Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“300 Pledges: Pitching Effective Giving at Middlebury College” by stark.ler
TL;DR. Quantity over quality; table consistently; prioritize a friendly tone based on shared values; pitch the pledge as an accountability mechanism…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
“What are the highest-leverage tactics for US election protection in 2026?” by Samy Sekar 🔸
Summary
Power for Democracies (P4Dem) is trying to develop donor recommendations to most effectively counter 2026 US election integrity threats. To …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
“Three necessary pillars for wild animal welfare at scale, and why they are worth paying for” by abrahamrowe
Cross-posted from Good Structures.
COI note: This piece touches on some aspects of Wild Animal Initiative's work, and why I am excited about it. I c…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
“AI safety is maturing. Is its generalist talent pipeline keeping up?” by Uladzislau Linnik, Enisa Ismaili
TL;DR
The AI safety field is maturing, but its talent pipelines may be failing to keep pace with the growing demand for operations, organisation-bui…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
“Does your AI perform badly because you — you, specifically — are a bad person?” by Natalie_Cargill
Consistent helpfulness for everyone, unless you're a bit of a scumbag
Claude really got me lately.
I’d given it an elaborate prompt in an attempt to…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
“Against Credulous AI Hype” by James Fodor
I have been increasingly surprised over the past year at what I perceive to be the lack of critical thinking in response to new announcements regard…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
“My Unfiltered Motivations” by Aaron Gertler 🔸
I once took a seminar with Paul Bloom, author of Against Empathy. He often spoke about the limits of empathy as a motivation — how it misleads us wh…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
[Linkpost] “Why clinical trials are broken & how to fix them: a reading list” by Siebe
This is a link post.
12 articles including 4 podcasts
EA/LW Intro: I believe clinical trial abundance could be an EA cause area - there's still a lot…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
“Reflections on PauseCon 2026” by Joe Rogero
A lesson in courage from Washington, DC
Yesterday I described an experience that impressed upon fifteen-year-old me the importance of speaking with u…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
“Discussions of (p)sentience of small animals miss the point” by Jim Buhler
Tl;dr: You need to make specific moral weight assumptions to decide who to prioritize between animals with different degrees of sentience. And the m…
3 months, 3 weeks ago