AI Use Note: Main body text entirely human written. Claude (Opus 4.8) helped develop models of animal life histories in the appendix.
Cross-posted from Good Structures.
Executive Summary
* Animal advocates sometimes make claims like “there are X of this animal...
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Back in November 2023 I posted here to launch Spiro and raise our first $198k. Two and a half years later this is an update and a fundraiser for the next step.
The short version: we've now reached over-5,900 people with TB preventive medicine, including over 3,000 children under five years old. Our early results have held up well an...
Adapted from my Substack, Funding Anthropalypse.
Short version: if you want a share of the coming Anthropic and OpenAI windfall - the $37bn+ that could be in play next year - the way in is to become 'legibly excellent', so the evaluators and donors that frontier lab staff already trust point them to yo...
Has anyone / does anyone know anyone who's cold-emailed a professor at a random university to say "hey I think your research is cool, I have skills/knowledge/connections I can bring to the table here, interested in teaming up?"
If so, were they receptive? Did anything come of it? What help did they need?
I got a free textbook  (that cost some insane amount of money on Amazon) once from a professor when I asked if he could share a copy of his work for reference in a video game I was making at the time. I don't know if that counts, but seems worth mentioning.