Hello friends! I have been orbiting around effective altruism and rationality ever since a friend sent me a weird Harry Potter fanfiction back in high school. I started going to Seattle EA meetings on and off a couple years ago, and have since read a bunch of blogs, made friends who were into existential risk, started my own blog, graduated college, and moved to Seattle.
I went to EA Global this summer, attend and occasionally help organize Seattle EA/rationality events, and work in a bacteriophage lab. I plan on studying international security and biodefense. I recently got back from a trip to the Bay Area, that gaping void in our coastline that all local EA group leaders are eventually sucked into, and was lucky to escape with my life.
I’m gray on the LessWrong slack, and I also have a real name. I had a LW account back early in college that I used for a couple months, but then I got significantly more entangled in the community, heard about the LW revitalization, and wanted a clean break—so here we are. In very recent news, I’m pleased to announce in celebration of finding the welcome thread, I’m making a welcome post.
I wasn’t sure if it would be tacky to directly link my blog here, so I put it in my profile instead. :)
Areas of expertise, or at least interest: Microbiology, existential risk, animal ethics and welfare, group social norms, EA in general.
Some things I’ve been thinking about lately include:
How to give my System 1 a visceral sense of what “humanity winning” looks like
What mental effects hormonal birth control might have
Which invertebrates might be able to feel pain
What an alternate system of taxonomy based on convergent evolution, rather than phylogeny, would look like
How to start a useful career in biorisk/biodefense
Hello friends! I have been orbiting around effective altruism and rationality ever since a friend sent me a weird Harry Potter fanfiction back in high school. I started going to Seattle EA meetings on and off a couple years ago, and have since read a bunch of blogs, made friends who were into existential risk, started my own blog, graduated college, and moved to Seattle.
I went to EA Global this summer, attend and occasionally help organize Seattle EA/rationality events, and work in a bacteriophage lab. I plan on studying international security and biodefense. I recently got back from a trip to the Bay Area, that gaping void in our coastline that all local EA group leaders are eventually sucked into, and was lucky to escape with my life.
I’m gray on the LessWrong slack, and I also have a real name. I had a LW account back early in college that I used for a couple months, but then I got significantly more entangled in the community, heard about the LW revitalization, and wanted a clean break—so here we are. In very recent news, I’m pleased to announce in celebration of finding the welcome thread, I’m making a welcome post.
I wasn’t sure if it would be tacky to directly link my blog here, so I put it in my profile instead. :)
Areas of expertise, or at least interest: Microbiology, existential risk, animal ethics and welfare, group social norms, EA in general.
Some things I’ve been thinking about lately include:
How to give my System 1 a visceral sense of what “humanity winning” looks like
What mental effects hormonal birth control might have
Which invertebrates might be able to feel pain
What an alternate system of taxonomy based on convergent evolution, rather than phylogeny, would look like
How to start a useful career in biorisk/biodefense