Hi, I’m Daniel!
I started my PhD advised by Florian Tramèr in September 2022, working on security and failure modes of artificial intelligence. See my recent papers and what I’m working on now.
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Recent posts
- Writing in public is still underrated Nov 30, 2025
- My month-long sleep intervention experiment Nov 29, 2025
- Invoke shoulder people Nov 28, 2025
- Underrated reasons to be thankful: AI research edition Nov 27, 2025
- Even superhuman AI forecasters are only as good as your questions Nov 26, 2025
- Board games are for when you don’t know what to talk about Nov 25, 2025
- Pick-up basketball to maximize benefits and minimize risks Nov 23, 2025
- On the apocalyptic residual, or: the secret third way to save the world. Nov 22, 2025
- What’s the deal with RL and forecasting? Nov 20, 2025
- Contra Dwarkesh on RL sample-efficiency via information theory Nov 18, 2025
- 16 questions about reinforcement learning Nov 17, 2025
- Things I hated at first but now like and also things you should just try Nov 15, 2025
- Obvious ways RL can fail Nov 14, 2025
- Inkhaven’s first retraction Nov 13, 2025
- How well AIs do AI research is not that important right now Nov 12, 2025
- Immortality and reproduction are incompatible in the long term future Nov 10, 2025
- The two types of LLM preferences Nov 9, 2025
- Prioritize the base of Maslow’s hierarchy Nov 8, 2025
- Slow takeoff for AI R&D, fast takeoff for everything else Nov 7, 2025
- You should publish your Stack Nov 5, 2025
- You are going to get priced out of the best AI coding tools Nov 4, 2025
- Some hidden time sinks of the writing process Nov 3, 2025
- Why I am writing 30 posts in 30 days Nov 2, 2025
- A/B testing could lead LLMs to retain users instead of helping them Nov 1, 2025
- Memetic optimization #1: brainrot Jul 10, 2025
- GPT-4o draws itself as a consistent type of guy Mar 31, 2025
- You should delay engineering-heavy research in light of R&D automation Jan 6, 2025
Contact
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