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# Alexander Chin

Hello! I'm Alexander. I'm broadly interested in reinforcement learning, the philosophy of mind, and technical AI alignment, but you can just as often find me buried in a book about poetry, crow behavior, philosophy of physics, complexity theory, or zen buddhism.

In my free time, I [read](https://hamilchin.github.io/theviewfromafar/links/Bookshelf.html), [write](https://hamilchin.github.io/theviewfromafar/), listen to [music](https://open.spotify.com/user/0katx9se0pyjjoirt3qbyrm09?si=b2ac5c05743e4ea5). Feel free to reach out via email for any reason if you want to chat!

Currently, I'm: 
- Living in SF
- Thinking about what alignment techniques we might need to address reward hacking during RL
- Working at Tesla training real-time computer-use agents

In the future, I'd like to:
- Write a book about the philosophy of mind
- Get much better at DJing
- Fix my sleep schedule

In the past, I've: 
- worked on Edtech at Synthesis
- done research on model-based reinforcement learning
- dropped out of high school
- Taught 3 great classes at UW: CSE 122 and 143, and CSE 490: *Big Ideas in AI*. 
- lead UW's architecture appreciation club
- spent a summer trying to figure out the 'hard problem' of consciousness

- [Email](mailto:chinalexan@gmail.com)
- [Github](https://github.com/hamilchin)
- [Writing](https://hamilchin.github.io/theviewfromafar)
- [Twitter](https://x.com/Hamilchin)

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This [page](https://github.com/Hamilchin/hamilchin.github.io) last updated October 7, 2026.

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