DS/AI guy, most recently VP of AI at a small startup, before that Principal Data Scientist at a midsize IT firm. Interested in remote roles, consulting, and especially AI Safety work in the DC area. PhD in Physics
Unlike your stereotypical techie, I'm extremely comfortable with public speaking, talking to customers, and explaining complicated topics to the general public. Writing references available upon request.
Hi! We are looking for engineers with experience in mass manufacturing, to help us take our product from 3d-printed prototype to full production. If you have experience in DFM, Injection molding, high voltage electronics, safety-critical firmware, and RF engineering, reach out to us at info@aerolamp.net
I'm hiring an Enterprise Account Exec to help scale Parabola, a product used by finance and ops teams to automate messy, high-stakes workflows without needing engineers.
Parabola sits at the intersection of AI, automation, and real operational pain: unstructured data (PDFs, emails), brittle processes, constantly changing rules, and teams that can’t wait months for IT. Customers get to see live workflows in action immediately.
Deals are driven by automations, as they are built live in-app
Customers engage multiple times per week and see value instantly
Expansion is natural because the product is horizontal, the first team is never the last
We’re looking for someone who:
- Loves going deep on product and customer problems
- Can work comfortably with operators and execs (CFO/COO) as well as with companies in the retail/ ecom/ CPG + freight/ logistics spaces
- Cares deeply about solving real problems
- Wants to help build the Enterprise motion, not just run a playbook
You’d be working closely with our CRO, COO, CEO and GTM team to shape how Enterprise sales is done here. If you’re an experienced AE (5+ years in SaaS sales) who wants to sell something genuinely powerful with real customer impact, we’d love to talk.
I'm Brandon Harvey, an experienced generalist software builder. I have deep expertise as:
- a software engineer with a track record of building complete systems and frameworks in new fields like spatial, AR, VR, large scale touchscreens, collaboration systems, and AI
- an engineering manager who can put together, lead, and grow a great team
- a product manager who can navigate new technology domains and new markets
- a pedagogue who has created & taught my own undergrad courses at Cornell
I'm looking for a role in an organization that is building something the world needs -- with great people -- in a way that is fully accelerated by AI.
(Claude Code & Codex users, I would love to talk to you about my AI agent planning tool "ergo" and solicit your feedback to make it better for your use case. See my GitHub.)
Hi, I'm Anthony Vicari, and I'm looking for a new role, not necessarily of the same type as what I've done before. Interested in consulting and advisory services, VC and investor roles, portfolio management, sustainability, tech strategy. Not a SWE, but have written code as part of past roles, and developed my last employer's internal AI adoption strategy and trained everyone on how to get the most value from LLMs. Ideally remote, but hybrid in MA or NH is fine, or hybrid anywhere else if "hybrid" means being somewhere for a week or two every month or two, instead of a few days a week.
My academic background is in physics and materials science. I have 13 years’ experience as a strategic innovation consultant helping small and large companies, investors, and government organizations develop and/or benefit from emerging technologies across across cleantech, energy, and advanced materials and manufacturing. I’ve focused on helping clients achieve their growth, innovation, and sustainability goals.
Long shot, but looking for a cofounder! I'm in the early stages of spinning out a small-molecule drug discovery company. I've been accelerating slow-but-accurate free energy calculations to enable computational discovery binders for novel targets (eg shallow, cryptic pockets, IDPs, even RNA). There's been a lot of hype about pure ML approaches, but those don't actually generalize to these target classes.
I've got some cool tech and a clear direction for improvement, but for this to really make a difference, we need to do drug discovery in an entirely new way (finding binders is not the bottleneck in pharma -- clinical trials are). My idea is to generate selective, potent modulators of ~100 targets in parallel, and use rigorous preclinical models (organoids, PDX mice for cancer) to only take the most promising candidates into clinical trials.
Currently looking for someone with deep bio/pharma expertise who can guide the target prioritization/preclinical validation. If this sounds interesting at all, please slide into my dms!
We work on using language models to improve decision making in large organizations, with a focus on life sciences. We’re looking for software engineers, data engineers, and ML people. Shoot me an email at panda@elicit.com if you’re interested.
More info:
- used to be a nonprofit (Ought) working on Factored Cognition/task supervision
- focused on assisting with general research for a long time. Maybe among the first 5 commercial products built on LLMs?
- have spent the past year focused on winning life sciences. Have basically all the top names in Pharma as customers. Have users at Rand, Niskanen, etc as well
- based in the Bay Area, and Bay Area preferred, but we do have remote roles
Ecological field scientist, farmhand, English teacher, and occasional communications manager with seven+ years experience in the outdoor realms looking for a new professional role. Friendly, conscientious, good with words, strong aesthetic sensibility, equally capable of spreading manure or giving quarterly reports, probably in the bottom 5% of tech-savviness on this forum though apt and eager to learn. I'm based in Germany and speak fluent German (plus a smattering of Ukrainian), though I'm originally from the USA. Looking for the right remote role or a serendipitous place-based connection. Happy to elucidate my qualifications and share fun amphibian facts upon request.
If this sounds like something you’re interested in and qualified for, don’t hesitate to reach out. Looking for folks with previous SWE experience, startup experience is a plus. Must be based in SF or willing to relocate.
Spartacus.app (2024 ACX grantee) — Kickstarter-style coordination for collective action.
Seeking: React developer for a few hours of codebase review during our refactor. Low complexity codebase. Looking for feedback on architecture, performance, security, and general code quality. QA/audit experience required.
Compensation: Volunteers welcome (happy to provide professional credit), or a flat fee is negotiable depending on experience/expertise.
I'll take a wild shot here though I don't know if this is really the place for it.
I am a federal criminal defense attorney in Minneapolis specializing in white collar crime. For the past 5 years I've worked for one of the best attorneys in the state, handling a wide variety of different kinds of cases, everything from homicides to insider trading to large fraud cases. In that time, we have not lost a trial. I've beaten the feds, at trial, in large criminal cases twice.
I am currently looking for a job to begin sometime this year, ideally later than the spring. I loathe the mass-market job hunt and would prefer to simply connect with someone that can employ me. My skillset is such that I know I can eventually find something, but I'm hunting for a particular niche where I can do what I love: I excel at legal research and combing through huge batches of criminal discovery.
If anyone out there is randomly in the market for a criminal defense attorney, I guess, email me at Theodidactus@gmail.com.
I'm good at this sort of nitpicky work, spotting and thinking about edge cases. I like getting things exactly right, even though that obviously isn't always possible due to various constraints. I've been kind of wondering if I should get into embedded development; I find it appealing when things are low-level or similarly constrained. I've beaten Microcorruption. :) (The original levels, I haven't played the new ones.)
I'm also quite interested in unusual or obscure data formats, and working on Truffle Debugger and its associated libraries certainly involved a bunch of having to figure undocumented formats and interfaces. :) I put down above what languages I've worked substantially in but I'd say I'm a generalist and will figure out whatever you give me (I knew approximately no Javascript, Typescript, or Solidity when I started working at Consensys).
I'm a mathematician by background and in my spare time, so after the Truffle Debugger project was shut down I took some time off to focus on my mathematical projects. But now I'm looking for work again! If you need someone like me, I'm available for hire! My email address is on my website if you want to drop me a line: https://hjaltman.github.io/
I don't think there's much overlap between the regular readership of this blog, and the ideal candidate for this job, but I happened to have been posting this on LinkedIn today, so it may be a case of serendipity.
Role: B2B Sales Lead
Salary: Base $120k + Commission. $300k if you meet reasonable sales goals.
Summary: I am looking for a Founding B2B Sales Lead. Over the past two years I've built a profitable company selling Guarantor Insurance, a product landlords require when an applicant doesn't meet their normal approval criteria. You will be selling to landlords, property managers, and brokers, targeting NYC, but we are licensed nationally. I personally know insurance and startups quite well, but I do not have experience in B2B sales, which is why we're hiring for this role. The ideal candidate has experience selling to our target demographic, and existing relationships in the NYC real estate world.
Location: NYC-hybrid. Half our team works from either Austin, or London.
Timeline: Ideally hiring by March 15th.
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Company Description:
PandaGuarantee is dedicated to supporting both renters and landlords by bridging gaps in apartment qualification and mitigating financial risks for owners. We offer lease guarantor insurance, where a tenant pays a premium in return for receiving a guarantee on their lease. We are essentially acting as their co-signer. We have spent the past 18 months building our product, and acquiring the necessary licenses and insurance partnerships to launch this product, and we're finally ready to scale.
Role Description:
This is a full-time role for a Founding Sales Lead, located in New York, NY. The Founding Sales Lead will focus on driving sales efforts, building strong customer relationships, and managing the sales process from lead generation to closing. Responsibilities include training new sales team members, delivering excellent customer service, and contributing to the overall sales strategy and business growth. The individual will play a pivotal role as a strategic partner in establishing the company’s sales operations and meeting business targets.
This is a B2B sales role. You will primarily be interacting with large property owners, property managers, and leasing agents in New York City, but we are also licensed in 40 other US states. We have received strong interest in Chicago, Boston, D.C., Miami, LA, San Francisco, and other major US, cities.
Qualifications:
- Proven experience in Sales and Sales Management, with the ability to meet and exceed sales goals. We are looking for someone with experience in B2B Proptech sales.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to effectively engage with clients and stakeholders.
- Proven ability to execute on sales strategies, with a strong understanding of sales pipelines and CRM tools.
- Entrepreneurial mindset and adaptability to thrive in a dynamic business environment.
- Previous experience working in a startup environment.
- Existing relationships in the world of property management and leasing, especially in New York City, is a major plus.
Email me@solhando.com with your resume, or DM me here if you think you're a particularly good fit for the role.
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We're not looking for entry-level sales reps at this time, but if you are extremely motivated, low-maintenance, eager to learn and figure things out on your own, send me an email with your resume and a short cover letter.
That's actually a fascinating product idea. I'm a real estate investor myself but I never heard of that before. Im Probably too small for it to be of interest to me but I will share it with my friends who have larger holdings. None based in New York City though. What is your target number of doors per landlord?
We're licensed in almost every US state, although NYC is the market core of this product (for now). The costs on our end are essentially fixed no matter how large a partner is. Large owner-operators take only 2-5x the work as a small mom-and-pop landlord, while being worth orders of magnitude more to us, so large owner-operators are my ideal client.
It's not an exaggeration to say that one 15,000 door landlord is worth as much as all our partners smaller than 5,000 combined.
Although my goal is complete market dominance, and I still take the time to speak to every landlord we partner with. Feel free to send them my way or reach out directly to me if you're interested for your own holdings.
I want a break from my own creative projects, so I thought I'd help with yours. I am:
- An ACX book review contest finalist
- A selfpub author who's written a dozen novels and novellas, the most successful of which has ~3k ratings on Amazon
- A former beta reader for a multi-award-winning SFF author
- A professional literary translator who's worked with Liu Cixin
- A competent painter and illustrator
- Unlike a lot of professionals in the creative fields right now, AI-friendly, and personally experimenting with AI video and creative writing
I'm creatively omnivorous and would be up for paid collaborations ranging from creative coaching to developmental edits to AI anime pilot episode. Basically: if you have an idea, I want to help you bring it into the world in its best possible form.
I'm especially interested in attempts at narratives adequate to our present and future, new mythos for our interesting times.
25yo straight man seeking love, in or around Lausanne, Switzerland. Word nerd who loves etymology, typography, translation, etc. Sings in an anarchist choir and plays the sitar. I’ll fix your bike and make you coffee—will you fill in the last clues of my crossword? 👀👉👈
Long shot, but any women in Central Europe curious about trying BDSMy stuff, also without sex? Ideally Vienna or Budapest. Not looking to get married or anything.
I reckon I would generally match this description (although personally a big fan of sex, too), location aside, but you might get more takers if you describe what exactly you're looking for.
From your description, you could be basically looking for a cuddle partner who will tie you up sometimes when you cross paths, or you could be looking for a long-term romantic but open relationship where you get to scratch your partner up a little (one of my partners has one of these with me, so I describe it this way with affection) while leaning ace about actual sexual intercourse.
There's a lot of room for interpretation! Are you sub or dom? Masochistic, sadistic? How long are you expecting this exploration to last? Should your BDSM partner have anything else in common with you, or do you not care?
I would generally say that BDSM is an interaction requiring high trust, so your prospective partners knowing as much as possible about what you're trying to get out of the exchange is a good first step in enabling that. Not meant as criticism, just trying to help you out. :)
28yo trans man, looking for monogamish husband to raise kids with, but not in a rush. Based in DC for courtship purposes, but willing to move once family-building love is established. I'm a tasteful blend of whimsical touch grass and ambitious get-stuff-done. Seeking similar. Wanna be a thinky / feely power couple?
Bored ASF recent empty nester 45yo oppressor (i.e. straight white male lol). I early retired a couple years ago so all the free time in the world. Social introvert so while I'd love a relationship however you want it, monogamous, non, long, short, whatever, I'm burnt after two or three hours so vastly prefer if you had your own place or could entertain yourself; not looking for a puppy nor to support you financially. I.e. let's date, can even be forever, but I need lots of me time too. Dinner nightly cool though and sleep over if you want, I make a good breakfast.
Other than that, I'm the boring sort. I like to take daily walks, watch the sunset, shoot the shit, read, drink, eat, and relax low drama. I'm loyal though, won't beat you either. I had a long hard interesting overly excited drama filled life in my younger years and have traveled the world living in nearly a dozen countries, I've settled now and I'm ok with that.
I got no testimonials but my marriage had a good run and my kids still talk to me even though far away in college so obviously people could stand me and I'm not an ax murderer. Granted that's a low bar but still higher than many I have met that couldn't even accomplish that lol.
As for you, anything 18 to 45 female thin, have your own resources, don't hate men, can hold a conversation, don't be ugly, loud, smell bad, or an alcoholic, yes that's all subjective. If you need a green card and are that shallow, that's an option too, I'm flexible and believe in affirmative consent like that as I hate dating fraud. Kids are an option too if you want, mine are grown but I could always have more, I'm good either way. Not looking to raise another man's kids though so if have already, they need to be grown or living with him.
Oh and you need to live in Honolulu or able to visit as I'm not interested in long distance dating. Also you can't hate Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains or Lil Peep. You don't got to like them but can't hate them.
I'm Daniel! 31 year old poly man looking for a woman, with a goal of settling down and having kids. I am a professional AI x-risk reduction attempter, who enjoys contra dancing, studying Latin, very long walks, and being literal, and live in Berkeley, CA. Two testimonials:
"I've been dating Daniel since July 2025 and he's been a great addition to my life. In particular, he's reliable, extremely honest and high-integrity, funny, pleasant, unusually responsive to feedback, and high in executive function. I think he'd make a great father, and a great husband to someone who wants kids." - person who I am dating but not as a primary partner (she already has someone else she's ~committed-ish to).
"Daniel is very (intentionally) funny, at least to me and a lot of people whose sense of humor isn’t too far from mine. IMO the best thing about Daniel is a mixture of being generative, funny, and low-ego that reliably makes me joyful (often laughing) and at ease when I’m around him. I think he fosters this feeling to a really unusual extent among people I know, and I suspect the optimal long-term partner for Daniel will be someone who really likes that feeling and wants to live in it forever. [...] several individuals from different parts of my social network have unpromptedly expressed to me that they find Daniel very good to be around, including one who I think of as extremely judgmental and perceptive." - friend of mine
I'm a newly-minted 22 year old male (straight), who will be living in Oxford for the next six months. Probably you can best get a sense of who I am from my blog https://benthams.substack.com/. Interested in philosophy and effective altruism! Looking for a smart, interesting, and intellectually curious people, ideally not too different in age!
I'm a 39 year old straight man in Sydney, Australia, looking for friendship or monogamous romance. I enjoy understanding a variety of perspectives, especially those that give me good reason to question my own. My interests include maths, video games and playing sports. I'm rather introverted and prefer chatting one-on-one or in small groups. Looking for someone direct and straightforward who enjoys discussing random ideas. Email is this username at gmail.
38 cis woman open to any gender. I'm a rationalist massage therapist and mental health therapist in Santa Fe, NM (USA) who reads ACX. Looking, as always for growth, meaning, joy, peace, time in nature and open to monogamish connection. If you're in Santa Fe and read ACX, I'd love to hear from you whether we're actually a match or not!
yeah, you need a doc. right all we know is that you're 25, bisexual and male. You could literally be anybody with any faith, with any political persuasion, any financial status, just anybody...
Looks like the trend for this particular Classifieds post is "brevity," but lol I could never.
Straight woman, 46, Seattle, no kids, looking for a long-term monogamish relationship with a cis man. I'd be most comfortable with someone who's either child-free or who has not-super-young kids. As an introvert, I'd probably prefer maintaining separate households with frequently visiting and/or spending weekends together? Maybe? But that could change.
My basics: I am very much a grownup. I'm employed full-time, own a condo and a car, sit on my HOA board (dear god), and moderate a 29k member personal ads group on a kink site. The job, which I happen to enjoy being very good at, is a profession, not a passion, and I think that's okay!
Personality-wise, I am exceedingly - nay, excessively - fair-minded. I'm hard to shock, impossible to offend, slow to anger, quick to forgive, and a huge fan of even unsolicited advice because it's more efficient to learn from other people's mistakes than one's own.
I bond deeply with loved ones, but between being rationally inclined and most of my closest friends being men, I have the kind of problem-solving pragmatic approach to suffering that tends to be more common in men than in women. My instinct will always be to help someone solve their problem rather than just "feeling" it with them. I can override that instinct, especially when asked to do so, but the desire to fix whatever can be fixed will still be there, bubbling in my guts.
Nothing is worse than preventable suffering.
Fun-wise, I have excellent taste in restaurants and media and love talking about both. Barring a few weird quirks like hating bananas and pho while somehow loving plantains and ramen, and being annoyed with the characters in organized crime dramas for not transitioning into legitimate businesses, I have a broad, educated palate in both food and media. I get equally excited about grimy taquerias and pristine white tablecloth haute cuisine. I can watch Succession and Bluey with equal delight. My interest/hobby/passion (if we must) is writing fiction that would genuinely shock most of the people who know me. I also love rowing crew despite being very, very bad at it.
I'd be an excellent partner for someone who finds most of the above roughly recognizable in themselves and/or appealing in others.
And as for that partner?
Based on some truly excellent advice I once received in the comments of an ACX thread, I've concluded that the quality I require of any close, intimate partner or beloved friend is a known history of changing their mind about core beliefs like religion or politics, with an active commitment to doing so in the future should new evidence present itself.
This is my chief criteria because I am acutely aware of how wrong it's possible to be about the most sacred, identity-level beliefs: I've rejected the culty faith-healing religious indoctrination of my childhood, have shifted considerably away from the Objectivist/Libertarian politics of my young adulthood, and was even accidentally forced out of a sexual orientation.
So for me, nothing is more cringe than being passionately incapable of cheerfully admiting, "Yeah, I was wrong!"
My main dating profile and some writing is on Fetlife under my username here, minus the "Christina." Email is my username here at Gmail.
I just moved to DC! https://quinnd.net/date dating for marriage, not a huge appetite for casual lately. At 33, I think its important to have kids on relatively short timelines / im allergic to the idea of spending more than a year or maybe two deciding to get married or not.
Strong tendency to fail fast in relationships.
Reasons ive broken up with people or been broken up with in the past couple years:
- I put effort into beard care but I dont follow grooming influencer subreddits, and she had a sharp eye for _very_ nice beards
- she wanted to raise kids in the church (I was open minded about it at first, but upon really facing it I realized Im a stauncher atheist than I thought)
- I would too often speak in dizzying ways that take a lot of effort to parse.
- gregarious to the point of taking up too much space; I was pretty drunk and it gave her the ick
- she constantly let her insecurities leak into our dynamic
Open to trying an amtrak-based dynamic across the midatlantic for the right fit, but DMV preferred!
Timelines are short, and genuinely good connections are rare. I’m content with my inner circle, but open to new friendships, dating prospects, and thoughtful introductions. Sharing this one-pager here in case it finds the right person through a hop or two.
I have built a stable, happy life for myself; and I'm looking for someone to partner with me to build a family and a meaningful life together. Please check out my dating doc, or share with any Bay Area Christian men you might know!
I'm married for over a decade, so this might be out of date:
You might want to clarify your definition "Christian men" a bit. When I *was* dating, more than half (maybe roughly 2/3) the people who said they wanted to date a "Christian" they specifically meant what Pew Research would call "Evangelical Protestant" with a sprinkling of "Maybe a Lutheran if I like him."
FWIW, I'm a practicing Roman Catholic and had multiple women tell me that I would need to convert to Christianity if I wanted to date them; being egalitarian (as I see from your dating doc) doesn't rule this out, since I saw this with e.g. a woman who attended an Evangelical Covenant Church, which is both Evangelical and ordains women.
Lol I love that story man and I feel you. I'm Orthodox Catholic and I get stuff like that all the time from: "You need convert to Christianity", "I don't date Jews", "What's your opinion on the new Pope", "I hate Papists", "You don't look Greek", or my favorite, when a Roman Catholic is confused why I'm using a different liturgical calendar or don't care about the Pope, nuns, or really anything they care about theologically.
BTW thanks for not omitting the Roman prefix unlike 99.9% of your nominal peers.
Lol, it's a jungle out there... and still is. Thanks for the tip. For me, I actually mean anyone to is wanting to follow Jesus with their whole life. I would be open to dating a Catholic who fit that description! I struggle to define it too much because I don't want to over-exclude; but good to know that people might read too much into it.
Having met some of these Evangelical Protestants, It would be significantly clearer in person -- they tend to pronounce Christian with a capital C. "I'm looking for a Christian" run together and non-emphasized generally means you're not that brand of Christian (or at least are open to a different Protestant sect).
--28 Y/O JEWISH MAN SEEKS SAME-AGE-ISH JEWISH WOMAN FOR I-THOU RELATIONSHIP AND EVENTUAL MARRIAGE AND FAMILY-BUILDING--
Hey. I'm Leon (or Yehuda, if you're calling me up to the Torah), a native New Yorker and an adopted Jerusalemite -- in love with both cities, but not yet married to either of them (just in a very serious relationship with the latter).
I’m posting a dating ad on Substack, so of course I'm 'looking for' a thought-partner, who likes reading books and follows the news and is an engaged citizen and all of that — but God forbid she or I care more about being smart than we do about being good.
To borrow a distinction from a YouTube advice guy I watch too much of: I try to keep my beliefs on a longish leash, while keeping my values on a shorter one. In terms of the first set (offered just for determining-compatibility's sake): my politics are liberal, I've been vegan since I was a teenager, and I'm an Israeli citizen by choice, which is worth noting in this context.
In terms of the values that really matter, though: putting people above ideas, really hating cruelty, physically showing up for people, are a few that come to mind.
I've got a 'more the merrier' feeling about raising a family, and that's a 'last in deed, first in thought' sort of thing. That said, my life is a little like my apartment right now: I think it's put-together enough to make room for another person, but it's just been me for a while, so I may ask your company as I tidy it up a little before I'm ready to give you the run of the place.
My WhatsApp is +972-50-814-7573. It would make my day to get an out-of-the-blue call from someone who thinks she might be a good match (whether that’s you or someone you know.) But of course, a normal text on there works fine, and I should get DMs on here, too, if that's better for you.
If you find my username to be amusing, perhaps you will enjoy my content as well. Currently consists of one post entitled “did I just hit bottom?” where I muse on my recent relapse, and one post that is just some pictures of my cat. Not sure what I will post next, perhaps this mystery excites you as it does me.
I am a blacksmith, novelist, and analyst writing on psychodynamics, autodicacticism, history, epistemology, myth, and maker culture. Have had articles spotlighted from time to time by Arnold Kling, Jordan Hall, Brooke Burke, etc.
I write about the intersection (or is it the union?) of Ethics, Economics, and AI. I'm pretty sure that training AIs to have human values is a recipe for disaster, and that if we avoid that failure mode, that treating AI as a normal technology is a recipe for a different kind of disaster.
But since I am old enough and childless enough to not have to worry much about either disaster, I have fun chatting with the chatbots and learning how the damned things work.
Currently working on an analysis of timelines and scenarios for AI hardware verification, which can be used for monitoring and enforcing compliance with AI regulations and treaties. It will be published in a day or two.
For a number of years, I worked on a writing project about the following subjects:
Theistic religion based on reason rather than the Bible, but which partially justifies the Bible. Positive (content-containing) substitute for (or auxiliary to) liberalism from a religious perspective, compatible with Christianity, maybe other religions as well. Critique of techno-optimism from a theistic perspective but not exactly the Catholic way. What Reformed (in the sense of "Calvinist") Christianity would be if it were radically (semi-)Pelagian and Arminian, and had a different vision of God. The Catholic project (build a civilization-focused religion on natural theology) but a different vision of God, and on Descartes and Berkeley instead of Aristotle and Aquinas. A less "wretchedly urgent" evangelicalism. Engages with EA and the idea of Moloch. Political views influenced by exilic Judaism.
I wrote a blog developing and pursuing this project, containing the content and its development over time, called Formulalessness (https://formulalessness.blogspot.com), and then have started a successor called Following (https://blog.10v24.net). Both blogs are available in PDF and epub formats.
I'm taking a break from this project, but I do see myself picking up some day with the following:
Focus on social and physical sustainability: we will end up sustainable or dead, no other options. What kind of sustainability will we have? Brave New World, 1984, or something else, maybe something that maximizes free will? How can we build a culture that preserves excellence over many generations?
I write about whatever I feel like. Portuguese history and poetry are the most common topics, but science/physics, chess and other loose topics can also be found here.
Parenthood has decreased the frequency of my posts somewhat, but hopefully I'm managing to get back to approximately monthly posts now.
My substack, formerly a podcast, is called Seldon Crisis: Beyond Foundation (https://seldoncrisis.net). The name comes from a character, Hari Seldon, in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, the protagonist who sets in motion the "Seldon Plan" to orchestrate the 1,000 year process of recovery from an imminent collapse of a galactic empire predicted by his mathematical science of "psychohistory." There are periodic inflection points in the plan known as "Seldon Crises" when an existential threat of some kind occurs and humanity must make the right moves, or not make the wrong ones, and the plan can get back on track.
I finished covering the core trilogy of novels a couple of years ago and have dithered since about going into the same depth of coverage of two sequels and two prequels. Though the stories are fascinating, I feel a little too constricted by the burden of it, so have let the podcast run out of steam with occasional guest posts and essays - mostly tied closely to the story so as not to disappoint my Asimov fans - but I feel I've disappointed them anyway by nearly failing to publish anything at all for a while.
I made the move to substack so I could reinspire the series and let it evolve more toward my current interests, which are mostly along the lines of our own imminent future and the analog Seldon Crises in our path; environmental chaos, technology driven societal disruption, and the positive potential of so many of the changes we are facing as a species. I'll be podcasting selected posts, giving me the freedom to write when I want to about whatever I want to, and if it seems relatively on track for the podcast, I'll record a version for the RSS feed.
My first significant post is Assembling Gaia (https://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/hurtling-towards-gaia) in which I attempt to capture the essence of Sara Walker and Lee Cronin's Assembly Theory, discuss a compelling book by astrobiologist David Grinspoon called Earth in Human Hands, and briefly introduce tech savant Benjamin Bratton and show how their ideas all combine to reveal a fascinating path for the future of humanity as the Earth comes to know itself and may ultimately become conscious in some sense.
It's a big topic and I would love to get some feedback on some of the ideas in it that are so fascinating to me. Please take a look at seldoncrisis.net and subscribe for free. I might paywall some stuff later, but for now it's wide open.
Every Thursday evening, I post an evaluation of a new health-related study. My posts are deep dives written in plain English. The most recent posts look at studies where it's argued that bamboo is a "superfood", that food preservatives cause cancer, and that exercise diversity (apart from quantity) reduces the risk of chronic disease and early death.
Live forever! Or, at least until all your motor neurons fail, the hard limit on life. Quantified, evidence-based lifestyle interventions for health and longevity: https://www.unaging.com/
I'm once again promoting "The Essential Slate Star Codex", a printed collection of SSC essays. It's all fully reformatted for print - URLs have been replaced with proper citations, I've traced down the original sources for all the embedded charts and diagrams and re-rendered them so they look good at 300dpi, all images have been replaced with equivalents for which I have the rights, etc. Here's the link: https://a.co/d/hcZYQZ9.
A tool for asking questions to multiple AIs and summarizing the results with agreements/disagreements/unique points, plus scaffolding for tasks like numerical estimation, ranking, and plotting:
Would like to talk to people about my writing and ideas. Anyone who would like to discuss and hear what I have to say, please let me know where we can meet. But I don’t want to do anymore fake online life, I want real life. Read some of my posts and message me/comment/dox me if interested. My favorite word family is hoarfrost, and its relations: hoary, hoariness, hoard, and also the actual process of rime vs hoar formation. Sorry for the nonsequitur, but I’ve had a hard time telling between bots and people recently.
Do you want or need to learn - or relearn - some fundamental mathematics? I have just the thing for you at Braver New Math (bravernewmath.com), where you can learn more about my books:
𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑢𝑠 𝑀𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝐷𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡,
𝐹𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑢𝑠: 𝐴𝑛 𝐼𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑙 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑐ℎ,
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝐴𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝐿𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝐴𝑙𝑔𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑎,
all of which can be purchased as paperbacks at Amazon or as pdfs at Lulu.
(Plus, for those whose tastes are more arcane, some early history of non-Euclidean geometry and a bit of poetry.)
I'm writing a story about a Dungeons and Dragons character I created for a game about 25 years ago, a half-orc barbarian raised by orcs with a human father and orc mother. It is currently free to read, and I'm looking for feedback.
I am still in the process of editing the chapters, and some feedback I got makes me think I ought to take some out completely, since it is other character background material which could have been bonus content at some point.
Inspirations include Shadowrun, the Ninja Turtles, and XCOM. It's a tactical tabletop RPG with an included 10-game campaign, and the "twist" of this one is that the players realize along the way that they are villains. More specifically, it asks them to grapple with questions like "How far removed from your initial oppressors can you punish before your vengeance is no longer just?"
But, it's also just a rompin' fun game of giant rats in robot mechs.
I couldn't justify the money for a Bloomberg terminal to help with my investing, so I'm in in the process of building an AI native alternative: https://www.neuralmarkets.ai/
Let me know if you're interested in joining the private beta and would be happy to remove the waitlist for any ACX readers as early as next week.
translateabook.com is providing quality AI book translation - using the latest LLMs, preserving layout across dozens of file formats, and helping with customizing the result with pre- and post-translation instructions and proofreading help.
It's a very exciting field that's moving for the better really fast! We've had thousands of users by now, but I'm still a solo founder working 1:1 with users. Feel free to try it out and do let me know what you think!
Each week here on Substack, at The Best of Journalism, I curate the best nonfiction that I can find. If you like this blog or The Sidney Awards that David Brooks does or the now-defunct Lonform.org or The Browser or Arts and Letters Daily or the New Journalism diaspora, you might like The Best of Journalism even more––and if it turns out that you don't like it so much that you feel the money was poorly spent, I am always happy to issue you a refund.
LABORATORY.LOVE — Crowdfund plastic chemical testing on everyday foods.
You probably saw those studies about plastic chemicals being everywhere and thought "surely someone is testing whether my [yogurt/protein/baby food] contains endocrine disruptors" and then discovered that no, actually, nobody is systematically doing this in a way that produces publicly accessible data.
I'm trying trying to fix that. Users crowdfund (or fully fund!) products to test, laboratory.love acquires three samples and ships them to an ISO 17025-accredited lab, results go public. Think Consumer Reports meets Kickstarter meets "I just want to know if my Soylent is poisoning me." Still early stage (this the project's 1yr anniversary), bootstrapped, iterating on the model. This is essentially PlasticList, the service.
Read my dystopian stories about a future in which our sexual urges and hang-ups have been seized upon by engineers itching to invent and corporations eager to profit.
I made a game called calibration trivia that's exactly what it sounds like. You can choose from a list of subjects and it asks you trivia questions and you provide a confidence score. At the end it tells you how well calibrated you are. There's also a group mode which has works pretty well. I've done it in groups of about 8-12.
It would be great if the bin width changed dynamically with the number of total questions answered. Otherwise a low number of questions can easily lead to useless/misleading bins. On the flip side, I can imagine more granularity being nice if someone felt like answering over a hundred questions.
Are you a US resident who's had a lipid panel done in the past year? Constellation Bio wants your poop! If you have high cholesterol (or mysteriously good cholesterol despite a poor diet)—or even if your numbers are average and you'd just like to learn more about your gut microbiome—you can sign up at the link below for our ongoing Astrobacillus project, investigating the relationship between serum cholesterol and a fecal metabolite called coprostanol. This is phase 1 of a multi-part effort to develop a probiotic intervention that can semi-permanently reduce a person's serum cholesterol (and hopefully their risk of heart attack and stroke).
While that project is underway, we're cooking up some exciting things in parallel. To that end, the more adventurous among you are invited to participate in a new study, which we are calling the Cassiopeia Project.
Cassiopeia is a first-in-humans study to assess the safety of a novel dietary supplement containing a trace mineral that has historically been thought to play no role in human biology.
In recent years, however, scientists have discovered a class of bacterial enzymes which require this element as a cofactor. Genomic analysis has determined that genes encoding these enzymes are highly prevalent in a number of universally health-associated human gut bacteria, particularly the ubiquitous and abundant symbiont Faecalibacterium.
At present there is little to no data on the abundance of this mineral in the diet. While its impact on mammalian biology has been the subject of multiple studies, these have generally been concerned with the possibility that it is toxic at concentrations to which humans are likely to be exposed. It apparently is not; when they found no adverse effects in long-term rodent studies—even at mg/kg doses that work out to 5g+ per day for a human—it was effectively considered “case closed”: Nobody bothered to go and figure out how much the average person eats in a day, since we’d definitely have noticed by now if the answer were "five grams".
But as I have said before, the microbes indigenous to the human gut are almost as much a part of the body as the mitochondria: external to the 23 chromosomes, but playing such an integral part in our biology that there is no sense in drawing distinctions between “our” genes and “theirs”. A trace mineral which is important for a ubiquitous human gut bacterium like Faecalibacterium may well deserve to be considered an essential nutrient for humans, to the extent that its absence might lead to disease. From the little that we know about this mineral’s role in bacterial biology, a deficiency of it in your microbiome might resemble some aspects of certain chronic diseases that we don’t currently have good explanations for.
If you’d like to know more about this mystery mineral and our plans to investigate it, there’s a nondisclosure agreement below—sign that and you’ll be given access to the full informed consent doc with more information. The doses we'll be using are about 1000x lower than the NOAEL in rodents, which is the kind of safety multiplier that makes "eat it and see" a surprisingly reasonable approach.
I personally think it works well. The way it works is that once a day you take a couple of photos of your face, which gives you a numeric acne score for the day, and you add a bunch of tags (like, Dairy, High GI, Zinc, whatever). Then after you have a bunch of data the app looks for correlations between tags and the delta in acne severity scores X days later. It orders by P-value.
I personally found that I likely benefit from taking zinc for instance, and that dairy makes my acne worse. If anyone has acne + is interested in doing N=1 experiments, consider downloading it. 30 days free and then $5 a month.
I look after the Sydney AI Safety Space -- a free coworking space for people doing work or study in or around AI safety. We're based out of the Sydney Knowledge Hub at the University of Sydney and are open to new members and casual guests.
I have made a language learning app that aims to combine the ease-of-use of Duolingo with the efficiency of flash cards. The app comes with ready-made vocabulary cards for a wide array of topics, as well as sentences and phrases that let you practice the vocabulary in context.
Currently, you can learn both Italian and French (from English and German), but more languages will be added during the coming weeks. In case you want to learn English, German, Spanish or Chinese, you can also join the test phase of one of the upcoming apps.
If you're in or around Amherst, MA (Especially if you're at UMass Amherst), let me know! I'm a student there and would be interested in joining an ACX/rat meetup.
If you live in Oklahoma (ideally Oklahoma City or thereabouts) and would be interested in joining an ACX/rat meetup if I organized it, please message me on Discord, @smallshotofdepresso
Next meetup is probably going to be in the second half of February.
Currently meeting in a Hartford suburb. If you are roughly in the area and it's just slightly too far (UCONN? Yale?), let me know too. Maybe we can rotate locations or meet in the middle?
If you’re in the Twin Cities, Minnesota area, come check out our ACX/LW/rationalism-in-general meetup! We meet consistently on Sundays and hold freeform discussions. Please come even if you don’t think you’re the sort of person who would go to this sort of thing. Join our Discord for up-to-date meeting info (linked on the LW page below):
Whatsapp group gathering ACX readers interested in meetups who have no hope that there are other ACX readers in their (for now mostly European) countries. (There are over 200 of us!)
If you're a non-conspiratorial libertarian or conservative Republican in the state of Colorado, I want you to get involved with my organization, the Colorado Ronald Reagan Club. In Colorado, party activists decide will be automatically placed on the primary ballot without needing to collect signatures and who replaces a state legislator when they die or resign. Since only a small minority participate in the process, turning a small number of non-activists into activists can make a real difference. More info here:
What's your general experience with the effectiveness/tractability/neglectedness of this issue? Do you think there's room for a similar push in other states and if so how would you start (or conversely, are you aware of existing groups in other states you'd recommend)?
The main problem is getting people to show up to things. People say they will and then they don't. Often these low-level unpaid party offices are vacant, anyone can walk into them and then vote for party leadership and qualify to be on a vacancy committee, but people don't want to do it. If you're one of these people who thinks that modern society is full of anomie, there's no sense of adventure, this is it. Political power, come and take it.
As for other states, there are similar orgs, like the Utah Reagan Caucus. If there isn't one, anyone can register a website and create one. I'd advise anyone to find your county GOP website, where there's usually an events page or other info about how to get involved. Caucus is coming up in many states, so it's a particularly good time to get involved.
Any journalists or bloggers with an investigative streak looking for an exposé topic?
My wife and I have been looking for well-reputed US moving companies in tentative preparation for a cross-country move, and reviews... do not make sense. For example, Allied Van Lines has great reviews on a bunch of sites, including Forbes... but a 1.3/5 star rating on Yelp with 25 reviews (twenty three 1-star reviews, one 4-star, and one 5-star). We've found testimonials claiming they have terrible Better Business Bureau ratings, but then the BBB site itself gives them an A+ rating.
Why do different sources have such wildly different ratings for moving companies? Is there a bot-bombing campaign against some companies? Did they buy good ratings from theoretically-reputable orgs? My instincts say there's a story at the bottom of this. Anybody who wants to tug on this thread could end up with a really interesting blog post or two.
This is very difficult to search for, there aren't really any keywords, and most historical analogies are bad or poorly researched. Hivemind, any recommendations for me?
I started writing an essay last year that drew a line from the Opium Wars in the 19th century to today’s zeitgeist-cognitive dissonance around TikTok; if I ever put the finishing touches on it I’ll post it to my blog.
If there are any readers from New Zealand here, I have a prediction contest going with New Zealand-related questions only. Longtime ACX readers will be familiar with the format. Entries close this Monday 2 February NZT. (Sorry if this is the first time you're seeing this.) You can find it here: https://czlee.substack.com/p/nz-prediction-contest-2026
I live in Jersey City and would like to meet more people to play board games with. I like light competitive games such as Cascadia and Ticket To Ride. I like cooperative campaign games such as Unsettled and Cthulhu: Death May Die. Message me if you're into this and I'll send you invites periodically!
I have translated several webcomics from one of my favorite creators Joe Duncan.
Baskets of Guts is a humorous technofantasy about a lich who spent too much time in his crypt studying magic, and missed how the world moved on into the modernity
If you are setting up a (small-ish) office in London and need (used) screens/desks/bulk cables and accessories/misc. etc., email me on jea at lanternventures dot com..
Does anyone have access to idle cpu (not gpu) cores at a price better than Runpod's 0.07$ or is willing to volunteer CPU cores?
We're prepping for a bitcoin attack using neural nets. It's an index-calculus style approach so we need to collect lots of logarithms using CADO-NFS (a cpu-based discrete log solver) modulo the bitcoin field characteristic.
We've been solo-funding the log collection from my substack subs. The neural net is working up to 20 bits (lol idk if it's overfitting and I need more data).
It took me 4 months to build the 20 bit discrete log dataset and it costs about a dollar for every 3600 discrete logs collected. So I've spent ~300 dollars on Runpod CPUs.
If you're technical, then here's the quick summary: we found that neural nets can perform sth similar to the xedni attack on elliptic curves. We also found that one can 'tokenize' bitcoin elliptic curve data by splitting the regular integer x coordinate over the square root of neg 3 complex numbers (these are called eisenstein integers).
This is the cookie-esque part: 'tokenizing' your x-coordinates as eisenstein integers permits the network associate the x-coordinate to a private key. I was shocked as well. Trump defunded my math PhD before I could get gov't funding to pursue the idea. Now I'm self funding and looking for volunteers to help with compute.
*I'm using academic 'we'. lol it's just me and that dawg in me.
If this works and you successfully hack Satoshi's wallet, will you rpay your donors with some of his bitcoins? $300 to gain $124 billion is a pretty wild return.
Who would you be planning to steal bitcoin from? Do you think this would be ethical, and do you think this would be legal? The last two substack links are paywalled so I can't tell if you answered there.
Learn more about a permanent Paleolithic village I'm building in Southern Maine this spring, on a forested property that was a former wedding/event venue. Members join for either 6 or 12 months (low cost) and can build their own shelter, practice primitive skills, meet other tribe members, and unplug as often as wanted. Website at: https://serranova.org/ and there are a couple of Substack posts here for discussion. Feedback and ideas welcome.
Hi Will, thanks, glad it resonates with you. The "live onsite" concept has a few analogs. There's Tom Brown Jr.'s wilderness school in New Jersey with week-long primitive skills classes (he passed away, but the school continues). And there have been countless workshops over the decades where devotees could camp for the weekend; active ones are Rabbitstick and Winter Count. But none are as immersive as this concept, where, for far less than a campground, you can stay onsite, learn, play, and use us as a home base for exploring Maine.
The timing seems right. The "old guard" instructors from the Whole Earth Catalog era have retired to off-grid homesteads, while the next generation of Millennials and Zs are having parasocial relationships with Youtube stars (like Primitive Tech's John Plant, who is amazing at primitive technology creation). But watching isn't really learning. I hope to bring some of these instructors to Serranova as guest teachers.
Recreational medieval faires and LARP re-enactments come closer to the concept. But I always felt like a tourist at those places, even dressed up. So think of Serranova as a mashup of LARP and SCA, recreational sports, a cooking school, and low-tech camping with 21st century amenities when you need them.
If you are fluent in another language or very knowledgable in any particular STEM field and are familiar with apps such as Anki or flashcard studying in general and are interested in being a beta tester for shaeda.io, please do get in touch.
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DS/AI guy, most recently VP of AI at a small startup, before that Principal Data Scientist at a midsize IT firm. Interested in remote roles, consulting, and especially AI Safety work in the DC area. PhD in Physics
Unlike your stereotypical techie, I'm extremely comfortable with public speaking, talking to customers, and explaining complicated topics to the general public. Writing references available upon request.
Hi! We are looking for engineers with experience in mass manufacturing, to help us take our product from 3d-printed prototype to full production. If you have experience in DFM, Injection molding, high voltage electronics, safety-critical firmware, and RF engineering, reach out to us at info@aerolamp.net
🚔 Anyone here with law enforcement experience?
My ACX-launched nonprofit, Legal Impact for Chickens, seeks humane officer! 🐥
https://www.legalimpactforchickens.org/humane-officer
I'm hiring an Enterprise Account Exec to help scale Parabola, a product used by finance and ops teams to automate messy, high-stakes workflows without needing engineers.
Parabola sits at the intersection of AI, automation, and real operational pain: unstructured data (PDFs, emails), brittle processes, constantly changing rules, and teams that can’t wait months for IT. Customers get to see live workflows in action immediately.
Deals are driven by automations, as they are built live in-app
Customers engage multiple times per week and see value instantly
Expansion is natural because the product is horizontal, the first team is never the last
We’re looking for someone who:
- Loves going deep on product and customer problems
- Can work comfortably with operators and execs (CFO/COO) as well as with companies in the retail/ ecom/ CPG + freight/ logistics spaces
- Cares deeply about solving real problems
- Wants to help build the Enterprise motion, not just run a playbook
You’d be working closely with our CRO, COO, CEO and GTM team to shape how Enterprise sales is done here. If you’re an experienced AE (5+ years in SaaS sales) who wants to sell something genuinely powerful with real customer impact, we’d love to talk.
I'm Brandon Harvey, an experienced generalist software builder. I have deep expertise as:
- a software engineer with a track record of building complete systems and frameworks in new fields like spatial, AR, VR, large scale touchscreens, collaboration systems, and AI
- an engineering manager who can put together, lead, and grow a great team
- a product manager who can navigate new technology domains and new markets
- a pedagogue who has created & taught my own undergrad courses at Cornell
I'm looking for a role in an organization that is building something the world needs -- with great people -- in a way that is fully accelerated by AI.
personal site: https://brandonharvey.io/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandover
GitHub: https://github.com/sandover/
I'm based in LA.
(Claude Code & Codex users, I would love to talk to you about my AI agent planning tool "ergo" and solicit your feedback to make it better for your use case. See my GitHub.)
Hi, I'm Anthony Vicari, and I'm looking for a new role, not necessarily of the same type as what I've done before. Interested in consulting and advisory services, VC and investor roles, portfolio management, sustainability, tech strategy. Not a SWE, but have written code as part of past roles, and developed my last employer's internal AI adoption strategy and trained everyone on how to get the most value from LLMs. Ideally remote, but hybrid in MA or NH is fine, or hybrid anywhere else if "hybrid" means being somewhere for a week or two every month or two, instead of a few days a week.
My academic background is in physics and materials science. I have 13 years’ experience as a strategic innovation consultant helping small and large companies, investors, and government organizations develop and/or benefit from emerging technologies across across cleantech, energy, and advanced materials and manufacturing. I’ve focused on helping clients achieve their growth, innovation, and sustainability goals.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonycvicari/
CV: https://www.canva.com/design/DAG_D5eMq20/02C6D8bxBYXWbF1oIpZkLg/edit?utm_content=DAG_D5eMq20&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton
LessWrong profile: https://www.lesswrong.com/users/anthonyc
Personal blog, mostly written by my wife: https://www.brighteronwheels.com/
Long shot, but looking for a cofounder! I'm in the early stages of spinning out a small-molecule drug discovery company. I've been accelerating slow-but-accurate free energy calculations to enable computational discovery binders for novel targets (eg shallow, cryptic pockets, IDPs, even RNA). There's been a lot of hype about pure ML approaches, but those don't actually generalize to these target classes.
I've got some cool tech and a clear direction for improvement, but for this to really make a difference, we need to do drug discovery in an entirely new way (finding binders is not the bottleneck in pharma -- clinical trials are). My idea is to generate selective, potent modulators of ~100 targets in parallel, and use rigorous preclinical models (organoids, PDX mice for cancer) to only take the most promising candidates into clinical trials.
Currently looking for someone with deep bio/pharma expertise who can guide the target prioritization/preclinical validation. If this sounds interesting at all, please slide into my dms!
Elicit Research is still hiring!
elicit.com
We work on using language models to improve decision making in large organizations, with a focus on life sciences. We’re looking for software engineers, data engineers, and ML people. Shoot me an email at panda@elicit.com if you’re interested.
More info:
- used to be a nonprofit (Ought) working on Factored Cognition/task supervision
- focused on assisting with general research for a long time. Maybe among the first 5 commercial products built on LLMs?
- have spent the past year focused on winning life sciences. Have basically all the top names in Pharma as customers. Have users at Rand, Niskanen, etc as well
- based in the Bay Area, and Bay Area preferred, but we do have remote roles
Ecological field scientist, farmhand, English teacher, and occasional communications manager with seven+ years experience in the outdoor realms looking for a new professional role. Friendly, conscientious, good with words, strong aesthetic sensibility, equally capable of spreading manure or giving quarterly reports, probably in the bottom 5% of tech-savviness on this forum though apt and eager to learn. I'm based in Germany and speak fluent German (plus a smattering of Ukrainian), though I'm originally from the USA. Looking for the right remote role or a serendipitous place-based connection. Happy to elucidate my qualifications and share fun amphibian facts upon request.
Contact: DM or silverpineclaw@gmail.com
Are you interested in building thought-to-text?
Our startup, Conduit, has collected over 10,000 hours of brain data and we’re currently building out our ML SWE team. We train foundation models for thought-to-text. Our work has been featured in Forbes (https://www.forbes.com/sites/robtoews/2025/12/07/the-next-frontier-for-ai-is-the-human-brain/) and our blog post will give a bit more context (https://condu.it/thought/10k-hours).
If this sounds like something you’re interested in and qualified for, don’t hesitate to reach out. Looking for folks with previous SWE experience, startup experience is a plus. Must be based in SF or willing to relocate.
Spartacus.app (2024 ACX grantee) — Kickstarter-style coordination for collective action.
Seeking: React developer for a few hours of codebase review during our refactor. Low complexity codebase. Looking for feedback on architecture, performance, security, and general code quality. QA/audit experience required.
Compensation: Volunteers welcome (happy to provide professional credit), or a flat fee is negotiable depending on experience/expertise.
Contact: dm or jordan at spartacus dot app
I'll take a wild shot here though I don't know if this is really the place for it.
I am a federal criminal defense attorney in Minneapolis specializing in white collar crime. For the past 5 years I've worked for one of the best attorneys in the state, handling a wide variety of different kinds of cases, everything from homicides to insider trading to large fraud cases. In that time, we have not lost a trial. I've beaten the feds, at trial, in large criminal cases twice.
I am currently looking for a job to begin sometime this year, ideally later than the spring. I loathe the mass-market job hunt and would prefer to simply connect with someone that can employ me. My skillset is such that I know I can eventually find something, but I'm hunting for a particular niche where I can do what I love: I excel at legal research and combing through huge batches of criminal discovery.
If anyone out there is randomly in the market for a criminal defense attorney, I guess, email me at Theodidactus@gmail.com.
Hi there! I'm Harry Altman. I'm looking for work writing software. I live in New York City but might be willing to move to like Boston or DC.
I was the maintainer of Truffle Debugger (https://github.com/ConsenSys-archive/truffle/tree/develop/packages/debugger), a Solidity smart contract debugger, for 5 years. I eventually ended up writing my own decoding and encoding libraries to support it, as well as a bunch of other things.
I'm good at this sort of nitpicky work, spotting and thinking about edge cases. I like getting things exactly right, even though that obviously isn't always possible due to various constraints. I've been kind of wondering if I should get into embedded development; I find it appealing when things are low-level or similarly constrained. I've beaten Microcorruption. :) (The original levels, I haven't played the new ones.)
I'm also quite interested in unusual or obscure data formats, and working on Truffle Debugger and its associated libraries certainly involved a bunch of having to figure undocumented formats and interfaces. :) I put down above what languages I've worked substantially in but I'd say I'm a generalist and will figure out whatever you give me (I knew approximately no Javascript, Typescript, or Solidity when I started working at Consensys).
I'm a mathematician by background and in my spare time, so after the Truffle Debugger project was shut down I took some time off to focus on my mathematical projects. But now I'm looking for work again! If you need someone like me, I'm available for hire! My email address is on my website if you want to drop me a line: https://hjaltman.github.io/
HIRING:
I don't think there's much overlap between the regular readership of this blog, and the ideal candidate for this job, but I happened to have been posting this on LinkedIn today, so it may be a case of serendipity.
Role: B2B Sales Lead
Salary: Base $120k + Commission. $300k if you meet reasonable sales goals.
Summary: I am looking for a Founding B2B Sales Lead. Over the past two years I've built a profitable company selling Guarantor Insurance, a product landlords require when an applicant doesn't meet their normal approval criteria. You will be selling to landlords, property managers, and brokers, targeting NYC, but we are licensed nationally. I personally know insurance and startups quite well, but I do not have experience in B2B sales, which is why we're hiring for this role. The ideal candidate has experience selling to our target demographic, and existing relationships in the NYC real estate world.
Location: NYC-hybrid. Half our team works from either Austin, or London.
Timeline: Ideally hiring by March 15th.
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Company Description:
PandaGuarantee is dedicated to supporting both renters and landlords by bridging gaps in apartment qualification and mitigating financial risks for owners. We offer lease guarantor insurance, where a tenant pays a premium in return for receiving a guarantee on their lease. We are essentially acting as their co-signer. We have spent the past 18 months building our product, and acquiring the necessary licenses and insurance partnerships to launch this product, and we're finally ready to scale.
Role Description:
This is a full-time role for a Founding Sales Lead, located in New York, NY. The Founding Sales Lead will focus on driving sales efforts, building strong customer relationships, and managing the sales process from lead generation to closing. Responsibilities include training new sales team members, delivering excellent customer service, and contributing to the overall sales strategy and business growth. The individual will play a pivotal role as a strategic partner in establishing the company’s sales operations and meeting business targets.
This is a B2B sales role. You will primarily be interacting with large property owners, property managers, and leasing agents in New York City, but we are also licensed in 40 other US states. We have received strong interest in Chicago, Boston, D.C., Miami, LA, San Francisco, and other major US, cities.
Qualifications:
- Proven experience in Sales and Sales Management, with the ability to meet and exceed sales goals. We are looking for someone with experience in B2B Proptech sales.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to effectively engage with clients and stakeholders.
- Proven ability to execute on sales strategies, with a strong understanding of sales pipelines and CRM tools.
- Entrepreneurial mindset and adaptability to thrive in a dynamic business environment.
- Previous experience working in a startup environment.
- Existing relationships in the world of property management and leasing, especially in New York City, is a major plus.
Email me@solhando.com with your resume, or DM me here if you think you're a particularly good fit for the role.
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We're not looking for entry-level sales reps at this time, but if you are extremely motivated, low-maintenance, eager to learn and figure things out on your own, send me an email with your resume and a short cover letter.
That's actually a fascinating product idea. I'm a real estate investor myself but I never heard of that before. Im Probably too small for it to be of interest to me but I will share it with my friends who have larger holdings. None based in New York City though. What is your target number of doors per landlord?
We're licensed in almost every US state, although NYC is the market core of this product (for now). The costs on our end are essentially fixed no matter how large a partner is. Large owner-operators take only 2-5x the work as a small mom-and-pop landlord, while being worth orders of magnitude more to us, so large owner-operators are my ideal client.
It's not an exaggeration to say that one 15,000 door landlord is worth as much as all our partners smaller than 5,000 combined.
Although my goal is complete market dominance, and I still take the time to speak to every landlord we partner with. Feel free to send them my way or reach out directly to me if you're interested for your own holdings.
I want a break from my own creative projects, so I thought I'd help with yours. I am:
- An ACX book review contest finalist
- A selfpub author who's written a dozen novels and novellas, the most successful of which has ~3k ratings on Amazon
- A former beta reader for a multi-award-winning SFF author
- A professional literary translator who's worked with Liu Cixin
- A competent painter and illustrator
- Unlike a lot of professionals in the creative fields right now, AI-friendly, and personally experimenting with AI video and creative writing
I'm creatively omnivorous and would be up for paid collaborations ranging from creative coaching to developmental edits to AI anime pilot episode. Basically: if you have an idea, I want to help you bring it into the world in its best possible form.
I'm especially interested in attempts at narratives adequate to our present and future, new mythos for our interesting times.
DM me if interested!
Postdoc for math/physics/CS PhDs who want to work on AI Safety: https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/FIELDS/PDFAI
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25yo straight man seeking love, in or around Lausanne, Switzerland. Word nerd who loves etymology, typography, translation, etc. Sings in an anarchist choir and plays the sitar. I’ll fix your bike and make you coffee—will you fill in the last clues of my crossword? 👀👉👈
Long shot, but any women in Central Europe curious about trying BDSMy stuff, also without sex? Ideally Vienna or Budapest. Not looking to get married or anything.
I reckon I would generally match this description (although personally a big fan of sex, too), location aside, but you might get more takers if you describe what exactly you're looking for.
From your description, you could be basically looking for a cuddle partner who will tie you up sometimes when you cross paths, or you could be looking for a long-term romantic but open relationship where you get to scratch your partner up a little (one of my partners has one of these with me, so I describe it this way with affection) while leaning ace about actual sexual intercourse.
There's a lot of room for interpretation! Are you sub or dom? Masochistic, sadistic? How long are you expecting this exploration to last? Should your BDSM partner have anything else in common with you, or do you not care?
I would generally say that BDSM is an interaction requiring high trust, so your prospective partners knowing as much as possible about what you're trying to get out of the exchange is a good first step in enabling that. Not meant as criticism, just trying to help you out. :)
28yo trans man, looking for monogamish husband to raise kids with, but not in a rush. Based in DC for courtship purposes, but willing to move once family-building love is established. I'm a tasteful blend of whimsical touch grass and ambitious get-stuff-done. Seeking similar. Wanna be a thinky / feely power couple?
I was going to write a whole bio, but in the spirit of brevity:
4th Doctor
Aphex Twin
Martian Successor Nadesico
The Book That Wouldn't Burn
If that vibes with you and you're a reasonably attractive 20 something woman, dm me or reply to this comment. I'm 28M and live in Michigan.
Bored ASF recent empty nester 45yo oppressor (i.e. straight white male lol). I early retired a couple years ago so all the free time in the world. Social introvert so while I'd love a relationship however you want it, monogamous, non, long, short, whatever, I'm burnt after two or three hours so vastly prefer if you had your own place or could entertain yourself; not looking for a puppy nor to support you financially. I.e. let's date, can even be forever, but I need lots of me time too. Dinner nightly cool though and sleep over if you want, I make a good breakfast.
Other than that, I'm the boring sort. I like to take daily walks, watch the sunset, shoot the shit, read, drink, eat, and relax low drama. I'm loyal though, won't beat you either. I had a long hard interesting overly excited drama filled life in my younger years and have traveled the world living in nearly a dozen countries, I've settled now and I'm ok with that.
I got no testimonials but my marriage had a good run and my kids still talk to me even though far away in college so obviously people could stand me and I'm not an ax murderer. Granted that's a low bar but still higher than many I have met that couldn't even accomplish that lol.
As for you, anything 18 to 45 female thin, have your own resources, don't hate men, can hold a conversation, don't be ugly, loud, smell bad, or an alcoholic, yes that's all subjective. If you need a green card and are that shallow, that's an option too, I'm flexible and believe in affirmative consent like that as I hate dating fraud. Kids are an option too if you want, mine are grown but I could always have more, I'm good either way. Not looking to raise another man's kids though so if have already, they need to be grown or living with him.
Oh and you need to live in Honolulu or able to visit as I'm not interested in long distance dating. Also you can't hate Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains or Lil Peep. You don't got to like them but can't hate them.
I'm Daniel! 31 year old poly man looking for a woman, with a goal of settling down and having kids. I am a professional AI x-risk reduction attempter, who enjoys contra dancing, studying Latin, very long walks, and being literal, and live in Berkeley, CA. Two testimonials:
"I've been dating Daniel since July 2025 and he's been a great addition to my life. In particular, he's reliable, extremely honest and high-integrity, funny, pleasant, unusually responsive to feedback, and high in executive function. I think he'd make a great father, and a great husband to someone who wants kids." - person who I am dating but not as a primary partner (she already has someone else she's ~committed-ish to).
"Daniel is very (intentionally) funny, at least to me and a lot of people whose sense of humor isn’t too far from mine. IMO the best thing about Daniel is a mixture of being generative, funny, and low-ego that reliably makes me joyful (often laughing) and at ease when I’m around him. I think he fosters this feeling to a really unusual extent among people I know, and I suspect the optimal long-term partner for Daniel will be someone who really likes that feeling and wants to live in it forever. [...] several individuals from different parts of my social network have unpromptedly expressed to me that they find Daniel very good to be around, including one who I think of as extremely judgmental and perceptive." - friend of mine
Check out my date-me doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M4DuSQtgD4ScXjlXchLcRG7UVp3ROIizmsI35c61hVY/edit?usp=sharing
or my twitter: https://x.com/freed_dfilan
I'm a newly-minted 22 year old male (straight), who will be living in Oxford for the next six months. Probably you can best get a sense of who I am from my blog https://benthams.substack.com/. Interested in philosophy and effective altruism! Looking for a smart, interesting, and intellectually curious people, ideally not too different in age!
I'm a 39 year old straight man in Sydney, Australia, looking for friendship or monogamous romance. I enjoy understanding a variety of perspectives, especially those that give me good reason to question my own. My interests include maths, video games and playing sports. I'm rather introverted and prefer chatting one-on-one or in small groups. Looking for someone direct and straightforward who enjoys discussing random ideas. Email is this username at gmail.
38 cis woman open to any gender. I'm a rationalist massage therapist and mental health therapist in Santa Fe, NM (USA) who reads ACX. Looking, as always for growth, meaning, joy, peace, time in nature and open to monogamish connection. If you're in Santa Fe and read ACX, I'd love to hear from you whether we're actually a match or not!
San Diego based 25 yr old bisexual man - someone, lmk if this is possibly relevant and I'll make a dating doc.
Can confirm Dylan is based.
Thanks! (And likewise obv)
yeah, you need a doc. right all we know is that you're 25, bisexual and male. You could literally be anybody with any faith, with any political persuasion, any financial status, just anybody...
I mean people are welcome to scroll through my Substack. That alone says way more about me than my dating app profiles!
Looks like the trend for this particular Classifieds post is "brevity," but lol I could never.
Straight woman, 46, Seattle, no kids, looking for a long-term monogamish relationship with a cis man. I'd be most comfortable with someone who's either child-free or who has not-super-young kids. As an introvert, I'd probably prefer maintaining separate households with frequently visiting and/or spending weekends together? Maybe? But that could change.
My basics: I am very much a grownup. I'm employed full-time, own a condo and a car, sit on my HOA board (dear god), and moderate a 29k member personal ads group on a kink site. The job, which I happen to enjoy being very good at, is a profession, not a passion, and I think that's okay!
Personality-wise, I am exceedingly - nay, excessively - fair-minded. I'm hard to shock, impossible to offend, slow to anger, quick to forgive, and a huge fan of even unsolicited advice because it's more efficient to learn from other people's mistakes than one's own.
I bond deeply with loved ones, but between being rationally inclined and most of my closest friends being men, I have the kind of problem-solving pragmatic approach to suffering that tends to be more common in men than in women. My instinct will always be to help someone solve their problem rather than just "feeling" it with them. I can override that instinct, especially when asked to do so, but the desire to fix whatever can be fixed will still be there, bubbling in my guts.
Nothing is worse than preventable suffering.
Fun-wise, I have excellent taste in restaurants and media and love talking about both. Barring a few weird quirks like hating bananas and pho while somehow loving plantains and ramen, and being annoyed with the characters in organized crime dramas for not transitioning into legitimate businesses, I have a broad, educated palate in both food and media. I get equally excited about grimy taquerias and pristine white tablecloth haute cuisine. I can watch Succession and Bluey with equal delight. My interest/hobby/passion (if we must) is writing fiction that would genuinely shock most of the people who know me. I also love rowing crew despite being very, very bad at it.
I'd be an excellent partner for someone who finds most of the above roughly recognizable in themselves and/or appealing in others.
And as for that partner?
Based on some truly excellent advice I once received in the comments of an ACX thread, I've concluded that the quality I require of any close, intimate partner or beloved friend is a known history of changing their mind about core beliefs like religion or politics, with an active commitment to doing so in the future should new evidence present itself.
This is my chief criteria because I am acutely aware of how wrong it's possible to be about the most sacred, identity-level beliefs: I've rejected the culty faith-healing religious indoctrination of my childhood, have shifted considerably away from the Objectivist/Libertarian politics of my young adulthood, and was even accidentally forced out of a sexual orientation.
So for me, nothing is more cringe than being passionately incapable of cheerfully admiting, "Yeah, I was wrong!"
My main dating profile and some writing is on Fetlife under my username here, minus the "Christina." Email is my username here at Gmail.
Are you a trans?
A trans what?
I just moved to DC! https://quinnd.net/date dating for marriage, not a huge appetite for casual lately. At 33, I think its important to have kids on relatively short timelines / im allergic to the idea of spending more than a year or maybe two deciding to get married or not.
Strong tendency to fail fast in relationships.
Reasons ive broken up with people or been broken up with in the past couple years:
- I put effort into beard care but I dont follow grooming influencer subreddits, and she had a sharp eye for _very_ nice beards
- she wanted to raise kids in the church (I was open minded about it at first, but upon really facing it I realized Im a stauncher atheist than I thought)
- I would too often speak in dizzying ways that take a lot of effort to parse.
- gregarious to the point of taking up too much space; I was pretty drunk and it gave her the ick
- she constantly let her insecurities leak into our dynamic
Open to trying an amtrak-based dynamic across the midatlantic for the right fit, but DMV preferred!
Hi, I'm Harry from New York City!
I do math, I take pictures of bugs, I florgle the blompers. :)
I'll just link here the profile I wrote for dateme.directory: https://hjaltman.github.io/dmd/
Timelines are short, and genuinely good connections are rare. I’m content with my inner circle, but open to new friendships, dating prospects, and thoughtful introductions. Sharing this one-pager here in case it finds the right person through a hop or two.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YHY0eZUVW-SVmbSVcf2RDUmDviG53zYAbxYkFdnAIxk/edit?usp=sharing
[36F in Oakland CA looking for Christian man]
I have built a stable, happy life for myself; and I'm looking for someone to partner with me to build a family and a meaningful life together. Please check out my dating doc, or share with any Bay Area Christian men you might know!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qhpIheDplyu7lUJ9IBhR7mgaoYhsIVlM2gRwO-cVr6s/edit?tab=t.0
I'm married for over a decade, so this might be out of date:
You might want to clarify your definition "Christian men" a bit. When I *was* dating, more than half (maybe roughly 2/3) the people who said they wanted to date a "Christian" they specifically meant what Pew Research would call "Evangelical Protestant" with a sprinkling of "Maybe a Lutheran if I like him."
FWIW, I'm a practicing Roman Catholic and had multiple women tell me that I would need to convert to Christianity if I wanted to date them; being egalitarian (as I see from your dating doc) doesn't rule this out, since I saw this with e.g. a woman who attended an Evangelical Covenant Church, which is both Evangelical and ordains women.
Lol I love that story man and I feel you. I'm Orthodox Catholic and I get stuff like that all the time from: "You need convert to Christianity", "I don't date Jews", "What's your opinion on the new Pope", "I hate Papists", "You don't look Greek", or my favorite, when a Roman Catholic is confused why I'm using a different liturgical calendar or don't care about the Pope, nuns, or really anything they care about theologically.
BTW thanks for not omitting the Roman prefix unlike 99.9% of your nominal peers.
Lol, it's a jungle out there... and still is. Thanks for the tip. For me, I actually mean anyone to is wanting to follow Jesus with their whole life. I would be open to dating a Catholic who fit that description! I struggle to define it too much because I don't want to over-exclude; but good to know that people might read too much into it.
Having met some of these Evangelical Protestants, It would be significantly clearer in person -- they tend to pronounce Christian with a capital C. "I'm looking for a Christian" run together and non-emphasized generally means you're not that brand of Christian (or at least are open to a different Protestant sect).
You seem like a very fun person and I wish I had a Christian bachelor to recommend to you! Hope you find your guy.
--28 Y/O JEWISH MAN SEEKS SAME-AGE-ISH JEWISH WOMAN FOR I-THOU RELATIONSHIP AND EVENTUAL MARRIAGE AND FAMILY-BUILDING--
Hey. I'm Leon (or Yehuda, if you're calling me up to the Torah), a native New Yorker and an adopted Jerusalemite -- in love with both cities, but not yet married to either of them (just in a very serious relationship with the latter).
I’m posting a dating ad on Substack, so of course I'm 'looking for' a thought-partner, who likes reading books and follows the news and is an engaged citizen and all of that — but God forbid she or I care more about being smart than we do about being good.
To borrow a distinction from a YouTube advice guy I watch too much of: I try to keep my beliefs on a longish leash, while keeping my values on a shorter one. In terms of the first set (offered just for determining-compatibility's sake): my politics are liberal, I've been vegan since I was a teenager, and I'm an Israeli citizen by choice, which is worth noting in this context.
In terms of the values that really matter, though: putting people above ideas, really hating cruelty, physically showing up for people, are a few that come to mind.
I've got a 'more the merrier' feeling about raising a family, and that's a 'last in deed, first in thought' sort of thing. That said, my life is a little like my apartment right now: I think it's put-together enough to make room for another person, but it's just been me for a while, so I may ask your company as I tidy it up a little before I'm ready to give you the run of the place.
My WhatsApp is +972-50-814-7573. It would make my day to get an out-of-the-blue call from someone who thinks she might be a good match (whether that’s you or someone you know.) But of course, a normal text on there works fine, and I should get DMs on here, too, if that's better for you.
> "YouTube advice guy"
Are you one of that guy's original 17?
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This is my blog: https://substack.com/@stronghand14
Most recent article about Societal and cultural AI doom: https://substack.com/@stronghand14/p-188376359
If you find my username to be amusing, perhaps you will enjoy my content as well. Currently consists of one post entitled “did I just hit bottom?” where I muse on my recent relapse, and one post that is just some pictures of my cat. Not sure what I will post next, perhaps this mystery excites you as it does me.
I am a blacksmith, novelist, and analyst writing on psychodynamics, autodicacticism, history, epistemology, myth, and maker culture. Have had articles spotlighted from time to time by Arnold Kling, Jordan Hall, Brooke Burke, etc.
Http://jdanielsawyer.substack.com
I write about the intersection (or is it the union?) of Ethics, Economics, and AI. I'm pretty sure that training AIs to have human values is a recipe for disaster, and that if we avoid that failure mode, that treating AI as a normal technology is a recipe for a different kind of disaster.
But since I am old enough and childless enough to not have to worry much about either disaster, I have fun chatting with the chatbots and learning how the damned things work.
This week’s topic is emotional intelligence: https://bigthoughts.substack.com/p/not-everything-is-intelligence
Hi! Read my blog if you're interested in forecast analyses about the future of AI, with focus on catastrophic risks: https://forecastingaifutures.substack.com/
Currently working on an analysis of timelines and scenarios for AI hardware verification, which can be used for monitoring and enforcing compliance with AI regulations and treaties. It will be published in a day or two.
It's published! https://forecastingaifutures.substack.com/p/can-hardware-save-us-from-software
Space nerds! Tell me everything I got wrong in my attempt to write space pirates with realistic physics: https://joshannonphillips.substack.com/p/ch-1-journey
For a number of years, I worked on a writing project about the following subjects:
Theistic religion based on reason rather than the Bible, but which partially justifies the Bible. Positive (content-containing) substitute for (or auxiliary to) liberalism from a religious perspective, compatible with Christianity, maybe other religions as well. Critique of techno-optimism from a theistic perspective but not exactly the Catholic way. What Reformed (in the sense of "Calvinist") Christianity would be if it were radically (semi-)Pelagian and Arminian, and had a different vision of God. The Catholic project (build a civilization-focused religion on natural theology) but a different vision of God, and on Descartes and Berkeley instead of Aristotle and Aquinas. A less "wretchedly urgent" evangelicalism. Engages with EA and the idea of Moloch. Political views influenced by exilic Judaism.
I wrote a blog developing and pursuing this project, containing the content and its development over time, called Formulalessness (https://formulalessness.blogspot.com), and then have started a successor called Following (https://blog.10v24.net). Both blogs are available in PDF and epub formats.
I'm taking a break from this project, but I do see myself picking up some day with the following:
Focus on social and physical sustainability: we will end up sustainable or dead, no other options. What kind of sustainability will we have? Brave New World, 1984, or something else, maybe something that maximizes free will? How can we build a culture that preserves excellence over many generations?
I write about whatever I feel like. Portuguese history and poetry are the most common topics, but science/physics, chess and other loose topics can also be found here.
Parenthood has decreased the frequency of my posts somewhat, but hopefully I'm managing to get back to approximately monthly posts now.
Come check it out: https://aetherialporosity.substack.com/
Hi, trying something new
https://open.substack.com/pub/unfoldingthepoint/p/life-as-development-hell?r=3atp9f&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=post-publish
My substack, formerly a podcast, is called Seldon Crisis: Beyond Foundation (https://seldoncrisis.net). The name comes from a character, Hari Seldon, in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, the protagonist who sets in motion the "Seldon Plan" to orchestrate the 1,000 year process of recovery from an imminent collapse of a galactic empire predicted by his mathematical science of "psychohistory." There are periodic inflection points in the plan known as "Seldon Crises" when an existential threat of some kind occurs and humanity must make the right moves, or not make the wrong ones, and the plan can get back on track.
I finished covering the core trilogy of novels a couple of years ago and have dithered since about going into the same depth of coverage of two sequels and two prequels. Though the stories are fascinating, I feel a little too constricted by the burden of it, so have let the podcast run out of steam with occasional guest posts and essays - mostly tied closely to the story so as not to disappoint my Asimov fans - but I feel I've disappointed them anyway by nearly failing to publish anything at all for a while.
I made the move to substack so I could reinspire the series and let it evolve more toward my current interests, which are mostly along the lines of our own imminent future and the analog Seldon Crises in our path; environmental chaos, technology driven societal disruption, and the positive potential of so many of the changes we are facing as a species. I'll be podcasting selected posts, giving me the freedom to write when I want to about whatever I want to, and if it seems relatively on track for the podcast, I'll record a version for the RSS feed.
My first significant post is Assembling Gaia (https://www.seldoncrisis.net/p/hurtling-towards-gaia) in which I attempt to capture the essence of Sara Walker and Lee Cronin's Assembly Theory, discuss a compelling book by astrobiologist David Grinspoon called Earth in Human Hands, and briefly introduce tech savant Benjamin Bratton and show how their ideas all combine to reveal a fascinating path for the future of humanity as the Earth comes to know itself and may ultimately become conscious in some sense.
It's a big topic and I would love to get some feedback on some of the ideas in it that are so fascinating to me. Please take a look at seldoncrisis.net and subscribe for free. I might paywall some stuff later, but for now it's wide open.
Every Thursday evening, I post an evaluation of a new health-related study. My posts are deep dives written in plain English. The most recent posts look at studies where it's argued that bamboo is a "superfood", that food preservatives cause cancer, and that exercise diversity (apart from quantity) reduces the risk of chronic disease and early death.
https://statisfied.substack.com
Read my blog, if you want to! :)
https://enrichedjamsham.substack.com
Learn what the economists are up to these days (and many other things) on my blog.
https://nicholasdecker.substack.com/
Live forever! Or, at least until all your motor neurons fail, the hard limit on life. Quantified, evidence-based lifestyle interventions for health and longevity: https://www.unaging.com/
I'm once again promoting "The Essential Slate Star Codex", a printed collection of SSC essays. It's all fully reformatted for print - URLs have been replaced with proper citations, I've traced down the original sources for all the embedded charts and diagrams and re-rendered them so they look good at 300dpi, all images have been replaced with equivalents for which I have the rights, etc. Here's the link: https://a.co/d/hcZYQZ9.
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A tool for asking questions to multiple AIs and summarizing the results with agreements/disagreements/unique points, plus scaffolding for tasks like numerical estimation, ranking, and plotting:
https://themultiplicity.ai/
Would like to talk to people about my writing and ideas. Anyone who would like to discuss and hear what I have to say, please let me know where we can meet. But I don’t want to do anymore fake online life, I want real life. Read some of my posts and message me/comment/dox me if interested. My favorite word family is hoarfrost, and its relations: hoary, hoariness, hoard, and also the actual process of rime vs hoar formation. Sorry for the nonsequitur, but I’ve had a hard time telling between bots and people recently.
Do you want or need to learn - or relearn - some fundamental mathematics? I have just the thing for you at Braver New Math (bravernewmath.com), where you can learn more about my books:
𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑢𝑠 𝑀𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝐷𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡,
𝐹𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑢𝑠: 𝐴𝑛 𝐼𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑙 𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑐ℎ,
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝐴𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝐿𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝐴𝑙𝑔𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑎,
all of which can be purchased as paperbacks at Amazon or as pdfs at Lulu.
(Plus, for those whose tastes are more arcane, some early history of non-Euclidean geometry and a bit of poetry.)
I'm writing a story about a Dungeons and Dragons character I created for a game about 25 years ago, a half-orc barbarian raised by orcs with a human father and orc mother. It is currently free to read, and I'm looking for feedback.
You can start reading it here: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/133057/the-unforeseen/chapter/2609466/a-starting-point
I am still in the process of editing the chapters, and some feedback I got makes me think I ought to take some out completely, since it is other character background material which could have been bonus content at some point.
If you live in the bay area - I make lighting specifically for picture rails out of bio-polymers:
https://www.4b.design/products/p/sfpendant
I'm a tabletop game designer preparing to release one of my final 3 games: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2018387307/cyberrats-in-space
Inspirations include Shadowrun, the Ninja Turtles, and XCOM. It's a tactical tabletop RPG with an included 10-game campaign, and the "twist" of this one is that the players realize along the way that they are villains. More specifically, it asks them to grapple with questions like "How far removed from your initial oppressors can you punish before your vengeance is no longer just?"
But, it's also just a rompin' fun game of giant rats in robot mechs.
I couldn't justify the money for a Bloomberg terminal to help with my investing, so I'm in in the process of building an AI native alternative: https://www.neuralmarkets.ai/
Let me know if you're interested in joining the private beta and would be happy to remove the waitlist for any ACX readers as early as next week.
I'm interested. Where should I contact you?
Sorry should have included that! I am peter[at]neuralmarkets[dot]ai
translateabook.com is providing quality AI book translation - using the latest LLMs, preserving layout across dozens of file formats, and helping with customizing the result with pre- and post-translation instructions and proofreading help.
It's a very exciting field that's moving for the better really fast! We've had thousands of users by now, but I'm still a solo founder working 1:1 with users. Feel free to try it out and do let me know what you think!
Each week here on Substack, at The Best of Journalism, I curate the best nonfiction that I can find. If you like this blog or The Sidney Awards that David Brooks does or the now-defunct Lonform.org or The Browser or Arts and Letters Daily or the New Journalism diaspora, you might like The Best of Journalism even more––and if it turns out that you don't like it so much that you feel the money was poorly spent, I am always happy to issue you a refund.
Lots of great stuff in the archives, too...
LABORATORY.LOVE — Crowdfund plastic chemical testing on everyday foods.
You probably saw those studies about plastic chemicals being everywhere and thought "surely someone is testing whether my [yogurt/protein/baby food] contains endocrine disruptors" and then discovered that no, actually, nobody is systematically doing this in a way that produces publicly accessible data.
I'm trying trying to fix that. Users crowdfund (or fully fund!) products to test, laboratory.love acquires three samples and ships them to an ISO 17025-accredited lab, results go public. Think Consumer Reports meets Kickstarter meets "I just want to know if my Soylent is poisoning me." Still early stage (this the project's 1yr anniversary), bootstrapped, iterating on the model. This is essentially PlasticList, the service.
If you care about eliminating plastic chemicals in the supply chain, check it out: https://www.laboratory.love/
Read my dystopian stories about a future in which our sexual urges and hang-ups have been seized upon by engineers itching to invent and corporations eager to profit.
EROFUTURES: Ten tales of sextech run amok
https://www.amazon.com/EroFutures-Ten-tales-sextech-amok-ebook/dp/B0D1ZC9ZV9
I made a game called calibration trivia that's exactly what it sounds like. You can choose from a list of subjects and it asks you trivia questions and you provide a confidence score. At the end it tells you how well calibrated you are. There's also a group mode which has works pretty well. I've done it in groups of about 8-12.
https://calibrationtrivia.com/
https://calibrationtrivia.com/questions/economics.json is mal-formatted. you are missing a comma at line 111
Fixed. Thanks
Fun!
It would be great if the bin width changed dynamically with the number of total questions answered. Otherwise a low number of questions can easily lead to useless/misleading bins. On the flip side, I can imagine more granularity being nice if someone felt like answering over a hundred questions.
It's an interesting idea... I worry that the variation in bins across games will be a bad experience for the unsuspecting user though
Maybe at least change the default number of questions then. 20 questions doesn’t match up well to a bin width of 10 percentile points.
I need an explanation. During questioning, I'm not allowed to give less than 25% confidence.
When I see the results, I get told:
You did not answer any questions with 0-10%% confidence.
You did not answer any questions with 10-20%% confidence.
Well, duh?
OK, it's fixed now. Thanks for pointing that out.
Hadn't really thought about that. I can remove it
Sign up for one or more studies!
Are you a US resident who's had a lipid panel done in the past year? Constellation Bio wants your poop! If you have high cholesterol (or mysteriously good cholesterol despite a poor diet)—or even if your numbers are average and you'd just like to learn more about your gut microbiome—you can sign up at the link below for our ongoing Astrobacillus project, investigating the relationship between serum cholesterol and a fecal metabolite called coprostanol. This is phase 1 of a multi-part effort to develop a probiotic intervention that can semi-permanently reduce a person's serum cholesterol (and hopefully their risk of heart attack and stroke).
https://form.typeform.com/to/B0WgwaZC
While that project is underway, we're cooking up some exciting things in parallel. To that end, the more adventurous among you are invited to participate in a new study, which we are calling the Cassiopeia Project.
Cassiopeia is a first-in-humans study to assess the safety of a novel dietary supplement containing a trace mineral that has historically been thought to play no role in human biology.
In recent years, however, scientists have discovered a class of bacterial enzymes which require this element as a cofactor. Genomic analysis has determined that genes encoding these enzymes are highly prevalent in a number of universally health-associated human gut bacteria, particularly the ubiquitous and abundant symbiont Faecalibacterium.
At present there is little to no data on the abundance of this mineral in the diet. While its impact on mammalian biology has been the subject of multiple studies, these have generally been concerned with the possibility that it is toxic at concentrations to which humans are likely to be exposed. It apparently is not; when they found no adverse effects in long-term rodent studies—even at mg/kg doses that work out to 5g+ per day for a human—it was effectively considered “case closed”: Nobody bothered to go and figure out how much the average person eats in a day, since we’d definitely have noticed by now if the answer were "five grams".
But as I have said before, the microbes indigenous to the human gut are almost as much a part of the body as the mitochondria: external to the 23 chromosomes, but playing such an integral part in our biology that there is no sense in drawing distinctions between “our” genes and “theirs”. A trace mineral which is important for a ubiquitous human gut bacterium like Faecalibacterium may well deserve to be considered an essential nutrient for humans, to the extent that its absence might lead to disease. From the little that we know about this mineral’s role in bacterial biology, a deficiency of it in your microbiome might resemble some aspects of certain chronic diseases that we don’t currently have good explanations for.
If you’d like to know more about this mystery mineral and our plans to investigate it, there’s a nondisclosure agreement below—sign that and you’ll be given access to the full informed consent doc with more information. The doses we'll be using are about 1000x lower than the NOAEL in rodents, which is the kind of safety multiplier that makes "eat it and see" a surprisingly reasonable approach.
Cassiopeia CDA: https://form.typeform.com/to/ypi7OB8p
Thanks for reading!
I made as a side project an app to try and find triggers for acne: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.monoidlabs.aiacnetracker
I personally think it works well. The way it works is that once a day you take a couple of photos of your face, which gives you a numeric acne score for the day, and you add a bunch of tags (like, Dairy, High GI, Zinc, whatever). Then after you have a bunch of data the app looks for correlations between tags and the delta in acne severity scores X days later. It orders by P-value.
I personally found that I likely benefit from taking zinc for instance, and that dairy makes my acne worse. If anyone has acne + is interested in doing N=1 experiments, consider downloading it. 30 days free and then $5 a month.
Sir, you are a true American hero for making this.
I look after the Sydney AI Safety Space -- a free coworking space for people doing work or study in or around AI safety. We're based out of the Sydney Knowledge Hub at the University of Sydney and are open to new members and casual guests.
Details at: sydneyaisafetyspace.org
Do you use flash card apps?
I have made a language learning app that aims to combine the ease-of-use of Duolingo with the efficiency of flash cards. The app comes with ready-made vocabulary cards for a wide array of topics, as well as sentences and phrases that let you practice the vocabulary in context.
Currently, you can learn both Italian and French (from English and German), but more languages will be added during the coming weeks. In case you want to learn English, German, Spanish or Chinese, you can also join the test phase of one of the upcoming apps.
just-italian.app
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If you're in or around Amherst, MA (Especially if you're at UMass Amherst), let me know! I'm a student there and would be interested in joining an ACX/rat meetup.
There are regular meetups in Northampton: https://www.lesswrong.com/groups/spf3oqPxAJLWwREb3
If you live in Oklahoma (ideally Oklahoma City or thereabouts) and would be interested in joining an ACX/rat meetup if I organized it, please message me on Discord, @smallshotofdepresso
San Diego has a very active meetup group. You can see some of our upcoming events here: https://www.meetup.com/san-diego-rationalists/
Or you could join the discord here: https://discord.gg/eTtpMM6rsQ
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to get regular ACX meetups going in CT. There is one from time to time during meetups everywhere season, but nothing else yet.
If you're interested, check out the LW group for more info: https://www.lesswrong.com/groups/hyzRLJBLSkeq3xtQn
Next meetup is probably going to be in the second half of February.
Currently meeting in a Hartford suburb. If you are roughly in the area and it's just slightly too far (UCONN? Yale?), let me know too. Maybe we can rotate locations or meet in the middle?
If you’re in the Twin Cities, Minnesota area, come check out our ACX/LW/rationalism-in-general meetup! We meet consistently on Sundays and hold freeform discussions. Please come even if you don’t think you’re the sort of person who would go to this sort of thing. Join our Discord for up-to-date meeting info (linked on the LW page below):
https://www.lesswrong.com/groups/9C4SkgpCEuymZDMK5
2026 Thomas Schelling Appreciation Day (<https://www.lesswrong.com/events/vv64f43o38MgyFr6z/thomas-schelling-appreciation-day>) is at the obvious place in your city, at the obvious time, on the Saturday after the obvious date.
DC ACX meetup February 7!
https://www.facebook.com/events/756196500409136/?rdid=3yB1N9WWsX7sokfg
or reply/message me
We'll have an EA/LW/ACX meetup in Sunnyvale on Sunday: https://www.lesswrong.com/events/fEcvsiDn5G8tfY49x/sunnyvale-ea-lw-acx-meetup-1
Whatsapp group gathering ACX readers interested in meetups who have no hope that there are other ACX readers in their (for now mostly European) countries. (There are over 200 of us!)
https://chat.whatsapp.com/BQ41J2gdPrSKddROLSZfyP
If you're a non-conspiratorial libertarian or conservative Republican in the state of Colorado, I want you to get involved with my organization, the Colorado Ronald Reagan Club. In Colorado, party activists decide will be automatically placed on the primary ballot without needing to collect signatures and who replaces a state legislator when they die or resign. Since only a small minority participate in the process, turning a small number of non-activists into activists can make a real difference. More info here:
https://bookerlightman.substack.com/p/why-you-should-join-the-colorado
https://coloradoreaganclub.com/
What's your general experience with the effectiveness/tractability/neglectedness of this issue? Do you think there's room for a similar push in other states and if so how would you start (or conversely, are you aware of existing groups in other states you'd recommend)?
The main problem is getting people to show up to things. People say they will and then they don't. Often these low-level unpaid party offices are vacant, anyone can walk into them and then vote for party leadership and qualify to be on a vacancy committee, but people don't want to do it. If you're one of these people who thinks that modern society is full of anomie, there's no sense of adventure, this is it. Political power, come and take it.
As for other states, there are similar orgs, like the Utah Reagan Caucus. If there isn't one, anyone can register a website and create one. I'd advise anyone to find your county GOP website, where there's usually an events page or other info about how to get involved. Caucus is coming up in many states, so it's a particularly good time to get involved.
https://utahreagancaucus.com/
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Any journalists or bloggers with an investigative streak looking for an exposé topic?
My wife and I have been looking for well-reputed US moving companies in tentative preparation for a cross-country move, and reviews... do not make sense. For example, Allied Van Lines has great reviews on a bunch of sites, including Forbes... but a 1.3/5 star rating on Yelp with 25 reviews (twenty three 1-star reviews, one 4-star, and one 5-star). We've found testimonials claiming they have terrible Better Business Bureau ratings, but then the BBB site itself gives them an A+ rating.
Why do different sources have such wildly different ratings for moving companies? Is there a bot-bombing campaign against some companies? Did they buy good ratings from theoretically-reputable orgs? My instincts say there's a story at the bottom of this. Anybody who wants to tug on this thread could end up with a really interesting blog post or two.
I very much enjoy deeply researched essays that use historical analogies to make interesting points about contemporary technology or society. The best example I can think of is this essay (to be clear, I didn't write it) about the rise of the Mamluks and the implications for controlling AI: https://open.substack.com/pub/anchovyhouse/p/al-mamluk-takeover?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=gbrga
This is very difficult to search for, there aren't really any keywords, and most historical analogies are bad or poorly researched. Hivemind, any recommendations for me?
David Friedman recently blogged one such example: https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/we-have-been-here-before
I started writing an essay last year that drew a line from the Opium Wars in the 19th century to today’s zeitgeist-cognitive dissonance around TikTok; if I ever put the finishing touches on it I’ll post it to my blog.
My employer manufactures mechanical computer kits. They are now evaluating partners for future ventures.
Please reach out if:
- You are a video game dev/company/publisher, interested in a mechanical version of your game
- You are a board game developer looking to add mechanical components to your games
- You are doing something else interesting, funny, and/or unusual; or vice versa
- (other)
Emails to support (at) whomtech (dot) tech. You can use the subject line "simony" for a priority boost.
If there are any readers from New Zealand here, I have a prediction contest going with New Zealand-related questions only. Longtime ACX readers will be familiar with the format. Entries close this Monday 2 February NZT. (Sorry if this is the first time you're seeing this.) You can find it here: https://czlee.substack.com/p/nz-prediction-contest-2026
A nice paid member benefit might be giving a day or two heads up before these posts.
Not necessarily, if you post too early in the thread's lifespan, you risk your post being pushed under a "Load More" link.
I believe this is only true if you view it on a browser like a civilized person. The App lists posts by...uh...well, by some other method.
There's a Substack app????
(I kid. I'm well-aware of apps, being so severely allergic to them.)
I live in Jersey City and would like to meet more people to play board games with. I like light competitive games such as Cascadia and Ticket To Ride. I like cooperative campaign games such as Unsettled and Cthulhu: Death May Die. Message me if you're into this and I'll send you invites periodically!
There's also the jersey city discord which has plenty of people looking for the same stuff
Join the obnyc discord. Link easily findable online. But beware it's a bit dead
Are you on the obnyc mailing list? It's a good source to invite people or look for existing events
I have translated several webcomics from one of my favorite creators Joe Duncan.
Baskets of Guts is a humorous technofantasy about a lich who spent too much time in his crypt studying magic, and missed how the world moved on into the modernity
https://basketsofguts.thecomicseries.com/
https://tapas.io/series/Baskets-of-Guts/info
Baytyrki is the soviet-style science fiction about an anthropologist who accidentally discovers a lot about mysterious steppe nation of baytyrki.
https://baytyrki.thecomicstrip.org/comics/2/#content-start
https://tapas.io/series/Baytyrki/info
Both are one of my favorite webcomics on the internet, so I recommend giving them a try.
Oh, nice.🙂
Looks interesting, will try them out.
Any other comic recommendations?
(I'm into Moebius right now, if it helps.)
Of the lesser known ones, I really adore Three in a Tree right now. Its nothing like Moebius, but might as well mention it
Thanks. Will look into it. :)
If you are setting up a (small-ish) office in London and need (used) screens/desks/bulk cables and accessories/misc. etc., email me on jea at lanternventures dot com..
Idle CPU Compute Share to Attack Bitcoin
Does anyone have access to idle cpu (not gpu) cores at a price better than Runpod's 0.07$ or is willing to volunteer CPU cores?
We're prepping for a bitcoin attack using neural nets. It's an index-calculus style approach so we need to collect lots of logarithms using CADO-NFS (a cpu-based discrete log solver) modulo the bitcoin field characteristic.
We've been solo-funding the log collection from my substack subs. The neural net is working up to 20 bits (lol idk if it's overfitting and I need more data).
It took me 4 months to build the 20 bit discrete log dataset and it costs about a dollar for every 3600 discrete logs collected. So I've spent ~300 dollars on Runpod CPUs.
If you're technical, then here's the quick summary: we found that neural nets can perform sth similar to the xedni attack on elliptic curves. We also found that one can 'tokenize' bitcoin elliptic curve data by splitting the regular integer x coordinate over the square root of neg 3 complex numbers (these are called eisenstein integers).
This is the cookie-esque part: 'tokenizing' your x-coordinates as eisenstein integers permits the network associate the x-coordinate to a private key. I was shocked as well. Trump defunded my math PhD before I could get gov't funding to pursue the idea. Now I'm self funding and looking for volunteers to help with compute.
*I'm using academic 'we'. lol it's just me and that dawg in me.
*Discrete log approach: https://leetarxiv.substack.com/p/if-youre-smart-why-are-you-poor-elliptic
*Collecting complex number discrete logs for bitcoin: https://leetarxiv.substack.com/p/computation-of-discrete-logarithms-gaussian-eisenstein
*Xedni calculus on elliptic curves: https://leetarxiv.substack.com/p/analysis-of-the-xedni-calculus-attack
this is a scam
If this works and you successfully hack Satoshi's wallet, will you rpay your donors with some of his bitcoins? $300 to gain $124 billion is a pretty wild return.
Who would you be planning to steal bitcoin from? Do you think this would be ethical, and do you think this would be legal? The last two substack links are paywalled so I can't tell if you answered there.
Learn more about a permanent Paleolithic village I'm building in Southern Maine this spring, on a forested property that was a former wedding/event venue. Members join for either 6 or 12 months (low cost) and can build their own shelter, practice primitive skills, meet other tribe members, and unplug as often as wanted. Website at: https://serranova.org/ and there are a couple of Substack posts here for discussion. Feedback and ideas welcome.
Very cool project. Have you ever seen anyone else do something similar?
Hi Will, thanks, glad it resonates with you. The "live onsite" concept has a few analogs. There's Tom Brown Jr.'s wilderness school in New Jersey with week-long primitive skills classes (he passed away, but the school continues). And there have been countless workshops over the decades where devotees could camp for the weekend; active ones are Rabbitstick and Winter Count. But none are as immersive as this concept, where, for far less than a campground, you can stay onsite, learn, play, and use us as a home base for exploring Maine.
The timing seems right. The "old guard" instructors from the Whole Earth Catalog era have retired to off-grid homesteads, while the next generation of Millennials and Zs are having parasocial relationships with Youtube stars (like Primitive Tech's John Plant, who is amazing at primitive technology creation). But watching isn't really learning. I hope to bring some of these instructors to Serranova as guest teachers.
Recreational medieval faires and LARP re-enactments come closer to the concept. But I always felt like a tourist at those places, even dressed up. So think of Serranova as a mashup of LARP and SCA, recreational sports, a cooking school, and low-tech camping with 21st century amenities when you need them.
If you're interested, DM me any time.
i wish i lived in new england. this is so cool
Hey Sammael, thank you, and the cool part is, for less than the price of 2 nights in local hotel, you can stay an entire month in our village!
If you are fluent in another language or very knowledgable in any particular STEM field and are familiar with apps such as Anki or flashcard studying in general and are interested in being a beta tester for shaeda.io, please do get in touch.
Thank you.
Quick flag that "EA internships" now redirects to "EA opportunities" which include more things (e.g. events and jobs)