[i have bet 1/25th of my epistemic virtue on publishing a blog post every day of 2026.1 adjust content expectations accordingly]
some things I (want to) think about, ideally with others:2
- epicyclic reflection
- biosingularitarian governance
- sub-Landauer computation
- mesodynamics, broadly
- fetal ectogenesis
- macrohistory
- conceptual plumbing
- [incomplete as of 2026-01-18]
- . . .
I study mathematics and work on AI. Their intersection is fascinating. See:
- the "QFT for interpretability" agenda currently spearheaded by Vaintrob et. al.
- The Theoretical Foundations of Reward Learning (Skalse)
- work on the representational complexity of architectures / depth-width tradeoffs (1 2 3 4 5 6)
- MIRI: Logical Induction, Finite Factored Sets, Reflective Oracles
- miscellaneous decision theory, particularly program equilibria
- Tsvi's blog, Condensation
- [incomplete as of 2026-01-18]
- . . .
Currently, I'm at Standard Intelligence. We pretrain computer action models and are interested in meta-learning-based alignment approaches. Previously we made a 30 petabyte datacenter and released an open-source conversational audio model.
past (informal) writing of varying quality, in reverse chronological order:
- home is what the heart remembers
- am I an LLM? (ended up on MR)
- Idiolects?
- Hobbling-Induced Innovation
- Astronomical Waste Given Acausal Considerations
- Perfect SMLD is TC
- Prediction is not Generation
- Miscellaneous Poetry Drafts
- Scaling Laws for Transfer Learning
- On Non-Isolated Calls for Structure
- Diffusion Roundup
- Linear Contracts Are Optimally Robust
- GHz momentum computing simulation #1
- Notes on RFC 761
- Paphos
- Albums
- Items Lost
- Review | Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State
- Chemical Turing Machines
- Species as Canonical Referents of Super-Organisms (now in a book)
- Probabilistic Logic <=> Reflective Oracles?
- Geneva
- Review | The Romantic Enlightenment
- an expository note on Schur-Weyl duality and the Frobenius formula
- my MATS 5.0 talk recording on "Applications of Oracles to Cooperative AI"
- Nonstandard Methods and Applications in Ramsey Theory. This was my first attempt at doing serious mathematical writing.
- my counterparty happens to be Aidan Smith, who has staked 1/5th of his epistemic virtue to the contrary. ↩
- i appreciate high-quality emails. ↩