EA Forum Podcast (All audio)

Nov 04 2024 250 ep. 14 mins 5
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Audio narrations from the Effective Altruism Forum, including curated posts, posts with 30 karma, and other great writing. If you'd like fewer episodes, subscribe to the "EA Forum (Curated & Popular)" podcast instead.

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“Funding Diversification is a Tradeoff” by Joey 🔸

Nov 04 2024 6 mins  
TL;DR: I think funding diversification is an easy thing to pitch as positive, but it comes with real tradeoffs to growth and time spent fundraising. In this post, I go into why I think these trades are not obvious but still end up thinking they are worth making. Mainly because I think it's good practice not to aim for the maximum amount of money you can get, but instead the sweet

“Valuing Impacts Across Species: A Research Agenda” by Bob Fischer, Hayley Clatterbuck, arvomm, David_Moss, Derek Shiller

Nov 04 2024 47 mins  
Rethink Priorities' Worldview Investigations Team is sharing research agendas that provide overviews of some key research areas as well as projects in those areas that we would be keen to pursue. This is the first of three such agendas to be posted in November 2024. If we want to do the most good per dollar, then we need to measure the value of various outcomes on a common scale.

“On Ending TB” by xander_balwit

Nov 03 2024 36 mins  
This is a link post. Tuberculosis still kills over 1.2 million people a year. In a two-part essay by Kamal Nahas for Asimov Press, we explore why and how to change that. In the 1924 novel, The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann describes a sanatorium patient named Anton Ferge as he undergoes a painful tuberculosis (TB) treatment. “I lie there with my face covered, so I can’t see any

“A New Top Donation Opportunity in Brazil: Save a Life for USD 12.5k” by Luan Paciencia

Nov 03 2024 6 mins  
Tl;dr doebem's latest research identifies the distribution of portable micromembrane water filters as a top donation opportunity in Brazil. This solution demonstrates a cost of USD 306 per DALY and USD 12.5k per life saved, making it 5-10 times more cost-effective than other evaluated options and achieving 40% of the cost-effectiveness of GiveWell's top charities. Context Over the

“Why our goal should be to end factory farming within our lifetime, and why that goal is realistically achievable” by Sam Tucker

Nov 03 2024 27 mins  
The sheer scale of factory farming can feel overwhelming. Billions of animals suffer every year in unimaginable conditions. It's easy to feel like our efforts are just a drop in the ocean. But what if I told you that we have a realistic chance of ending this system within our lifetimes? This isn't wishful thinking. It's a grounded assessment based on the convergence of exponential

“Donation Election Fund Announcement: Matching, Rewards and FAQ.” by Toby Tremlett🔹

Nov 02 2024 7 mins  
The Donation Election Fund is now open! Donate now to make the donation election a bigger deal, promote effective giving conversations, or simply to get your hands on our rewards. Click to donate The CEA Online Team will match[1] the first $5,000 in donations. Money in the Donation Election Fund will be disbursed to the three winners[2] of the Donation Election (proportionate to t

“Freaking out about x-risk doesn’t help; settle in for the long war” by Holly_Elmore

Nov 02 2024 3 mins  
If the world is destroyed, it won’t be our fault and there may have been nothing we could do about it. It will take a lot of people contributing their small part to avert AI danger, and they might not all do it, and we could all end up dead. I work against this outcome because I don’t want it to happen, and I believe I can do some small part to reduce the danger. It's delusio

“Quantifying the Global Burden of Extreme Pain from Cluster Headaches” by Alfredo Parra 🔸

Nov 01 2024 49 mins  
Warning: This post discusses statistics about extreme pain that may be distressing. While cluster headaches are a neglected, high-impact issue, understanding their true burden requires appreciating the intensity of suffering involved. The pain often reaches levels far beyond typical human experience, making subjective accounts a valuable datapoint until we have robust methods for q

“What I’d like to see during Funding Diversification Week” by Will Howard🔹, Toby Tremlett🔹

Nov 01 2024 5 mins  
The first mini-event we have planned for Giving Season is Funding Diversification Week (Nov 4th – Nov 10th). Personally, I’m very excited about this. As a category of EA thought I think it has as much depth and potential for discovering cruxy disagreements as, say, the recent Animal Welfare vs Global Health debate. However, it's one of the less well defined themes, so you migh

“Visualizing EA ideas” by Alex Savard 🔸

Oct 31 2024 11 mins  
Summary The written word dominates EA discourse but visuals have a unique power in communicating ideas that seems quite underleveraged in this community. As a designer and communicator in the space, I wanted to share some of the presentations and visualizations I’ve created over the years in hopes that they might be helpful to others. My goal isn't to present these visuals as "r