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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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26:29

“Our Levels of Ambition Should Match The Problems...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/13

[I am a career advisor at 80,000 Hours. I've been thinking about something Will MacAskill said recently in an interview with my shrimp-friend Matt: "should people be more ambitious? I genuinely think yes. I think people systematically aren't ambitious enough, so the answer is almost always yes. Again, the ambition you have should match the scale of the problems that we're facing—and the scale of those problems is very large indeed." This post is my reflection on these ideas.] ************ My last

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6:51

[Linkpost] “Don’t talk to whales” by Niki Dupuis

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/13

This is a link post. You aren't ready to receive their wisdom We may soon develop the ability to talk to whales. To anyone with even an ounce of whimsy or curious joy, this is obviously pretty exciting. It's hard not to imagine the radical wave of empathy that this could cause, as we realize we're not as special as we previously thought.[1] There are two main research groups that I know of working on this, Earth Species Project and Project CETI, and the effort to decode sperm whale communication in

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162:42

“Long-term risks from ideological fanaticism” by...

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2026/02/13

Cross-posted to LessWrong.Summary History's most destructive ideologies—like Nazism, totalitarian communism, and religious fundamentalism—exhibited remarkably similar characteristics: epistemic and moral certainty extreme tribalism dividing humanity into a sacred “us” and an evil “them” a willingness to use whatever means necessary, including brutal violence. Such ideological fanaticismwas a major driver of eight of the ten greatest atrocities since 1800, including the Taiping Rebellion, World

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3:24

“Announcing the new Director of EA UK” by Jessica Wen...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/12

The Board of Effective Altruism UK is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Director, Gergő Gáspár. EA UK works to support and strengthen the effective altruism community across the UK, helping people increase their impact. Gergő joins EA UK at a time when there is growing demand for strong infrastructure to support the UK EA ecosystem.Background Gergő's academic background is in psychology, and he has been working in community building and fieldbuilding roles since 2019. He began by

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1:28

“Organisation updates thread:” by Toby Tremlett🔹

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/12

For the last couple of years, EA Organization Updates has been a monthly series hosted on the forum. It doesn't normally get very much attention. Previous to that it was part of the EA Newsletter until the newsletter got far too long to host it. Now we're trying something new. Instead of asking organisations to write in to us, editing and posting their updates, we're asking them to write directly here on the forum, where you can interact with them. If this goes well, we'll continue the series as a

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2:36

[Linkpost] “Unblock quickly” by MaxDalton

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/12

This is a link post. If someone I manage sends me a 10-page document to review, then it might take me 20-60 minutes to review. It's therefore a somewhat meaty task, that would be easy to delay. But before doing the full review, I think it's good to spend 2-5 minutes giving high-level comments, as soon as possible. Sometimes this will immediately catch some high-level mistake or miscommunication: you can give them feedback on this mistake and they can immediately begin working on an improved

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5:45

“500k mid-career professionals want to do more good...

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2026/02/12

I'm Dom Jackman. I founded Escape the City in 2010 to help people leave corporate jobs and find work that matters. 16 years later, 500k+ professionals have used the platform - mostly people 5-15 years into careers at places like McKinsey, Deloitte, Google, the big banks - who feel a growing gap between what they do all day and what they actually care about. I'm not from the EA community. I'm writing this because I think there's a real overlap between the people I work with and what the EA talent

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1:38

“What the hell happened with AGI timelines in 2025?”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/12

By Robert Wilbin | Watch on Youtube | Listen on Spotify | Read transcript In early 2025, after OpenAI put out the first-ever reasoning models — o1 and o3 — short timelines to transformative artificial general intelligence swept the AI world. But then, in the second half of 2025, sentiment swung all the way back in the other direction, with people's forecasts for when AI might really shake up the world blowing out even further than they had been before reasoning models came along. What the hell

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4:27

“Vote for videos about EA charities! (Project for...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/12

Project for Awesome (P4A) is a charity video contest running from February 10th to February 18th, 2026. The public can vote on videos supporting various charities, and the ones with the most votes receive donations. Thanks to the support of the EA community, several EA charities won substantial donations in recent year. Last year, ProVeg International received more than $38,000. Please help generate additional donations for EA charities again this year with just a few clicks! Voting is open until

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35:00

“CEA is growing again: 25% more people engaged with...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/12

TL;DR In 2025, we grew engagement with CEA's programs by 20–25% across every tier of engagement, reversing two years of moderate declines in engagement. We did so without substantially increasing costs or lowering the quality or bar for our programs. This post reviews CEA's work on growing the EA community, which is only one of our strategic goals. See more on our other strategic goals here. We plan to accelerate our growth even further, and we're hiring across multiple teams to make that happen

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27:38

[Linkpost] “The best cause will disappoint you: An...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/11

This is a link post. I would like to thank David Thorstadt for looking over this. If you spot a factual error in this article please message me. The code used to generate the graphs in the article is available to view here. Introduction Say you are an organiser, tasked with achieving the best result on some metric, such as “trash picked up”, “GDP per capita”, or “lives saved by an effective charity”. There are several possible options of interventions you can take to try and achieve this. How do

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93:13

“On Economics of A(S)I Agents” by Margot Stakenborg

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/11

This is an update to Agent Economics: a BOTEC on feasibility. Toby Ord pointed me to Gus Hamilton's Weibull reanalysis of the METR data. Hamilton finds that a declining hazard rate (Weibull with κ ≈ 0.6–0.9 for SOTA models) may fit the data as well as Ord's constant hazard rate, producing a much fatter survival tail that changes the economics. This post presents both models and extends the analysis in two directions: a quantitative treatment of verification cost as the binding constraint under the

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9:38

[Linkpost] “Don’t just have a job role. Have a...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/11

This is a link post. TL;DR: Job titles are temporary. Movements last longer to achieve a common goal. When we anchor our identity in the mission rather than a single organisation, we collaborate more openly, make better decisions, and move faster toward ending factory farming. That's why I think we should have a movement role in addition to our current organizational role. Acknowledgements: thanks to Aaron Boddy and Haven King-Nobles for your feedback on this post! Introduction Many people in

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6:23

[Linkpost] “Donations, The Fifth Year” by jenn

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/10

This is a link post. Previously: Donations, The Third Year / Donations, The First Year In 2025, like in all previous years, I did what I was supposed to do. As each paycheck came in, before I did anything else, I dutifully put ten percent of it away in my "donations" savings account, to be disbursed at the end of the year. It is still there, burning a hole in my pocket. I am very confused, and very sad. EA was supposed to be easy, especially if you're one of the old school Peter Singer-inflected

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15:22

[Linkpost] “The Philosophy Paper That Haunted Me” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/10

This is a link post. An adventure through burnout, guilt, and moral obligation I am re-posting this from my Substack in the lead-up to EAG San Francisco this weekend. It can be hard to find mental health resources from EAs who "get it". I want to help. Feel free to reach out for light support, or just to chat! — In the winter of 2023, I burned out from animal activism. I had been involved in high-stakes criminal cases against corporate animal abusers and had a front-row seat to legal wins that were

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9:01

“Charity Entrepreneurship Program Applications are...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/09

We’re excited to announce that we’ve opened applications for the Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program for the following cohorts: September 2026 Cohort: September 14th - November 4th, 2026 February 2027 Cohort: February - April, 2027 (exact dates TBD) This post summarises the four new charity ideas recommended by our research team for the September 2026 round. Apply here Applications close on March 22nd, and successful candidates will receive offers by June 8th. For the full application

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3:18

[Linkpost] “Some angel-on-the-shoulder AI tools” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/09

This is a link post. We’ve recently published a set of design sketches for technological analogues to ‘angels-on-the-shoulder’: customized tools that leverage near-term AI systems to help people better navigate their environments and handle tricky situations in ways they’ll feel good about later. We think that these tools could be quite important: In general, we expect angels-on-the-shoulder to mean more endorsed decisions, and fewer unforced errors. In the context of the transition to more

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17:57

“ACTRA: First-Year Learnings” by Henning Peters,...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/09

Summary ACTRA's first year was deliberately ambitious: we partnered with government actors from month two, built a curriculum in record time and ran an in-house Randomized-Controlled Trial (RCT) before our organization was six months old. This gave us unusually fast and concrete learnings, but also created significant overhead and avoidable inefficiencies. Looking back, we would still choose to design for scale from day 1 — but we would sequence learning more deliberately, separate R&D from

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1:43

“EA Grants Database - a new website” by Brian Foerster

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/08

The EA Grants Database is a new site that neatly aggregates grant data from major EA funders who publish individual or total grant information. It is intended to be easy to maintain long term, entirely piggybacking off of existing data that is likely to be maintained. The website data is updated by a script that can be run in seconds, and I anticipate doing this for the foreseeable future. In creating the website, I tried to make things as clear and straightforward as possible. If your user

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14:14

[Linkpost] “Animal Welfare at the Start of the...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2026/02/07

This is a link post. I am not a historian! Fact check me please, dear God! We are at the beginning of another industrial revolution. The first was the automation of muscle, the current one is the automation of mind. To get into the right frame of mind, I want to step back and imagine:We are living in the UK[1], the year is 1800, and we are trying to end animal suffering. We know nothing about how the tech is about to develop, nor how the economy or politics is about to be transformed, but there are

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