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#97 - Did Effective Altruism Have Ulterior Motives From the Beginning?

January 22nd, 2026  |  1 hr 41 mins

ai safety, deception, effective altruism, ulterior motives

Was EA a front for AI safety the whole time?

#46 (Bonus) - Arguing about probability (with Nick Anyos)

December 19th, 2022  |  1 hr 59 mins

bayesianism, effective altruism, longtermism, probability, statistics

Ben and Vaden make a guest appearance on Nick Anyos' podcast on criticisms of effective altruism. As usual, they end up arguing about probability for most of it.

#44 - Longtermism Revisited: What We Owe the Future

October 3rd, 2022  |  1 hr 2 mins

effective altruism, ethics, longtermism, philosophy

Could have seen this one coming. We discuss Will MacAskill's new book "What We Owe the Future."

#41 - Parenting, Epistemology, and EA (w/ Lulie Tanett)

June 20th, 2022  |  1 hr 18 mins

bayesianism, critical rationalism, effective altruism, epistemology, rationality

We're joined by the wonderful Lulie Tanett to talk about effective altruism, pulling spouses out of burning buildings, and why you should prefer critical rationalism to Bayesianism for your mom's sake.

#36 - Analyzing Effective Altruism as a Social Movement

January 26th, 2022  |  56 mins 15 secs

core values, cults, effective altruism, groupthink, social movements

Vaden and Ben debate Effective Altruism and provocatively ask "Is EA a cult?" and come up with a resounding... Kinda. Maybe. It's hard to say.

#20 (HTI crossover episode) - Roundtable Longtermism Discussion

March 8th, 2021  |  3 hrs 14 mins

debate, effective altruism, longtermism

#17 - Against Longtermism

December 18th, 2020  |  1 hr 30 mins

bayesianism, effective altruism, expected value, longtermism