"The Unweaving of a Beautiful Thing" (1st prize 2021 creative writing contest), by atb, read by David Reinstein. Sorry for the half-assed accent work.

Original post

Written by Jason Schukraft

Original post by Jonathan Harris

Graph mentioned in episode

Original post

Written by Jason Schukraft

Read content and comments from EA Forum post "Research Summary: The Intensity of Valenced Experience across Species" by Jason Schukraft.

Cross hosted from "Found in the Struce"

David Reinstein:

Note: Despite what is said in this episode, today is not Smallpox Eradication Day. Smallpox Eradication Day is on December 9th. 

Original post by Jai

Read & edited by Garrett Baker

This post is a primarily motivational work on the horrible effects & eradication of smallpox.

Original post by Benjamin Todd

Read & edited by David Reinstein

Here’s a summary of what’s coming up:

Podcast originally posted here

Original Effective Altruism Forum post here

Read & Edited by David Reinstein

Reading "Why scientific research is less effective in producing value  than it could be: a mapping" post in the EA Forum (and peering at some  links).  Some comments and thoughts/my own experience.    Reading the comments section, especially comments from Linch Zhang,  IanDavidMoss, and AllAmericanBreakfast.

Outro snip: "Magic Terrapin" by Alfie Pugh, performed by the Locked Horns

I hope to follow up on this with a reading/discussion of  bit.ly/unjournal (or the EA Forum post version of this, if and when I  make it)

Read and Edited by Sam Nolan, Written by MichaelA

This is the second post in the series Improving the EA-Aligned Research Pipeline, What's wrong with the EA-Aligned Research Pipeline.

This reading discusses 10 potential issues with the pipeline as it currently stands. Most notably, it finds that although there are a large number of people, research questions and funders, but a bottleneck in vetting potential EA research candidates.

The first post in this series was:

Further posts in this series will be released soon.

Links: