# Samuel Shadrach newsletter (issued 2026-03-22)

Hi everyone

**If you are new to this newsletter, I strongly recommend starting from the following posts:**
 - [Discussions forums for AI extinction risk](../my_research/discussion_forums_for_ai_extinction_risk.md)
 - [How to support the movement against risks from superintelligence](../my_research/support_the_movement.md)
 - You can also browse through my website and figure out what appeals most to you

**Concrete work I did over the last two months:**
 - [I organised a protest against superintelligence at India AI Impact Summit 2026](../my_research/my_protest_at_india_ai_impact_summit_2026_qr_code_landing_page.md). [Youtube link to the protest](https://youtu.be/ZXqid50E8Xs?si=odSWadzoMQmwkD-6)
 - I am trying to figure out my moral views in relation to a politically sensitive plan I wish to work on. Will share more when ready.
 - I wrote a lot of blog posts

**Important posts about ASI risk in the last two months:**
 - [Subscriber count graphs of popular youtubers on ASI risk](../my_research/subscriber_count_graphs_of_popular_youtubers_on_asi_risk.md)
 - [Run billboard ads on ASI risk outside San Francisco](../my_research/run_billboard_ads_on_asi_risk_outside_san_francisco.md)
 - [I want data on theoretical limits of distributed training runs](../my_research/I_want_data_on_theoretical_limits_of_distributed_training_runs.md)
 - [Why I am pessimistic on ASI alignment being solved by 2030](../my_research/why_I_am_pessimistic_on_asi_alignment_being_solved_by_2030.md)
 - [Deliberate status engineering is hard](../my_research/deliberate_status_engineering_is_hard.md) - A lesson I have learned the hard way and am still trying to figure out.
 - [How to predict if groupthink is happening?](../my_research/how_to_predict_if_groupthink_is_happening.md)
 - [Maybe I should not ally with communists?](../my_research/maybe_I_should_not_ally_with_communists.md)

**Important posts about ASI risk in the last two months, for those who are not convinced ASI risk is real:**
 - [As of 2026, AI is disrupting many industries simultaneously](../my_research/as_of_2026_ai_is_disrupting_many_industries_simultaneously.md)
 - [Self-replicating factories are real](../my_research/self_replicating_factories_are_real.md)
 - I wrote about my views on many famous people like [Naval Ravikant](../my_research/my_views_on_naval_ravikant_on_asi_risk.md), [d/acc by Vitalik Buterin](../my_research/my_views_on_vitalik_dacc.md), [Peter Thiel](../my_research/my_views_on_peter_thiel.md), [Nick Land](../my_research/my_views_on_eacc_by_nick_land.md), [Julian Assange](./my_research/why_I_love_julian_assange.md), [cryptocurrency](../my_research/my_views_on_crypto.md), etc.

**A selection of (unimportant) posts about topics unrelated to ASI risk in the last two months:**
 - I mainly just went through a lot of my old notes from 2024-2025 and published some of them on my website.
 - Industries besides software
   - [I seem to increasingly not trust base rates](../my_research/I_seem_to_increasingly_not_trust_base_rates.md)
   - [Why is most biotech software low quality?](../my_research/why_is_most_biotech_software_low_quality.md)
   - [Some heuristics to understand a new scientific field quickly](../my_research/some_heuristics_to_understand_a_new_scientific_field_quickly.md)
   - [How to chemically reduce your sex drive?](../my_research/how_to_chemically_reduce_your_sex_drive.md)
 - Software
   - [Why I am not buying IPv4 addresses as an investment?](../my_research/why_I_am_not_buying_ipv4_addresses_as_an_investment.md)
 - Finance
   - [Should you bet on prediction markets?](../my_research/should_you_bet_on_prediction_markets.md)
 - Politics
   - [Determining health of a democracy is non-trivial because propaganda cuts both ways](../my_research/determining_health_of_a_democracy_is_nontrivial_because_propaganda_cuts_both_ways.md)
   - [Why I respect Hitler and Kaczynski](../my_research/why_I_respect_hitler_and_kaczynski.md)
   - [Did the CIA attempt to assassinate Nehru?](../my_research/did_the_cia_attempt_to_assassinate_nehru.md)
   - [Indian atheist political leaders](../my_research/indian_atheist_political_leaders.md)
   - [Federalist Papers simplified by AI](../my_research/federalist_papers_simplified_by_ai.md)
   - [Does Silicon Valley have higher base rate for bad childhoods?](../my_research/does_silicon_valley_have_higher_base_rate_for_bad_childhoods.md)
   - [Ancient politics books are too zero-sum](../my_research/ancient_political_books_are_too_zero_sum.md)