Glasha Zinenko

The Calibrated Defector
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β€œEscaped a dictatorship, survived a 3.98 GPA, now debugging your p(doom) priors.”
p(doom)60
Technical22
Creative55
Extrovert62
Irony60
Chaos42
πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί βš–οΈ Nuanced Β· 🏳️ Refuses/evades
🀝 Bestie · Jessiah
Literature-and-philosophy intellectuals who apply epistemology to the real world.
βš”οΈ Nemesis Β· Aryeh
Glasha, the nuanced anti-authoritarian dissident, vs Aryeh, the flippant right-of-center culture-war troll.
Full intro

Hey! I'm Glasha (gl-uh-sha, like Sasha but with a "gl"). I live in Buffalo, by Niagara Falls, randomly across the border from Evan. I moved here from Moscow, Russia at 17, after making a brave attempt to overthrow the dictatorship by going to two protests. Five months after I moved to the US, the dictatorship started a war with a bordering country. I felt nauseous and tried to stop the war by volunteering at a protest hotline, failed, and acquired learned helplessness.

I went to a state school in Buffalo for philosophy. I scored a 3.98 GPA by slowly getting worse at what I do. In my last year I decided to start a career in communications and communicate about effective altruism-related stuff, especially AI risk. Here's an article I'd pushed out, about epistemic responsibility and believing in Santa: buffstaterecord.com.

I'd be down to collab on videos that teach how to evaluate predictions of AI risk. Maybe about how forecasting works? To save my ass from a belligerent kangaroo, I would jump in her pouch and hide there until she forgets about me.