Soroush Pour

Soroush Pour

Sydney, Australia
Working on AI alignment. Prev Head of Tech @ cell-cultured meat co Vow (vowfood.com), early Software Engineer & Manager @ Plaid (plaid.com), founded & exited Wealthlift.
Jun
01

Yes, avoiding extinction from AI *is* an urgent priority: a response to Seth Lazar, Jeremy Howard, and Arvind Narayanan.

6 min read
Mar
08

Want to learn about AGI safety & alignment? - Beginner resources

2 min read
Apr
30

Leaving fintech to tackle food sustainability: Why I joined Vow

1 min read
Sep
17

Healthy ways of dealing with persistent boredom at work

4 min read
May
01

Inspiration for you to learn a language and read an incredible book (Factfulness)

7 min read
Apr
18

Sustainability in food production: moving beyond the pastoral ideal and simple solutions

12 min read
Mar
31

Honest summary of nutritional advice out there

4 min read
Feb
08

Go concurrency is not parallelism: Real world lessons with Monte Carlo simulations

8 min read
Jan
28

Beautifully Simple Benchmarking with Go

4 min read
Dec
20

Bitcoin multisig the hard way: Understanding raw P2SH multisig transactions

10 min read
Dec
09

Solving 'virtualenv' install error when building OpenBazaar on OS X

1 min read
Nov
22

Helpful Bash Scripts For Working with Byte Arrays and Hex Representations (in Bitcoin)

3 min read
Oct
16

Deploying your own Toshi API Bitcoin Node using CoreOS + Docker + AWS

4 min read