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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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39:24

“Cost-effectiveness of Anima International Poland” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/10

Summary In this article, I estimate the cost-effectiveness of five Anima International programs in Poland: improving cage-free and broiler welfare, blocking new factory farms, banning fur farming, and encouraging retailers to sell more plant-based protein. I estimate that together, these programs help roughly 136 animals—or 32 years of farmed animal life—per dollar spent. Animal years affected per dollar spent was within an order of magnitude for all five evaluated interventions. I also tried to

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27:35

“GWWC is retiring 10 initiatives” by Giving What We Can

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/10

In our recent strategy retreat, the GWWC Leadership Team recognised that by spreading our limited resources across too many projects, we are unable to deliver the level of excellence and impact that our mission demands. True to our value of being mission accountable, we've therefore made the difficult but necessary decision to discontinue a total of 10 initiatives. By focusing our energy on fewer, more strategically aligned initiatives, we think we’ll be more likely to ultimately achieve our Big

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7:02

“Announcing our 2025 strategy” by Giving What We Can

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/10

We are excited to share a summary of our 2025 strategy, which builds on our work in 2024 and provides a vision through 2027 and beyond! Background Giving What We Can (GWWC) is working towards a world without preventable suffering or existential risk, where everyone is able to flourish. We do this by making giving effectively and significantly a cultural norm. Focus on pledges Based on our last impact evaluation[1], we have made our pledges – and in particular the 🔸10% Pledge – the core focus of

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7:04

“Announcing our 2025 strategy” by Giving What We Can

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/10

We are excited to share a summary of our 2025 strategy, which builds on our work in 2024 and provides a vision through 2027 and beyond! Background Giving What We Can (GWWC) is working towards a world without preventable suffering or existential risk, where everyone is able to flourish. We do this by making giving effectively and significantly a cultural norm. Focus on pledges Based on our last impact evaluation[1], we have made our pledges – and in particular the 🔸10% Pledge – the core focus of

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19:24

“Why experienced professionals fail to land...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/10

s meanIntroductionThere are many reasons why people fail to land a high-impact role. They might lack the skills, don’t have a polished CV, don’t articulate their thoughts well in applications[1] or interviews, or don't manage their time effectively during work tests. This post is not about these issues. It's about what I see as the least obvious reason why one might get rejected relatively early in the hiring process, despite having the right skill set and ticking most of the other boxes mentioned

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17:29

“Why Promoting Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) is a...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/09

Animal advocacy aims to systematically reduce suffering and ultimately transform our relationship with other sentient beings. Some advocates have proposed Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) (the application of AI, automation, and monitoring systems to animal agriculture) as a potential pathway to improved welfare. This post presents a systems-level analysis of why supporting PLF, despite apparent short-term benefits, is counterproductive to long-term movement goals. The Optimization Trap: How PLF

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3:22

“I am sad.” by frin

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/09

I am sad. People saying EA is dead. EAs dissociating with EA. "An outdated term" Outrageous. But is it? I am sad. Sam, what have you done to us? What have we done to ourselves by playing along? Ambition is useful. But where has humility gone? I am sad. Should I even?... Instead of being proud to be a part of this... ...should my EA org even admit being EA? What will people think of it? Is EA a PR hazard now? I am sad. Doubting whether EA is even good. How has it come to this? EA was supposed to be

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19:07

“EA Adjacency as FTX Trauma” by Mjreard

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/09

This is a Forum Team crosspost from Substack. Matt would like to add: "Epistemic status = incomplete speculation; posted here at the Forum team's request" When you ask prominent Effective Altruists about Effective Altruism, you often get responses like these: For context, Will MacAskill and Holden Karnofsky are arguably, literally the number one and two most prominent Effective Altruists on the planet. Other evidence of their ~spouses’ personal involvement abounds, especially Amanda's. Now,

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26:39

“The Onboarding Blueprint for EA University Groups”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/08

TL;DR I founded an EA university group by myself in a country where only a handful of people had heard about EA. In just one year, the group grew from a single person into a close-knit community led by a 9-person organizing team and volunteers who host a multitude of programs. The key to this was a strong onboarding process that helped members take ownership, build connections, and grow the group. Here are some actions that helped me to have a better onboarding process: Actively look for people

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4:02

“Maybe We Aren’t Stubborn Enough” by emre kaplan🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/08

I sometimes worry that focus on effectiveness creates perverse incentives in strategic settings, leading us to become less effective. Here are a few observations illustrating this concern. Effectiveness-focused advocacy creates perverse incentives for adversaries When we conduct cage-free campaigns, the target companies frequently ask us why they are being targeted instead of some other company. While trying to answer that, one immediately realises the following tension. If we say that "because

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15:12

“Policy school can be a really good deal. The case...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/08

*Disclaimer: This post was written in a personal capacity and reflects my views, not necessarily those of my employer. I have not actually attended policy school (I plan to update this post once I have), so please read with a grain of salt.* I recently applied to a few policy schools. Despite having read a bunch of great resources before applying, I learned a few things along the way that I wish I would have known from the outset. This post is a summary of what was new or unexpected to me. If

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7:36

“Announcing our book, After the Spike, and an...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/07

Summary My new book with Mike Geruso on global depopulation, After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People, will be released this summer. If you’re here reading this, we bet you’re going to like the book. If you’d like to help others find their way to the book, preorders noware the best way to help. Preorders give an important market signal to booksellers and help books rise to wider attention via bestseller lists. You can preorder here: Amazon| Books-A-Million| Bookshop.orgAbout

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59:59

[Linkpost] “The case for AGI by 2030” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/06

This is a link post. In recent months, the CEOs of leading AI companies have grown increasingly confident about rapid progress: OpenAI's Sam Altman: Shifted from saying in November "the rate of progress continues" to declaring in January "we are now confident we know how to build AGI" Anthropic's Dario Amodei: Stated in January "I'm more confident than I've ever been that we're close to powerful capabilities... in the next 2-3 years" Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis: Changed from "as soon as 10

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4:04

“On January 1, 2030, there will be no AGI (and AGI...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/06

On January 1, 2030, there will be no artificial general intelligence (AGI) and AGI will still not be imminent. A few reasons why I think this: -If you look at easy benchmarks like ARC-AGI and ARC-AGI-2 that are easy for humans to solve and intentionally designed to be a low bar for AI to clear, the weaknesses of frontier AI models are starkly revealed. -Casual, everyday use of large language models (LLMs) reveals major errors on simple thinking tasks, such as not understanding that an event that

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4:11

“On January 1, 2030, there will be no AGI (and AGI...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/06

On January 1, 2030, there will be no artificial general intelligence (AGI) and AGI will still not be imminent. A few reasons why I think this: -If you look at easy benchmarks like ARC-AGI and ARC-AGI-2 that are easy for humans to solve and intentionally designed to be a low bar for AI to clear, the weaknesses of frontier AI models are starkly revealed.[1] -Casual, everyday use of large language models (LLMs) reveals major errors on simple thinking tasks, such as not understanding that an event that

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26:20

“AI for Animals 2025 Bay Area Retrospective” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/06

Our Mission: To build a multidisciplinary field around using technology—especially AI—to improve the lives of nonhumans now and in the future. Overview Background This hybrid conference had nearly 550 participants and took place March 1-2, 2025 at UC Berkeley. It was organized by AI for Animals for $74k by volunteer core organizers Constance Li, Sankalpa Ghose, and Santeri Tani. This conference has evolved since 2023: The1st conference mainly consisted of philosophers and was a single track

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4:33

[Linkpost] “Is it 3 Years, or 3 Decades Away?...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/05

This is a link post. This is a linkpost for Epoch After Hours' podcast episode Is it 3 Years, or 3 Decades Away? Disagreements on AGI Timelines by Ege Erdil and Matthew Barnett, which was released on 28 March 2025. The episode is on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Pocket Casts, and Overcast. Ege is the 1st author of the paper about Epoch AI's compute-centric model of AI automation, which was announced on 21 March 2025, and also discussed on the Future of Life Institute Podcast. I

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6:39

“GiveWell’s Response to the USAID Funding Cuts” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/04

Recent cuts to US government foreign assistance have destabilized global health programs, impacting some of the most cost-effective interventions we’ve found for saving and improving lives, such as malaria nets, malaria chemoprevention, and community-based management of acute malnutrition. This situation is a major focus of our research team at the moment, and we’re working to balance a targeted, near-term response to urgent needs with a broad, long-term perspective of needs that may emerge. The US

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3:02

“Three Organizers Walk Into a Liberal Arts College”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/04

Hey EA Forum, We're the EA group at Middlebury College in Vermont—three organizers (freshman, sophomore, junior) trying to figure out how to make EA stick on a small but ambitious liberal arts campus. We've run into the classic "attendance starts high, then drops off to like, two people and a cricket" scenario with our traditional reading groups and fellowships. Still, we know that Middlebury students have a whole lot of wealth and/or talent, and it's really important to expose them to EA ideas and

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1:44

“From biosecurity to mental health: New overviews of...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/03

We’ve been expanding our cause area overviews to highlight more ways people can make a difference. These new articles dive into different global challenges and offer a broad look at various impactful career paths worth considering: Biosecurity – Exploring the importance of reducing risks from pandemics and other biological threats. Mental Health – Examining the role of mental well-being in improving lives on a global scale. Economic Growth – Investigating the role of economic development in

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