivam Raval and especially to Jemima Jones for feedback, and to my co-author Gemini 2.5 Pro - putting 200K tokens of past blog posts and a long voice memo in the context window is OP.Introduction Research, especially in a young and rapidly evolving field like mechanistic interpretability (mech interp), can often feel messy, confusing, and

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[Linkpost] “Rachel Glennerster and Siddhartha Haria...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/26

This is a link post. From Rachel Glennerster and Siddhartha Haria of the Center for Global Development. Glennerster is former chief economist of UK's Department for International Development, former head of JPAL, and a 10% pledger with Giving What We Can. "Projects should do one thing on a large scale. The cost per person of implementing a project falls sharply the more people it covers because of the high fixed costs of design, setup, and oversight." "Given the reality of smaller aid budgets, it

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3:22

“World Malaria Day 2025” by Toby Tremlett🔹

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/25

Another year, another World Malaria Day. WHO reports that an estimated 263 million cases and 597 000 malaria deaths occurred worldwide in 2023, with 95% of the deaths occuring in Africa.What's still the case: Malaria is still one of the top five causes of death for children under 5. The Our World In Data page on Malaria is still a fantastic resource to learn about Malaria.What's different this year:NB- this post is far from comprehensive. I'd appreciate people adding more information about the

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27:51

“The Case for Insect Consciousness” by Vasco Grilo🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/25

This is a crosspost for The Case for Insect Consciousness by Bob Fischer, which was originally published on Asterisk in January 2025. [Subtitle.] The evidence that insects feel pain is mounting, however we approach the issue. For years, I was on the fence about the possibility of insects feeling pain — sometimes, I defended the hypothesis;[1] more often, I argued against it.[2] Then, in 2021, I started working on the puzzle of how to compare pain intensity across species. If a human and a pig are

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52:29

“Transformative AI and wild animals: An exploration.”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/25

A note on status: The following post is Wild Animal Initiative's first foray into thinking about the intersection of transformative AI and wild animal welfare. I’m not an AI safety expert, but I’ve been largely familiar with the main ideas since 2012. I’ve done my best to read around the issues and asked several more AI-informed folks to give feedback on this draft; however, our ideas at Wild Animal Initiative remain very early days so please take this all with a grain of salt. We welcome

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9:11

“Why you can justify almost anything using historical...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/24

[Cross-posted from my Substack here] If you spend time with people trying to change the world, you’ll come to an interesting conundrum: Various advocacy groups reference previous successful social movements as to why their chosen strategy is the most important one. Yet, these groups often follow wildly different strategies from each other to achieve social change. So, which one of them is right? The answer is all of them and none of them. This is because many people use research and historical

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78:44

[Linkpost] “Podcast on ‘AI tools for existential...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/24

This is a link post.About two months ago, @finm and I recorded a discussion about my now-published piece on “AI tools for Existential Security”[1] (for the podcast Fin has been running at Forethought). I’d never done something like this before, and liked the result a lot more than I thought I would![2]I'm sharing a quick transcript here in case anyone appreciates section headers, hyperlinks, etc.. Please note that this is very rough; it's an unpolished, not-double-checked “MVP” edit of an

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