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2025-11-12

About me

Connect with me

• Contact me (email, Signal), Contact me (secure) (pgp-encrypted email)
• Donate to me (monero, wire transfer), Trust me
• Youtube: @samuel.da.shadrach, Twitter: @samuel_sha13010. I will be inactive on social media (yt/twitter/insta/etc) until 2025-12. Email-only to communicate.

My CV

• Hunger Strike featured by ThePrint
• Completed ML Safety Scholars under Dan Hendrycks, UC Berkeley
• Managed risk for $1B AUM at cryptocurrency startup Rari Capital
• Graduated IIT Delhi Biochem engg BTech+MTech 2023. (Among top 3 engg colleges in India)
• DOB 2001-01-03, Male
• Notable influences - cypherpunks mailing list and its successors such as Tor/Signal/blockchain, extropians mailing list and its successors such as EA/lesswrong.

Projects completed

• Publish guide for whistleblowers of companies building superintelligent AI.
  • Whistleblower Guide, Whistleblower Database, Theory of change, Retrospective
  • Whistleblower Database converted to csv (may contain hallucinations!)
• 18 Days of Hunger Strike on livestream in protest of superintelligent AI.
  • Featured by: ThePrint, The Verge, Peninsula Press
  • Interviews: Interview 1, Interview 2, Interview 3

Current project

• Create educational content on this cause (for politicians, journalists, youtubers, software developers, general public).
  • Youtube: @samuel.da.shadrach, Twitter: @samuel_sha13010
  • Try AI models from 2019 to 2025, AI timelines talk
  • See also (not by me): Experts sign Dan Hendrycks' letter, Yudkowsky's interview, Yudkowsky's TIME article, Game: Universal Paperclips
  • The deference graph (average person then credentialed scientists then political youtubers then average person) must spread fear not just truth.

Projects on pause

• Political strategy around AI risk
  • Most important: Support the movement
  • See also: Prolific.com survey on AI pause, Discussion forums, Letter to AI lab heads, Why no religion?, Duncan Sabien's MtG colour wheel applied to Politics, My views on Lesswrong

Projects abandoned for now

• Miscellaneous research on human genetic engineering: Politics of HGE
• Building open source search engines: Books Search for Researchers, Open source search
• Miscellaneous research on privacy/transparency: SecureDrop review, Open source weaponry, Long-term view on information, tech and society
• Miscellaneous research on other topics, like geopolitics and tech and stuff: Unimportant
• For a more general audience: Courses for you, Advice for you

My values

• What do I want most out of my life? Preference order: Knowledge > Power > Freedom >> Community > Acceptingness

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