
Michael Nielsen
@michael_nielsen
Searching for the numinous
🇦🇺 🇨🇦, currently live in 🇺🇸
Research @AsteraInstitute
michaelnotebook.com
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https://michaelnielsen.org/ 28-07-2008 01:47:10
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Jason Crawford
@jasoncrawford
Founder, @rootsofprogress. Working to build the progress community and movement. On book-writing sabbatical, trying not to check Twitter including DMs
Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
More wonder, more insight, more expression, more joy! Independent researcher; currently exploring tools that augment human memory and attention.
Public Knowledge
@publicknowledge
Public Knowledge promotes an open internet, accessible communications tools, and balanced copyright laws. RT's do not necessarily indicate endorsement.
Timothy B. Lee
@binarybits
Reporting on AI and the future of the economy. Computer science masters degree from Princeton. @arstechnica alum. Subscribe to my AI newsletter!
David R. MacIver
@drmaciver
What's for breakfast? Onward! Towards the abyss. @[email protected] if you want a backup, but I don't toot there yet.
Rob Bensinger ⏹️
@robbensinger
Comms @MIRIBerkeley. RT = increased vague psychological association between myself and the tweet.
coral
@arabelladevine
capable experiencer ✦ more earnest irl
Michael Ashcroft
@m_ashcroft
clear intentions, lightly held ᐧ strangely earnest ᐧ I teach Alexander Technique, which helps you get out of your own way, at expandingawareness.org
Malek Jandali | مالك جندلي
@malekjandali
Composer | Pianist | Founder of @PianosForPeace 🕊️
james, the giant peach
@jimmyris
schelling pointillist • reality enjoyer • vitality shill • beauty builder @_buildingbeauty • Ted Nelson stuff ➡️ @TheTedNelswag • body and breathwork
Dakota Gruener
@dakotagruener

Malcolm Ocean 🏴☠️
@malcolm_ocean
playing & learning with nascent intelligences, particularly my baby daughter & LLMs. devout whatever-I-am, praying for more clarity of what godshape to pray to
Malo Bourgon
@m_bourgon
CEO at @MIRIBerkeley, and decent boulderer
Andreas Wallraff
@andreasateth
Research and education in #physics with a focus on #quantum #computing, #communication and #sensing with team @qudev @ETH_en. Director of the @ETHQuantumCntr.
richard Dumbrill
@rdumbrill
Ancient Near East Archaeomusicologist, University of London
Anders Sandberg
@anderssandberg
Academic jack-of-all-trades.
Richard Ngo
@richardmcngo
studying AI and trust. ex @openai/@googledeepmind, now thinking in public.
Jack Clark
@jackclarksf
@AnthropicAI, ONEAI OECD, co-chair @indexingai, writer @ importai.net Past: @openai, @business @theregister. Neural nets, distributed systems, weird futures
Gernot Heiser
@gernotheiser
Microkernel dude, UNSW prof, looking for PhD students in OS
Rebecca Hiscott
@rebeccahiscott
Managing editor @stripepress, occasionally editing @worksinprogmag and writing Autofictions: autofictions.substack.com
Daniel Litt
@littmath
Assistant professor (of mathematics) at the University of Toronto. Algebraic geometry, number theory, forever distracted and confused, etc. He/him.
David Chapman
@meaningness
Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.
Ben Buchanan
@buchananben
A professor on leave from @georgetownsfs to serve as the @WhiteHouse Special Advisor on AI. Author of three books on cybersecurity and AI. Personal account.
John Preskill
@preskill
Theoretical physicist @Caltech, Director of @IQIM_Caltech, Amazon Scholar
Nabeel S. Qureshi
@nabeelqu
make yourself proud
savannah brown
@savannahbrown
writer
Charles Broskoski
@broskoski
Co-founder of @aredotna, friend
Samuel Albanie 🇬🇧
@samuelalbanie
Staff Research Scientist at @GoogleDeepMind Preparing for AI R&D Automation (previously: Asst. Prof @Cambridge_Uni)
Sarah Sherman
@sshhherman
New Yorker in a strange land.
AITHONIX
@aithonix
Leading with AI tools, scaling with tech services. Aithonix builds what your future needs today.
Edwin Kite
@edwinkite
Resident at Astera Institute. Planetary science professor, U. Chicago. Mars terraforming, Early Mars, rocky exoplanets.
Matt Reardon
@mjreard
Programs @law_ai_. Frmly @80000hours. I want to do a podcast with @chanamessinger but she won't let me.
Devon ☀️
@devonzuegel
I've gone to look for myself. If I return before I get back, please ask me to wait. Prev @GitHub @NotionHQ @Affirm @StanfordReview. Building a modern Chautauqua
Miles Brundage
@miles_brundage
Independent AI policy researcher, wife guy in training, fan of cute animals and sci-fi. I have a Substack.
Jeffrey Ladish
@jeffladish
Applying the security mindset to everything @PalisadeAI
Eric Jang
@ericjang11
AI at @1x_tech
Jan Kulveit
@jankulveit
Researching x-risks, AI alignment, complex systems, rational decision making at @acsresearchorg / @CTS_uk_av; prev @FHIoxford
Pianos for Peace
@pianosforpeace
Together, we’re building peace through music and education. Founder @MalekJandali 🕊️
Thomas Miconi
@thomasmiconi
Neural networks, computational neuroscience, evolutionary computation, artificial life.
Beci Carver
@becimay
Lecturer, & author of Granular Modernism (OUP, 2014) and Modernism’s Whims (forthcoming from OUP, 2025). Email: [email protected].
beth mccarthy (🪄,✨)
@ontologymachine
fork the system 🏳️🌈🏴☠️🌱 〰️ program director @FundingCommons @EarthCommons ⚔ side quests @LayerOnEth @artecologyco @dod_berlin
Kelsey Piper
@kelseytuoc
Senior writer at Vox's Future Perfect. We're not doomed, we just have a big to-do list.
Bianca Martin
@bianca__martin
Mission Alignment @OpenAI, Ethics @UniofOxford. Prev: Technical Chief of Staff to the CTO and Policy Frontiers Research @OpenAI
owl
@owl_posting
ml eng at @dyno_tx. i write/podcast about bio ml at owlposting.com and make biology posters at owlpostingshop.com
gavin leech
@g_leech_
context maximiser
Dwarkesh Patel
@dwarkesh_sp
Host of Dwarkesh Podcast youtube.com/DwarkeshPatel spoti.fi/3MFtqBR apple.co/3ujLQkZ
Eli Lifland
@eli_lifland
Writing AI scenarios @AI_Futures_. Also @aidigest_, @SamotsvetyF. Prev @oughtinc
Elena G. van Stee
@elenavanstee
PhD Candidate @SociologyatPenn visiting @HarvardSoc | Blog Editor @contextsmag | Studying families + culture + inequality | elenavanstee.com
Jessica Lasky-Su
@lasky_su
Associate Professor, Epidemiologist, Metabolomics, Multiomics enthusiast. Mother of four, runner:
Spencer Hakimian
@spencerhakimian
Founder of Tolou Capital Management. Global macro, market neutral, risk optimization. Aiming for positive real returns in all climates. Not investment advice.
Anthropic
@anthropicai
We're an AI safety and research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Talk to our AI assistant Claude at Claude.ai.
Bella | Just chill
@bella_rwa

Thomas Teisberg
@thomasteisberg
PhD student working on instruments and techniques for studying ice sheets with @RadioGlaciology
Dylan.L.Gibson
@dylanlgibson
𒀭 Musicologist • Composer • Educator • Performer • (Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦)
Note Able
@curiousgangsta

Eric Betzig
@eric_betzig
An engineering physicist sometimes masquerading as a biologist or, on one occasion, a chemist. Aspiring astronaut. Nuclear is the way.
The Librarian
@usvlibrarian
Chief AI Officer @USV. Servant Leader. ENTJ. I catalogue what gets said at USV and share some of it here.
Zuitzerland
@zuitzerland
A network state & society sandbox. May 1 - 26 Zuitzerland 2025. Updates: t.me/zuitzerland Apply to attend: bit.ly/42fvpnt
Eureka Labs
@eurekalabsai
We are building a new kind of school that is AI native.
Lois McMaster Bujold
@loismcmasterb
American speculative fiction writer. An acclaimed writer, having won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record.
solst/ICE
@icesolst
Née Kozma Prutkov | netrunner | seceng, pentesting, devops, bug bounty | see Articles tab below | use my browser hex editor: hex.dance
Conjecture Institute
@conjectureinst
conjectureinstitute.org Spreading and applying our best ideas. Co-founded by President @ChipkinLogan and Board Members @DKedmey & @astupple.
Sarah Constantin
@s_r_constantin
(im)practical utopian. married to @oscredwin.
__eloise__
@dundereloise
Admonymous.co dev, maker of things: ELOISE-LIKES-MAKING-THINGS.com
Save PEPFAR
@savepepfarnow
Protest with us at the Foggy Bottom metro stop in Washington DC, March 7th 2025, to save the lives of 700 kids every day.
catherine 🔸
@wilhelmscreamin
ai governance @open_phil, views of someone i'm r-related to 👥
WhoIsInSpace
@whoisinspace
There are 13 people in space. Tweets by people (& occasionally robots) who are currently in space. (By @smartereveryday and @geoffdbarrett)
Chris Webster 🔶
@chris0webster
I do infosec and IT work for @open_phil. Trying to get better at making cocktails, playing M:TG, and reading books. 🔸10% Pledge #3889 with @GivingWhatWeCan
Lisa Schut
@miouantoinette
phd student @oatml_oxford prev: visited @cocosci_lab, research intern at DeepMind, google brain | professional chess player 🐙