

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.
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Nov 3, 2017 • 12min
EAG 2017 SF: Virtual reality for promoting empathy (Jose Valle)
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 • 40min
EAG 2017 SF: Logistics at scale (panel)
This panel aims to expose the type of complexity, engineering, and logistics required to successfully execute large projects, including representatives from manufacturing, logistics, computation, and a social initiative at scale.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 • 33min
EAG 2017 SF: The Open Philanthropy Project’s work on potential risks from advanced AI (Daniel Dewey)
An update on Open Philanthropy Project’s views on AI risk (misalignment risks and strategic risks), general plan (AI alignment and strategy field-building), and the work we’ve done so far.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 • 51min
EAG 2017 SF: GiveWell top charities and incubation grants (panel)
Catherine Hollander and Josh Rosenberg talk about GiveWell’s top charities and incubation grants.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 • 49min
EAG 2017 SF: Getting things done (panel)
Getting things done panel with Malo Bourgon, Cathleen Kilgallen, Nathan Labenz, Duncan Sabien, and Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg.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 • 31min
EAG 2017 SF: Lunar colony (Will Marshall)
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 • 48min
EAG 2017 SF: Marketing effective altruism (panel)
Kerry Vaughan – Marketing, The Centre for Effective Altruism Rachel Atcheson – Animal Welfare Community Liaison, NYC Mayor’s Office speaker Nathan Labenz – CEO, Waymark speaker Matt Johnson – Chief Marketing Officer, GiveDirectly.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 • 52min
EAG 2017 SF: Celebrating failed projects (panel)
Celebrating failed projects panel with Kerry Vaughan, Michael Page, Alyssa Vance and Nathan Labenz.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 • 19min
EAG 2017 SF: Center for Effective Global Action (Ofir Reich)
Developing country governments spend a considerable chunk of their budget on poverty alleviation. These are tens or hundreds of billions of dollars in funding every year. Governments also make decisions that have profound influence on their economy, which affects their residents, the world’s poor. A small probability to positively affect those has a very large expected utility effect. As the governments themselves, or as donors, we should think of the most cost-effective investments and pursue them. However, as individual EAs we should ask “how much change can I make?”. It’s possible that working with developing country governments is individually more effective than setting up cost-effective NGOs, and so should be an EA strategy. Based in UC Berkeley, the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) is a network of 70+ academics on the West Coast who devise and test solutions to problems of poverty, often working with governments. We’ll present examples from CEGA research where involvement in government policy can have huge effects, and tentatively propose ways to pursue it.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 • 35min
EAG 2017 SF: Fireside chat (Bruce Friedrich and Paul Shapiro)
Fireside chat with Paul Shapiro, Vice President of Policy at the Humane Society of the United States and Bruce Friedrich the Executive Director of The Good Food 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.


