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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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12:09

“The Need to Optimize EA Content to Show Up in AI...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/25

As more people turn to AI assistants like ChatGPT and Perplexity to answer their questions, an opportunity to go beyond traditional communication efforts like SEO arises. Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) refers to the practice of structuring content so it can be accurately retrieved and cited by large language models (LLMs). For EA-aligned organizations, AEO could be more than a communications tactic, as it could be an opportunity to strengthen program impact, improve fundraising efficiency, and

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47:37

“Systems Change 101” by Swan 🔸, Lin BL, Karen...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/24

In alphabetical order: Ben Smith, @Karen Singleton, @Lin BL, Rebecca Zanini,, @Swan 🔸 , @Ulf Graf 🔹 Acknowledgements: Rosanna Zimdahl, Ruben Dieleman, Samuel Hilton and Simon Holm. Preface/TL;DR We believe systems thinking offers valuable tools for identifying more impactful interventions. This post aims to help you: Understand systems thinking and systems change and advocate for their value to EA. Apply systems thinking to your cause area to identify more impactful interventions. Find

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19:46

“Morality is Objective” by Bentham’s Bulldog

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/24

Is Morality ObjectivePlace your vote or view results.disagreeagree There is dispute among EAs--and the general public more broadly--about whether morality is objective. So I thought I'd kick off a [...] ---First published: June 24th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/n5bePqoC46pGZJzqL/morality-is-objective --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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4:20

“Vegan Challenges Are An Underrated Lever For Diet...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/24

As part of conducting research into my Tactics in Practice series (reports designed to understand the impact and potential improvements to common interventions to improve animal welfare), I am often a bit let down by what the research says. After reviewing the evidence behind vegan and meat-reduction challenges and pledges, I have to say I am more optimistic about this tactic than I was before investigating it. I believe they have the potential to shift collective diet change more than most people

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7:52

“The Lies of Big Bug” by Bentham’s Bulldog

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/23

Crosspost of this blog article. The majority of farmed animals killed each year are insects, and this number is only expected to increase. By 2033, it's estimated that around 5 trillion insects will be slaughtered annually—more than 50 times the number of cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys, and the like currently slaughtered. But insect farming is built on a dark secret: its foundational premises are all lies! There has been a calculated plot by the insect farming industry to mislead the public. They

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4:52

“Arkose is Closing” by Arkose

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/23

Summary Arkose is an early-stage AI safety fieldbuilding nonprofit focused on accelerating the involvement of experienced machine learning professionals in technical AI safety research through direct outreach, one-on-one calls, and public resources. Between December 2023 and June 2025, we had one-on-one calls with 311 such professionals. 78% of those professionals said their initial call accelerated their involvement in AI safety[1]. Unfortunately, we’re closing due to a lack of funding. We remain

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10:25

“Should we launch the ‘Animal Advocacy Corps’?...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/23

Summary This post considers the idea of an Animal Advocacy Corps, which would be modeled after the US Peace Corps program and involve recent graduates spending a year working in-person at various pro-animal organizations/companies. The main goal of this project, were it to happen, would be to a) increase the number of young people engaged in animal advocacy in some capacity, and b) increase the level of in-person organization in the movement*. How you can help: I’m not going to start this idea

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23:53

“Should more EAs become technical sales...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/22

Sales is rarely discussed as a career path in EA. This post explores whether technical sales roles — especially B2B Sales Engineering — might be a fast, high-leverage path for building career capital. It compares sales to other roles, and makes the case that sales deserves more serious attention from EA students and professionals. Depth: Medium. I am just a college student but I believe this could provide significant value. (I completed a sales bootcamp a month ago, and spent good time reflecting

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6:12

“Please reconsider your use of adjectives” by Alfredo...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/21

I’ve been meaning to write about this for some time, and @titotal's recent post finally made me do it:Thick red dramatic box emphasis mine. I was going to post a comment in his post, but I think this topic deserves a post of its own. My plea is simply: Please, oh please reconsider using adjectives that reflect a negative judgment (“bad”, “stupid”, “boring”) on the Forum, and instead stick to indisputable facts and observations (“I disagree”, “I doubt”, “I dislike”, etc.). This suggestion is

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14:48

“Crunch time for cage-free” by LewisBollard

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/20

Note: This post was crossposted from the Open Philanthropy 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. Despite setbacks, battery cages are on the retreat My colleague Emma Buckland contributed (excellent) research to this piece. All opinions and errors are mine alone. It's deadline time. Over the last decade, many of the world's largest food companies — from McDonald's to Walmart — pledged to

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1:23

“Expression of Interest: Rethink Priorities’ AI...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/20

We’re looking to expand our network of collaborators interested in working on strategy questions related to AI safety and governance, as well as AI's intersection with other cause areas we care about—particularly animal welfare, global health and development, and digital sentience. If you have relevant expertise or perspectives and would be open to short-term or long-term contracting or project-based collaboration, we’d love to hear from you. This Expression of Interest form will help us build a

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9:01

“CEA is hiring for a Director of EA Funds” by Zachary...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/19

Note: the deadline for applications has been extended to June 29th. The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) is seeking an experienced leader to join our senior leadership team as the Director of EA Funds. EA Funds is an established grantmaking organization that currently operates as an independent project but is merging into CEA. We wrote about the merger of CEA and EA Funds here, and now we’re looking for an ambitious leader to scale EA Funds and move (at least) hundreds of millions of

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61:57

“Galactic x-risks: Obstacles to Accessing the Cosmic...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/19

Once we expand to other star systems, we may begin a self-propagating expansion of human civilisation throughout the galaxy. However, there are existential risks potentially capable of destroying a galactic civilisation, like self-replicating machines, strange matter, and vacuum decay. Without an extremely widespread and effective governance system, the eventual creation of a galaxy-ending x-risk seems almost inevitable due to cumulative chances of initiation over time and across multiple

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79:43

[Linkpost] “A deep critique of AI 2027’s bad timeline...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/19

This is a link post. Thank you to Arepo and Eli Lifland for looking over this article for errors. I am sorry that this article is so long. Every time I thought I was done with it I ran into more issues with the model, and I wanted to be as thorough as I could. I’m not going to blame anyone for skimming parts of this article. Note that the majority of this article was written before Eli's updated model was released (the site was updated june 8th). His new model improves on some of my objections,

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18:14

[Linkpost] “In Defense of ‘Sweatshops’” by Vasco Grilo🔸

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/19

This is a link post. This is a crosspost for In Defense of "Sweatshops" by Benjamin Powell, which was originally published on Econlib on 2 June 2008. For the full treatment, see Benjamin's book Out of Poverty: Sweatshops in the Global Economy (Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society). “Because sweatshops are better than the available alternatives, any reforms aimed at improving the lives of workers in sweatshops must not jeopardize the jobs that they already have.” I do not want to work

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3:35

“Animal advocates are too reluctant to sit at the...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/18

This is one of the memos I wrote for the 2025 Animal Advocacy Strategy Forum, which were encouraged to be highly opinionated to generate strategy discussion. In 2017, McDonald's refused to sign the Better Chicken Commitment (BCC), and instead set eight Broiler Welfare Commitments to be achieved by the end of 2024. As far as I can tell, the movement responded to this by calling it humanewashing, and pushed harder for the BCC. But if McDonald's actually did do all the things they said they would, the

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3:44

“What’s your experience with elitism in EA? [Survey]”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/18

Elitism in EA sparks strong emotions in people, and I worry that we are talking past each other. Rather than asking whether EA "is elitist" (which means different things to different people), this survey focuses on specific experiences and feelings to get to the real substance of the matter. This takes 5-30 minutes and your perspective matters. Feel free to skip the detailed descriptions if you want to save time. The survey covers thirteen key areas with contrasting viewpoints. Here's a list of

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3:58

“The Impact of Protest On Animal Advocacy” by Björn 🔹

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/18

In the latest edition of my Tactics In Practice (TIPs) series, I analyzed the research behind protest in the animal protest movement! The full resource is well worth reading for any activist who uses street demonstrations — check out the full thing here: Tactics In Practice: The Science Of Protests And Demonstrations. Key Highlights: Protest groups tend to have three main goals, shown below. I wasn't able to find empirical evidence on Goal 3 (positive or negative), but anecdotal conversations

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4:09

“AIM Grantmaking Program for Funders: Upcoming...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/17

10-second version of this post Expressions of interest for our upcoming AIM Grantmaking cohorts are now open: August 11 to September 27, 2025: Focus on Food Systems / Climate / Animal Welfare philanthropy Late 2025 or early 2026: Express interest now Express interest through our 2-minute form here. Overview What? AIM Grantmaking is a peer training course to equip you with the tools and skills you need to set up your giving for maximum impact. Who? For funders, grantmakers, philanthropic advisors

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36:17

“The Root Cause” by EuanMcLean

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/06/17

In her office nestled in the corner of constellation, Amina is checking in with her employee Diego about his project – a new AI alignment technique. It's 8pm and the setting sun is filling Amina's office with a red glow. Diego is clearly running a sleep deficit, and 60% of Amina's mind is on a paper deadline next week.1: Hopelessness Diego: I’m feeling quite hopeless about the whole thing. Amina: About the project? I think it's going well, no? Diego: No, I mean the whole thing. AI safety. It's so

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