London based postgrad, researching emergence, free energy, and multi-agent systems. Building intelligent automation at realmachines.


Some things I believe:

  • On civilisation in the long-run
    • our universe is hyper young, life on Earth an outlier
    • civilisation behaves like a superorganism; minimising 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
    • agentic transformers will let us outsource the running our research lab or make requests like "please build me a dyson sphere" with Culture-Mindalignment
    • 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 optimise per capita innovation and have agility perk
    • breakthroughs come from better questions—contrarians lead the way
    • narrative momentum creates reality: leverage hyperstitionwhen 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)