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This is a crosspost from my substack. What would it take to make progress towards general intelligence, where general stands for any problem that might arise in our world? Since our world is big and open-ended, the quest for general intelligence becomes a quest for solving more and more problems,...
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...