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Experts on extinction risk in 60 seconds

2025-10-23

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
• 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.

Current projects/goals

• Trying to answer this question: "How do I create the mass hysteria that followed the Hiroshima bombing, multiple years before the first bomb drops?"
  • Almost everyone is stuck in a bad plan and a social circle to reinforce said plan. This includes most people currently working on AI capabilities, most people working on AI risk, and most people not working or aware of either.
  • My current (untested) hypothesis is that making these people see mass hysteria in other people is the best way to shake them awake.
  • There may be no time to trigger the belief cascades in social reality (via their preferred youtubers, religious leaders, whoever) so entire groups change their mind, and also changing their mind is not enough to get them to leave their careers and do mass protests or similar.

Projects completed

• Publish guide for whistleblowers of companies building superintelligent AI.
  • Whistleblower Database, Whistleblower Guide, Funding request and Theory of change
• 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).
  • Try AI models from 2019 to 2025, AI timelines talk
  • Youtube: @samuel.da.shadrach, Twitter: @samuel_sha13010
  • 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
  • Figure out how to persuade youtubers, journalists, politicians targeting various different demographics to talk about risks from superintelligence. Should I compile viewcount stats? Rhetorical arguments? Something else?
  • Support the movement, Prolific.com survey on AI pause, Discussion forums, Letter to AI lab heads, Why no religion?, My views on Lesswrong

Projects abandoned for now

• 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: Unimportant
• For a more general audience: Courses for you, Advice for you

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