Podcast Episodes

[Linkpost] “The tables have turned on AI sceptics” by Stefan_Schubert

This is a link post.

Could we have human-level AI within the next few decades? For a long time, many people have dismissed this idea as armchair spec…

3 months ago

“Save Our Pigs!” 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…

3 months ago

“New EA Forum LLM-use policy” by Toby Tremlett🔹

New policy:

You are welcome to use AI to help you write posts, but we ask that you disclose it when you do. Not disclosing that your post is AI-assi…

3 months ago

“The EA case for an EA Group House + how to start one (its easy!)” by Jen baik

I started 2 EA(ish) group houses now, so I figured there's an opportunity to share my experience and how you too can start one!

There's a whole subs…

3 months ago

“AMA: Svetha Janumpalli, CEO and Founder of New Incentives” by Svetha Janumpalli

I'm Svetha Janumpalli, founder and CEO of New Incentives. We run a conditional cash transfer program in northern Nigeria that provides small incenti…

3 months ago

“Effective Altruism focused on bednets while a malaria vaccine was stuck for 35 years. The case for Abundance.” by abiolvera

This post was cross-posted from Positive Sum by the Forum team. The author notes: I'm not saying every abundance goal meets this bar, e.g. high spee…

3 months ago

“I made a graphic of the expanding moral circle - free to use” by Trevor Woolley

The "expanding moral circle" -- the idea that moral concern has (or, at least, should) widened over time from family, to community, to nation, to al…

3 months ago

“Surviving Mirror Life: A Manual for Resilience in Buildings: Introduction to the threat, concepts and scenario parameters” by JesseSmith

Epistemic certainty: Obviously loads of uncertainty on mirror life risks and the degree to which we'd have to pressurize buildings or filter outdoor…

3 months ago

“We grew ~10x last year, and are now planning for the next 10x” by Probably Good

Hey folks! We’ve recently done an internal impact assessment and thought it would be helpful to share its highlights. (Due to capacity constraints, …

3 months ago

“New Book — Compassionate Purpose: Personal Inspiration for a Better World” by Magnus Vinding

“How are we to live, in a world in which there is so much unnecessary suffering? Magnus Vinding looks unflinchingly at that question, and gives an a…

3 months ago