invertedpassion

The following is a brief summary of my position paper that got accepted into ICML 2026. Read it here: https://lossfunk.com/papers/ai-metaphysics.pdf AI debates often get stuck between two bad options. • Realism: concepts like intelligence/consciousness have true essences, and our job is to discover them. • Quietism: metaphysical debates are just...

Crosspost from https://invertedpassion.com/human-behavior-is-an-intuition-pump-for-ai-risk/ I just finished this excellent book: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. This book influenced my opinions on p(doom). Before reading the book, I was uncertain about whether AI could pose an existential risk for humanity. After reading the book, I’m starting to entertain the possibility that...

aka why building things != doing research (this is a crosspost from our newsletter) Lossfunk is a new AI lab that aims to be a cosy home for independent researchers. We aim to be curiosity-driven alternative to academia and industry. As a founder of the lab, I wanted to share...

Cross post from: https://invertedpassion.com/what-bootstraps-intelligence/ A musing on how intelligence comes to be. The bedrock of intelligence is abstractions – the thing we do when we throw away a lot of information and just emphasise on a subset of it (e.g. calling that thing an apple instead of describing all its...

Crosspost from https://invertedpassion.com/usefulness-grounds-truth/ Are LLMs intelligent? Debates on this question often, but not always, devolve into debates on what LLMs can or cannot do. To a limited extent, the original question is useful because it creates an opening for people to go into specific. But, beyond that initial use, the...

Crossposted from my blog: https://invertedpassion.com/how-to-be-a-messy-thinker/ I love thinking about thinking. Give me a research paper on rationality, cognitive biases or mental models, and I’ll gobble it up. Given the amount of knowledge I’ve ingested on these topics, I had always assumed that I’m a clear thinker. Recently, though, it hit...

Crossposted from a note in my knowledge garden. As mentioned in a note that I wrote earlier on the philosophy of science, reality is nothing but a set of predictive models we've deemed useful for predictions. I like to imagine true reality as some kind of a fuzzy blob that...