About

I like writing code and thinking about the future.

My core interests are machine learning, AI alignment, global existential risk and the power of exponential tech. I currently work as a Machine Learning Engineer in the ML Performance team at Canva in Vienna.

Reach out to me at {my first name} @ weidenholz.dev.

Viewquakes approximately in chronological order

• WaitButWhy articles on Superintelligence, the Fermi Paradox, cryonics & brain-machine interfaces
• Nick Bostrom’s writing on Superintelligence, The Fable of the Dragon Tyrant, the simulation argument and the Vulnerable World Hypothesis
• Discovering Sam Harris’s Waking Up/Making Sense podcast & starting to meditate
• Scott Alexander’s Meditations on Moloch, Unsong and slatestarcodex in general
• Playing Outer Wilds with my brother - the Nomai are my posthuman role-models
• Reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• Connor Leahy’s AGI Fire Alarm talk
• The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
• Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, which is the book J.K. Rowling should have written
• Sitting my first-ever Vipassana retreat in 2023

Other things I like

• Podcasts & my noise-cancelling headphones
• Walter Moers
• Obsidian
• Anki
• Version control
• Hollow Knight & Subnautica
• Philosophy & history
• Film & video-game music
• Boardgames
• Lists