EA Forum Podcast (All audio)
Episodes
[Linkpost] “Is Effective Altruism Neocolonial? (an overview of the arguments and counterarguments)” by Bob Jacobs
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a link post. Cross-posted from my blog Introduction In 2009, Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo published Dead Aid, a scathing critique of Western...
“AMA with recruiters at impact-focused orgs” by Calum, Judith Rensing, Rika Gabriel, Dee Kathuria
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Career Conversations Week! We are a group of recruiters at impact-focused organizations, and we’re happy to answer your questions about apply...
“AIM is Seeking a New CEO” by Ambitious Impact, Joey🔸
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Summary Following Joey's transition announcement, we're actively searching for exceptional leadership to guide AIM into its next phase. Find the ful...
“Corporate law to CEA operations: Mid-career transitions with Kathleen Perell” by frances_lorenz
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kathleen Perell | Chief of Staff to the COO at the Centre for Effective Altruism Kathleen Perell began her career with a clear goal: obtain a law deg...
“Questions about animal welfare markets” by Austin
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, I joined “Revolutionist's Night” — a cabal aiming to radically improve animal welfare, with some flavor of 1800s slavery abolitionis...
“Strategic Animals Funding Circle - Results from first two rounds” by 🔸 Martijn Klop, Joey🔸, JamesÖz 🔸
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Strategic Animal Funding Circle just finished its first two rounds of grantmaking, and we ended up giving ~$900,000 across 16 organisations. Belo...
“Reflecting On My Career Journey” by Kevin Xia 🔸
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I learned about EA in mid-2022, finished my degree and got “properly” involved in my local community in 2023, got my first paid role in the movem...
“Animal Welfare Fund: Payout recommendations from April to June 2025” by KarolinaSarek🔸, Neil_Dullaghan🔹, Zoë Sigle 🔹, Ula Zarosa
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Introduction This payout report covers the Animal Welfare Fund's (AWF) grantmaking from April 1, 2025 to June 30, 2025 (3 months). It follows the pre...
“From rave websites to AI risk: 30 years of career lessons” by Patrick Gruban 🔸
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Summary After three decades spanning startups, consulting, banking, entrepreneurship, and impact nonprofits, I'm sharing lessons that might be useful ...
“From a Side Project to a Funded Organisation: My Story and What I’ve Learned [EAGx Virtual 2024 Keynote]” by SofiaBalderson
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I tend to send the recording of this talk quite a lot when I’m asked to share my story about how I started Hive, so I thought for folks’ convenie...
“Private equity to shrimp welfare: Mid-career transitions in EA with Andrés Jiminéz Zorrilla” by frances_lorenz
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hi everyone! This post is the first in a series of four profiles on mid-career transitions in EA. Andrés very kindly allowed me to interview him on ...
“Ask Career Advisors Anything” by Toby Tremlett🔹
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
(about careers) As part of Career Conversations Week on the EA Forum, I’ve gathered together some impact-focused career advisors to answer any quest...
“Grateful for Job Choice” by Denkenberger🔸
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
TLDRWhen we look across all jobs globally, many of us in the EA community occupy positions that would rank in the 99.9th percentile or higher by our o...
“80,000 Hours for Global Development” by Benh713
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Summary We’re exploring the idea of building a career guidance platform aimed at helping the African diaspora - and professionals interested in dev...
[Linkpost] “How AI could slow scientific progress -” by Josh Piecyk 🔹
19 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a link post. Note: This is a linkpost to an essay written by Princeton computer science professor Arvind Narayanan and PHD candidate Sayash Ka...
[Linkpost] “Rebooting the Singularity” by cdkg
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a link post. Tom Davidson from Forethought Research and I have a new paper responding to some recent skeptical takes on the Singularity Hypoth...
[Linkpost] “Video and transcript of talk on ‘Can goodness compete?’” by Joe_Carlsmith
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a link post. (This is the video and transcript of a public talk I gave at Mox in San Francisco in July 2025, on long-term equilibria post-AGI....
[Linkpost] “Eggs from in-ovo sexed hens are now available in the US” by Luis Mota Freitas
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a link post. The brand NestFresh eggs has just started selling eggs from in-ovo sexed hens in the US. Right now, they are only available at so...
“Why I am more optimistic about the animal movement this year” by Joey🔸
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes working on animal issues feels like an uphill battle, with alternative protein losing its trendy status with VCs, corporate campaigns hitti...
“Addressing the nonhuman gap in intergovernmental AI governance frameworks” by Alistair Stewart, Ronen Bar
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Originally submitted as a project for the AI Safety Fundamentals AI Governance course in April 2025; edited and somewhat expanded for publication on ...
“July ’25 EA Newsletter Poll” by Toby Tremlett🔹
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This poll was linked in the July edition of the Effective Altruism Newsletter. If you haven't got your newsletter yet, it'll be with you in a few hou...
[Linkpost] “Solving Problems, Not Building Empires the Value of Prioritizing your Ecosystem” by Joey🔸
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a link post. Linkpost as I am mostly writting on substack now. TL;DR: NGOs have a unique advantage over for-profits in their ability to coope...
“EU CITIZENS: Animal welfare consultation closing soon (16 July)” by eleanor mcaree
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There is an important consultation happening right now on revising EU animal welfare laws - covering cages, import standards, male chick culling, and...
“Debate: organisations using Rethink Priorities’ mainline welfare ranges should consider effects on soil nematodes, mites, and springtails, or at least be transparent about their reasons for neglecting them?” by Vasco Grilo🔸
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Organisations using Rethink Priorities’ mainline welfare ranges should consider effects on soil nematodes, mites, and springtails.disagreeagreeOrgan...
“Is EA still ‘talent-constrained’?” by SiobhanBall
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since January I’ve applied to ~25 EA-aligned roles. Every listing attracted hundreds of candidates (one passed 1,200). It seems we already have a v...
“Reflecting on One Year of Mieux Donner: Launching the French Effective Giving Initiative” by Romain Barbe🔸, Jennifer Stretton
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As we mark one year since the launch of Mieux Donner, we wanted to share some reflections on our journey and our ongoing efforts to promote effective...
“AI, Animals, & Digital Minds 2025: Retrospective” by Alistair Stewart, Johannes Pichler 🔸, Constance Li, AI for Animals
12 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Key takeaway We need less breadth and more depth. Much of the early growth and success of the movement at the intersection of AI, animals and digital...
“Sanity Check - Givewell’s New Incentives estimate seems optimistic” by NickLaing
12 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
TLDR: On a VERY rough Sanity check[1], GiveWell's New Incentives “lived saved” numbers seem perhaps twice as high as is plausible. On seeing thi...
[Linkpost] “METR: Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity” by Yadav
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a link post. This seems like an important piece of work - an RCT on the use of AI capabilities for developers. The TL;DR of the paper is The d...
“Can for-profit companies create significant, direct impact?” by T.K.
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thank you to @Jacintha Baas, @Judith Rensing, and the @CE team for your help in editing and improving this post. Introductory Context Hi, I’m Trish....
[Linkpost] “The Rising Premium of Life” by Linch
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a link post. I'm interested in a simple question: Why are people all so terrified of dying? And have people gotten more afraid? (Answer: proba...
“Lessons from the Iraq War about AI policy” by Buck
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I think the 2003 invasion of Iraq has some interesting lessons for the future of AI policy. (Epistemic status: I’ve read a bit about this, talked t...
“Career Conversations Week: July 21-27” by Toby Tremlett🔹
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
TLDR: July 21-27 will be a themed week on the EA Forum for posting career-related quick takes and posts. We'll also have career advisors available th...
[Linkpost] “What is NZ’s comparative advantage?” by EA NZ, Rowan Clements 🔸
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a link post. Living in New Zealand can sometimes feel like an obstacle to doing good effectively. We’re far from the EA hubs in the UK/US, a...
“10 of Founders Pledge’s biggest grants” by Matt_Lerner
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a crosspost of a recent post by Hannah Yang, FP Research's comms lead, on Founders Pledge's website. I thought it was important to post this ...
“The relative range heuristic” by Karthik Tadepalli
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a rough explanation of relative ranges, a heuristic that I've found very helpful for quickly comparing two options that trade off between two...
“80,000 Hours is producing AI in Context — a new YouTube channel. Our first video, about the AI 2027 scenario, is up!” by ChanaMessinger, Aric Floyd
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
About the program Hi! We’re Chana and Aric, from the new 80,000 Hours video program. For over a decade, 80,000 Hours has been talking about the worl...
[Linkpost] “My kidney donation” by Molly Hickman
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a link post. I donated my left kidney to a stranger on April 9, 2024, inspired by my dear friend @Quinn Dougherty (who was inspired by @Scott ...
“A Vegan Case for Eating Sardines and Anchovies” by Chris Popa, Elizabeth Crewe
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Note: This post is written in a personal capacity. The views expressed here are our own and do not represent those of any organisation we're affiliat...
“Organising Bookclub: How to Create a Vegan World” by Indra Gesink 🔸
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
1. Introduction One of the first activities I organized in Effective Altruism 3 years ago, after I participated in the first Dutch Effective Altruism...