EdoArad

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Hey! I’m Edo, married + 2 cats, I live in Tel-Aviv, Israel, and I feel weird writing about myself so I go meta.

I’m a mathematician, I love solving problems and helping people. My LinkedIn profile has some more stuff.

I’m a forum moderator, which mostly means that I care about this forum and about you! So let me know if there’s anything I can do to help.

I’m currently working full-time at EA Israel, doing independent research and project management. Currently mostly working on evaluating the impact of for-profit tech companies, but I have many projects and this changes rapidly.

EdoArad 16 Jan 2026 14:49 UTC
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in reply to: Toby_Ord’s comment on: Propose a debate topic—I’ll run one
Re the first point, I agree that the context should be related to a person with an EA philosophy.
Re the second point, I think that discussions about the EA portfolio are often interpreted as 0-sum or tribal, and may cause more division in the movement.
I agree that most of the effects of such a debate are likely about shifting around our portfolio of efforts. However, there are other possible effects (recruiting/onboarding/promoting/aiding existing efforts, or increasing the amount of total resources by getting more readers involved). Also, a shift in the portfolio can happen as a result of object-level discussion, and it is not clear to me which way is better.
I guess my main point is that I’d like people in the community to think less about the community should think. Err.. oops..

EdoArad 16 Jan 2026 14:03 UTC
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in reply to: Toby_Ord’s comment on: Propose a debate topic—I’ll run one
I think that this question will be better if it is framed not in terms of the EA community. This is because
1. The reasoning about the object level question involving timelines and different intervention strategies is very interesting in itself, and there’s no need to add the layer of understanding what the community is doing and how practically it could and should adjust.
2. Signal boosting a norm of focusing less on intra-movement prioritization and more on personal or marginal additional prioritization and object-level questions.
For example, I like Dylan’s reformulation attempt due to it being about object-level differences. Another could be to ask about the next $100K invested in AI safety.

EdoArad 12 Jan 2026 11:08 UTC
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on: How to compare theories of change in animal welfare?
Some thoughts:
1. Abolishment vs welfarism. The goals of the movement may diverge in both the long term vision (complete abolishment vs happy farms) and in respect to the medium term (less animals grown for food vs animals grown for food have better living standards).
2. Difference between species and tradeoffs between them (e.g. increased cost of pig meat can increase consumption of chicken meat).
3. As others have noted, there are important secondary effects on the movement itself for most interventions. I think it is a very important meta- question about how prioritization should account for it.

EdoArad 8 Jan 2026 4:55 UTC
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on: Re: Anthropic Chinese Cyber-Attack. How Do We Protect Open-source Models?
This is a really cool idea, and the level of execution on the testing and reasoning is spot on👌In particular I think it was a great choice to start experimenting with “plaintext” shared state.
This kind of research can also give some clarity on multi-agent AGI risk scenarios (e.g Distributional AGI: https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2512.16856 ), in the sense of coordination between supposedly stateless agents.

EdoArad 7 Jan 2026 12:30 UTC
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on: What do you want to see from the Forum team this year?
One use case for the forum is as a curated database of relevant writings, allowing for discussion and discovery, and perhaps useful for AI models. Perhaps it will be good to spam the forum with much more cross-posted content from blogs of relevant people and organizations.
If this is done on old posts, they shouldn’t appear on the frontpage, and automatically cross-posting should be possible and simple in current tech.

EdoArad 28 Dec 2025 16:38 UTC
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in reply to: exopriors’s comment on: Announcing Scry: A research tool over arXiv, EA Forum, etc. w/ SQL + Vibe/Vector Algebra
Im still in awe of current AI capabilities

EdoArad 26 Dec 2025 10:01 UTC
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on: Announcing Scry: A research tool over arXiv, EA Forum, etc. w/ SQL + Vibe/Vector Algebra
I’m curious about how representative the EA forum is to the EA community, particularly in regards to worldview. One thing you could try is to take the EA community surveys done by RP, and estimate how a random representative of “the forum” would answer, where the random representative might be a random user or a random comment/post weighted by karma or amount of text

EdoArad 19 Dec 2025 12:43 UTC
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on: Where did you donate this year?
EA Animal Welfare Fund

EdoArad 24 Nov 2025 16:07 UTC
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on: State of LLM-powered prioritization research
One awesome tool by Welfare Footprint Institute from last year is a Chat-GPT agent made for quantifying animal suffering using their framework

EdoArad 8 Nov 2025 12:34 UTC
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in reply to: Matt Alexander’s comment on: Matt Alexander’s Quick takes
Alternatively, people find engaging with bugs “yucky” so they prefer having an excuse not to step on a spider :\

EdoArad 15 Oct 2025 14:32 UTC
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on: EA in high-school economics education
Perhaps just introduce the idea of quantifying welfare? Or prioritization between programs in the context of NGOs and gov programs?

EdoArad 5 Sep 2025 5:57 UTC
8 points
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in reply to: Maria Amelia Pereira’s comment on: Open thread: July—September 2025
Hey Maria! In case you aren’t aware of them and their work, you might be interested in reaching out / following @Gidi Kadosh (VIVID), @spencerg (Spencer Greenberg of Clearer Thinking), @Inga (Inga Grossman of Rethink Wellbeing), and probably others I’m blanking out on 😊
Also, I’m curious about what you mean by “Foundations of Protection”?

EdoArad 5 Sep 2025 5:41 UTC
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on: Menopause—a neglected cause area?
For reference, @Kirsten also took a look into it several years ago—https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Kc4xQAu8R2qQnpzn8/khorton-s-shortform?commentId=epQcsE7PMNc4SENuT

EdoArad 5 Sep 2025 5:36 UTC
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in reply to: Elliot Billingsley 🔸’s comment on: Elliot Billingsley’s Quick takes
Metapod

EdoArad 23 Jun 2025 10:56 UTC
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in reply to: Jason’s comment on: Crunch time for cage-free
Thanks! This really clarifies the situation for me.

EdoArad 22 Jun 2025 16:43 UTC
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on: Crunch time for cage-free
Prices. Target frames its failure to meet its pledge in equity terms, stating [...]
From Chicken Watch, we find Target’s 2016′s commitment. There, it’s stated that
We Will:
- Transition to only cage-free shell eggs by 2025, pending available supply.
While in their 2025 report linked above (this), and in their website , it’s framed as a goal rather than a commitment:
Eggs: In 2016, Target set a goal to transition to a 100% cage-free egg supply chain by 2025 pending available supply.
I’m curious about the legality of this. Did they initially frame it as a commitment? Assuming their argument about unavailable (cheap) supply doesn’t hold, are they legally bound to uphold their commitment?

EdoArad 30 May 2025 6:17 UTC
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on: Positive effects of EA on mental health
I wonder how many people come across EA as a result of a mental health problem and post traumatic growth

EdoArad 30 May 2025 5:53 UTC
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on: Impact Review: Updates from Charity Entrepreneurship’s Incubated Organisations
Incredible work!

EdoArad 28 Apr 2025 13:49 UTC
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on: Poll: Should people with more forum karma have more powerful votes?
Vote power should scale with karma
Assuming at least half of the upvote value of high-karma posts-comments is from people with base upvote value.itd be interesting to check how that is actually distributed

EdoArad 30 Jan 2025 13:32 UTC
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on: Meta Coordination Forum (2024) / Talent Need Survey
Minor nitpick
Option 1: The EA movement instantly grows to include 1000 new highly-engaged, aligned EAs.
Option 2: X people hear about EA in a relatively high-fidelity way (e.g., through a long-form journalistic article).
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Responses here also reflected wide variation, spanning several orders of magnitude. The median value was 1 million, implying that gaining 1 highly engaged EA was rated roughly 10,000 times more valuable than introducing one person to EA in a relatively high fidelity way.
Should this be 1,000 times instead? (This also appears at the summary of key results as 10,000)