Toby Tremlett🔹

Karma: 10,007

OOO for a while—likely all of September.

Hello! I’m Toby. I’m the EA Forum Product Lead at CEA. I’m responsible for the EA Forum’s success.

You’ll see me posting a lot, authoring the EA Newsletter and curating Forum Digests, making moderator comments and decisions, and more. I’m the person to reach out to with feature requests, complaints, suggestions, etc...

Outside of work, I’m hosting a podcast with my friend Frances: The World Can Be Better, and writing blogposts on anything I feel like.

Before working at CEA, I studied Philosophy at the University of Warwick, and worked for a couple of years on a range of writing and editing projects within the EA space. I also helped run the Amplify Creative Grants program, to encourage more impactful podcasting and YouTube projects (the biggest success of the program was ‘How I learned to love shrimp’).

Results: Cluelessness Critiques Competition

Will Aldred29 Aug 2026 17:38 UTC

59 points

0 comments7 min readEA link

Toby Tremlett🔹 26 Aug 2026 8:47 UTC
4 points
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in reply to: abrahamrowe’s comment on: tobytrem’s Quick takes
Thanks Abraham, that’s good to know! FWIW the new & upvoted page is just the Forum frontpage as it was before, so if you just ignore the featured page, your forum experience shouldn’t change at all.
Also we did feature that post—so if you check the featured page you’d have been more likely to see it overall than previously (when something niche but impactful like that was likely to get low karma and sink off the frontpage pretty quick).

Toby Tremlett🔹 24 Aug 2026 14:53 UTC
3 points
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in reply to: Jacob Johnson’s comment on: Open thread: 2026 Q3 (July—September)
Hey Jacob!
I think it depends on your views, mostly on AI. A lot of AI folks are in a sprint right now to get things done before AI becomes too powerful to affect. If that’s your view, then likely further education won’t be the best shout, since adding two—six years to the start of your professional life before you get stuck in might mean missing the boat.
However, if that isn’t your view, and you have reason not to be as concerned about AI, then I’d guess the answer would depend a lot on your cause prioritisation, and what you’re best at. Sorry I can’t be more specific, I’m not a career advisor :)

Toby Tremlett🔹 24 Aug 2026 14:50 UTC
2 points
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in reply to: Alex_Bibeau’s comment on: Open thread: 2026 Q3 (July—September)
Welcome Alex! LMK if you have any Qs about the Forum.

Toby Tremlett🔹 24 Aug 2026 14:49 UTC
2 points
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in reply to: Amy Black’s comment on: Open thread: 2026 Q3 (July—September)
Hey Amy! Welcome to the Forum.
My top advice on getting started is to pick a post from the EA Forum’s digest every week (or from the featured homepage), and read it. You’ll pick up the lingo pretty quick. An optional extra bit of homework is to leave a comment either continuing the analysis or asking a thoughtful question.

Toby Tremlett🔹 24 Aug 2026 11:41 UTC
2 points
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in reply to: ssd’s comment on: Open thread: 2026 Q3 (July—September)
Welcome Serena! Great to have you here. Let me know if you have any questions I might be able to help with :)

Toby Tremlett🔹 24 Aug 2026 11:40 UTC
3 points
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in reply to: Subham Som’s comment on: Open thread: 2026 Q3 (July—September)
Welcome Subham! Let me know if you have any questions about EA, or the Forum.

Toby Tremlett🔹 24 Aug 2026 11:39 UTC
2 points
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in reply to: Nii Simmonds’s comment on: Open thread: 2026 Q3 (July—September)
Sounds awesome Nii! Toby Ord wrote about the potential of optimising remittances years ago.
Interested to see this being worked on more!

Toby Tremlett🔹 21 Aug 2026 9:44 UTC
8 points
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on: tobytrem’s Quick takes
After the initial experiment period, we’ve decided to keep the featured page.

One of the key graphs in making this decision is below:

Now that the featured page is likely to stick around long term, I’d like to start collecting ideas for V2^[1]. Do you use the page? Do you pointedly not use the page? I’d love to get any and all feedback, in the comments here, or via this form.
Please share small things like aesthetic tweaks as well as larger issues such as a disagreement on the kind of posts that get featured, or how featuring is done. Happy to answer questions too.
1. ^
  I.e., the current version is a prototype, and I’m ready to do a full redesign if necessary. Because of some protracted OOO I might have to take soon—V2 might land near the end of September, or even early October.
What links here?
- The Featured Page by Toby Tremlett🔹 (28 Jul 2026 10:33 UTC; 30 points)

Toby Tremlett🔹 20 Aug 2026 10:22 UTC
4 points
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on: New Research: Climate Mitigation is Overlooked by EA
I’m curating this post. It’s a great summary of some under-discussed research, and it has the potential to kick off a very valuable conversation (which we are seeing the start of—thanks jackva). I’d love to see more of an in depth comparison of investments in climate mitigation vs global health vs economic growth, especially accounting for more funding coming to global health. This post is a great start. Thanks Dan!

Toby Tremlett🔹 20 Aug 2026 10:15 UTC
2 points
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in reply to: Jim Buhler’s comment on: Bottom-Up Bracketing: A Person-Centered Response to Cluelessness
Award explanation: I’m awarding this comment from Jim although I could have awarded many of his others—he’s bringing loads of value in his comments this week, de-confusing conversations and responding to posts with helpful clarifying questions. Thanks Jim!
What links here?
- Results: Cluelessness Critiques Competition by Will Aldred (29 Aug 2026 17:38 UTC; 59 points)

Toby Tremlett🔹 17 Aug 2026 9:43 UTC
5 points
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on: tobytrem’s Quick takes
Since we’ve got so many good entries to the Cluelessness Critiques Competition, I’m currently planning not to feature any of them (even those that would otherwise qualify). This’ll mean that you can escape the cluelessness conversation by toggling to the featured page.
Alternatively, on the ‘new and upvoted’ page, you can customise your feed to hide the Cluelessness Critiques Week tag.

Cluelessness Critiques Week: Discussion Thread

Toby Tremlett🔹17 Aug 2026 7:40 UTC

28 points

29 comments1 min readEA link

Toby Tremlett🔹 16 Aug 2026 17:54 UTC
2 points
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in reply to: Boas’s comment on: Announcing: Cluelessness Critiques Competition
Good point! I’ll be posting everyone’s posts on Monday (with some exceptions that I’ll explain more when I do). There is however nothing in the rules that says you have to wait, so feel free to post early if you’d like.

Toby Tremlett🔹 13 Aug 2026 8:16 UTC
2 points
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in reply to: Sarah Cheng 🔸’s comment on: Nathan Young’s Shortform
Keen to hear that case.
And I agree,
Bottleneck is more time than anything.
...this would be alleviated by another good hire. We are getting into the hiring queue now, so hopefully we’ll be hiring another content manager in the near(ish) future.

Toby Tremlett🔹 12 Aug 2026 12:56 UTC
13 points
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in reply to: James Herbert’s comment on: Nathan Young’s Shortform
Yes, but there is always more of this to do. I.e. some great posts come from me nudging organisations or small conferences to post more. Bottleneck is more time than anything.

Editing to add—Forum readers can help here. If you read something that you think should be on the Forum, nudge the author to post it. If you don’t have time, ping me to do so. Sometimes I offer light editing or accountability support as well to get things over the line.

Toby Tremlett🔹 12 Aug 2026 8:48 UTC
7 points
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in reply to: Sarah Cheng 🔸’s comment on: Nathan Young’s Shortform
Thanks both! Relatedly, the Online Team is now more empowered to follow a strategy where growth is not the key aim of the Forum (currently our best guess is measuring ‘mind changes’, but stay tuned for precise metrics).
I’m very open to suggestions for how to make the EA Forum more of a place where crucial conversations are being had, and decisions are being made. This includes critiques. I’d love to hear more from people on how they think they Forum is falling short, here, in DM, or over a call.

Toby Tremlett🔹 11 Aug 2026 13:42 UTC
3 points
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in reply to: Hazem🔸’s comment on: Hazem Hassan ’s Quick takes
Interesting! Kind of odd to see the peak being Wednesday (the day I write and send the digest) because posts posted on Wednesday will necessarily have the lowest karma relative to their final amount, and I start off with a list of all posts sorted by karma. Recommended matters most because the rest of the digest is for announcements etc… which are featured when relevant regardless of karma.

Toby Tremlett🔹 30 Jul 2026 9:45 UTC
10 points
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on: Never born, then maybe died twice
I’m curating this post.
Being aware of and grateful for privilege, and wanting to pass on our luck, has always been an important moral strain in effective altruism (just look at GWWC’s live pledge motivations). This post is a great example of it^[1].
Thanks for posting Nick!
1. ^
  I also value the exploration of the reverse—the guilt at not using privilege when you could.

Toby Tremlett🔹 30 Jul 2026 8:13 UTC
2 points
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in reply to: RohanSR🔸’s comment on: The Featured Page
Yep :)
this would resolve the issue
It’s live!

Toby Tremlett🔹

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