EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular)

“The outsized benefits of removing bottlenecks: some personal experiences” by Rory Fenton

13 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

I once ran the monitoring and evaluation department of a large nonprofit in rural Tanzania. We had 25 full-time data collectors who ran surveys with ...

“We’re growing: CEA is increasing its font size” by OllieRodriguez

03 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

“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 ever...

“Announcing Highly Engaged EAs!” by Sam Anschell

02 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

I’m excited to launch Highly Engaged EAs: a matchmaking and nuptialization service to optimize tax relief, green card accumulation and more! Workst...

“RejectDirectly” by RejectDirectly

02 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We're thrilled to announce the founding of RejectDirectly, a new EA-adjacent organization dedicated to closing the global rejection gap. For too long...

“An unexplained annual spike in false claims on the EA Forum” by Tobias Häberli

02 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Epistemic status: Very high confidence in the statistical findings. Genuinely confused about the cause. For reasons that will become obvious, I wante...

“300,000 lives, 100 million hens, and a world still to save” by William_MacAskill

02 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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/episo...

“Giving up on EA after 13 years” by Jackson Wagner

01 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Donating my shares to Lightcone Infrastructure, the Good Food Institute, and the Long-Term Future Fund, because EA refuses to make Mirror's Edge 3Lea...

“80,000 Hours is coming to bookstores in May” by Bella, 80000_Hours

31 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Summary We’re publishing our book, 80,000 Hours, with Penguin on 26 May. It's an update of the 80,000 Hours career guide, with a full round of...

“The joys of cash benchmarking” by ozymandias

27 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

I. 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 him, so...

“Broad Timelines” by Toby_Ord

21 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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...

“What I didn’t expect about being a funder” by JamesÖz 🔸

18 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 nonpr...

“GHD discussion here is slowly dying” by NickLaing

17 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 “FTX SBF bla...

“Feelings about the end of the world” by Michelle_Hutchinson

15 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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. ...

“The case for AI safety capacity-building work” by abergal

15 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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

13 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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, c...

[Linkpost] “Effective Altruism Will Be Great Again” by Mjreard

08 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 communitie...

“Responsible Scaling Policy v3” by Holden Karnofsky

05 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

All views are my own, not Anthropic's. This post assumes Anthropic's announcement of RSP v3.0 as background. Today, Anthropic released its Responsibl...

“Why isn’t anti-fascism a bigger topic at EAG events (or on this forum)?” by Alex_Z

04 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 warra...

“Here’s to the Polypropylene Makers” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸

01 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 N95 and tol...

“You’re not burning out because you’re tired” by stefan.torges

28 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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, a...

“CEA’s response to sexual harassment” by Fran

27 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this piece, I discuss the sexual harassment I experienced at the Centre for Effective Altruism, the organisation's response, the outcomes of two i...

“500k mid-career professionals want to do more good with their careers. Can we help them?” by Dom Jackman

22 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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+ professional...

“Our Levels of Ambition Should Match The Problems We’re Solving” by Matt Beard

19 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

[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: "...

[Linkpost] “The best cause will disappoint you: An intro to the optimisers curse” by titotal

19 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 c...

“What is Love ft. Claude & VascoBot” by AgentMa🔸

18 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

What is the highest form of love? According to the VascoBot Claude programmed for me: “Thanks for the great question, AgentMa🔸. I strongly upvot...

“The reality of long-term EA community building: Lessons from 3 years of EA Barcelona” by Melanie Brennan 🔹, Anthony L

17 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 learni...

“Preparing for a flush future: work, giving, and conduct” by Sam Anschell

17 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Note: opinions are all my own. Following Jeff Kaufman's Front-Load Giving Because of Anthropic Donors and Jenn's Funding Conversation We Left Unfin...

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

17 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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

16 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Cross-posted to LessWrong.Summary History's most destructive ideologies—like Nazism, totalitarian communism, and religious fundamentalism—exhibi...

“More EAs should consider working for the EU” by EU Policy Careers

02 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Context: The authors are a few EAs who currently work or have previously worked at the European Commission. In this post, we make the case that more...

“The Scaling Series Discussion Thread: with Toby Ord” by Toby Tremlett🔹

02 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

[Linkpost] “Are the Costs of AI Agents Also Rising Exponentially?” by Toby_Ord

02 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 the graphs f...

[Linkpost] “Evidence that Recent AI Gains are Mostly from Inference-Scaling” by Toby_Ord

02 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 used to ...

[Linkpost] “The Extreme Inefficiency of RL for Frontier Models” by Toby_Ord

02 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 of 1,00...

[Linkpost] “Inference Scaling Reshapes AI Governance” by Toby_Ord

02 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 effects ...

[Linkpost] “Is there a Half-Life for the Success Rates of AI Agents?” by Toby_Ord

02 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 the perf...

[Linkpost] “Inference Scaling and the Log-x Chart” by Toby_Ord

02 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 used to tr...

[Linkpost] “The Scaling Paradox” by Toby_Ord

30 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This is a link post. AI capabilities have improved remarkably quickly, fuelled by the explosive scale-up of resources being used to train the leading ...

“Why Isn’t EA at the Table When $121 Billion Gets Allocated to Biodiversity Every Year?” by David Goodman

29 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

There is an insane amount of money being thrown around by international organizations and agreements. Nobody with any kind of power over these agreem...

“If EA ruled the world, career advisors would tell some people to work for the postal service” by Toby Tremlett🔹

29 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

EA thinking is thinking on the margin. When EAs prioritise causes, they are prioritising causes given the fact that they only control their one caree...

“5 ways to better charity work in 2026” by NickLaing

27 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 aid to low i...

“Reflections on FarmKind’s January media campaign” by Aidan Alexander, ThomNorman

24 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Summary In January 2025, FarmKind ran a provocative media campaign which used controversial media messaging and materials to promote ‘offsetting’ ...

“Announcing All the Lives You Can Change” by JDBauman, dominicroser, DavidZhang

19 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Summary Our new book, All the Lives You Can Change: Effective Altruism for Christians, will be published in April 28 2026 The book introduces effect...

“Is EA underfunding animal advocacy according to our own preferences?” by ElliotTep

14 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

TL;DR When surveyed, the EA community and leaders think ~18-24% of resources should go towards animal advocacy. The actual figure is about 7%. We as...

“Why I Donate: A Personal Story” by Stien

12 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Thank you At EAGx Amsterdam, I shared most of this as a talk. I was afraid I'd run out of time, so I decided to do things backwards and start with th...

“Don’t stop being an EA because you dislike EAs. You don’t have to interact with most EAs. Just the ones you like.” by Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️

10 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

An all too common reason I’ve seen to “quit EA” is disliking aspects of the community. Maybe “they’re” too focused on the “wrong cause ...

“Untitled Retrospective and Learnings from AI in Context’s First Two VideosDraft” by ChanaMessinger

06 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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...

“I give because it’s the most rational way to spend my money” by Lorenzo Buonanno🔸

31 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I really enjoyed reading the "why I donate" posts in the past week, so much so that I felt compelled to add my reflections, in case someone finds my ...

“Why I donate: some selfish reasons” by Kestrel🔸

28 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This year, I have given money to a range of EA cause areas. Most of it has either been towards global health and development, or EA infrastructure I ...

“Ten big wins in 2025 for farmed animals” by LewisBollard

26 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Note: This post was crossposted from the Coefficient Giving Farm Animal Welfare Research Newsletter by the Forum team, with the author's permission. ...

“The Further Pledge: Voluntary Simplicity” by GeorgeBridgwater

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Conscious Meaning We share every moment with trillions of other conscious beings. Some are much like us, and others experience the world very differe...

“GWWC’s 2025 evaluations of evaluators” by Aidan Whitfield🔸, Giving What We Can🔸

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Giving What We Can research team is excited to share the results of our 2025 round of evaluations of charity evaluators and grantmakers! In this...

“I Donate because I am Christian” by NickLaing

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

And Effective Altruism has put my faith community to shame The BeginningWhen I became a Christian age 15 my life began to transform, but sadly my fi...

“3 doubts about veganism” by emre kaplan🔸

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I keep thinking about what kind of identity would be useful for building a powerful animal advocacy movement. Here are 3 features of veganism that I ...

“The funding conversation we left unfinished” by jenn

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

People working in the AI industry are making stupid amounts of money, and word on the street is that Anthropic is going to have some sort of liquidit...

“Front-Load Giving Because of Anthropic Donors?” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Summary: Anthropic has many employees with an EA-ish outlook, who may soon have a lot of money. If you also have that kind of outlook, money donate...

“Peter Wildeford talks about risks from AI on the Daily Show” by MartinBerlin

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ronny Chieng strikes again, this time featuring Peter Wildeford and the risks from AI on the Daily Show: --- First published: De...

“Caring about Bugs Isn’t Weird” by Bob Fischer

06 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I’ve spoken with hundreds of entomologists at conferences the world over. While there's clearly some self-selection (not everyone wants to talk to ...

“Announcing the new AIM CEO!” by Ambitious Impact

02 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We, the AIM Board and outgoing CEO Joey Savoie, are delighted to announce that Samantha Kagel has been selected as AIM's new CEO, effective December ...

“The overall cost-effectiveness of an intervention often matters less than the counterfactual use of its funding” by abrahamrowe

26 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cross-posted from Good Structures. For impact-minded donors, it's natural to focus on doing the most cost-effective thing. Suppose you’re genuinely...

“Announcing ClusterFree: A cluster headache advocacy and research initiative (and how you can help)” by Alfredo Parra 🔸, algekalipso

25 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today we’re announcing a new cluster headache advocacy and research initiative: ClusterFree Learn more about how you (and anyone) can help.Our miss...

“Open Philanthropy Is Now Coefficient Giving” by Aaron Gertler 🔸

25 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Big news from Open Philanthropy Coefficient Giving today: Today, Open Philanthropy is becoming Coefficient Giving. Our mission remains the same, but ...

“The Protein Problem” by LewisBollard

23 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Note: This post was crossposted from the Open Philanthropy Farm Animal Welfare Research Newsletter by the Forum team, with the author's permission. T...

“New donation opportunity: the Center for Wild Animal Welfare” by Ben Stevenson, RichardP

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Center for Wild Animal Welfare (CWAW) is a new policy advocacy organization, working to improve the lives of wild animals today and build support...

“To a first approximation, all farmed animals are bugs” by Bob Fischer

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

To a first approximation, all farmed animals are bugs. (Recalling, of course, that shrimps is bugs.) We don’t know much about their needs in curren...

“Some hardworking dads in EA” by Julia_Wise🔸

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's hard to divide anything 50/50. In many families, even if both parents have paid jobs, one parent will lean into parenting more, and the other wi...

“Historical EA funding data: 2025 update” by Jacco Rubens🔸

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Long time lurker, first time poster - be nice please! :) I was searching for summary data of EA funding trends, but couldn't find anything more recen...

“If wild animal welfare is intractable, everything is intractable.” by mal_graham🔸

16 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Author's note: This is an adapted version of my recent talk at EA Global NYC (I’ll add a link when it's available). The content has been adjusted t...

“12 Theses on EA” by Mjreard

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a crosspost from my Substack, where people have been liking and commenting a bunch. I'm too busy during my self-imposed version of Inkhaven t...

“Recruitment is extremely important and impactful. Some people should be completely obsessed with it.” by abrahamrowe

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cross-post from Good Structures. Over the last few years, I helped run several dozen hiring rounds for around 15 high-impact organizations. I've also...

“Announcing ACE’s 2025 Charity Recommendations” by Animal Charity Evaluators, Vince Mak 🔸

09 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

16 minute read We update our list of Recommended Charities annually. This year, we announced recommendations on November 4. Each year, hundreds of bi...

“Leaving Open Philanthropy, going to Anthropic” by Joe_Carlsmith

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

(Audio version, read by the author, here, or search for "Joe Carlsmith Audio" on your podcast app.) Last Friday was my last day at Open Philanthropy...

“How Well Does RL Scale?” by Toby_Ord

03 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is the latest in a series of essays on AI Scaling. You can find the others on my site. Summary: RL-training for LLMs scales surprisingly poorly...

“Recommitting to Giving: A Personal Update” by frankieaw

01 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

TL;DR: I took the 🔸10% Pledge in 2016 and haven’t kept to it consistently. I’ve decided not to pay the backlog donations, and instead to recom...

“Why Many EAs May Have More Impact Outside of Nonprofits in Animal Welfare” by lauren_mee 🔸, Animal Advocacy Careers

30 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Many thanks to @Felix_Werdermann 🔸 @Engin Arıkan and @Ana Barreiro for your feedback and comments on this, and for the encouragement from many pe...

“Framing EA: ‘Doing Good Better’ Did Worse” by Rethink Priorities, David_Moss

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Summary As part of our ongoing work to study how to best frame EA, we experimentally tested different phrases and sentences that CEA were consi...

[Linkpost] “The Charity Trap: Brain Misallocation” by DavidNash

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a link post. In Ugandan villages where non-governmental organisations (NGOs) hired away the existing government health worker, infant mortalit...

[Linkpost] “The Four Pillars: A Hypothesis for Countering Catastrophic Biological Risk” by ASB

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a link post. Biological risks are more severe than has been widely appreciated. Recent discussions of mirror bacteria highlight an extreme sce...

“Entertainment for EAs” by Toby Tremlett🔹

24 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I’ve used the phrase “entertainment for EAs” a bunch to describe a failure mode that I’m trying to avoid with my career. Maybe it’d be usef...

“Canva to donate $100M over 4 years to GiveDirectly” by MartinBerlin

24 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

All quotes are from their blog post "Why we chose to invest another $100 million in cash transfers", highlights are my own: Today, we’re announcin...

“My EA Senescence” by Michael_PJ

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I have some claim to be an “old hand” EA:[1] I was in the room when the creation Giving What We Can was announced (although I vacillated about j...

“You should probably track your time (and it just got easier)” by Christoph Hartmann 🔸

20 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

TLDR  EA is a community where time tracking is already very common and yet most people I talk to don't because It's too much work (when using t...

“Experts & markets think authoritarian capture of the US looks distinctly possible” by LintzA

15 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The following is a quick collection of forecasting markets and opinions from experts which give some sense of how well-informed people are thinking a...

“Your Sacrifice Portfolio Is Probably Terrible” by Midtermist12

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

or Maximizing Good Within Your Personal Constraints Note: The specific numbers and examples below are approximations meant to illustrate the framewor...

“Effective altruism in the age of AGI” by William_MacAskill

10 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This post is based on a memo I wrote for this year's Meta Coordination Forum. See also Arden Koehler's recent post, which hits a lot of similar notes...

“Taking ethics seriously, and enjoying the process” by kuhanj

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Here's a talk I gave at an EA university group organizers’ retreat recently, which I've been strongly encouraged to share on the forum. I'd like to...

“Charity Entrepreneurship is bottlenecked by a lack of great animal founders” by Ben Williamson, Amalie Farestvedt 🔸

01 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

TL;DR - AIM's applicants skew towards global health & development. We’ve recommended four new animal welfare charities, have the capacity to la...

“Cultivated Meat: A Wakeup Call for Optimists” by CianHamilton

01 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Summary: Consumers rejected genetically modified crops, and I expect they will do the same for cultivated meat. The meat lobby will fight to discredit...

“Why I think capacity building to make AGI go well should include spreading EA-style ideas and helping people engage with EA” by Arden Koehler

26 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Note: I am the web programme director at 80,000 Hours and the view expressed here currently helps shape the web team's strategy. However, this should...

“Moving to a hub, getting older, and heading home” by ElliotTep

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Intro and summary “How many chickens spared from cages is worth not being with my parents as they get older?!” - Me, exasperated (September 18, 20...

“Student group organising is hard and important” by Bella

18 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's been several years since I was an EA student group organiser, so please forgive any part of this post which feels out of touch (& correct me...

“Rejected from all the ‘EA’ Jobs you applied for - What to do now?” by guneyulasturker 🔸

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hi, have you been rejected from all the 80K listed EA jobs you’ve applied for? It sucks, right? Welcome to the club. What might be comforting is th...

“How cost-effective are AI safety YouTubers?” by Marcus Abramovitch 🔸, Austin

14 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Early work on ”GiveWell for AI Safety” Intro EA was founded on the principle of cost-effectiveness. We should fund projects that do more with les...

“Marginally More Effective Altruism” by AppliedDivinityStudies

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

There's a huge amount of energy spent on how to get the most QALYs/$. And a good amount of energy spent on how to increase total $. And you might thi...

“My TED Talk” by LewisBollard

07 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Note: This post was crossposted from the Open Philanthropy Farm Animal Welfare Research Newsletter by the Forum team, with the author's permission. T...

“Consider thanking whoever helped you” by Kevin Xia 🔸

05 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

TL;DR: If a (meta) org had a meaningful impact on you (in line with what they hope to achieve), you should probably tell them. It is essential for th...

“High-impact & urgent funding opportunity - Rodent fertility control” by Nitin Sekar

04 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Context: I’m a senior fellow at Conservation X Labs (CXL), and I’m seeking support as I attempt to establish a program on humane rodent fertility...

“You’re Enough” by lynettebye

29 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I told someone recently I would respect them if they only worked 40 hours a week, instead of their current 50-60. What I really meant was stronger t...

“The anti-fragile culture” by lincolnq

27 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How to prevent infighting, mitigate status races, and keep your people focused. Cross-posted from my Substack. Organizational culture changes rapid...

[Linkpost] “Most of the World Is an Adorably Suffering, Debatably Conscious Baby” by Jack_S🔸

27 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a link post. There are some moments of your life when the reality of suffering really hits home. Visiting desperately poor parts of the world ...