Elizabeth Van Nostrand

Elizabeth Van Nostrand is an independent freelance researcher and founder of North Sea Analytics, a consultancy offering research and analysis on complex, novel problems. She studied computer science and computational biology at Cornell University and previously worked as a software engineer at companies including Adobe, Google, and Wave before transitioning to full-time freelance research in 2017. She writes at her blog Aceso Under Glass (acesounderglass.com) and is an active contributor to LessWrong (username: elizabeth, formerly pktechgirl), where she has accumulated over 22,000 karma across 178 posts. Her research work has focused on epistemic methodology, including the Epistemic Spot Checks and Knowledge Bootstrapping projects aimed at developing tools for researchers to evaluate sources and learn new fields from scratch without deferring to credentialed authorities. She has received grants from the Long-Term Future Fund for this knowledge bootstrapping work and for general research support via Lightcone Infrastructure, and her essays have been included in the LessWrong community anthology The Engines of Cognition.

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