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adamShimi

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Epistemologist specialized in the difficulties of alignment and how to solve AI X-Risks. Currently at Conjecture.

Blogging at For Methods.

Twitter.

Peel­ing Back The Re­mote­ness of Sources

adamShimi19 Jul 2025 17:41 UTC
14 points
1 comment13 min readLW link
(formethods.substack.com)

The Com­pul­sion For (Pseudo-)Mechanisms

adamShimi6 Jul 2025 10:46 UTC
31 points
8 comments12 min readLW link
(formethods.substack.com)

A Method­ol­o­gist’s Apology

adamShimi25 Jun 2025 16:52 UTC
13 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
(formethods.substack.com)

How The Singer Sang His Tales

adamShimi19 Jun 2025 17:06 UTC
18 points
0 comments36 min readLW link
(formethods.substack.com)

The True Goal Fallacy

adamShimi9 Jun 2025 14:42 UTC
50 points
1 comment7 min readLW link
(formethods.substack.com)

Poetic Meth­ods II: Rhyme as a Fo­cus­ing Device

adamShimi26 May 2025 18:29 UTC
24 points
1 comment17 min readLW link
(formethods.substack.com)

The Grapes of Hardness

adamShimi11 Mar 2025 21:01 UTC
8 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(formethods.substack.com)

His­to­ri­o­graph­i­cal Com­pres­sions: Re­nais­sance as An Example

adamShimi1 Mar 2025 18:21 UTC
17 points
4 comments7 min readLW link
(formethods.substack.com)

Poetic Meth­ods I: Meter as Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Protocol

adamShimi1 Feb 2025 18:22 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(formethods.substack.com)

Frag­ile, Ro­bust, and An­tifrag­ile Prefer­ence Satisfaction

adamShimi2 Nov 2024 17:25 UTC
19 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(formethods.substack.com)

The Com­pendium, A full ar­gu­ment about ex­tinc­tion risk from AGI

31 Oct 2024 12:01 UTC
195 points
52 comments2 min readLW link
(www.thecompendium.ai)

Tri­an­gu­lat­ing My In­ter­pre­ta­tion of Meth­ods: Black Boxes by Marco J. Nathan

adamShimi9 Oct 2024 19:13 UTC
8 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(formethods.substack.com)

Self-Help Corner: Loop Detection

adamShimi2 Oct 2024 8:33 UTC
88 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(formethods.substack.com)

My Method­olog­i­cal Turn

adamShimi29 Sep 2024 15:01 UTC
29 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(formethods.substack.com)

On the Role of Proto-Languages

adamShimi22 Sep 2024 16:50 UTC
54 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
(epistemologicalfascinations.substack.com)

Com­pres­sion Moves for Prediction

adamShimi14 Sep 2024 17:51 UTC
20 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(epistemologicalfascinations.substack.com)

My Num­ber 1 Episte­mol­ogy Book Recom­men­da­tion: In­vent­ing Temperature

adamShimi8 Sep 2024 14:30 UTC
122 points
18 comments3 min readLW link
(epistemologicalfascinations.substack.com)

My Model of Epistemology

adamShimi31 Aug 2024 17:01 UTC
37 points
1 comment8 min readLW link
(epistemologicalfascinations.substack.com)

[Question] What are the best re­sources for build­ing gears-level mod­els of how gov­ern­ments ac­tu­ally work?

adamShimi19 Aug 2024 14:05 UTC
19 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Bak­ing vs Patiss­ing vs Cook­ing, the HPS explanation

adamShimi17 Jul 2024 20:29 UTC
30 points
16 comments3 min readLW link
(epistemologicalfascinations.substack.com)