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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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3:18

“Announcing EA Global: New York City 2025” by Ivan...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/15

Summary We’re excited to announce EA Global: New York City, which will take place October 10–12! Applications and registrations are now open!Apply now If you already have an approved application, you can register for the conference here. How the application process works There's just one application form for all 2025 in-person EA Global events. This means: Approval for any EA Global event in 2025 grants you access to register for any other EA Global this year. Requesting travel support for EA

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2:06

“Where Are the Older People in Our Movement?” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/15

A witty politician once said, "The world belongs to the old. The young ones just look better." He had a point. Power, seniority, and influence tend to come with age. Walking around the conference halls this February at EAG Global in the Bay Area, the average age seemed to be in the mid-20s or so. While youthfulness has its benefits, such as fewer family or career commitments, openness to pivoting occupation, and volunteering, I believe we miss out on the power, wisdom, and diversity that older

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27:51

“Leading teams through adversity” by Anna Weldon

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/15

This post is adapted from a talk I delivered at EA Global: Bay Area in February 2025. While the style might differ from other advice on the Forum, I hope this proves valuable for leaders navigating challenges within EA organizations and projects. TL;DR There are unique leadership challenges when teams are facing a seemingly insurmountable problem I’ve found four strategies for navigating crises: Start by building agreement about the problem Commit to the belief that your problems are solvable

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22:03

“AI Tools for Existential Security” by Lizka, Owen...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/14

This is a link post. Rapid AI progress is the greatest driver of existential risk in the world today. But — if handled correctly — it could also empower humanity to face these challenges. Executive summary 1. Some AI applications will be powerful tools for navigating existential risks Three clusters of applications are especially promising: Epistemicapplicationsto help us anticipate and plan for emerging challenges e.g. high-quality AI assistants could prevent catastrophic decisions by helping us

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3:53

“Existential Choices Symposium (3-5pm GMT Monday...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/14

For Existential Choices Debate Week, we’re trying out a new type of event: the Existential Choices Symposium. How it works: Any forum user can write a top-level comment that asks a question or introduces a consideration, the answer of which might affect people's answer to the debate statement[1]. For example: “Are there any interventions aimed at increasing the value of the future that are as widely morally supported as extinction-risk reduction?” You can start writing these comments now. The

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1:24

“Intelsat as a Model for International AGI...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/14

This is a link post. If there is an international project to build artificial general intelligence (“AGI”), how should it be designed? Existing scholarship has looked to historical models for inspiration, often suggesting the Manhattan Project or CERN as the closest analogues. But AGI is a fundamentally general-purpose technology, and is likely to be used primarily for commercial purposes rather than military or scientific ones. This report presents an under-discussed alternative: Intelsat, an

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26:35

“Vacuum Decay: Expert Survey Results” by Jess_Riedel,...

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2025/03/14

TLDR: Vacuum decay is a hypothesized scenario where the universe's apparent vacuum state could transition to a lower-energy state. According to current physics models, if such a transition occurred in any location — whether through rare natural fluctuations or by artificial means — a region of "true vacuum" would propagate outward at near light speed, destroying the accessible universe as we know it by deeply altering the effective physical laws and releasing vast amounts of energy. Understanding

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11:05

“Kairos is hiring a Head of Operations/Founding...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/13

Summary Are you looking for an impactful role in AI safety? Look no further! Kairos is a recently founded AI safety fieldbuilding organization with the mission of mitigating the risks from advanced AI by helping fill talent gaps and needs within the field. Our programs, such as SPAR, currently support hundreds of people going into AI safety each year, and we’re looking to scale up as we grow our programs and start new ones. We’re looking for a skilled generalist or operations professional to help

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3:51

“Giving more has made me less generous” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/13

TL;DR: Cost-effective giving can excuse moral slip-ups in daily life. I suggest pairing it with small, personal acts of giving to stay grounded. I’m sharing this to reflect on my struggles and get advice from the EA community. When I was in secondary school and sixth form, I used to never do home clothes day. I gained a bit of a reputation as somebody who didn't care about charity, eager to save £2 (home clothes days have gotten damn expensive recently). There were other reasons; Most of the time

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8:16

“Feedback requested: Financial Independence Purpose...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/13

Summary: I am looking for feedback on a new tool being released by Yield & Spread called the FI Purpose Planner*. This template is meant to help individuals explore how different life choices—such as changing careers, donating more, or adjusting spending—can impact their Financial Independence (FI) and CoastFI timelines. My goal is to provide a dynamic way to model potential scenarios, making it easier to visualize the long-term consequences of various decisions. After receiving valuable

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6:47

“Announcing altruismoeficaz.net” by Pablo, Leo, Federico

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/12

This is a link post. We are pleased to announce the publication of Altruismo Eficaz, a repository of EA-related content in Spanish. (The site had been in beta for a while but is now officially launched.) Content The site features translations of many of the most important or influential articles written by members of the effective altruism community. The translations comprise the EA Handbook and dozens of other classic posts excluded from that collection. The site also includes translations of

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6:00

“How to systematically reduce wild animal suffering...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/12

Crosspost from https://stijnbruers.wordpress.com/2025/03/11/how-to-systematically-reduce-wild-animal-suffering-in-the-near-future/ Reducing wild animal suffering is not easy. We need to do more scientific research on how to safely and effectively reduce wild animal suffering (by supporting organizations like Wild Animal Initiative). However, many people who care about wild animal welfare, are impatient and do not want to wait until we have invented technologies to reduce wild animal suffering

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2:34

“New Focus Area: Abundance and Growth” by Open...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/11

This is a link post. We are excited to announce the launch of the Abundance and Growth Fund, which will spend at least $120 million over the next three years to accelerate economic growth and boost scientific and technological progress while lowering the cost of living. We’re grateful for support from Good Ventures, which has committed $60M, and from the other private individuals who matched them. We’re also grateful for a contribution from Patrick Collison, who helped launch the Progress Studies

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2:36

“Preparing for the Intelligence Explosion” by finm,...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/11

This is a link post. This is a linkpost for a new paper called Preparing for the Intelligence Explosion, by Will MacAskill and Fin Moorhouse. It sets the high-level agenda for the sort of work that Forethought is likely to focus on. Some of the areas in the paper that we expect to be of most interest to EA Forum or LessWrong readers are: Section 3 finds that even without a software feedback loop (i.e. “recursive self-improvement”), even if scaling of compute completely stops in the near term, and

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47:19

“AI is not taking over material science (for now): an...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/11

This is a link post. Confidence check: This is my field of expertise, I work in the field and I have a PhD in the subject. However I am not an expert in every sub-field that I’m covering here, and in particular I do not have much machine learning experience. This is a blog post and I do not guarantee complete accuracy. I have done my best to make this readable and enjoyable for a general audience (on the nerdy side), but certain parts are very difficult to explain, so apologies in advance

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25:52

“Avoiding some 1:1 Pitfalls at EA Global/x” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/11

Context On booking 1:1 meetings Responding to people and punctuality Know your limits and commit accordingly Actually commit* to your 1:1 meetings Focus On giving feedback They know more about their situation Give constructive feedback kindly EAG is a professional event Personal space and body language Conversation topics Eye contact Some practical ideas for navigating eye contact in a 1:1: To walk or not to walk Closing thoughts Context One-on-one (1:1) meetings are widely recognized as one of

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10:15

“Winning is underrated in grassroots movements” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/11

[Cross-posted from my Substack here. I wrote this back in November 2024 but someone recently said it would be worth cross-posting here. Some things....didn't age so well.] Grassroots movements can fall apart and die in many ways. One such way is having demands that are too broad, too intangible or have no defined endpoint. When Social Change Lab did a survey of 100+ political scientists and sociologists, something that cropped up was the importance of having achievable demands. In the graphs

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32:44

“Introducing 11 New AI Safety Organizations -...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/10

[Crossposted from: https://www.catalyze-impact.org/blog] We are excited to introduce the eleven organizations that participated in the London-based Winter 2024/25 Catalyze AI Safety Incubation Program. Through the support of members of our Seed Funding Network, a number of these young organizations have already received initial funding. This program was open to both for-profit and non-profit founders from all over the world, allowing them to choose the structure that best serves their mission and

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6:59

“Announcing EveryDrop: Progress Update on Our...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/10

Hi everyone, About a month ago, I shared an initial idea for a “Dollar a Day” app—a platform that gamifies giving to help people build a daily habit of generosity. I’m excited to update you all on the progress my partner and I have made since then. We’ve rebranded the project as EveryDrop and have built a working prototype for Android using Kotlin and Firebase, complete with an integrated Stripe payment system. This post explains our progress to date and outlines the areas where we feel other

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12:43

“The Short Timelines Strategy for AI Safety...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/03/08

Advice for AI safety university group organizers. Acknowledgements I collected most of these ideas in early January while attending OASIS 4.0, a three-day workshop for AI safety university group organizers in Berkeley, CA. Thank you to everyone who gave their input, and a special thanks to Cole Salvador, Jeremy Kintana, Neav Topaz, Tzu Kit Chan, and Chris Tardy for your feedback on earlier versions of this writeup. The contents of this post don't necessarily reflect the opinion of anyone but myself

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