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
- 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)
- Contra Dwarkesh on RL sample-efficiency via information theory (Nov 20, 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)