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2025-11-22

About me

Connect with me

• Contact me (email, Signal), Contact me (secure) (pgp-encrypted email)
• Donate to me (monero, wire transfer)
• 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

• Completed 18 day Hunger Strike on livestream in protest of AI companies building superintelligence. Featured by: ThePrint, The Verge, Peninsula Press. Interviews: Interview 1, Interview 2, Interview 3
• Published guide for whistleblowers of AI companies building superintelligence.
• Completed ML Safety Scholars under Dan Hendrycks, UC Berkeley
• Managed risk for Rari Capital, cryptocurrency startup managing $1B peak AUM
• Graduated IIT Delhi Biochem engg BTech+MTech 2023. (Among top 3 engg colleges in India)
• DOB 2001-01-03, Male

Current project

• Creating educational content on this cause.
  • 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.
  • I seem unclear whether I should personally focus on technical or non-technical audience. Possible audiences: politicians, journalists, youtubers, software developers, general public

I want everyone to read

• How to support the political movement against risks from superintelligence
• cypherpunks mailing list, predecessor to Tor/Signal/blockchain. extropians mailing list, predecessor to EA/lesswrong.

Projects abandoned for now

• Political strategy around AI risk: 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.
• 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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