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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.

  1. 2小时前

    [Linkpost] “Considerations around career costs of political donations” by Zach Stein-Perlman

    This is a link post. Crossposted from LW. I didn't write this, but I know the author and think they're reasonable; I'm sharing it because it might be helpful. I think the direct effects of large donations strongly outweigh the personal side effects for almost everyone, but (if you don't already donate to Democrats) you should think before donating to Democrats if you really might work in a Republican administration, and if you're planning to donate $1000. I’m close to a single-issue voter/donor. I tend to like politicians who show strong support for AI safety, because I think it's an incredibly important and neglected problem. So when I make political donations, it's not as salient to me which party the candidate is part of, if they've gone out of their way to support AI safety and have some integrity.[1] [...] --- Outline: (03:05) Background/facts (10:48) Recommendation (18:22) Explanation (22:21) Is it possible you will end up working in government? (24:00) Other advice (25:10) Counterarguments (26:10) Rambling (27:09) How did you come up with these heuristics? --- First published: October 20th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/6o7B3Fxj55gbcmNQN/considerations-around-career-costs-of-political-donations Linkpost URL:https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8A8g4ryyZnaMhAQQF/considerations-around-career-costs-of-political-donations --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    28 分钟

  2. 9小时前

    “If We Can’t End Factory Farming, Can We Really Shape the Far Future?” by Krimsey

    Veganism as the Alignment Test for Longtermism Longtermism asks us to imagine the vastness of the future—trillions of lives, billions of years—and to act today as though those lives matter. It is a stirring vision, but it rests on a fragile assumption: that humanity is capable of aligning on a mission, coordinating across cultures and centuries, and acting with compassion at scale. Before we leap to the stars, we should ask whether we can pass the first test right in front of us: ending factory farming. Each year, tens of billions of animals are confined and killed in conditions so grim that many philosophers consider their lives net negative. If we cannot align to end this, an atrocity happening in plain sight, what confidence can we have that humanity will succeed in steering the far future somewhere positive? What the Book Says Essays on Longtermism acknowledges this point, though [...] --- First published: October 17th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/tcz8ge9gexjMdiXED/if-we-can-t-end-factory-farming-can-we-really-shape-the-far --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    6 分钟

  3. 11小时前

    “Navigating donation dilemmas: customizable Moral Parliament tools for better decision-making” by Hayley Clatterbuck

    Executive Summary Donors often navigate difficult choices among projects that have different outcomes and promote different values. Standard cost-effectiveness analyses allow us to see how changing assumptions (e.g., regarding moral weights or probabilities of success) can change our evaluations of individual interventions. However, they are less apt for dealing with uncertainty about these assumptions or navigating disagreements among stakeholders. Our Moral Parliament Tool allows users to navigate uncertainty about key assumptions that affect our assessment of interventions. It does so by representing diverse perspectives as delegates in a democratic decision-making process about how to distribute resources to various causes or projects. What's new: We have added functionality to the original Parliament Tool, which allows it to be adapted to novel resource allocation problems simply by editing a spreadsheet. The tool is not limited to evaluating broad moral philosophies and cause areas. It can be applied to many kinds of worldviews [...] --- Outline: (00:14) Executive Summary (03:01) Introduction (05:35) Making a Moral Parliament (05:39) Components (07:38) Specifying the problem space (09:09) Getting started (10:16) Acknowledgments --- First published: October 15th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/jMpynJEvYDxuB2tq7/navigating-donation-dilemmas-customizable-moral-parliament --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

    11 分钟

  4. 11小时前

    “What are the most effective global health charities if you’re pronatalist or ‘pro-life’?” by Jack_S🔸

    This post is written as part of the Draft Amnesty Week; it's an idea I've been thinking about for a while. Most of the figures here are rough, “best-guess” estimates, so please suggest improvements! Summary Most global health charities and evaluations focus on Lives Saved or DALYs (Disability-Adjusted Life Years), which generally only focus on post-birth outcomes However, according to (in my view) reasonable assumptions, birth is an arbitrary dividing line, and unborn children and potential lives also have moral worth I divide worldviews into a simplified "pro-life" person-affecting worldview (early life has moral worth, foetuses count as people) and a simplified "pronatalist" non-person-affecting worldview (the more humans, the better, regardless of whether they exist). I also consider an anti-natalist worldview briefly for comparison I focus on global health interventions, and find that: If unborn lives are given moral weight, many mainstream interventions - malaria prevention [...] --- Outline: (00:24) Summary (01:44) Overview Table (02:05) Intro (03:07) Why research this? (05:05) View A: Early life has moral worth; foetuses count as people (06:19) Pregnancy Loss Numbers & Causes (08:26) Hypertensive Disorders (09:28) Maternal malnutrition and anaemia (11:39) Infections (other than malaria) (13:46) Malaria (14:49) So, AMF? (17:30) Abortion and explicitly pro-life charities (19:46) View B: More people = better world; potential lives are intrinsically valuable (21:20) STI screening and treatment (chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis) (22:35) Schistosomiasis control (23:59) Safe delivery and post-abortion care (25:33) View C... What if youre anti-natalist? (26:46) Conclusion --- First published: October 18th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ZukwCrrMFcZ8gencR/what-are-the-most-effective-global-health-charities-if-you --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

    27 分钟

  5. 1天前

    “My EA Senescence” by Michael_PJ

    I have some claim to be an “old hand” EA:[1] I was in the room when the creation Giving What We Can was announced (although I vacillated about joining for quite a while) I first went to EA Global in 2015 I worked on a not-very successful EA project for a while But I have not really been much involved in the community since about 2020. The interesting thing about this is that my withdrawal from the community has nothing to do with disagreements, personal conflicts, or FTX. I still pretty much agree with most “orthodox EA” positions, and I think that both the idea of EA and the movement remain straightforwardly good and relevant. Hence why I describe the process as “senescence”: intellectually and philosophically I am still on board and I still donate, I just… don’t particularly want to participate beyond that. Boredom I won’t sugar-coat [...] --- Outline: (01:00) Boredom (04:05) What do I have to offer? --- First published: October 19th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/rJqQGD2z2DaupCbZE/my-ea-senescence --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    6 分钟

  6. 1天前

    “Are longtermist ideas getting harder to find?” by OscarD🔸

    Imagine you are a junior advisor to the boss of some major EA longtermism-sympathetic org (OpenPhil, CEA, 80K, etc). You are tasked with reading the Essays on Longtermism compilation, and collating any novel insights that could significantly change what we should be doing. That is, we want essays that make ‘big, if true’ claims, and present interesting arguments for them. To be clear, this is a high bar! Novelty is hard, and action-relevance is even harder for orgs that have already thought a lot about these issues. I claim that there is a surprising dearth of such insights in the Essays (Section 1 and Appendix). I then consider why this might be the case (Section 2), and what this could mean for global priorities research generally (Section 3). 1. Where are all the new, important insights? Disclaimers first: I found several of the essays interesting, and by more [...] --- Outline: (00:58) 1. Where are all the new, important insights? (04:43) 2. Hypotheses (06:18) 3. Recommendations (08:58) Appendix: critical reviews of the essays --- First published: October 18th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2uxdQKhGsLCJFwHck/are-longtermist-ideas-getting-harder-to-find --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    23 分钟

  7. 2天前

    “How I expect TAI to impact developing countries” by Tax Geek

    This is a Draft Amnesty Week draft. It may not be polished, up to my usual standards, fully thought through, or fully fact-checked.  Commenting and feedback guidelines: I'm posting this to get it out there and hopefully elicit discussion but am pretty uncertain about this post as I am not that familiar with global development and am also relatively new to AI safety. So I could be overlooking some important factors. I would welcome any feedback, particularly from those with experience working with developing countries. Summary TAI's impact on developing countries[1] is likely to look quite different from its impact on developed countries. Labour displacement will be slower, and there will be less fiscal pressures on developing governments. But impacts will be uneven, and countries that rely heavily on service exports and remittances are likely to lose out in the near term. Global inequality is likely to [...] --- Outline: (00:13) Summary (01:26) Assumptions and caveats (02:28) TAI's impact on developing countries is likely to look quite different (02:34) Less labour displacement (04:28) Less government fiscal pressures (05:43) But impacts will be uneven (07:21) Global inequality is likely to increase, but this won't necessarily worsen global welfare (09:20) TAI could produce global public goods (11:32) Weakening influence of liberal democracies --- First published: October 18th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/4apMQAnv5wuystcfx/how-i-expect-tai-to-impact-developing-countries --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    14 分钟

  8. 2天前

    “Emerging evidence on treating cluster headaches with DMT” by Alfredo Parra 🔸, Curran Janssens, algekalipso

    DMT, the smallest microdose of maybe 5mg with a vape pen stops the worst pain known, in literally 10–20 seconds. Acid and mushrooms as well, but they take time to come up. Even the smallest sub-perceptual dose of DMT stops the pain. - Yiftach Yerushalmy, cluster headache patient One inhalation [of DMT] will end the attack for most people. Everybody is reporting the exact same thing. […] It could end that attack in less than a minute. […] You can take one inhalation, you can wait 30 seconds, and if that cluster is not gone completely, then you know it's time to take another inhalation. You don't have to wait 2h into a psilocybin trip. - Bob Wold, president of Clusterbusters and cluster headache patient I use the word game changer because a lot of times our attacks will come at night after we go to sleep. [...] --- Outline: (03:14) How DMT is used for cluster headaches (07:57) The evidence (12:10) How and why would DMT work to treat cluster headaches? (14:06) Challenges (16:03) What is needed next (18:24) Appendix: Bob Wold's Pocket Guide to Cluster Headaches: DMT (21:18) DMT Vape pens and cartridges. For use in treating cluster headaches. (21:25) Cartridges (25:13) Inhalations (31:06) DMT - Alternative Source - Delivery System (32:07) General notes on psychedelic treatments (33:25) When to begin dosing with psychedelics --- First published: October 18th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/x8P8EGnujSZm6fyMH/emerging-evidence-on-treating-cluster-headaches-with-dmt --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.

    34 分钟
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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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