​What we're going to do

​Doing the most good can run into many pitfalls. Sometimes, you don't know what the right thing to do is. Sometimes you have to say no to people who pressure or manipulate you into doing the wrong thing. And sometimes you need to spend time reflecting on what matters most to you, and where your bottlenecks are.

​Join us at the Amsterdam EA Office for a rationality workshop, where Shoshannah will be teaching "How to do the Right Thing" to help people figure out what is true and how to act on it, Damon will be teaching "Defense Against the Dark Arts" to help people identify and resist manipulation from others, and then everyone will be guided through Hamming Question prompts to help people orient to what their life needs most right now.

​Schedule

• ​13:30 Meet and Greet (walk-in)

• ​13:50 Intro Speech

• ​14:00-15:00 Workshop 1: How to do the right thing?

• ​15:15- 16:15 Workshop 2: Defence Against the Dark Arts

• ​16:30-18:00 Hamming Questions

• ​18:00-20:00 Dinner & Social

​​​For whom is this workshop?

​​​Everyone who's trying to put the principles of Effective Altruism into practice and wants to become more effective in doing so!

​​​About Shoshannah Tekofsky

​​BSc Cognitive Science || MSc Computer Science || PhD in Player Modeling in Video Games. Past research at the MIT Media Lab and the European Space Agency. Experienced data scientist and manager in large corporate and small startup contexts. Expertise in Video Games, Education, Analytics, and AI. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at AI Digest.

​​​Her previous workshops are generally rated as very engaging (~4.5/5) and useful in EA work (~4/5).

​About Damon Pourtahmaseb-Sasi

​Therapist and author, though in the past few years he has also spent ~250 days teaching or directing applied rationality camps, workshops etc. around the world.