EA Forum Bot Site
EA Forum

Toby Tremlett🔹

Content Strategist @ CEA
6535 karmaJoined Working (0-5 years)Oxford, UK
Interests:
PhilosophyCause prioritizationAnimal welfare

Bio

Participation
2

Hello! I'm Toby. I'm Content Strategist at CEA. I work with the Online Team to make sure the Forum is a great place to discuss doing the most good we can. You'll see me posting a lot, authoring the EA Newsletter and curating Forum Digests, making moderator comments and decisions, and more. 

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. Recently I helped run the Amplify Creative Grants program, to encourage more impactful podcasting and YouTube projects. You can find a bit of my own creative output on my blog, and my podcast feed.

How others can help me

Reach out to me if you're worried about your first post, want to double check Forum norms, or are confused or curious about anything relating to the EA Forum.

How I can help others

Reach out to me if you're worried about your first post, want to double check Forum norms, or are confused or curious about anything relating to the EA Forum.

Sequences
3

Best of: Career Conversations Week 2025
Best of: Existential Choices Week
Existential Choices: Reading List

Comments
508

Topic contributions
75

New Spanish-language book on "classical EA"
Toby Tremlett🔹9
1
0
1

Pablo will be doing an AMA on September 4th - you can start leaving him questions now. 

Reply
Lorenzo Buonanno's Quick takes
Toby Tremlett🔹6
1
0

Maybe it was just the titling of the essay - but I was surprised when I read it to see no mention of giving a la givedirectly (i.e. to people in extreme poverty). I take it that these results don't imply much of an update there? Am I wrong? 

Reply
William_MacAskill's Quick takes
Toby Tremlett🔹15
9
0

IMO that's a bit of an exaggeration - the architect/gardener idea isn't very original anyway, and the AI generated story has a very different subject than GRRM's metaphor - i.e. if it was human written I would call this inspiration (at most) not plagiarism. It is interesting that it chose the same nouns though! 

Reply
August '25 EA Newsletter Poll: I'd be doing less good if I hadn't heard of EA.
Toby Tremlett🔹7
0
0
80% agree

I'd be doing less good with my life if I hadn't heard of effective altruism

It's hard to know what I would have discovered if there wasn't an 'effective altruism' movement, but before being involved in EA, I was:
- Kind of grossed out by the idea of comparing charities.
- Very innumerate in my reasoning. 
- Very influenced by my surroundings on the question of how to do good. 
I like to think that doing good would still have been important to me, but I think I'd be much worse, and much less strategic at it. My donations alone almost guarantee that I'm doing more good than I would have been otherwise. 

Reply
Saidi, My Friend—what do we owe to each other?
Toby Tremlett🔹5
0
0

Just commenting to say I really loved this one, and I'm glad that Saidi's family is doing alright. Thanks for sharing!

Reply
Open thread: July - September 2025
Toby Tremlett🔹2
0
0

That's awesome Emmanuel! Glad you found a way to make sense of altruism :)
Let me know if you have any questions about EA, or the Forum,
Toby, from the EA Forum team. 

Reply
GPT-5 is out
Toby Tremlett🔹*10
0
0
1

Some important questions from an EA perspective I don't know the answer to:

  • How much of an improvement is it on previous models, and how was it made [i.e. is it all just scaffolding/ longer reasoning, or was this a bigger model]? Is scaling still working? How has it changed AGI predictions?
  • How much safety testing was done on this release? What were the results?
  • Is this being received by the market the way OpenAI hopes / how is the AI bubble doing? 
Reply
Load more