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Drake Thomas

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Interested in math puzzles, fermi estimation, strange facts about the world, toy models of weird scenarios, unusual social technologies, and deep dives into the details of random phenomena.

Working on the pretraining team at Anthropic as of October 2024; before that I did independent alignment research of various flavors and worked in quantitative finance.

Drake Thomas’s Shortform

Drake Thomas23 Oct 2024 16:49 UTC
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Catas­trophic Re­gres­sional Good­hart: Appendix

15 May 2023 0:10 UTC
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When is Good­hart catas­trophic?

9 May 2023 3:59 UTC
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Find­ing Pro­ject Collaborators

Drake Thomas19 Mar 2022 3:09 UTC
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At­tempted Mind-Reading

Drake Thomas9 Oct 2021 2:53 UTC
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Twin Cities SSC Meetup 3/​1/​20: Death

Drake Thomas28 Feb 2020 4:19 UTC
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Twin Cities SSC Meetup 2/​16/​20: Small Skills Workshop

Drake Thomas15 Feb 2020 22:38 UTC
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Twin Cities Meetup 2/​1/​20: Es­ti­ma­tion, Col­lec­tive Wis­dom, and Sur­vey Data

Drake Thomas29 Jan 2020 14:55 UTC
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Min­neapo­lis/​Twin Cities SSC meetup: 10/​26/​19

Drake Thomas25 Oct 2019 3:56 UTC
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SSC Meetup 10/​12: Min­neapo­lis /​ St. Paul

Drake Thomas12 Oct 2019 15:44 UTC
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SSC meetup 10/​12: Light­ing talks and board games

Drake Thomas22 Sep 2019 15:23 UTC
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Min­neapo­lis SSC meetup Septem­ber 2019

Drake Thomas29 Aug 2019 23:01 UTC
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Twin Cities SSC Meetup

Drake Thomas10 May 2019 5:10 UTC
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Twin Cities SSC meetup

Drake Thomas30 Apr 2019 15:07 UTC
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