EA Forum Podcast (All audio)

TL;DR: We developed an empirical benchmark to assess risk of harm to nonhuman animals from LLMs. Influenced by EU legal frameworks and pre-existing taxonomies of potential AI harm to animals, our wo…

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Summary

• I estimate animal farming:
  • Decreases the living time of (wild) soil nematodes, mites, and springtails hugely more than it incr…

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In this post, I introduce a concept I call surface area for serendipity — the informal, behind-the-scenes work that makes it easier for others to notice, trust, and collab…

After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People by Dean Spears and Michael Geruso is one of the most [...]

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Is now the time to add to RP's great work?
 

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Crosspost from my blog.

(I think this is a pretty important article so I’d appreciate you sharing and restacking it—thanks!)

There are lots of people who say of themselves “I’m vegan except for hon…

1) They're unlikely to be sentient (few neurons, immobile)

2) If they are sentient, the farming practices look likely to be pretty humane

3) They're extremely nutritionally dense

Buying canned smoke…

1) They're unlikely to be sentient (few neurons, immobile)

2) If they are sentient, the farming practices look likely to be pretty humane

3) They're extremely nutritionally dense

Buying canned smoke…

Learning from Inspiring Figures in Our Community

Background

This post emerged from discussions during the EA values project, where we observed that many community members cite specific individuals (…

This is a lightly-edited memo I wrote for the 2025 Animal Advocacy Strategy Forum, which were encouraged to be highly opinionated to generate strategy discussion.

It seems strange to me that animal …

Climate change doesn't rank as a top EA cause area because it already receives substantial funding, is less neglected than other risks, and—under gradual-warming scenarios—seems unlikely to cause hu…

If you are planning on doing AI policy communications to DC policymakers, I recommend watching the full video of the Select Committee on the CCP hearing from this week.

In his introductory comment…

In response to Matthew's post about the objectivity of morality, I'd thought I'd throw out a(n initially -- this became much longer than I was expecting) short post explaining why I think this view …

An objection against trying to reduce suffering is that we cannot predict whether our actions will reduce or increase suffering in the long term. Relatedly, some have argued that…

Summary

To quickly transform the world, it's not enough for AI to become super smart (the "intelligence explosion").

AI will also have to turbocharge the physical world (the "in…

This is a link post.

Summary

To quickly transform the world, it's not enough for AI to become super smart (the "intelligence explosion").

AI will also have to turbocharge the physical world (the "in…

Many thanks to Max Taylor, Alistair Stewart, Albert Didriksen, Jeff and Johannes Pichler for feedback on this post. All mistakes are my own. This post does not necessarily reflect the views of my em…

Kenny Torrella at Vox has written a nice piece on demand-side interventions to reduce meat consumption, and what we might lose if we focus entirely on producers and politics (sup…

Crossposted from my Substack.

@titotal recently posted an in-depth critique of AI 2027. I'm a fan of his work, and this post was, as expected, phenomenal*.

Much of the critique targets the unjustif…

A hidden crisis

Literally, quintillions1 of animals are suffering and dying right now in the wild, due to disease, hunger, thirst, excessive heat or cold, and other factors. Yet,…