London and SF based, curious about emergence, free energy, and multi-agent systems. Building your digital exoskeleton at realmachines.ai

Previously researching long-horizon artificial intelligence at Kings College London.

Some things I believe:

  • On civilisation in the long-run
    • the universe is hyper young, life on Earth an outlier
    • civilisation minimises free energywhere markets provide all metabolic function, rarely calling for intervention
    • healthy markets churn fast and democratise technological progress quickly
  • On civilisation in the short-run
    • democratisingLLMs will supercharge abundance
    • human society maintains alignment at the triple point of "paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology"
    • most scientific fields have seen diminishing returns for sixty years, with exceptions in classical computing and machine learningwhich will produce a knowledge explosion
    • soon we will delegate research to Culture-Minds and manage personal presidential cabinets
    • LLMs tread closer to the realm of natural abstraction—next stop: telepathy
  • Thoughts on teams
    • great teams are priceless and should be sought out
    • teams function like vector fields where vector sum equals velocity
    • the best companies are composed of small, ten person teams
    • when making fiction commonplace, tell stories
    • everyone has a common thread that connects the major decisions they make, listen to this instinct

Deep enjoyer of black holes, The Fountainhead, Ex Machina, and Jungle