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2025-12-01

About me

Connect with me

• Contact me (regular use), Contact me (pgp-encrypted)
• Donate to me (monero, wire transfer)
• Youtube: @samuel.da.shadrach, Twitter: @samuel_sha13010.

My CV and Completed projects

• 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.
  • Please check this out if you are working at an AI company.
• 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

• Currently on break for a few days probably.
• After break, maybe studying more political philosophy, or getting better at hacking. I lack clarity on what to work on long-term.
  • I need to figure out some long-term project where I both enjoy (or atleast tolerate) the process, and value the outcome. I only seem to enjoy political philosophy. But I think studying philosophy probably won't lead to any useful outcome if ASI gets built in next 5 years.
  • Most of humanity is misaligned with me, both in online and offline circles. I often take emotional damage from interacting with misaligned people. Last few months I have interacted with lots of AI safety people online who are misaligned with me, and I learned a lot from it. But now I want to pick my next project to be something I can work on solo.

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

• Creating educational content on youtube on this cause. Youtube: @samuel.da.shadrach
  • Focussed on non-technical audience. IMO the deference graph (average person -> credentialed scientists -> political youtubers -> average person) must spread fear not just truth.
  • Other content by me: 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
• 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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