Mariana Meireles marimeireles

Hello beings of the universe, 👽🖖

My open software & open science work:

✨ Coordination and cooperation research:

I believe the most critical problem that we face today is the one of coordination, so I'm dedicating a big part of my time to work on it!

🌱 Slowly cultivated interests:

Extreme poverty reduction: I'm interested in ways of diminishing the inequality gap. I support causes like Give Directly, land redistribution coupled with permaculture and community building in rural contexts, global free internet access and leveraging non-traditional methods of pedagogy in regions of extreme poverty. I also wonder about applying cybernetics and machine learning techniques to help solve redistribution issues and find pareto optimal equilibria among economical actors.
Governance and open source: Increasing interoperability, free access to knowledge and empowering democracy in a world of machines and humans. Audrey Tang's work is my biggest inspiration for what one can accomplish in this area. Though heroes like Schwartz and Elbakyan taught me to dream of a more beautiful digital world much earlier on.
Living vicariously through books.
Noticing the wonder of every moment.

🦄 Communicorn:

Community is my favorite thing in the universe! If you think we can have a serendipitous interaction, hit me up! I love to share with others. ✨

I host dinners and salons in Berlin. Themes we talked about include "The limits of free speech", "Spirituality and rituals", "Rethinking future socio-economic structures and institutions", etc. If you are a Berliner or a passer-by and would like to join we welcome first-timers, just send me an email!
Check out the "community" session on my website!

📝 Writing:

Research blog: techforgoodresearch.substack.com
Open science softwares I maintain(ed): mari-meir.medium.com
Computer science topics: cyborgdream.github.io
Personal blog about my travellings that contemplate aspects of digital nomading and community building: wireless-hippie.github.io

🧠 Want to hire my beautiful brains?:

I'm open to techinical AI Safety positions in the Bay Area! Feel free to send me an email and/or grab a time on my calendar to discuss.

"Typelists are devoid of any value: Their bodies are empty, they don't hold any state, and they don't define any functionality." - Alexandrescu

"To inform means to convey knowledge via facts. The purpose of that is to give shape to the mind." - Rich Hickey

"Life is short, craft long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult." - Hippocrates

"We are not studying in order to know what virtue is, but to become good, for otherwise there would be no profit in it." - Aristotle

"Moloch whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen! Moloch whose name is the Mind!" - Ginsberg

"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." - Dijkstra