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    “Piloting a digital treatment for COPD, the second biggest killer in India (seeking $84K to Sept 2026)” by Oli Munns, Rowan Lund

    TL;DR Respira Health are seeking $84k to pilot and begin scaling a virtual treatment program for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease*, the second leading cause of death in India and fourth globally (3.5 million annual deaths). Our treatment isn’t new, but our delivery model is. Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR) can cut mortality risk by 9% in just 3 sessions and is a well-evidenced treatment programme for COPD; it combines specialised physiotherapy exercises, education on health habits, and psychological support. PR delivered virtually in high-income countries has been shown to be just as effective as in person, but this is yet to be rolled out in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where 90% of deaths occur. We are changing this by delivering PR in India using a WhatsApp chatbot and virtual physiotherapists (think Kaya Guides for respiratory rather than mental health!). We’ve already tested our WhatsApp chatbot approach in India. After thorough research and 30 hours of interviews with patients and healthcare professionals in India, we ran our first proof of concept test: we launched a short education program on the main symptom of COPD, breathlessness, using a WhatsApp chatbot. With hospital referrals and Facebook ads, over 140 breathless individuals in our target demographic signed up, demonstrating [...] --- First published: November 16th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/D59GPfsNWHDayPe2c/piloting-a-digital-treatment-for-copd-the-second-biggest --- 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.

    12 мин.

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    “Marginal funding to expand an innovative domestic violence prevention strategy to Burundi and Tanzania” by I.J.J., AlexisAt

    TL;DR Who we are: NOVAH (No Violence At Home) launched in 2024 via Ambitious Impact/ Charity Entrepreneurship. We pioneer large-scale prevention of domestic violence through mass media. What we do: We produce radio drama edutainment—stories that emotionally engage listeners and change beliefs and behaviours more effectively than traditional education. Our programmes help listeners (mainly men) share decisions more equally, reduce harmful alcohol use, and better communicate at home. These changes together lead to a reduction in domestic violence. Why we do it: Over 230 million women experience intimate partner violence each year. In East Africa, one in four women is affected annually, resulting in around 18 million DALYs lost, notably to injury, depression, and HIV/AIDS. Evidence base: Peterman (2025) finds that 60 percent of edutainment studies reduce domestic violence (featured on the VoxDev podcast). This approach (similar to the work of e.g.DMI, PMC, and FEM) is endorsed by IPA, Founders Pledge, the Global Innovation Fund, and the Prevention Collaborative. Traction: Our first series in Rwanda Twubakane, reached about 30,000 listeners (about seven percent of adults in the broadcast area) and showed promising reductions in violence. In particular, a baseline-endline pilot study with 200 couples (including a control group) [...] --- Outline: (00:14) TL;DR (03:08) About NOVAH (03:56) What we do (04:34) Why this matters (05:27) Results to date (06:53) Cost effectiveness (07:32) Plans for 2026: scaling and regional expansion (08:42) How marginal funding accelerates our work (09:36) Why your support matters (10:47) How to donate (11:12) Learn more and get in touch --- First published: November 17th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/EkQqzmLa8NmnnF7Qx/marginal-funding-to-expand-an-innovative-domestic-violence --- 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.

    12 мин.

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    “The Law Is on the Animals’ Side: Legal Impact for Chickens’ Room for Funding & Impact (2025)” by alene

    TL;DR: Legal Impact for Chickens (LIC) is a nonprofit law firm fighting factory-farm cruelty. In our four years in existence, LIC has: proven in court that animal protection organizations like LIC have the power to enforce California's animal cruelty law against ag companies, prompted California's largest poultry producer to announce it has made animal-welfare reforms, and stopped a DC butcher shop from selling foie gras. We’re now fundraising $690,000 to fill our gap for our 2026 planned budget of $2 million. (That said, the full amount LIC could potentially absorb is uncapped within a reasonable basis. Additional funding would allow us to scale faster by hiring more lawyers and litigating more lawsuits at once. LIC currently has more promising lawsuit ideas than resources to pursue them.) I. Why sue over animal cruelty? In the long run, companies and individuals benefit by following the law. But they don’t always see this in the short run. Experience shows that companies and executives will follow a law if—and only if—someone actually enforces that law. For instance, animal cruelty and neglect are crimes. Yet a LIC-sponsored investigation caught California's largest poultry producer driving forklifts over birds. This presumably occurred because [...] --- Outline: (01:12) I. Why sue over animal cruelty? (01:58) II. What we've accomplished recently (05:16) III. Short Timelines: (05:49) IV. Potential criticism: Is there a risk to improving farmed animal welfare? (08:13) V. LICs funding gap and plans for growth (09:03) Thank you for considering LIC! --- First published: November 17th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/XZFnSWCWob5Wfq6yk/the-law-is-on-the-animals-side-legal-impact-for-chickens --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    10 мин.

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    “Is the AI Industry in a Bubble?” by Yarrow Bouchard 🔸

    This post has two parts: first, a (non-exhaustive) survey of some indications that the AI industry might be in a financial bubble. Second, an analysis that combines these indications with technical considerations relevant to whether the AI industry is in a bubble. Definition of a "bubble" Here's the Wikipedia definition of a bubble: An economic bubble (also called a speculative bubble or a financial bubble) is a period when current asset prices greatly exceed their intrinsic valuation, being the valuation that the underlying long-term fundamentals justify. Bubbles can be caused by overly optimistic projections about the scale and sustainability of growth (e.g. dot-com bubble), and/or by the belief that intrinsic valuation is no longer relevant when making an investment (e.g. Tulip mania). They have appeared in most asset classes, including equities (e.g. Roaring Twenties), commodities (e.g. Uranium bubble), real estate (e.g. 2000s US housing bubble), and even esoteric assets (e.g. Cryptocurrency bubble). Bubbles usually form as a result of either excess liquidity in markets, and/or changed investor psychology. If we were to operationalize the concept of an AI bubble and whether such a bubble has popped, we could look at several financial measures, including investment in datacentre construction. [...] --- Outline: (00:27) Definition of a bubble (02:13) Opinions on a potential AI bubble (10:47) Suggestive evidence: circular financing (12:16) Direct evidence: small effects on productivity and profitability (18:51) Analysis: can AI companies catch up to expectations? (30:05) Conclusion --- First published: November 16th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/im59y2Au7zC5ofuKe/is-the-ai-industry-in-a-bubble --- 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.

    31 мин.

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    “Wild Animal Initiative: When does research become impact?” by SiobhanBall

    Wild animal suffering is vast, neglected, and morally urgent. I’m strongly in favour of building a field that can eventually deliver safe, scalable welfare improvements for free-living animals. I also recognise that this area is technically complex and requires foundational research. But after reading WAI's latest annual report, I simply have to ask: When does any of this work actually reduce wild animal suffering? WAI themselves say that ‘it's reasonable to ask whether this will all be worth it’ on p. 28 of their most recent annual report. What then follows is an illustrative case study regarding rabies vaccination, with figures they describe as ‘back of the envelope’ and ‘intentionally crude.’ After 4-5 years and several millions in funding, I can’t find evidence in this report of an intervention, policy change, or measurable welfare improvement driven by WAI's research. What's more concerning is that the report doesn’t spell out a concrete timeline or milestones for when their research is expected to translate into specific welfare interventions or policy changes. Beyond vague phrases like ‘interventions relatively soon’ and a five-year plan to build presence in ecology, there's no clear indication of when wild animals might benefit. [...] --- First published: November 14th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/kizAAxyNkDtwShEJ2/wild-animal-initiative-when-does-research-become-impact --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    4 мин.

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    “EAGxIndia 2025: A Call for Safety/Caution” by Nishit

    As members of the EA community in India, we feel compelled to register our concern about the timing & location of EAGxIndia 2025, scheduled for 13–14 December in New Delhi [1]. December is peak smog season in Delhi—a time when the city's air quality predictably descends into hazardous territory. The average reading breaches 400 (‘Severe' category per the CPCB), with ambient PM2.5 concentration up to 30 times higher than the WHO's recommended safety threshold. As of this drafting, the National Capital Region has logged three consecutive days of sustained "Severe" air quality: with the overall AQI readings of 428 on Nov 11, 418 on Nov 12, and 404 on Nov 13,2025. The decision to convene a major conference during this peak pollution period necessitates at least some direct exposure of participants to ambient PM2.5 levels that constitute a Class 1 carcinogen, inherently elevating the health-risk profile for all attendees. Detailed Notes on Delhi's Winter Air-Quality Crisis: 15 November 2024. People in New Delhi commute through thick winter smog as air quality reaches the “severe” category (AQI ≈ 424) according to the CPCB.  Photo: EPA/Rajat Gupta Every winter—especially after the late‑October Diwali festival—Delhi's Air Quality Index (AQI) drops from “moderate” or [...] --- Outline: (01:18) Detailed Notes on Delhi's Winter Air-Quality Crisis: (04:37) EAGxIndia 2025: Information Gap and Contradictory Protocols (06:34) Sources --- First published: November 15th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/7qGHbvbMpCbfJ5gbS/eagxindia-2025-a-call-for-safety-caution --- 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.

    9 мин.

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    “Everyday Clean Air” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸

    When the next pandemic hits our ability to stop it will depend on the infrastructure we already have in place. A key missing piece is clean indoor air. An airborne pathogen can be very hard to contain, and we would want to move fast to limit spread. But how quickly we can get measures in place, and how thoroughly they would work, depends critically on the base we have to build up from. Indoor air today is dirty by default. The air you breathe in is air others have breathed out, complete with a wide range of viruses and bacteria. It's a little gross if you think about it, and people do get sick a lot, but most of the time we just accept the downsides. If something really serious were going around, though, this isn't a risk we'd accept. We'd need clean air: some combination of replacing infected air with outside air (ventilation), physically removing pathogens (purifiers, masks), or inactivating pathogens (far-UVC, glycol vapors). I hear a lot about stockpiling as a way to set us up for clean air when we most need it. Get a lot of masks, air purifiers, far-UVC [...] --- First published: November 15th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2Gv9Ki4KH2ywGhcs5/everyday-clean-air --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

    4 мин.

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    “Prioritise soil animals over farmed invertebrates?” by Vasco Grilo🔸

    Summary I would say the total welfare of soil animals is overdetermined to be much larger than that of farmed invertebrates in absolute terms. The individual welfare per animal-year of soil ants and termites should not differ much from that of farmed invertebrates, and I calculate the population of soil ants and termites is 3.93 M times that of farmed black soldier fly (BSF) larvae and mealworms, and 652 k times that of farmed shrimps. Projects targeting soil animals receive way less funding than ones targeting farmed invertebrates. The Wild Animal Initiative (WAI) granted 460 k$ to projects targeting invertebrates until 7 November 2025. In contrast, the Shrimp Welfare Project (SWP) received 2.9 M$ in 2024. I believe interventions changing land use can increase welfare much more cost-effectively than ones targeting farmed invertebrates. I estimate funding the Centre for Exploratory Altruism Research's (CEARCH's) High Impact Philanthropy Fund (HIPF), which I calculate increases agricultural land by 1.29 k m2-years per $, changes the welfare of soil ants, termites, springtails, mites, and nematodes 3.43 k times as cost-effectively as SWP's Humane Slaughter Initiative (HSI) increases the welfare of shrimps. I recommend research on the welfare of soil animals in different biomes over pursuing whatever land use change interventions naively look the most cost-effective. I have little [...] --- Outline: (00:11) Summary (03:04) The total welfare of soil animals is much larger in absolute terms (08:37) Projects targeting soil animals receive way less funding (09:23) Interventions changing land use can increase welfare much more cost-effectively than ones targeting farmed invertebrates (10:29) I recommend research informing how to increase the welfare of soil animals (11:20) There is no escape from the uncertainty of the effects on soil animals (14:27) Interested in funding research informing how to increase the welfare of soil animals? (14:54) Acknowledgements --- First published: November 15th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/7pwjTpiaD4ytj4W9Y/prioritise-soil-animals-over-farmed-invertebrates --- 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.

    15 мин.
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