Why the new SubStack?

Welcome to PashaNomics by me, Pasha Kamyshev. Starting with free posts. Paid content coming Nov 2020.

A brief bit about me. I was born in Kyrgyzstan, came to the US in 2001 to study in Deerfield Academy high school. I then attended Yale between 2005-2009 graduating with a B.S. in Computer Science. After that, I worked for Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon. I was also involved a bit with the rationality and AI safety communities. I quit Microsoft in Sept 2020.

I have had several blogs in the past and written for Palladium Magazine.

Initially I am re-writing the best parts of my previous blogs to put here, focusing on the general path of going from rational or systematic to post-rational or meta-systematic reasoning.

After that I plan to write about are following:

• Explanations of hard-to-understand philosophy (Girard, for example) and how they apply to current events

• Models of rationality applicable to every-day problems

• Problems with the modern “scientific” world view and how to navigate it

• AI safety or lack thereof

• Economic theory from first principles relevant to design of crypto

• Horrors of modern software

I hope to resurrect discourse around software, skillful conduct and society that is grounded in solid theory and grounded in math if need be.

In the meantime, tell your friends!