I’m Michael “Valentine” Smith. Cofounder & senior instructor at CFAR 2012–2018. I left the rationality scene 2018–2024 to do some soul-searching. I’ve now reentered the fray, hopefully a bit wiser but that’s not really mine to judge.

You can find my non-LW writing on my Substack. You can also find my social media profiles via my Linktree (though I mostly post on Twitter, and basically not anywhere else).