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41:23

[Linkpost] “How AI could slow scientific progress -”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/19

This is a link post. Note: This is a linkpost to an essay written by Princeton computer science professor Arvind Narayanan and PHD candidate Sayash Kapoor entitled “Could AI slow science?”. The authors may not see or respond to comments on this post. I'm posting this because I think it is a well-articulated counterargument to the growing opinion that an AI intelligence explosion that rapidly accelerates scientific progress is imminent or inevitable. Could AI slow science? AI leaders have predicted

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41:12

[Linkpost] “How AI could slow scientific progress -”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/19

This is a link post. Note: This is a linkpost to an essay written by Princeton computer science professor Arvind Narayanan and PHD candidate Sayash Kapoor entitled “Could AI slow science?”. The authors may not see or respond to comments on this post. Could AI slow science? AI leaders have predicted that it will enable dramatic scientific progress: curing cancer, doubling the human lifespan, colonizing space, and achieving a century of progress in the next decade. Given the cuts to federal funding

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2:27

[Linkpost] “Rebooting the Singularity” by cdkg

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/18

This is a link post. Tom Davidson from Forethought Research and I have a new paper responding to some recent skeptical takes on the Singularity Hypothesis (e.g. this one). Roughly half the paper is philosophical and the other half is empirical. Both halves argue that we should take the Singularity Hypothesis more seriously than many people have been taking it of late. I'm sharing this with the community here because (i) I think it will be of general interest, and (ii) this is a project I'm still

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65:57

[Linkpost] “Video and transcript of talk on ‘Can...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/18

This is a link post. (This is the video and transcript of a public talk I gave at Mox in San Francisco in July 2025, on long-term equilibria post-AGI. It's a longer version of the talk I gave at this workshop. The slides are also available here.) Introduction Thank you. Okay. Hi. Thanks for coming. Aims for this talk So: can goodness compete? It's a classic question, and it crops up constantly in a certain strand of futurism, so I'm going to try to analyze it and understand it more precisely. And

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0:54

[Linkpost] “Eggs from in-ovo sexed hens are now...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/18

This is a link post. The brand NestFresh eggs has just started selling eggs from in-ovo sexed hens in the US. Right now, they are only available at some Whole Foods locations in the Southwest, soon to be expanded to other locations. Supporting those eggs now is particularly valuable, as their market performance will influence other companies' decisions to adopt the technology. See the blog post linked above for details! ---First published: July 18th, 2025

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5:40

“Why I am more optimistic about the animal movement...

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2025/07/16

Sometimes working on animal issues feels like an uphill battle, with alternative protein losing its trendy status with VCs, corporate campaigns hitting blocks in enforcement and veganism being stuck at the same percentage it's been for decades. However, despite these things I personally am more optimistic about the animal movement than I have ever been (despite following the movement for 10+ years). What gives? At AIM we think a lot about the ingredients of a good charity (talent, funding and idea)

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17:31

“Addressing the nonhuman gap in intergovernmental AI...

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2025/07/16

Originally submitted as a project for the AI Safety Fundamentals AI Governance course in April 2025; edited and somewhat expanded for publication on the EA Forum in July 2025. Thanks to Yip Fai Tse, Arturs Kanepajs, Max Taylor, Constance Li, Kevin Xia, Adrià Moret and Sam Tucker-Davis for advice and suggestions before and/or after the writing of this piece. Introduction We review how major AI governance frameworks address – or, more commonly, overlook – the interests of sentient nonhumans,

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1:27

“July ’25 EA Newsletter Poll” by Toby Tremlett🔹

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/15

This poll was linked in the July edition of the Effective Altruism Newsletter. If you haven't got your newsletter yet, it'll be with you in a few hours. It is possible to rationally prioritise between causes without engaging deeply on philosophical issuesPlace your vote or view results.https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/chqwwnhjweifDXCsi/july-25-ea-newsletter-poll --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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1:22

[Linkpost] “Solving Problems, Not Building Empires...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/14

This is a link post. Linkpost as I am mostly writting on substack now. TL;DR: NGOs have a unique advantage over for-profits in their ability to cooperate and build common goods, yet few fully leverage "ecosystem thinking." This approach extends beyond an organization's direct impact to consider the entire field's health. Effective ecosystem actors: 1) actively build and connect movements by supporting newcomers and making strategic introductions; 2) practice radical transparency about both

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1:36

“EU CITIZENS: Animal welfare consultation closing...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/14

There is an important consultation happening right now on revising EU animal welfare laws - covering cages, import standards, male chick culling, and welfare indicators. If you're an EU Citizen, I encourage you to take 15-30 minutes over the next few days to respond. Deadline: July 16th (midnight CET) Who can respond: European citizens, animal advocacy organisations, scientists, industry groups, farmers etc. (Non-EU citizens can respond but we expect this will carry less weight) Format: 4,000

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14:00

“Debate: organisations using Rethink Priorities’...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/14

Organisations using Rethink Priorities’ mainline welfare ranges should consider effects on soil nematodes, mites, and springtails.disagreeagreeOrganisations using Rethink Priorities’ mainline welfare ranges, and not planning to consider effects on [...] ---Outline:(00:47) Summary(02:29) I think organisations using RP's mainline welfare ranges should consider effects on soil nematodes, mites, and springtails(05:23) Effects on soil nematodes should not be neglected just because they are unlikely to be

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3:09

“Is EA still ‘talent-constrained’?” by SiobhanBall

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/14

Since January I’ve applied to ~25 EA-aligned roles. Every listing attracted hundreds of candidates (one passed 1,200). It seems we already have a very deep bench of motivated, values-aligned people, yet orgs still run long, resource-heavy hiring rounds. That raises three things: Cost-effectiveness: Are months-long searches and bespoke work-tests still worth the staff time and applicant burnout when shortlist-first approaches might fill 80% of roles faster with decent candidates? Sure, there can

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24:30

“Reflecting on One Year of Mieux Donner: Launching...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/13

As we mark one year since the launch of Mieux Donner, we wanted to share some reflections on our journey and our ongoing efforts to promote effective giving in France. Mieux Donner was founded through the Effective Incubation Programme by Ambitious Impact and Giving What We Can. TLDR Prioritisation is important. And when the path forward is unclear, trying a lot of different potential priorities with high productivity leads to better results than analysis paralysis. Ask yourself what the purpose

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31:02

“AI, Animals, & Digital Minds 2025: Retrospective” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/12

Key takeaway We need less breadth and more depth. Much of the early growth and success of the movement at the intersection of AI, animals and digital minds has come from exchanging ideas, people and resources across these fields. We think we are now approaching a point where more specialisation and a greater focus on action will lead to the most valuable outcomes. Aim The aim of AI, Animals, & Digital Minds (AIADM) 2025 was to bring together leaders in AI and non-human ethics to share ideas,

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6:26

“Sanity Check - Givewell’s New Incentives estimate...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/12

TLDR: On a VERY rough Sanity check[1], GiveWell's New Incentives “lived saved” numbers seem perhaps twice as high as is plausible. On seeing this wonderful graph from a GiveWell Back-check of New Incentives, I thought to myself wow New Incentives saved 27,000 lives - that's insane but feels quite high.So I decided to spend a surprisingly fun 90 minutes of my life doing a sanity check of a back-check. The things I do for joy... Due to the speedrun nature, I might have got a baisc input wrong, made

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4:19

[Linkpost] “METR: Measuring the Impact of Early-2025...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/11

This is a link post. This seems like an important piece of work - an RCT on the use of AI capabilities for developers. The TL;DR of the paper is The devil is in the details of course. This post by Steve Newman does a good job of working through some of them. I have highlighted some considerations from it: The methodology was as follows: METR recruited 16 developers from major open-source projects. Each developer selected a list of coding tasks from their todo list, breaking up large projects into

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16:12

“Can for-profit companies create significant, direct...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/11

Thank you to @Jacintha Baas, @Judith Rensing, and the @CE team for your help in editing and improving this post. Introductory Context Hi, I’m Trish. This is my first post on the EA forum. I spent the past decade building VC-funded, high-growth startups (from pre-revenue to $10M+, from founding team to 250+ employees; pre-funding through Series B), and supporting 100s of early-stage founders through the communities at On Deck and Unreasonable Group. Last year, I joined the team at AIM to help build

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1:30

[Linkpost] “The Rising Premium of Life” by Linch

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/11

This is a link post. I'm interested in a simple question: Why are people all so terrified of dying? And have people gotten more afraid? (Answer: probably yes!) In some sense, this should be surprising: Surely people have always wanted to avoid dying? But it turns out the evidence that this preference has increased over time is quite robust. It's an important phenomenon that has been going on for at least a century, it's relatively new, I think it underlies much of modern life, and yet pretty much

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8:00

“Lessons from the Iraq War about AI policy” by Buck

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/11

I think the 2003 invasion of Iraq has some interesting lessons for the future of AI policy. (Epistemic status: I’ve read a bit about this, talked to AIs about it, and talked to one natsec professional about it who agreed with my analysis (and suggested some ideas that I included here), but I’m not an expert.) For context, the story is: Iraq was sort of a rogue state after invading Kuwait and then being repelled in 1990-91. After that, they violated the terms of the ceasefire, e.g. by ceasing to

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4:53

“Career Conversations Week: July 21-27” by Toby...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/07/10

TLDR: July 21-27 will be a themed week on the EA Forum for posting career-related quick takes and posts. We'll also have career advisors available throughout the week to answer questions. Last time we ran a career conversations week, it led to some great posts, including: Mistakes, flukes, and good calls I made in my multiple careers- Catherine Low Who Is a Good Fit for a Career in Nonprofit Entrepreneurship?- Charity Entrepreneurship Monetary and social incentives in longtermist careers- Vaidehi

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