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Anna Gat

Sep 23, 2026

60:46
is it gonna...
60:47
Man with good syntax.
60:48
That's like unparalleled.
60:51
It's really interesting.
60:52
So I sometimes try with Claude to imitate my writing style.
60:56
Like I have a lot of essays and stuff.
60:57
I haven't yet written a book in English.

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I think books are like dying.
1:55
Tell our listeners, what is it? Why'd you start it? What, what does it try to do?
2:01
Sure.
2:01
I do remember your, uh, episode that Bronwyn Williams hosted, who is a South African economist, um, and you came on to talk about your book Wild Problems that came out in 2022, which I greatly enjoyed.
2:14
Um, and yeah, I do still recommend it to people, and if somebody seems especially troubled in my life, I can offer it to them for Christmas with a little, you know, wink-wink, "Just read this." Um, (laughs) you know, I started Interintellect altogether in 2014, so 11 years ago.
2:32
Um, I was studying theater for my third master's degree because, you know, I make weird life choices, um, in London.
2:39
And you know what, I mean, I started, um, doing academic level classics when I was 19 in, in 2002, and had always been in these special programs, um, at high school as well, so you know, I always lived amongst the great philosophers.
2:56
And you know, having grown up in a show business family where people wrote screenplays and plays, it was very interesting to get the kind of Greek or Enlightenment German, Enlightenment French perspectives and then later the Romantic perspectives on how to write drama.

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(laughs)

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