EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular)
Episodes
“Kaya Guides Pilot Results” by RachelAbbott
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Summary. Who We Are: Kaya Guides runs a self-help course on WhatsApp to reduce depression at scale in low and middle-income countries. We help young...
“Are our Top Charities saving the same lives each year?” by GiveWell
23 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a link post. Author: Adam Salisbury, Senior Research Associate In a nutshell We’ve had a longstanding concern that some of our top charity p...
“Why so many ‘racists’ at Manifest?” by Austin
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Manifest 2024 is a festival that we organized last weekend in Berkeley. By most accounts, it was a great success. On our feedback form, the average r...
“Help Fund Insect Welfare Science” by Bob Fischer, Daniela R. Waldhorn, abrahamrowe
15 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Arthropoda Foundation Tens of trillions of insects are used or killed by humans across dozens of industries. Despite being the most numerous an...
“Maybe let the non-EA world train you” by ElliotT
15 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This post is for EAs at the start of their careers who are considering which organisations to apply to, and their next steps in general. Conclusion u...
“Maybe Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust is powerless” by Zach Stein-Perlman
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Crossposted from AI Lab Watch. Subscribe on Substack.Introduction. Anthropic has an unconventional governance mechanism: an independent "Long-Term ...
“Summary of Situational Awareness - The Decade Ahead” by OscarD🔸
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original by Leopold Aschenbrenner, this summary is not commissioned or endorsed by him. Short Summary Extrapolating existing trends in compute, spen...
“I doubled the world record cycling without hands for AMF” by Vincent van der Holst
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A couple weeks ago I announced I was going to try and break the world record cycling without hands for AMF. That post also explains why I wanted to b...
“Announcing a $6,000,000 endowment for NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy” by Sofia_Fogel
09 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program will soon become the NYU Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy (CMEP), our future secured by a generous $6,000...
“I bet Greg Colbourn 10 k€ that AI will not kill us all by the end of 2027” by Vasco Grilo
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Agreement78 % of my donations so far have gone to the Long-Term Future Fund[1] (LTFF), which mainly supports AI safety interventions. However, I have...
“Review of Past Grants: The $100.000 Grant for a Video Game?” by Nicolae
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Since 2017, EA Funds has been providing grants across four distinct cause areas. While there are payout reports available, there is a lack of reports...
“A Scar Worth Bearing: My Improbable Story of Kidney Donation” by Elizabeth Klugh
02 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
TL;DR: I donated my kidney and you can too. If that's too scary, consider blood donation, the bone marrow registry, post-mortem organ donation, or ot...
“Introducing Ansh: A Charity Entrepreneurship Incubated Charity” by Supriya
02 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Executive Summary Ansh, a 1-year-old Charity Entrepreneurship incubated charity, has been delivering an evidence-based, scientifically proven interve...
“Against a Happiness Ceiling: Replicating Killingsworth & Kahneman (2022)” by charlieh943
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Epistemic Status: somewhat confident: I may have made coding mistakes. R code is here if you feel like checking. Introduction: In their 2022 ar...
“89%of cage-free egg commitments with deadlines of 2023 or earlier have been fulfilled” by ASuchy
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a link post. The report concludes that the cage-free fulfillment rate is maintaining its momentum at 89%. The producer, retailer, and manufact...
“Articles about recent OpenAI departures” by bruce
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a link post. A brief overview of recent OpenAI departures (Ilya Sutskever, Jan Leike, Daniel Kokotajlo, Leopold Aschenbrenner, Pavel Izmailov,...
“I’m attempting a world record to raise money for AMF” by Vincent van der Holst
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
TL;DR It's time for an absurd challenge. On June 7th around 11:00, I'm going to (try to) break the world record for cycling without hands! 🚴🏻...
“5 things you’ve got wrong about the Giving What We Can Pledge” by Alana HF, Giving What We Can
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How well do you know the details of the Giving What We Can Pledge? A surprising number of people we’ve spoken to — including many who know a lot ...
“The Charity Commission has concluded its inquiry into Effective Ventures Foundation UK” by Rob Gledhill
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Charity Commission for England and Wales has concluded its statutory inquiry into Effective Ventures Foundation UK (EVF UK), which was originally...
“Announcing UK Voters for Animals!” by eleanor mcaree, James Özden, Holly Baines, Alina Salmen, Max Taylor, vicky_cox, Mandy Carter
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’re excited to announce a new volunteer-run organisation, UK Voters For Animals, dedicated to mobilising UK voters to win key legislative changes...
“What’s Going on With OpenAI’s Messaging?” by Ozzie Gooen
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a quickly-written opinion piece, of what I understand about OpenAI. I first posted it to Facebook, where it had some discussion. Some argu...