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031 | Kat Woods — Effective Altruism, Infohazards, and Brain Hacks
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Kat Woods is an effective altruist and the co-founder of Nonlinear, which incubates longtermist nonprofits by connecting founders with ideas, funding, and mentorship. Gianluca and Kat discuss brain hacks for curing imposter syndrome and being more agentic, infohazards, the simulation hypothesis, why you don’t need permission to do things, “passive impact” via automation, and Kat’s exciting new projects at Nonlinear.
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Kat Woods on Twitter: www.twitter.com/Kat__Woods
Gianluca on Twitter: www.twitter.com/QVagabond
Kat’s blog: www.katwoods.org/
Nonlinear: www.nonlinear.org/
Effective Altruism (EA): https://www.effectivealtruism.org/
The Effective Altruism Handbook: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/handbook
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10016013-harry-potter-and-the-methods-of-rationality
Replacing Guilt: https://anchor.fm/guilt
SMBC cartoon on compatibilism: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/compatibilism
Nonlinear Library (podcast): https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/JTZTBienqWEAjGDRv/listen-to-more-ea-content-with-the-nonlinear-library
Kat’s post on text-to-speech automation: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/tAWK33eNXZKMckPhn/how-and-why-to-turn-everything-into-audio
Nonlinear support fund: www.nonlinear.org/productivity-fund.html
Nonlinear bounty programme: https://super-linear.org/
EA hiring agency: https://second-bellflower-54f.notion.site/EA-Hiring-Agency-0d6d75a0f5934455be9003fd7886d537
Nonlinear newsletter: www.nonlinear.org/subscribe.html
Bit of a Tangent on Twitter: www.twitter.com/podtangent
Bit of a Tangent on Instagram: instagram.com/podtangent/
31 episodes
Manage episode 338487479 series 2519888
Kat Woods is an effective altruist and the co-founder of Nonlinear, which incubates longtermist nonprofits by connecting founders with ideas, funding, and mentorship. Gianluca and Kat discuss brain hacks for curing imposter syndrome and being more agentic, infohazards, the simulation hypothesis, why you don’t need permission to do things, “passive impact” via automation, and Kat’s exciting new projects at Nonlinear.
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Shownotes:
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Kat Woods on Twitter: www.twitter.com/Kat__Woods
Gianluca on Twitter: www.twitter.com/QVagabond
Kat’s blog: www.katwoods.org/
Nonlinear: www.nonlinear.org/
Effective Altruism (EA): https://www.effectivealtruism.org/
The Effective Altruism Handbook: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/handbook
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10016013-harry-potter-and-the-methods-of-rationality
Replacing Guilt: https://anchor.fm/guilt
SMBC cartoon on compatibilism: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/compatibilism
Nonlinear Library (podcast): https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/JTZTBienqWEAjGDRv/listen-to-more-ea-content-with-the-nonlinear-library
Kat’s post on text-to-speech automation: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/tAWK33eNXZKMckPhn/how-and-why-to-turn-everything-into-audio
Nonlinear support fund: www.nonlinear.org/productivity-fund.html
Nonlinear bounty programme: https://super-linear.org/
EA hiring agency: https://second-bellflower-54f.notion.site/EA-Hiring-Agency-0d6d75a0f5934455be9003fd7886d537
Nonlinear newsletter: www.nonlinear.org/subscribe.html
Bit of a Tangent on Twitter: www.twitter.com/podtangent
Bit of a Tangent on Instagram: instagram.com/podtangent/
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