London based postgrad, researching emergence, free energy, and multi-agent systems. Building intelligent automation at realmachines.ai.
Some things I believe:
- On civilisation in the long-run
- our universe is hyper young, life on Earth an outlier
- civilisation minimises free energywith markets providing all metabolic function
- marketsare artificial intelligence; they self-regulate and rarely call for intervention
- technological progress is the onlydriver of market creation, and is the rate limiter of civilisation growth
- On The Alignment Problem
- democratisingintelligence will supercharge abundance
- society maintains alignment at the triple point of "paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology"
- allocate this abundance optimally if you want to maintain technological optimism and stoke the fires of further growth
- On civilisation in the short-run
- EMH is weak at best: all opportunities emerge in the lag between market sentiment and reality, especially during breakthroughs
- most scientific fields have seen diminishing returns for sixty years, with exceptions in computing and machine learningwhich will produce a knowledge explosion
- with Culture-Minds, agents will let us delegate research or make requests like "build me a dyson sphere"
- LLMs tread closer to the realm of natural abstraction—next stop: telepathy
- Thoughts on working in teams
- teams are like vector fields: each member contributes direction and magnitude, vector sum = project velocity
- small, focused groups have agility perk, steer faster
- breakthroughs come from better questions
- narrative momentum is essential when making fiction commonplace
- all people have a common thread that connects the major decisions they make
Deep enjoyer of painting, The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand), Ex Machina, and Jungle (band)