Zvi Mowshowitz
Also known as Zvi, TheZvi
Writer of Don't Worry About the Vase, a weekly-plus blog mostly about AI; former Magic: The Gathering pro.
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- Zvi Mowshowitz is an American writer in the rationalist community.
- His Substack, Don't Worry About the Vase, is now mostly about artificial intelligence, with a long weekly AI update and posts on AI risk, plus roundups on housing, education, health and games.
- Before that he was a professional Magic: The Gathering player, inducted into its Hall of Fame in 2007, and co-founder and CEO of MetaMed, which shut down in 2015.
Key facts
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- Don't Worry About the Vase: mostly AI, with a weekly AI update; about five posts a week2
- Studied
- Columbia University, bachelor's degree in mathematics1
- Magic: The Gathering
- Won the 1999 World Championships with the US national team and Pro Tour Tokyo in 2001; Hall of Fame, 20071
- MetaMed
- Co-founded the medical research analysis firm and was its CEO; it shut down in 20151
- Jane Street
- Worked at Jane Street Capital1
- Balsa Research
- Founded the nonprofit think tank; it has argued for repealing the Jones Act, more housing and reform of the National Environmental Policy Act1
- Center for Applied Rationality
- Member of the board of directors1
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