Nadia Asparouhova

@nayafia

publishing @asteriskmgzn // books: Working in Public (open source) + Antimemetics (ideas that don’t spread)

San Francisco

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Joined June 2011

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Nadia Asparouhova
@nayafia
Mar 26, 2025
I wrote a new book! It's called ANTIMEMETICS: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading, and it's about ideas that don't want to be shared or remembered, despite their importance. Now available for pre-order: darkforest.metalabel.com/antimemetics
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Nadia Asparouhova
@nayafia
Oct 5
We’re on the cover of New York Magazine today! Asterisk teamed up with NYMag to interview recently-departed frontier lab employees about their decisions to leave. It’s a privilege to bring a piece of Bay Area culture to a national audience, and I’m proud of my colleagues
New York Magazine
@NYMag
Oct 5
On September 8, Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old Anthropic employee, posted a resignation statement on X that ricocheted around the internet. He quit in protest of what he saw as the company’s suicidally reckless pursuit of artificial general intelligence. To the AI community, an
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Nadia Asparouhova
@nayafia
Sep 30
I enjoyed how Jesse breaks down the status hierarchies of blue-collar work in this piece. Why doesn't every blue collar worker just become an electrician? Because that's the equivalent of making partner at McKinsey, whereas the median blue collar job is more like working as an
Asterisk
@asteriskmgzn
Sep 30
Skilled trades are frequently thought of as a route out of poverty. But trades workers tell a different story. @JesseTayRiver, a contractor who works in home remodeling, explains:
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Nadia Asparouhova
@nayafia
Sep 17
I wrote Antimemetics last year partly as a response to the world we're living in, which is default-closed even as some types of information are more accessible than ever. Asterisk is now commissioning for our Winter issue, whose theme is Secrets. If you're as consumed by the
Asterisk
@asteriskmgzn
Sep 17
We are now accepting pitches for Issue 17, whose theme is Secrets:
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Nadia Asparouhova
@nayafia
Sep 17
What will it mean to live alongside a superintelligence that can't breathe or touch grass?
Ryan Orbuch
@orbuch
Sep 17
I wrote an essay about why the next frontier for AI is the world outside the data center Nature is a system more complex than anything we've ever created AI can learn how the system fits together, so we can finally understand how to shape it How? naturalgeneralintelligence.ai
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