About
This is a blog by Milan Griffes. I post about ethics, contemplative practice, social phenomena, and interesting tidbits from things I'm reading.
I work on the investment team of Lionheart Ventures.
I’m generally interested in frontier approaches to understanding & scaling (human) awakening, sentient flourishing, and aligning powerful AI systems.
One of my favorite ways to add value is by investigating what a friend has termed ultra-neglected cause areas (a).
When these areas seem to hold promise, I like to put energy towards convening and harmonizing early field-building efforts in them. Here are some example contributions of this kind:
- Cost-effectiveness of a drug liberalization ballot initiative (a) (2018)
- Psychedelics as an EA cause area (a) (2019)
- Advising the Qualia Research Institute (a) (since 2021)
- Jhana meditation as an EA cause area (a) (2022)
- Quantification of catastrophic risk reduction efforts in collaboration with the Total Portfolio Project (a) (2023)
- Mapping the field of consciousness science, leading to the formation of the Spirit Tech Collective (2024) and the Co-Sentience Initiative (2025)
- Mapping faith community perspectives on transformative AI (a) (2025)
I like receiving email about things I'm interested in!
Patrick McKenzie's tips for emailing people (a) nicely encapsulate my own email preferences. You can contact me at the reified version of this address: first name dot last name at gmail dot com
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