Hello! I’m David Quarel. I wanted to get into writing for reasons detailed here, so I made this blog.

I (will?) write about AI safety, rationality, effective teaching, and whatever else I find interesting. Probably some personal stuff about my life and moving to London from Australia, and why you should too.

Below is a serious bio written in the third person using stern prose so I can copy-paste it into things more serious than this blog.

Biography

David Quarel is a PhD student at the Australian National University (ANU), supervised by Marcus Hutter, focusing on AI safety, Universal Artificial Intelligence and Mechanistic Interpretability. He holds a BSc in physics and mathematics (2013-2017) and a MComp, specialising in AI and ML (2017-2019). Prior to starting his PhD, he spent two years teaching full-time at the ANU in mathematics, theoretical computer science, and digital hardware design. He delivered guest lectures and has years of experience with developing and delivering course content, and co-authored a textbook. David has also taught at previous iterations of ARENA as well as CaMLAB, and worked as a research assistant with KASL, an AI safety lab based at Cambridge University.

David enjoys road cycling, rock climbing, teaching, rationalism, and is trying to get more into the habit of writing.