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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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5:22

“E2G help available” by Will Kirkpatrick

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/18

If you’re interested in having a meaningful EA career but your experience doesn’t match the types of jobs that the typical white collar, intellectual EA community leans towards, then you’re just like me. I have been earning to give as a nuclear power plant operator in Southern Maryland for the past few years, and I think it's a great opportunity for other EA's who want to make a difference but don’t have a PhD in philosophy or public policy. Additionally, I have personal sway with Constellation

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31:15

“Introducing Access to Medicines Initiative: Year One...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/18

TL;DR Exactly one year after receiving our seed funding upon completion of the Charity Entrepreneurship program, we (Miri and Evan) look back on our first year of operations, discuss our plans for the future, and launch our fundraising for our Year 2 budget.Family Planning could be one of the most cost-effective public health interventions available. Reducing unintended pregnancies lowers maternal mortality, decreases rates of unsafe abortions, and reduces maternal morbidity. Increasing the interval

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5:15

“DIY debate week (April 28 - May 2nd)” by Toby...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/17

We’re holding a DIY debate week on the Forum, from April 28–May 2nd.What's a DIY debate week? It's been great seeing and hearing people responding positively to debate weeks (1,2,3), writing posts, getting into discussions, and voting in large numbers. I especially like that voting on the banner prompts people to leave a comment, which then starts discussions. I’d love to know if that vote→conversation pipeline holds if we let everyone make polls. So… we are releasing a poll-making feature for

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15:45

“AI-enabled coups: a small group could use AI to...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/16

We’ve written a new report on the threat of AI-enabled coups. I think this is a very serious risk – comparable in importance to AI takeover but much more neglected. In fact, AI-enabled coups and AI takeover have pretty similar threat models. To see this, here's a very basic threat model for AI takeover: Humanity develops superhuman AI Superhuman AI ismisaligned and power-seeking Superhuman AI seizes powerfor itself And now here's a closely analogous threat model for AI-enabled coups: Humanity

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4:16

[Linkpost] “Contracting Opportunity: Be a shortform...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/16

This is a link post. This is a linkpost for the above expression of interest, but I want to add for this audience: If you Watch a lot of shortform (who amongst us...) Have a sense of what's successful on platforms like TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Instagram Learn and work quickly Then I think you'll be able to figure out Capcut, Descript and similar very quickly and be a good fit for this even if you've never done it before. Right now we want to move fast, make a lot of videos and see what works

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75:04

“Doing Prioritization Better” by arvomm, David_Moss,...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/16

Or on the types of prioritization, their strengths, pitfalls, and how EA should balance them The cause prioritization landscape in EA is changing. Prominent groups have shut down, others have been founded, and everyone is trying to figure out how to prepare for AI. This is the first in a series of posts examining the state of cause prioritization and proposing strategies for moving forward.Executive Summary Performing prioritization work has been one of the main tasks, and arguably achievements,

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0:56

[Linkpost] “Big if true: Three health interventions...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/16

This is a link post. There is some (inconclusive) evidence that biodiversity conservation, replacing dirt flooring, and reducing environmental noise exposure might be much more cost effective areas for global health funding than we currently price in. These findings are, in my view, 'big if true' - with a big 'if'. If you know of additional important research on these topics or are working on any of these areas, I'd be interested in your thoughts! --- First published: April

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2:59

“Map of AI Safety v2” by Bryce Robertson

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/16

The original Map of AI Existential Safety became a popular reference tool within the community after its launch in 2023. Based on user feedback, we decided that it was both useful enough and had enough room for improvement that it was worth creating a v2 with better organization, usability, and visual design. Today we’re excited to announce that the new map is live at AISafety.com/map. Similar to the original map, it provides a visual overview of the key organizations, programs, and projects in the

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10:43

“Are People Happier Than Before? I Tried to Test...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/16

This work has come out of my Undergraduate dissertation. I haven't shared or discussed these results much before putting this up. Message me if you'd like the code :) TLDR Life satisfaction (LS) appears flat over time, despite massive economic growth — the “Easterlin Paradox.” Some argue that happiness is rising, but we’re reporting it more conservatively — a phenomenon called rescaling. I test rescaling using long-run German panel data, looking at whether the association between reported

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6:53

“The CEA Events Team is Hiring for Three Program Lead...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/15

The CEA Events Team is hiring for three program lead positions: EAGx Program Lead, AI Special Events Lead, and Meta Special Events Lead. If you're passionate about building the effective altruism community and want to help us create more impactful discussion spaces, apply by this Thursday, April 17th, 11:59 pm BST!* The initial application is relatively light, you can apply for all three roles by applying to one and expressing interest in the other two. *Note: these roles have been open for

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1:29

[Linkpost] “My experience going from donating 60% to...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/15

This is a link post. Hi, I'm sharing this blog post I wrote with Giving What We Can about my experience earning to give. I hope it's helpful to others trying to figure out how much to donate. tl;dr: A few existential crises prompted me to recalibrate: moving unexpectedly, realizing I had wanted kids, the 2024 election and climate change, homophobia in my personal life, and career anxiety. Julia Wise's writings and Susan Wolf's essay "Moral Saints" greatly helped me. I found a more sustainable

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52:56

[Linkpost] “Slopworld 2035: The dangers of mediocre...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/15

This is a link post. None of this article was written with AI assistance. Introduction There have been many, many, many attempts to lay out scenarios of AI taking over or destroying humanity. What they tend to have in common is an assumption that our doom will be sealed as a result of AI becoming significantly smarter and more powerful than the best humans, eclipsing us in skill and power and outplaying us effortlessly. In this article, I’m going to do a twist: I’m going to write a story (and

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11:38

“Advice to my EA newcomer self” by Sam Anschell

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/15

In 2017, I learned about EA from a friend of a friend in Scotland. He gave me a copy of Doing Good Better to read on the flight home, and I was sold by the time I’d finished it. Over the next five years, I was interested in EA but low on context - occasionally lurking on the Forum and talking about the ideas with friends and family. This post is a smorgasbord of thoughts I wish I could tell my past self. Diligence or caveat claims before repeating them as code I knew that the commercials set to

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4:58

“Why I signed up to the 10% Pledge in the wake of...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/14

I signed up to the 10% Pledge from Giving What We Can and donated 19% of my annual income this year, in response to the foreign aid cuts. In a recent blogpost, I give a summary of what has happened, why I pledged, how I thought about where to donate, and what individuals can do. You can read it here: We don't have to sit back and just watch the horror unfold. Summary / highlights: The U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has provided HIV treatment to 20 million people

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3:26

“Protesting Now for AI Regulation might be more...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/14

After reading the comments on this EA Reddit post about the recent 80,000 Hours newsletter and similar stories on the EA Forum, about how difficult it is to secure a job in AI safety, even with relevant credentials and experience, I remembered an AMA with Peter Singer. When asked what he'd do today if he were in his twenties and wanted to significantly help the world, Singer responded: “I'm not sure that I'd be a philosopher today. When I was in my twenties, practical ethics was virtually a new

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62:21

“Summary of Epoch’s AI timelines podcast” by OscarD🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/13

This is an AI-generated summary of Epoch's recent 4-hour podcast Is it 3 Years, or 3 Decades Away? Disagreements on AGI Timelines. I have not listened to the original podcast, so I can't vouch for its accuracy. I assume some other people are also reluctant to listen to 4 hours of content (even sped up) so I thought I'd share this summary: there is a short summary, a medium summary, and then a long overview.Quick Summary The true divide on AI timelines isn't about if AGI will arrive, but whether

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49:39

[Linkpost] “AI 2027: What Superintelligence Looks...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/13

This is a link post. Linkpost from ai-2027.com (with permission of co-author @kokotajlod). For further discussion, see also: their LessWrong post with +555 karma & 106 comments as of now (April 11th) feature in the New York Times (behind paywall) co-authors Daniel Kokotajlo and Scott Alexander on the Dwarkesh podcast. This is the most well-researched report on a plausible AGI risk scenario that I (Manuel) am aware of. Consider sharing it, especially with people new to AGI risk and with

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3:45

“My first year in Effective Altruism” by Victoria Dias

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/11

First of all, I would like to say this is not a complaint, and also not a compliment (but it could be). This is just an outflow; I hope some may feel represented, because I really feel a little bit overwhelmed and wanted to share these thoughts and see if someone felt like this in their first year as an Effective Altruist. It's kind of sad to me that I've never made a post here in the forum, and my first one is a vent, but here we go. There are so many interesting things to read that I’m pretty

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5:15

“$100 million dollar grant funding opportunity for...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/11

The MacArthur foundation is giving away a grant of $100 million dollars to “fund a single proposal that promises real and measurable progress in solving a critical problem of our time”. A key requirement is that “Your budget must be a minimum of $100 million to be considered” so it's go big or go home. Obviously given this scale, only existing (and likely relatively large) organizations would be meaningful contenders. Unfortunately, the deadline to register in order to be able to apply for this

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22:12

“Learned pain as a leading cause of chronic pain” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/11

Epistemic status: Amateur synthesis of medical research that is still recent but now established enough to make it into modern medical textbooks. Some specific claims vary in evidence strength. I’ve spent ~20-30 hours studying the literature and treatment approaches, which were very effective for me. Disclaimer: I'm not a medical professional. This information is educational only, not medical advice. Consult healthcare providers for medical conditions. Key claims This post builds on previous

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