Hello! I’m Alex, and this is my pond. The Pond gathers my writings on topics including AI, self-improvement, and living a good life.

The earliest content dates back to January 2018. Over the years, I’ve built up a web of ideas and philosophies. I even endorse some of them still! I love my research, and I hope you love it too.

I also enjoy writing more personal content and sharing a bit about myself. While my blog’s previous home made TurnTrout a familiar name to some folks, only a narrow part of me got to shine through. Hopefully the launch of this site changes that!

Stay a while! The water’s great.

Start here

1. Looking back on my alignment PhD
2. The shard theory of human values
3. Bruce Wayne and the cost of inaction
4. Formalizing “defection” using game theory
5. English writes numbers backwards

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