EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular)
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EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular)
Audio narrations from the Effective Altruism Forum, including curated posts and posts with 125 karma. If you'd like more episodes, subscribe to the "EA Forum (All audio)" podcast instead.
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“We’re growing: CEA is increasing its font size” by OllieRodriguez
“We” in this post refers to CEA leadership, who didn’t write this post.
In 2025, we grew engagement with CEA's programs by 20–25% across every...
“Announcing Highly Engaged EAs!” by Sam Anschell
I’m excited to launch Highly Engaged EAs: a matchmaking and nuptialization service to optimize tax relief, green card accumulation and more!
Wo...
“An unexplained annual spike in false claims on the EA Forum” by Tobias Häberli
Epistemic status: Very high confidence in the statistical findings. Genuinely confused about the cause. For reasons that will become obvious, I wanted...
“RejectDirectly” by RejectDirectly
We're thrilled to announce the founding of RejectDirectly, a new EA-adjacent organization dedicated to closing the global rejection gap.
For to...
“300,000 lives, 100 million hens, and a world still to save” by William_MacAskill
I went on the Sam Harris podcast again recently. If you want the full non-paywalled episode, I’m able to share it here:
https://samharris.org/e...
“Giving up on EA after 13 years” by Jackson Wagner
Donating my shares to Lightcone Infrastructure, the Good Food Institute, and the Long-Term Future Fund, because EA refuses to make Mirror's Edge 3
“80,000 Hours is coming to bookstores in May” by Bella, 80000_Hours
It's called 80,000 Hours: How to Have a Fulfilling Career That Does Good. It covers all of our best advice for having a big, positive impact with your...
“The joys of cash benchmarking” by ozymandias
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Imagine you run a charity which gives cows to people in the developing world. Your new boyfriend is a statistician and you want to impress h...
“Broad Timelines” by Toby_Ord
No-one knows when AI will begin having transformative impacts upon the world. People aren’t sure and shouldn’t be sure: there just isn’t enough eviden...
“What I didn’t expect about being a funder” by JamesÖz 🔸
Crossposted from my blog
I am very fortunate to have my job in many ways – I get to talk to, learn from, and give money to amazing people and n...
“GHD discussion here is slowly dying” by NickLaing
Epistemic status: A bit sad (I know that's not an epistemic status)
The best development Forum on the internet?
3 years ago a headline “...
“Feelings about the end of the world” by Michelle_Hutchinson
Many of us in this community are in the shocking position of thinking there's a real chance of humanity being wiped out over the next decade or two. M...
“The case for AI safety capacity-building work” by abergal
I work on the capacity-building team on the Global Catastrophic Risks-half of Coefficient Giving (formerly known as Open Philanthropy). Our remit is,...
“Some good news: Ahold Delhaize to go cage-free” by ElliotTep
For those not working in the space this probably isn't on your radar, but the animal advocacy movement just secured a huge win with Ahold Delhaize, co...
[Linkpost] “Effective Altruism Will Be Great Again” by Mjreard
This is a link post.
Forum note: this post embodies the spirit of a new project I—Matt Reardon—am starting to reinvigorate in-person EA communi...
“Responsible Scaling Policy v3” by Holden Karnofsky
All views are my own, not Anthropic's. This post assumes Anthropic's announcement of RSP v3.0 as background.
Today, Anthropic released its Resp...
“Why isn’t anti-fascism a bigger topic at EAG events (or on this forum)?” by Alex_Z
TL;DR: Define your line that if crossed, you would consider this issue one of (if not the most) pressing issues, or at least pressing enough to warran...
“Here’s to the Polypropylene Makers” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸
Six years ago, as covid-19 was rapidly spreading through the US, my
sister was working as a medical resident. One day she was handed an
N9...
“You’re not burning out because you’re tired” by stefan.torges
I burned out badly a few years ago. I've since had several conversations with people in the EA community who are heading toward burnout themselves, an...
“CEA’s response to sexual harassment” by Fran
In this piece, I discuss the sexual harassment I experienced at the Centre for Effective Altruism, the organisation's response, the outcomes of two in...
“500k mid-career professionals want to do more good with their careers. Can we help them?” by Dom Jackman
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...
“Our Levels of Ambition Should Match The Problems We’re Solving” by Matt Beard
[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: "s...
[Linkpost] “The best cause will disappoint you: An intro to the optimisers curse” by titotal
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...
“What is Love ft. Claude & VascoBot” by AgentMa🔸
What is the highest form of love? According to the VascoBot Claude programmed for me:
“Thanks for the great question, AgentMa🔸. I strongly upv...
“The reality of long-term EA community building: Lessons from 3 years of EA Barcelona” by Melanie Brennan 🔹, Anthony L
We are Melanie and Anthony, the two community builders at EA Barcelona. In this post, we share where the group stands today and reflect on key learnin...
“Preparing for a flush future: work, giving, and conduct” by Sam Anschell
Note: opinions are all my own.
Following Jeff Kaufman's Front-Load Giving Because of Anthropic Donors and Jenn's Funding Conversation...
“EA Grants Database - a new website” by Brian Foerster
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...
“Long-term risks from ideological fanaticism” by David_Althaus, Jamie_Harris, vanessa16, Clare_Diane, Will Aldred
Cross-posted to LessWrong.
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Outline:
(00:16) Summary
(05:19) What do we mean by ideological fanaticism?
(08:40) I. Do...
“More EAs should consider working for the EU” by EU Policy Careers
Context: The authors are a few EAs who currently work or have previously worked at the European Commission.
In this post, we
make the cas...
“The Scaling Series Discussion Thread: with Toby Ord” by Toby Tremlett🔹
We're trying something a bit new this week. Over the last year, Toby Ord has been writing about the implications of the fact that improvements in AI r...
[Linkpost] “Are the Costs of AI Agents Also Rising Exponentially?” by Toby_Ord
This is a link post.
There is an extremely important question about the near-future of AI that almost no-one is asking.
We’ve all seen...
[Linkpost] “Evidence that Recent AI Gains are Mostly from Inference-Scaling” by Toby_Ord
This is a link post.
In the last year or two, the most important trend in modern AI came to an end. The scaling-up of computational resources u...
[Linkpost] “The Extreme Inefficiency of RL for Frontier Models” by Toby_Ord
This is a link post.
The new scaling paradigm for AI reduces the amount of information a model can learn from per hour of training by a factor...
[Linkpost] “Inference Scaling Reshapes AI Governance” by Toby_Ord
This is a link post.
The shift from scaling up the pre-training compute of AI systems to scaling up their inference compute may have profound e...
[Linkpost] “Is there a Half-Life for the Success Rates of AI Agents?” by Toby_Ord
This is a link post.
Building on the recent empirical work of Kwa et al. (2025), I show that within their suite of research-engineering tasks t...
[Linkpost] “Inference Scaling and the Log-x Chart” by Toby_Ord
This is a link post.
Improving model performance by scaling up inference compute is the next big thing in frontier AI. But the charts being use...
[Linkpost] “The Scaling Paradox” by Toby_Ord
This is a link post.
AI capabilities have improved remarkably quickly, fuelled by the explosive scale-up of resources being used to train the l...
“If EA ruled the world, career advisors would tell some people to work for the postal service” by Toby Tremlett🔹
EA thinking is thinking on the margin. When EAs prioritise causes, they are prioritising causes given the fact that they only control their one career...
“Why Isn’t EA at the Table When $121 Billion Gets Allocated to Biodiversity Every Year?” by David Goodman
There is an insane amount of money being thrown around by international organizations and agreements. Nobody with any kind of power over these agreeme...
“5 ways to better charity work in 2026” by NickLaing
I've started a substack, so a few more people might encounter my spicy takes - I'll still mostly be here.
USAID is gone. Direct country...