Samir Varma
Physicist, hedge-fund founder, and author.
I study systems that are deterministic, hard to predict, and impossible to ignore: particles, markets, AI, and human choice.
PhD theoretical physics, UT Austin · Author of The Science of Free Will · Co-Founder of VS Asset Management · Inventor on eight US patents
Now — as of April 28, 2026
Physics
A new paper on a universal pattern in fermion mass ratios is out in European Physical Journal C, with a follow-up in Modern Physics Letters A. Working on what comes after.
Writing
Weekly. Direct, first person, no PR voice — physics, AI, free will, markets.
Trading
Running Risk Timing® at VS Asset Management — long-term US equity exposure with explicit drawdown management.
Book
The Science of Free Will
How Determinism Affects Everything from the Future of AI to Traffic to God to Bees. Foreword by Tyler Cowen.
Physics is deterministic; you have no free will in theory. But the universe is computationally irreducible; you have perfect free will in practice.
“Free will is the absence of being able to predict what will occur.” The book shows why both are true at once — and what that means for AI, ethics, justice, and the bees.
Praise
I am delighted to see this work come to fruition. Samir Varma breaks down barriers in this fascinating book on determinism … you are part of the causal chain steering your actions in complex, unpredictable ways.
A wonderfully entertaining case for determinism. I learned a lot about wave functions, computability and Artificial Intelligence … I learned a lot, enjoyed the book, and I predict you will too!
An intellectual tour-de-force … weaves an exhaustive interdisciplinary study through science, mathematics, computer science, and philosophy. With compelling evidence and insightful caveats, it challenges readers to reconsider the boundaries between determinism and human agency.
Recent writing
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ARGH!
Jun 29, 2026
America Remains Great, Halfwits!
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Disincentivize!
Jun 22, 2026
On the most boring, responsible thing ninety-six million Indians are quietly doing — and the strange national reflex that mistakes it for a problem.
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Musk’s Space Data Centers Are a Bet That Moore’s Law Stays Slow
Jun 15, 2026
It's not a cooling bet, and barely a launch bet. It's a bet on how slowly Moore's Law moves.