Hi, I'm Alex

You can usually find me building interesting things with good people. I'm a technologist, operator, economist, quant, entrepreneur, developer, maker, AI researcher and quite a bit more...

Interests

Sustainable Futures

Evidence-based approaches, Long-term thinking, Rationality and Humanitarianism. Our future will be what we make it.

AI Safety

AI will offer unprecidented transformational opportunities for humanity... and will also come with unprecidented risks.

AI Economics

Within the coming decades, we may face catastrophic job displacement and reduced labor participation due to automation and AI.

Giving Back

10% pledger. Pledging time & money to giving back is worthwhile for those who can. My focus is on Biomedical Research & health tech.


Writing & Work






Less is more


The average webpage is now 2,200kB.

Every page in this site is less than 15kB, including all images, styling, code, icons - everything.








Life the universe and everything is procedural

As Wolfram highlights, our world unfolds generatively, each moment a unique brushstroke guided by the last according to fundamental algorithms. Some of these algorithms we know, many we don't. From the spiraling fractals in leaves to the formation of our own neural connectome, we see emergent echoes of procedural generation. Perhaps the line between the organic and the digital will not remain as clear as we once thought.

The procedural animation below assembles itself with less than 140 characters of javascript