Misha Gurevich
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Misha Gurevich is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between December 28, 2021 and October 13, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “But I was also able to get another $1.3 million from extremely generous outside funders, of whom only two would let me reveal their names: … and Misha Gurevich”; “only two would let me reveal their names: Vitalik Buterin and Misha Gurevich”; “Our overall evaluators: Misha Gurevich, Clara Collier”. It most often appears alongside ACX Grants, ACX Grants, Andrew Martin.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: December 28, 2021
- Last seen: October 13, 2025
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Related Pages
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- ACX Grants (3 shared issues)
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- ACX Grants (3 shared issues)
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- Andrew Martin (3 shared issues)
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- Austin Chen (3 shared issues)
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- Ruth Hook (3 shared issues)
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- 1DaySooner (2 shared issues)
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- ACX (2 shared issues)
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- African School of Economics (2 shared issues)
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- Anton Makiievskyi (2 shared issues)
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- Australia (2 shared issues)
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- Calvin French-Owen (2 shared issues)
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- Charter Cities Institute (2 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
But I was also able to get another $1.3 million (!) from extremely generous outside funders, of whom only two would let me reveal their names: Vitalik Buterin and Misha Gurevich. Thank you Vitalik, Misha, and other anonymous people!
Evaluating applications was much harder than I expected, and I was saved by several teams of people who agreed to read over some large fraction of 656 grant applications for free or at least for much less money than they deserved. These include: Merrick Smela, Ruth Hook, Samira Nedungadi, Tessa Alexanian, and AG for Biology; Kieran Greig for Animals; Clay Graubard for Forecasting; José Luis Ricón for Science & Progress; Andrew Martin for Global Health & Development, [anonymous] for Politics, Misha Gurevich for everything I could force him to read, and a few other people who gave me miscellaneous advice on specific proposals. I made all final decisions and you shouldn’t blame these people if I got something wrong.
Our overall evaluators: Misha Gurevich, Clara Collier.
Misha Gurevich, Vivian Belenky, and Rachel A, $50K, to manufacture far-UVC lamps. Far-UVC is a type of ultraviolet light that kills germs rapidly; in a room with correctly-installed far-UVC lighting, viruses and bacteria die before they can reach another host, and the spread of contagious diseases plummets. In a world where this technology reached its full potential, respiratory pandemics like flu and coronavirus would cease to occur. Until now, these lamps have been limited to a few research prototypes. Last year, an ACXG-sponsored study worked to establish that they are safe for human use; results were reassuring. The next step is to produce them at scale as a consumer product for use in schools, daycares, and houses. Misha’s company Aerolamp has an early developer’s kit lamp on sale now, and is looking to hire an industrial designer experienced in safety and compliance who can help them transition to a mass-manufacturable version. If that’s you, get in touch with them here. Misha is a personal friend and a longtime ACXG evaluator; due to conflict of interest, this grant is being covered in conjunction with an outside funder.
Inline links: an early developer’s kit lamp on sale now, here
Generalist: Austin Chen, Misha Gurevich, Sydney von Arx