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2025-11-07

About me

Samuel Headshot Casual

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

Projects on pause

Create educational content on this cause (for politicians, journalists, youtubers, software developers, general public).
Political strategy around AI risk
- Support the movement, Prolific.com survey on AI pause, Discussion forums, Letter to AI lab heads, Why no religion?, My views on Lesswrong

Future projects/goals

Undecided about next project
- Some possible next projects
  - Compile list of rhetorical arguments and viewcounts to cold email each of the political youtubers on AI risk. Getting warm intros to such people is hard, but maybe possible if my content is good enough.
    - Talk a lot about specific ingroups and outgroups, use outgroup hatred.
    - Maybe use temporary anon accounts to iteratively test what arguments or other features make an account popular.
    - Maybe do some more political surveys on Prolific, to have conversations with people. For example, to identify what makes certain political youtubers popular or what makes people start or stop participating in protests.
  - Make a fearmongering AI-generated video of a takeover.
    - Focus on higher production quality such as photorealistic scenes, use good soundtracks to evoke emotions, keep it less technical, trigger fear of death, show Big Tech / US govt as outgroup but maybe don't cater too much to any specific ideological ingroup.
  - Make an app that allows users to login via Google account, then automatically fetch list of youtubers they are subscribed to, and show them quotes about superintelligence from these youtubers.
- Trying to answer this question - "How do I create the mass hysteria that followed the Hiroshima bombing, multiple years before the first bomb drops?"
  - Spreading truth through society's deference graph (typically scientists then political youtubers then average person) is not sufficient, and may be too slow. Need to spread fear (possibly through the same graph), in order to shake people into action so they organise mass protest against the US govt.
  - I want to read more about anti-nuclear protests, about protests today such as No Kings and BLM and whatnot, and about ideologies influential in the US intelligence community, and some other topics.
  - How to persuade average person about risks from ASI

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

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