EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular)
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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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“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...
“Reflections on FarmKind’s January media campaign” by Aidan Alexander, ThomNorman
In January 2025, FarmKind ran a provocative media campaign which used controversial media messaging and materials to promote ‘offsetting’ as an option...
“Announcing All the Lives You Can Change” by JDBauman, dominicroser, DavidZhang
Summary
Praise for All the Lives You Can Change
“Effective altruism asks us to extend our empathy beyond our immediate circle to include...
“Is EA underfunding animal advocacy according to our own preferences?” by ElliotTep
TL;DR
My job at Senterra Funders involves making the case to EA/EA adjacent prospective donors that they can do a tonne of good by donating to...
“Why I Donate: A Personal Story” by Stien
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 w...
“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 🔶 ⏸️
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 area” or are sk...
“Untitled Retrospective and Learnings from AI in Context’s First Two VideosDraft” by ChanaMessinger
Note: I used LLMs to draft different parts of this. I've checked almost everything, but there might be some mistakes remaining.
Apologies for p...
“I give because it’s the most rational way to spend my money” by Lorenzo Buonanno🔸
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 r...
“Why I donate: some selfish reasons” by Kestrel🔸
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 b...
“Ten big wins in 2025 for farmed animals” by LewisBollard
Note: This post was crossposted from the Coefficient Giving Farm Animal Welfare Research Newsletter by the Forum team, with the author's permission. T...
“The Further Pledge: Voluntary Simplicity” by GeorgeBridgwater
Conscious Meaning
We share every moment with trillions of other conscious beings. Some are much like us, and others experience the world very d...
“GWWC’s 2025 evaluations of evaluators” by Aidan Whitfield🔸, Giving What We Can🔸
The Giving What We Can research team is excited to share the results of our 2025 round of evaluations of charity evaluators and grantmakers!
I...
“I Donate because I am Christian” by NickLaing
And Effective Altruism has put my faith community to shame
The Beginning
When I became a Christian age 15 my life began to transf...
“3 doubts about veganism” by emre kaplan🔸
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 o...