EA Forum Podcast (All audio)

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Preamble

I have been asked to share a few tips on how to get the most out of the conference as part of the opening talk of this year's EAGxPrague.

I decided to focus on the ta…

Recognizing the small animal replacement problem (SARP) led many animal advocates to, broadly, warn against strategies to help animals that build upon environmental and/or health arguments (see, e.g…

This is very rough — it's functionally a collection of links/notes/excerpts that feel related. I don’t think what I’m sharing is in a great format; if I had more mental energy, I would have chosen a …

This post presents the executive summary from Giving What We Can's impact evaluation for the 2023–2024 period. At the end of this post we share links to more information, including the full report a…

Audio note: this article contains 55 uses of latex notation, so the narration may be difficult to follow. There's a link to the original text in the episode description.

We’ve seen so far that una…

Crossposted from my blog.

When I started this blog in high school, I did not imagine that I would cause The Daily Show to do an episode about shrimp, containing the following dialogue:

Andres: I wa…

I am looking for work, and welcome suggestions for posts.

Summary

• I think the impact of the vast majority of interventions is driven by effects on wild animals. In particular, by effects from land u…

Epistemic status: An email thread with a representative for Moral Ambition, consumption of Rutger Bregman's and Moral Ambition's book and social media. A year of leading my local EA group, deep unde…

In January, I wrote about the EA Forum Team's shift in direction. Since then, our usage metrics have been pretty stable, nice! 😊 (Compare to 2024 where the metrics were going steadily downward the w…

Audio note: this article contains 135 uses of latex notation, so the narration may be difficult to follow. There's a link to the original text in the episode description.

To recap, first, we face …

TL;DR

The main thing I expect busy people want when receiving an EAG cold message is:

• Enough info to roughly estimate the expected impact they’d have by helping you,
• Conciseness

My recommended mess…

I think it's easy to get disenchanted when writing posts or comments on blogs. I've particularly noticed this for the EA Forum and LessWrong.

Engagement can be highly random, a…

Crosspost from my blog.

Content warning: this article will discuss extreme agony. This is deliberate; I think it's important to get a glimpse of the horror that fills the world and that you can do …

(This sequence assumes basic familiarity with longtermist cause prioritization concepts, though the issues I raise also apply to non-longtermist interventions.)

Are EA interventions net-positive fro…

Audio note: this article contains 127 uses of latex notation, so the narration may be difficult to follow. There's a link to the original text in the episode description.

Confidence: Medium, under…

Mental illness (including struggles that don’t meet a specific diagnosis) is a serious public health burden that affects a large proportion of people. This is true within EA as well as in the genera…

Over the last year and a half, Farmed Animal Funders (FAF) shifted our strategy to leverage our positioning and maximize impact. This post updates the wider EA community on our work and how you can …

Ambitious Impact's Charity Entrepreneurship program has now been running for over 5 years, launching more than 50 charities across animal welfare, global development, mental health, education, and m…

Ambitious Impact's Charity Entrepreneurship program has now been running for over 5 years, launching more than 50 charities across animal welfare, global development, mental health, education, and m…

Epistemic Status: I think this is a real issue, and think the importance of the issue varies significantly by introductory experience/facilitator.

TLDR

• EA introductions present the movement as cau…