= Gwern Branwen
{c}
{tag=Ciro Santilli's e-soulmates}
{tag=Idealist}
Author of <gwern.net>.
Accounts:
* https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gwern
* https://www.lesswrong.com/users/gwern <LessWrong>
* https://twitter.com/gwern locked 2021: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/kp2fek/does_anybody_know_what_happened_to_gwern/
* https://www.reddit.com/user/gwern/
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gwern on <Wikipedia>. Self summary: https://gwern.net/wikipedia-resume[]. Also he is a critic of <deletionism on Wikipedia> like <Ciro Santilli>
He posts insanely much on these websites. It's a bit like <Ciro Santilli> on <Stack Overflow>.
<Ciro Santilli> envies this guy a bit. He <Braindumping>[dumps his brain more or less full time on his highly customized static website] partly due to early <Bitcoin> investments https://gwern.net/me[] says:
> I am a freelance <American> writer & researcher. (To make ends meet, I have a <Patreon>, benefit from <Bitcoin> appreciation thanks to some old coins, and live frugally.)
Also unsurprisingly he likes <Haskell>:
> I mostly contribute to projects in Haskell, my favorite language
<Ciro Santilli> considers Gwern <Ciro Santilli's e-soulmates> due to his interest in "dark web things" like <Bitcoin> and <Silk Road>, his immense writing output in encyclopedic book-sized articles on a <static website>, and his desire to live frugally and just research and write all day. Ah, if only Ciro had some old coins!!!
This is likely a pseudonym, his real name not being publicly unknown, e.g. at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5659278[]:
> > Why do you choose relative anonymity?
For the reasons I've said in the past. To which I can add personal safety: my <Silk Road> page is a bit questionable legally, and we all know that there are ways to exploit knowledge of one's True Name and address (even if, as far as I know, I have no enemies willing to resort to, say, 'swatting' me) - one group of stalkers called up a college they thought I worked at to see if they could get me fired or otherwise ruin my day.
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