Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️

Karma: 5,202

Co-founder of Nonlinear, Charity Entrepreneurship, Charity Science Health, and Charity Science.

The x-risk case for exercise: to have the most impact, the world needs you at your best

Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️29 Dec 2025 15:37 UTC

45 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Don’t stop being an EA because you dislike EAs. You don’t have to interact with most EAs. Just the ones you like.

Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️28 Dec 2025 16:16 UTC

141 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Burnout, depression, and AI safety: some concrete mental health strategies

Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️26 Dec 2025 19:52 UTC

9 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

ASI Already Knows About Torture—In Defense of Talking Openly About S-Risks

Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️11 Dec 2025 21:15 UTC

2 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

Why you should eat meat—even if you hate factory farming

Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️25 Sep 2025 12:12 UTC

59 points

80 comments10 min readEA link

The most common mistakes people make starting EA orgs

Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️23 Aug 2025 14:18 UTC

20 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

Should you start a for-profit AI safety org?

Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️15 Aug 2025 13:52 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

How to get ChatGPT to really thoroughly research something

Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️15 Aug 2025 12:54 UTC

13 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Having children is not the most effective way to improve the world. Have them because you want them, not “for impact”.

Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️10 Aug 2025 6:54 UTC

55 points

17 comments2 min readEA link

Alcohol is so bad for society that you should probably stop drinking

Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️3 Aug 2025 15:30 UTC

188 points

40 comments8 min readEA link

Prediction: Soylent/Huel is to whole foods as baby formula is to breast milk. We keep thinking “THIS time we’ve figured out everything a human body needs.” Then we keep finding out that things are more complex.

Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️27 Jul 2025 15:27 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

New AI safety funding source for people raising awareness about AI risk or advocating for a pause

Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️26 Jul 2025 12:25 UTC

16 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

The Old EA Who Lost Her Donations: A Proverb on Epistemic Absurdism

Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️23 Jul 2025 13:26 UTC

7 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

If you want to be vegan but you worry about health effects of no meat, consider being vegan except for mussels/oysters

Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️30 Jun 2025 13:30 UTC

79 points

13 comments1 min readEA link

Kat Woods’s Quick takes

Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️6 Jun 2025 16:01 UTC

7 points

0 comments EA link

o3 is not being released to the public. First they are only giving access to external safety testers. You can apply to get early access to do safety testing

Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️20 Dec 2024 18:30 UTC

13 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

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Nonlinear’s Evidence: Debunking False and Misleading Claims

Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️12 Dec 2023 13:15 UTC

152 points

512 comments51 min readEA link

A quick update from Nonlinear

Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️7 Sep 2023 21:26 UTC

85 points

34 comments3 min readEA link

An EA Fairy Tale

Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️17 Jul 2023 11:41 UTC

23 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

Apply to >50 AI safety funders in one application with the Nonlinear Network [Round Closed]

Drew Spartz12 Apr 2023 21:06 UTC

156 points

18 comments2 min readEA link