Inspired by reading some of the comments and discussion around some of the recent meditation controversies but also a general reflection on the way that people generally seem to think about Buddhism around these places. It's a more general view that I think it is more healthy and beneficial and...
AI was used to generate the scary science attack section in a different voice than the original part was written through as well as creating diagrams according to my instructions in LaTeX. Introduction One of the deeper questions within the field of AI Safety is on how we can create...
This is a follow-up to "Have You Tried Thinking About It As Crystals?" because apparently I wasn't done. Beware that this one is a bit out there and that it is trying to point at something which I believe might be correct but I don't fully understand myself. Scene: A...
Part 1 of a series on process alignment, a different way of thinking about agents at every scale. Introduction There are quite a lot of disagreements in the AI Safety and general AI community about what the future will look like. They’re often framed as differences in algorithmic progress or...
A Day at AFFINE[1] > “AFFINE was the best month of intellectual exploration I have had the opportunity to engage in, ever. Usually opportunities like this are limited to a day or a weekend, which both limits depth, forces a sprint-type mindset, and generally is quite limiting. At AFFINE I...
AI was used to translate around 20 minutes of talking out the entire post. The post was then fully edited by a human (multiple times). In our phylogeny of agents post, we argued that different scientific fields evolved different conceptions of agency and that this would be useful to study....
I describe the philosophy of science that I follow when it comes to the research that I do. I firstly describe the underlying reasoning behind it by itself which I then follow by walking through how I apply it to my own assumptions about what is needed to make the...