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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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5:36

“Introducing The Spending What We Must Pledge” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/01

Epistemic status: highly certain, or something The Spending What We Must 💸11% pledge In short: Members pledge to spend at least 11% of their income on effectively increasing their own productivity. This pledge is likely higher-impact for most people than the Giving What We Can 🔸10% Pledge, and we also think the name accurately reflects the non-supererogatory moral beliefs of many in the EA community. Example Charlie is a software engineer for the Centre for Effective Future Research. Since

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22:50

“Red teaming and cause area investigation: challenges...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/01

TL;DR: This is a reply to Launching Screwworm-Free Future – Funding and Support Request — EA Forum, Screwworm Free Future is hiring for a Director, and Animal ASK's report on Brazil - with a summary of challenges for NWS eradication in South America, such as the existence of large populations of flies (well-adapted to the environment) and relevant information gaps. Many drafts of this doc were shared and discussed with SFF project team members (as I was myself part of it until recently). Their

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3:23

“80,000 Hours: Job Birds” by Conor Barnes 🔶

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/04/01

Hi everybody! I'm Conor. I run the 80,000 Hours Job Board. Or I used to. As of today — April 1 — we are becoming Job Birds! We've been talking to users for the last few years about making this change, and people have overwhelmingly been in favour (remember, there are six or more birds for every human on Earth). Whether it's the daily emails asking me to finally switch, or the flocks of people accosting me at conferences to urge a migration to Job Birds, the demand is overwhelming! Luckily, the wait

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15:49

[Linkpost] “Fundraising for Mox: coworking & events...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/31

This is a link post. Hey! Austin here. At Manifund, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how to help AI go well. One question that bothered me: so much of the important work on AI is done in SF, so why are all the AI safety hubs in Berkeley? (I’d often consider this specifically while stuck in traffic over the Bay Bridge.) I spoke with leaders at Constellation, Lighthaven, FAR Labs, OpenPhil; nobody had a good answer. Everyone said “yeah, an SF hub makes sense, I really hope somebody else does

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16:07

“Wild animal suffering is super neglected compared...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/31

Summary The welfare loss from global warmingis much smaller than that from epidemics/pandemics, this is smaller than that from conflicts, this is negligible compared with that from factory-farming, and this is negligible compared with that from wild animal suffering. I estimate the humanwelfare loss from malaria in 2020 corresponds to 3.81 h of factory-farming, or 0.0576 s of wild animal suffering. The spending on the improvement of wild animal suffering is negligible compared with that of

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39:04

“Promoting immediate skin-to-skin contact and early...

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2025/03/31

Summary Immediate skin-to-skin contact (SSC) between mothers and newborns and early initiation of breastfeeding (EIBF) may play a significant and underappreciated role in reducing neonatal mortality. These practices are distinct in important ways from more broadly recognized (and clearly impactful) interventions like kangaroo care and exclusive breastfeeding, and they are recommended for both preterm and full-term infants. A large evidence base indicates that immediate SSC and EIBF substantially

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5:47

“Fish farming: the invisible crisis we can no longer...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/31

For the World Day of the End of Fishing and Fish Farming, we are called to confront the hidden suffering of billions of fish and the urgent need for a transformative approach to aquaculture. Ending fish farming: an effective cause? The World Day of the End of Fishing and Fish Farming is an opportunity to expose the suffering of billions of fish and push for change. Despite the staggering scale of industrial aquaculture, fish remain one of the most overlooked groups in the animal advocacy movement

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3:33

“Should There Be Insect Farming In The UK? (Deadline...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/31

Impact of Consultation: The UK government is considering enabling investment in insect farming based on the outcome of this public consultation. That investment would likely mean trillions of more insects suffering, which we already see in the United States, France, and Spain. Impact of you filling out the consultation: A December 2024 Scottish consultation about insect farming had only 44 public responses, and roughly half were pro-insect farming. You filling out the consultation about the

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7:27

“What I learned from a week in the EU policy bubble”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/31

Last week, I participated in Animal Advocacy Careers’ Impactful Policy Careers programme. Below I’m sharing some reflections on what was a really interesting week in Brussels! Please note I spent just one week there, so take it all with a grain of (CAP-subsidized) salt. Posts like this and this one are probably much more informative (and assume less context). I mainly wrote this to reflect on my time in Brussels (and I capped it at 2 hours, so it's not a super polished draft). I’ll focus mostly on

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6:41

“Anthropic is not being consistently candid about...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/30

In a recent Wired article about Anthropic, there's a section where Anthropic's president, Daniela Amodei, and early employee Amanda Askell seem to suggest there's little connection between Anthropic and the EA movement: Ask Daniela about it and she says, "I'm not the expert on effective altruism. I don't identify with that terminology. My impression is that it's a bit of an outdated term". Yet her husband, Holden Karnofsky, cofounded one of EA's most conspicuous philanthropy wings, is outspoken

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6:34

[Linkpost] “US Foreign Aid Funding Pause: A Framework...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/30

This is a link post.Executive SummaryThe Issue In January 2025, the US government initiated a 90-day pause on new foreign aid. This pause was followed by a State Department memo halting all new obligations and existing work, leading to massive USAID staff reductions. Secretary Rubio subsequently announced the termination of most foreign aid programs, aiming to bring the remaining 12% under State Department control. These actions have resulted in immediate disruptions, including increased

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5:24

[Linkpost] “Stripe Economics of AI Fellowship” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/28

This is a link post. The economics of AI remains surprisingly understudied, even as technical progress in artificial intelligence continues rapidly. The Stripe Economics of AI Fellowship aims to help fill that gap by supporting foundational academic research in the area. We invite graduate students and early-career researchers who are interested in studying the economics of AI to apply, regardless of prior experience. Fellows receive a grant of at least $10k, participate in conferences with leading

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1:51

“New guides on how to (actually) get a job” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/28

A lot of our content focuses on helping people figure out how to have a positive impact through their careers. But for many, the key challenge isn’t deciding what to do—it's how to actually land a job that lets them do it. The practical side of job hunting comes with plenty of challenges: figuring out which roles to apply for, overcoming the perceived awkwardness of networking, actually landing interviews and escaping the limbo of never hearing back. And while there's no shortage of advice out

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16:00

“How should we adapt animal advocacy to near-term...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/28

Many thanks to Constance Li, Rachel Mason, Ronen Bar, Sam Tucker-Davis, and Yip Fai Tse for providing valuable feedback. This post does not necessarily reflect the views of my employer. Artificial General Intelligence (basically, ‘AI that is as good as, or better than, humans at most intellectual tasks’) seems increasingly likely to be developed in the next 5-10 years. As others have written, this has major implications for EA priorities, including animal advocacy, but it's hard to know how this

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4:32

[Linkpost] “Center on Long-Term Risk: Summer Research...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/27

This is a link post. Summary: CLR is hiring for our Summer Research Fellowship. Join us for eight weeks to work on s-risk motivated empirical AI safety research. Apply here by Tuesday 15th April 23:59 PT.Apply now We, the Center on Long-Term Risk, are looking for Summer Research Fellows to explore strategies for reducing suffering in the long-term future (s-risks) and work on technical AI safety ideas related to that. For eight weeks, fellows will be part of our team while working on their own

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46:54

[Linkpost] “Third-wave AI safety needs sociopolitical...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/27

This is a link post. At EA Global Boston last year I gave a talk on how we're in the third wave of EA/AI safety, and how we should approach that. This post contains a (lightly-edited) transcript and slides. Note that in the talk I mention a set of bounties I'll put up for answers to various questions—I still plan to do that, but am taking some more time to get the questions right. Hey everyone. Thanks for coming. You're probably looking at this slide and thinking, how to change a changing world

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2:21

[Linkpost] “I’m hiring a Research Assistant for a...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/26

This is a link post. I'm Garrison Lovely, a freelance journalist with work in NYT, Nature, BBC, TIME, and elsewhere. I report on the intersection of economics, geopolitics, and artificial intelligence. I'm also a Reporter in Residence at the Omidyar Network and publisher of Obsolete, a fast-growing Substack on AI. Overview What: Support the completion of a forthcoming general-audience nonfiction book on AI. You'll conduct research, draft chapters, edit existing content, and help transform an

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12:02

[Linkpost] “Eukaryote Skips Town - Why I’m leaving...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/26

This is a link post. I’ve spent the past 7 years living in the DC area. I moved out there from the Pacific Northwest to go to grad school – I got my masters in Biodefense from George Mason University, and then I stuck around, trying to move into the political/governance sphere. That sort of happened. But I will now be sort of doing that from rural California rather than DC, and I’ll be looking for something else – maybe something more unusual – do to next. A friend asked if this means I’m leaving

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18:25

“AI Moral Alignment: The Most Important Goal of Our...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/26

"Part one of our challenge is to solve the technical alignment problem, and that's what everybody focuses on, but part two is: to whose values do you align the system once you’re capable of doing that, and that may turn out to be an even harder problem", Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO (Link). In this post, I argue that: "To whose values do you align the system" is a criticallyneglectedspace I termed “Moral Alignment.” Only a few organizations work for non-humans in this field, with a total budget of 4-5

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3:38

“EA Global Referral Program” by Ivan Burduk

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/26

EA Global has a new referral program One of the EA Global Team's goals for 2025 is to increase attendance at EA Global conferences. EA Global (EAG) events are often highly valuable for attendees— helping them explore and pursue impactful career paths, connect with collaborators, and stay engaged with the EA community. As a result, we think that increasing the number of people who attend is one of the most effective ways to improve the overall value of the conferences. To help us achieve this goal,

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