Louis Arge
I work on technology for increasing well-being & ending extreme suffering at Gradients. These technologies will become wonderful, trillion dollar products, and are morally imperative to build.
Big ideas
- Moral realism
- End of suffering through tech
- Science of consciousness
- Open individualism
- The path to awakening
- Animal welfare
Future of life
- ASI is a new kind of life
- It will evolve a million times faster
- Biology can’t keep up
- So: Plan A from ai-2040.com
- Merge with AI, become angels
- Dyson sphere within decades
Rabbit holes
- HPMOR
- The Three-Body Problem
- Quantitative finance
- Computer vision
- Freestyle rap
- Mixing vocals
- tFUS neuromodulation
Personally
- I love rural & suburbia
- Sauna is the best
- Strong sense of smell
- Water sign, mostly
- I live in the Bay Area
Work
Previous
Things
sol
Minimalist solar system explorer: probes, moons, comets, and more.
Flashcards MCP
Spaced-repetition flashcards inside Claude & ChatGPT.
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Poker Dojo
Lessons, drills and range charts for learning poker strategy.
The best ideas show up when you keep writing
Onward
AI autocomplete for Obsidian. Helps you write faster, in your own voice.
Blog Posts
On brain fog (it's much worse than you think)
A story about my own brain fog + some resources to help you cure yours
How to Record Trap Music (A Beginner's Guide)
Everything I wish I knew about recording trap music as a beginner.
How to Freestyle Like Harry Mack
Harry Mack taught me how to freestyle. Here's how he does it.
Twitter Cheat Sheet
How to grow your Twitter account
Suffering 90% less, my meditation journey so far
On the path I took, the phenomenology of my experience, and the distinction between pain and suffering
Skyline: A Twitter client that makes you happy
Creating vibe-based algorithms with LLMs, as an alternative to engagement-based algorithms.
Experiments in ASMR generation
I trained (the world's first?!) ASMR generation model
Meditation is research, not exercise
A more fruitful way to view meditation. Run experiments & learn how the mind works.
Death’s End Chapter Summaries
Single paragraph summaries of each section of Death’s End
Flashcards MCP: My workflow for learning math with Claude & ChatGPT
Walkthrough of my workflow for learning (& remembering) math with Claude and ChatGPT!
A Buddhist, Sam Bankman-Fried, and an Economist Walk Into a Bar
The economist says to the other two, "I have a fun personality test for you."
sol: minimalist solar system explorer
Explore the solar system, with probes, moons, comets, and more.
HPMOR Chapter Summaries
Single paragraph summaries of each chapter of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
angelcore
emptinesspunk
BurbeaGPT 🤖🪷
Get your meditation questions answered by Robot Burbea
The Future of Suffering, Euphoria, and Productivity
And how the most humanitarian health efforts aren't typically focused on.