EA Talks
Patrick Brinich-Langlois
Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways you can best help others, whether through your charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. EA Talks features presentations and discussions that can help you find something you're excited about. Lately, we've been focusing a lot on new opportunities in pandemic prevention, charity entrepreneurship, and AI safety. But we also have talks on other important topics like animal welfare, global health, nuclear security, climate change, and cause prioritization research. Most of the content is from EA Global videos, packaged for easy listening on the go. If you have feedback or would like to suggest an episode, please reach out.
Episodes
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Apr 23, 2018 • 30min
EAG 2017 London: Importance of operations roles in EA/X-risk community (Tanya Singh)
I will be talking about the importance of operations roles in the EA and X-risk community, and the disproportionate impact you can have as an individual when contributing towards running operations. The dearth of interested/talented people willing to run operations makes it a very crucial focus area for organisations (especially in this space). Operational efficiency can hugely amplify the output of the organisation, and turbocharge its mission.Source: Effective Altruism Global (video).Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways to do the most good possible, whether through charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. EA Global conferences are gatherings for EAs to meet. You can also listen to this talk along with its accompanying video on YouTube.
Apr 23, 2018 • 31min
EAG 2017 London: Implementing cause prioritization at OpenPhil (Ajeya Cotra)
I go through a number of tangles that have come up trying to translate cause prioritisation theory into practice at OpenPhil, some proposed patches, and remaining open questions. (Credit for most of these ideas goes to other people; I make attributions whenever I can.)Source: Effective Altruism Global (video).Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways to do the most good possible, whether through charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. EA Global conferences are gatherings for EAs to meet. You can also listen to this talk along with its accompanying video on YouTube.
Apr 23, 2018 • 7min
EAG 2017 London: Humanity’s impact on wild-animal suffering (Persis Eskander)
Source: Effective Altruism Global (video).Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways to do the most good possible, whether through charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. EA Global conferences are gatherings for EAs to meet. You can also listen to this talk along with its accompanying video on YouTube.
Apr 23, 2018 • 33min
EAG 2017 London: Governance of artificial intelligence (Allan Dafoe)
AI will transform employment, wealth, power, and world order, posing tremendous opportunities and risks. Allan Dafoe will reflect on how we can prepare for and steer these transformations.Source: Effective Altruism Global (video).Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways to do the most good possible, whether through charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. EA Global conferences are gatherings for EAs to meet. You can also listen to this talk along with its accompanying video on YouTube.
Apr 23, 2018 • 5min
EAG 2017 London: Ethical obligations lightning talk (Jonathan Courtney)
Source: Effective Altruism Global (video).Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways to do the most good possible, whether through charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. EA Global conferences are gatherings for EAs to meet. You can also listen to this talk along with its accompanying video on YouTube.
Apr 23, 2018 • 27min
EAG 2017 London: Fireside Chat (Shamil Chandaria and William MacAskill)
Source: Effective Altruism Global (video).Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways to do the most good possible, whether through charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. EA Global conferences are gatherings for EAs to meet. You can also listen to this talk along with its accompanying video on YouTube.
Apr 23, 2018 • 26min
EAG 2017 London: GiveWell incubation grants (James Snowden)
This talk will focus on the work GiveWell are doing to assess interventions aimed at achieving legislative change to improve public health. GiveWell have so far made one grant in this area, to the Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention. James will talk about what GiveWell learned assessing this opportunity, and how the process differed from assessing more direct interventions.Source: Effective Altruism Global (video).Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways to do the most good possible, whether through charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. EA Global conferences are gatherings for EAs to meet. You can also listen to this talk along with its accompanying video on YouTube.
Apr 23, 2018 • 26min
EAG 2017 London: Opening talk (Will MacAskill)
Source: Effective Altruism Global (video).Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways to do the most good possible, whether through charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. EA Global conferences are gatherings for EAs to meet. You can also listen to this talk along with its accompanying video on YouTube.
Nov 3, 2017 • 16min
EAG 2017 SF: Closing talk (Will MacAskill)
Source: Effective Altruism Global (video).Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways to do the most good possible, whether through charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. EA Global conferences are gatherings for EAs to meet. You can also listen to this talk along with its accompanying video on YouTube.
Nov 3, 2017 • 50min
EAG 2017 SF: Musings on advanced artificial intelligence (panel)
Dario Amodei, OpenAI Tasha McCauley, GeoSim Jan Leike, DeepMind Helen Toner, Open Philanthropy Project Owen Cotton-Barratt, Future of Humanity Institute.Source: Effective Altruism Global (video).Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways to do the most good possible, whether through charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. EA Global conferences are gatherings for EAs to meet. You can also listen to this talk along with its accompanying video on YouTube.
