I am a young AI safety researcher and aspiring rationalist.
I also identify as an effective altruist.
I study physics and philosophy as an undergraduate student at the University of St Andrews (ranked first in the UK by the Times and Guardian university rankings as of October 2023).
My primary interests are systems science and mechanism design as applied to AI safety.
Beyond that I am curious about exploring the foundations of rationality and cooperation through a variety of other avenues like socio-physics, formal epistemology, and open source game theory.
It is now 11 years later. Have the people who embarked on quests to become 1000-year-old vampires succeeded? If not, where did they fail? What obstacles did they face and how did they overcome them?
Please pass on your knowledge to the next generation of aspiring vampires. The world is at stake after all.
My friends and I are eager to receive your wisdom and succeed where you failed (or follow in your footsteps if you succeeded). Helping to accelerate the next generation of vampires is probably among the highest-leverage things one can do and certainly something a 1000-year-old vampire would have done.