EA Forum Podcast (All audio)

GiveWell recently published a cost-effectiveness analysis on contraception: Valuing Contraception in GiveWell's Cost-Effectiveness Analysis | GiveWell.

At MSI Reproductive Choices, we welcome GiveWe…

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1 Reasons to care

(Please share this article so that more people read it and give to these extremely high-impact organizations. It takes roughly two seconds to restack an …

It was a cold and cloudy San Francisco Sunday. My wife and I were having lunch with friends at a Korean cafe.

My phone buzzed with a text. It said my mom was in the hospital.

I called to find out mo…

Last week I published a 30-minute documentary about SB-1047 I had been working on since September.

Here's what I learned.

Story of the bill

1. The bill had to go through many committees before passing…

I started working in tech at 24, coasted for the last 4 years of my full-time career, and achieved financial independence (FI) at 46. Here are the basics everyone should know to optimize their finan…

Are you looking for a project where you could substantially improve indoor air quality, with benefits both to general health and reducing pandemic risk?

I've written a bunch about air purifi…

Epistemic status: thing people have told me that seems right. Also primarily relevant to US audiences. Also I am speaking in my personal capacity and not representing any employer, present or past.

Summary

• Broiler welfare and cage-free reforms change the amount of feed needed to produce a given quantity of chicken meat or eggs. So they affect feed production, and therefore result in land use c…

Note: During my final review of this post I came across a whole slew of posts on LessWrong and this forum from several years ago saying many of the same things. While much of thi…

Citation: McKay, H. and Shah, S. (2025). Forecasting farmed animal numbers in 2033. Rethink Priorities.

The report is also available on the Rethink Priorities website.

Executive summary

We produced …

Is feeling good the opposite of feeling bad? I interviewed Michael about this topic among others in the first episode of my podcast!

Here's the link to it on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Please reac…

We made a bet on the AI market crashing by the end of 2026.

The odds are $5k:$25k with an implied probability of 16.67%. If there is no crash, Remmelt pays Marcus $5,000. If there is a crash, Marcu…

This is a Forum Team crosspost from Substack.

Whither cause prioritization and connection with the good?

There's a trend towards people who once identified as Effective Altruists now identifying so…

A Project of the NYU Wild Animal Welfare Program

Thanks to a generous grant from the New York Community Trust, the NYU Wild Animal Welfare Program is thrilled to announce a first-of-its-kind project…

I am Jason Green-Lowe, the executive director of the Center for AI Policy (CAIP). Our mission is to directly convince Congress to pass strong AI safety legislation. As I explain in some detail in th…

Hi everyone!

I’m Caitlin, and I’ve just kicked off a 6-month, full-time career-transition grant to dive deep into AI policy and risk. You can learn more about my work here.

What I’m Building
I’m lau…

Introduction

Before November 2022, Effective Altruism only seemed to know success and growth. Ever since November 2022, the EA movement has only seemed to know criticism and scandal. Some have even …

Fractal is launching a new program to help local networks turn their group chats and meetups into a walkable campus—places that brings together collaboration and classes with co-living and shared ga…

Disclaimer: I wanted to get this post out quickly since a work-compatible, remote meditation retreat I’d strongly recommend is starting soon (Thursday May 15th), and likely won’t be run again online…

A common framing of the AI alignment problem is that it's a technical hurdle to be overcome. A clever team at DeepMind or Anthropic would publish a paper titled "Alignment is All…