Hi! I'm Nathan Holmes, and I've bounced around a bit educationally (philosophy, music, communication disorders, neuroscience), and am now pursuing computer science with the intent of, ideally, working on AI/ML or something related to implants. (The latter may necessitate computer engineering rather than CS per se, but anyway.)

One of my lifelong interests has been understanding intelligence and how minds work.

Previously, in spite of having been an off-and-on follower of Less Wrong (and, earlier, Overcoming Bias, when EY published there), I hadn't really treated unfriendly AI as worthy of much thought, but reading a few more recent MIRI essays convinced me I should take it seriously--especially if I'm interested in AI research myself. Hence the decision to read Superintelligence.