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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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4:07

“A Conflict Between AI Alignment and Philosophical...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/28

(This argument reduces my hope that we will have AIs that are both aligned with humans in some sense and also highly philosophically competent, which aside from achieving a durable AI pause, has been my main hope for how the future turns out well. As this is a recent realization[1], I'm still pretty uncertain how much I should update based on it, or what its full implications are.) Being a good alignment researcher seems to require a correct understanding of the nature of values. However metaethics

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32:18

“EAGxAustralasia 2025 Retrospective - It went well...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/28

This report highlights the key takeaways from EAGxAustralasia 2025 It is primarily written by Tom Hutton (Conference Team Lead), with direct input from Bridget Loughhead (Conference Coordinator), and incorporates ideas and notes from the rest of the organising team. Opinions expressed are generally those of Bridget and Tom, though we’re not aware of any opinions the wider conference team disagrees with. “We” generally refers to Tom and Bridget for matters of opinion, and the wider team for matters

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22:43

[Linkpost] “Epistemics (Part 10: The nontrivial...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/27

This is a link post. Epistemics (Part 10: The nontrivial probability gambit) Even just a 1% chance of extremely high stakes is sufficient to establish high stakes in expectation. So we should not feel assured of low stakes even if a highly credible model—warranting 99% credence—entails low stakes. It hardly matters at all how many credible models entail low stakes. What matters is whether any credible model entails extremely high stakes. If one does—while warranting just 1% credence—then we have

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6:21

“Launching the India Animal Welfare Funding Circle”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/27

TL;DR Launching the India Animal Welfare Funding Circle: a group of donors looking to support high-impact animal welfare work in India. The Jan 2026 RFP is now open, with grants up to INR 75 lakhs or 50% of annual operating expenses, and scope across farmed animals, community and working animals, and animals used in labs. We're inviting Indian nonprofits to apply, interested funders to join us, and everyone to share this with people who could be interested! 👉 Apply here: [link] Why another funding

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4:42

“Shrimp on the Barbie: Australian Christmas Edition”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/26

Crosspost from Substack This December, I returned to Australia to spend Christmas with my wife's family. It's my third Australian Christmas, and I'm still shocked by the differences to the German festivities not too far from the Alps where I grew up. It's a hot summer day in the Southern Hemisphere, people wearing goofy Christmas outfits, and the centerpiece of the feast isn't a duck but…shrimps or rather as Aussies call them, prawns. Australian shops stock up on shrimps before Christmas I found

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2:51

“Happy Holidays from the 2025 Terminally Online EA...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/26

Each year the Terminally Online EA Fundraiser asks a bold question: What if your Twitter feed could reduce suffering? Whether you’re a forum poster, a memelord, a nematode welfare champion, or all of the above, we want you to celebrate impactful giving and have fun while doing so! It's wonderful that donation celebration week on the EA forum overlaps with this annual silly fundraiser. Just like the last two years, we wanted to use the holiday season to lean into one of the things the EA community

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18:52

“Untitled Retrospective and Learnings from AI in...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/25

Note: I used LLMs to draft different parts of this. I've checked almost everything, but there might be some mistakes remaining. Apologies for posting this on Christmas Eve. I wanted to get this out the door before the end of the year. Questions welcome, and if it's easy to pull metrics to answer them, I will.Summary 80,000 Hours launched a video program in 2025 focused on longform, cinematic, personality-driven content about AI risks. Our first two longform releases were: We're Not Ready for

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13:27

“Revisiting Well, Well, Well…Do Wells Clear the Bar?”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/24

This post is an update on EA Salt Lake City's evaluation of Wells4Wellness, an organization that drills and maintains wells in Niger. Big thank you to Willie Herath, director of operations at Wells4Wellness, for taking the time to answer our questions over the last couple months! TLDR: We’ve found that drilling wells in Niger easily clears GiveWell and Coefficient Giving's “Bar” and we think donors interested in global health should consider donating. Part 1: Revising our estimates In our original

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11:27

“Suggestions for Individual Donors from Coefficient...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/23

This holiday giving season, we’re continuing our tradition of sharing a list of giving opportunities suggested by Coefficient Giving program staff. Notes on these suggestions: They fall within the areas covered by Coefficient's funds. They should be seen as reasonably strong options in the relevant area. The person who made a suggestion isn’t necessarily arguing that their suggestion is the best option available across all areas, or even within its own area. Many of them were chosen because they

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1:51

“Offering higher salaries than social-sector peers”...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/23

My - purely anecdotal - sense is that GiveWell pays more than many of its social sector peers. I imagine for many employees, their compensation at GiveWell exceeds what they'd earn if they took the next-best available job (as judged by the employee), which is often also in the social sector. This would create some "job lock" where people will stay at GiveWell even if they think they can do more good elsewhere; that extra good is outweighed by their higher material well-being if they stay at

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3:32

“New Documentary on AI and Animals” by Animal_Ethics

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/23

Following the release of the documentary Seantience early this year, Animal Ethics will launch a new film in early 2026: AI &Animals. This documentary examines how advances in AI may affect the lives of nonhuman animals, both negatively and positively. You can watch the teaser here. The film features advocates and academics discussing: How AI systems could increase animal suffering in factory farming How AI-driven research and monitoring can scale efforts to reduce wild animal suffering, and

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42:56

“How AI is affecting farmed aquatic animals. Part 1:...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/23

AI in aquaculture research at Rethink Priorities Rethink Priorities’ How AI is affecting farmed aquatic animals is a three-part series that examines AI technologies being developed to address challenges in the aquaculture industry. As global aquaculture faces economic and technical constraints, this series examines whether and how the industry is turning to AI solutions to facilitate expansion. The series evaluates the innovation, deployment, and animal welfare impacts of these technologies to help

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9:10

“Whose expected value? Making sense of EA...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/22

Cross-posted from my Substack. Summary. I state the “Ideal Reflection” principle, which says that our beliefs should match our expectations of what an ideal version of ourselves would believe. I argue that Ideal Reflection can help rationalize how Effective Altruists use the concept of expected value, and that whether we accept Ideal Reflection has important real-world implications. Here's an aspect of Effective Altruist discourse that has confused me for the longest time: EAs will often talk

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15:11

“How I Attempted to Measure the Impact of My...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/22

TL;DR: Working as Lead Outreach Manager at a mental health nonprofit in Japan, I realized we couldn't answer a basic question funders kept asking: "What's your actual impact?" We had activity metrics (workshops delivered, calls answered) but no outcome metrics. So I built a cost-effectiveness framework using national police data and our publicly available financial records to create a model-based estimate of potential impact. Under plausible assumptions (25% intervention effectiveness), the program

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9:10

“Join our EA Coworking Hub in Southeast Asia this...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/22

Da Nang EA Coworking Hub Feb 1st – Apr 1st · Da Nang, Vietnam A 2-month coworking + coliving hub for impact-focused professionals who want to do meaningful work alongside a like-minded community! What is this? The Da Nang Impact Hub is a temporary coworking and coliving setup for people working on impact-focused work. The goal is simple: make it easier to do focused work and build real connections with other like-minded professionals, without needing to be in expensive cities like SF or London to

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11:24

“Longview is hiring: What Longview is like (from my...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/21

Longview is aiming to grow from our current team size (24) to 35+ in 2026. We’re inviting applications for ~nine open roles (see below) and I realised many potential applicants might not have a good sense of what Longview is and is like in 2025. Inspired by Lizka & Cb, this post aims to (1) update people about where Longview is at in 2025 and (2) share some of my experience from my 4+ years here. Disclaimer: I am writing only from my perspective. Roles, personalities, and subjective

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5:52

“Contradict my take on OpenPhil’s past AI beliefs” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/21

At many points now, I've been asked in private for a critique of EA / EA's history / EA's impact and I have ad-libbed statements that I feel guilty about because they have not been subjected to EA critique and refutation. I need to write up my take and let you all try to shoot it down. Before I can or should try to write up that take, I need to fact-check one of my take-central beliefs about how the last couple of decades have gone down. My belief is that the Open Philanthropy Project, EA

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6:35

“My friend is in jail, and the world is our...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/19

Zoe Rosenberg made national headlines for rescuing chickens. The animal movement should keep experimenting with creative tactics. I. MY FRIEND IS IN JAIL Last week, my friend Zoe Rosenberg was incarcerated. She joins the nearly two million Americans confined to jails and prisons, and the one billion animals caged within our nation's factory farms. The government will subject her to solitary confinement for 23 hours of the day, and it is already depriving her of the proper care to treat her Type I

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1:51

“Seeking Guest Teacher to Represent EA at UNC” by...

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/19

I’m a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, and I’m looking for a guest speaker to talk about utilitarianism and effective altruism in my spring course on “Pursuing the Good Life.” Think of this as an invitation to make your best pitch to college students that they should live well by putting philosophy into practice. The class will survey answers to the question “What is the good life?” from a variety of philosophical and religious traditions. I’m inviting guest teachers who can share with the class both

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8:22

“80 People attended our animal welfare career event....

EA Forum Podcast (All audio) ·

2025/12/18

This summer, we organized our first animal welfare career event, and the response exceeded our expectations. We brought together over 80 students and professionals for a half-day in-person event, all united by a single question: How can I make the biggest possible difference for animals through my career? We designed the day to answer that question practically. At the event, speakers from research, nonprofits, and business shared concrete strategies for creating impact. A hands-on workshop also

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