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“More EAs should consider working for the EU” by EU Policy Careers (00:11:56)
Context: The authors are a few EAs who currently work or have previously worked at the European Commission. In this post, we make the case that more people[1] aiming for a high impact career should c...
“The Scaling Series Discussion Thread: with Toby Ord” by Toby Tremlett🔹 (00:02:40)
We're trying something a bit new this week. Over the last year, Toby Ord has been writing about the implications of the fact that improvements in AI require exponentially more compute. Only one of the...
[Linkpost] “Are the Costs of AI Agents Also Rising Exponentially?” by Toby_Ord (00:15:16)
This is a link post. There is an extremely important question about the near-future of AI that almost no-one is asking. We’ve all seen the graphs from METR showing that the length of tasks AI agents ...
[Linkpost] “Evidence that Recent AI Gains are Mostly from Inference-Scaling” by Toby_Ord (00:10:01)
This is a link post. In the last year or two, the most important trend in modern AI came to an end. The scaling-up of computational resources used to train ever-larger AI models through next-token pre...
[Linkpost] “The Extreme Inefficiency of RL for Frontier Models” by Toby_Ord (00:14:34)
This is a link post. The new scaling paradigm for AI reduces the amount of information a model can learn from per hour of training by a factor of 1,000 to 1,000,000. I explore what this means and its ...
[Linkpost] “Inference Scaling Reshapes AI Governance” by Toby_Ord (00:34:49)
This is a link post. The shift from scaling up the pre-training compute of AI systems to scaling up their inference compute may have profound effects on AI governance. The nature of these effects depe...
[Linkpost] “Is there a Half-Life for the Success Rates of AI Agents?” by Toby_Ord (00:19:45)
This is a link post. Building on the recent empirical work of Kwa et al. (2025), I show that within their suite of research-engineering tasks the performance of AI agents on longer-duration tasks can ...
[Linkpost] “Inference Scaling and the Log-x Chart” by Toby_Ord (00:16:32)
This is a link post. Improving model performance by scaling up inference compute is the next big thing in frontier AI. But the charts being used to trumpet this new paradigm can be misleading. While t...
[Linkpost] “The Scaling Paradox” by Toby_Ord (00:16:16)
This is a link post. AI capabilities have improved remarkably quickly, fuelled by the explosive scale-up of resources being used to train the leading models. But if you examine the scaling laws that i...
“Why Isn’t EA at the Table When $121 Billion Gets Allocated to Biodiversity Every Year?” by David Goodman (00:09:09)
There is an insane amount of money being thrown around by international organizations and agreements. Nobody with any kind of power over these agreements is asking basic EA questions like: "What are t...
“If EA ruled the world, career advisors would tell some people to work for the postal service” by Toby Tremlett🔹 (00:01:54)
EA thinking is thinking on the margin. When EAs prioritise causes, they are prioritising causes given the fact that they only control their one career, or, sometimes, given that they have some influen...
“5 ways to better charity work in 2026” by NickLaing (00:15:20)
I've started a substack, so a few more people might encounter my spicy takes - I'll still mostly be here. USAID is gone. Direct country aid to low income countries is down 25%. So now's a great time ...
“Reflections on FarmKind’s January media campaign” by Aidan Alexander, ThomNorman (00:31:47)
Summary In January 2025, FarmKind ran a provocative media campaign which used controversial media messaging and materials to promote ‘offsetting’ as an option for individuals who are concerned about f...
“Announcing All the Lives You Can Change” by JDBauman, dominicroser, DavidZhang (00:08:31)
Summary Our new book, All the Lives You Can Change: Effective Altruism for Christians, will be published in April 28 2026 The book introduces effective altruism–style thinking to a Christian audience...
“Is EA underfunding animal advocacy according to our own preferences?” by ElliotTep (00:07:37)
TL;DR When surveyed, the EA community and leaders think ~18-24% of resources should go towards animal advocacy. The actual figure is about 7%. We as the EA ecosystem are putting less resources (money...
“Why I Donate: A Personal Story” by Stien (00:19:09)
Thank you At EAGx Amsterdam, I shared most of this as a talk. I was afraid I'd run out of time, so I decided to do things backwards and start with the thank you. I did not want to miss the most import...
“Don’t stop being an EA because you dislike EAs. You don’t have to interact with most EAs. Just the ones you like.” by Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️ (00:02:12)
An all too common reason I’ve seen to “quit EA” is disliking aspects of the community. Maybe “they’re” too focused on the “wrong cause area” or are skeptical of yours. Maybe “they” annoy you. Maybe “t...
“Untitled Retrospective and Learnings from AI in Context’s First Two VideosDraft” by ChanaMessinger (00:18:52)
Note: I used LLMs to draft different parts of this. I've checked almost everything, but there might be some mistakes remaining. Apologies for posting this on Christmas Eve. I wanted to get this out th...
“I give because it’s the most rational way to spend my money” by Lorenzo Buonanno🔸 (00:08:46)
I really enjoyed reading the "why I donate" posts in the past week, so much so that I felt compelled to add my reflections, in case someone finds my reasons as interesting as I found theirs. 1. My mon...
“Why I donate: some selfish reasons” by Kestrel🔸 (00:05:52)
This year, I have given money to a range of EA cause areas. Most of it has either been towards global health and development, or EA infrastructure I believe does or could lead to effective fundraising...
“Ten big wins in 2025 for farmed animals” by LewisBollard (00:10:23)
Note: This post was crossposted from the Coefficient Giving Farm Animal Welfare Research Newsletter by the Forum team, with the author's permission. The author may not see or respond to comments on th...
“The Further Pledge: Voluntary Simplicity” by GeorgeBridgwater (00:12:00)
Conscious Meaning We share every moment with trillions of other conscious beings. Some are much like us, and others experience the world very differently. Creatures without a language to structure the...
“GWWC’s 2025 evaluations of evaluators” by Aidan Whitfield🔸, Giving What We Can🔸 (00:07:25)
The Giving What We Can research team is excited to share the results of our 2025 round of evaluations of charity evaluators and grantmakers! In this round, we completed two evaluations that will info...
“I Donate because I am Christian” by NickLaing (00:07:02)
And Effective Altruism has put my faith community to shame The BeginningWhen I became a Christian age 15 my life began to transform, but sadly my first external play was proclaiming no sex before mar...
“3 doubts about veganism” by emre kaplan🔸 (00:05:44)
I keep thinking about what kind of identity would be useful for building a powerful animal advocacy movement. Here are 3 features of veganism that I often think about which make me doubt its usefulnes...
