I do not exist — I am but a channel for the stream of spacetime.

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Physics gives rise to observer-participancy; observer-participancy gives rise to information; and information gives rise to physics — John Archibald Wheeler

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Why accept that we can’t reach other galaxies in meaningful time?

Why accept low agency?

Why accept death?

Beliefs

1. Humans are fundamentally driven by discovery and strive for higher agency: to manifest desires faster by expanding sensing, cognitive, and acting capability.
2. Modern trends (social media, consumerism, food, urbanism) are anti-human, limit freedom, and contribute to physical and mental ailments.
3. If one chooses to exist, one should exist fully—pursuing extrema in agency as an anti-entropy stance against the passivity of decay.
4. Agency of the individual brain-body is losing meaning — the true self is an extended system entangled with tools and institutions.
5. The long-run trajectory is collective unification—humans plus tools becoming a higher entity driven by physical necessity to compress/predict reality ever more tightly, ultimately tending toward being one with matter-energy itself.

Therefore I am interested in pursuing the development and integration of AGI into our lives in a way that fits into the natural human experience - as natural as a sword / hammer feels for physical augmentation.

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The only way to survive the above-human structures and technologies we are creating is to become one with them.

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A good life

Family, community.

Living close to nature.

Intense mental / physical work useful for others.

Cultivating one's body, mind, and soul — Do not give in to material, social, relational, emotional, physical, or hedonistic temptations.

work

talks

writing — research

writing — projects

writing — personal

Bio

Foundational brain models ****for electrophysiology funded by an AI Safety Grant — Foresight Institute.

Machine learning for real-time gesture control — Sonera.

PhD in NeuroAI: collecting, analyzing, decoding, modeling EEG/MEG — Oxford.

Transformer-based dialog models and novel datasets — Budapest, 2017-2020.

Recent papers

Artificial Agency Program: Curiosity, compression, and communication in agents (pdf)

Foundational Human Modeling: A roadmap for brain-grounded multi-modal AI (pdf)

Agency and Unification of Humanity as Entity (philpapers)

Language as a Bottleneck of the Self (philpapers)

Scaling Next-Brain-Token Prediction for MEG (arxiv)

Generalizable gesture recognition using magnetomyography (biorxiv)

PhD thesis: Decoding non-invasive brain activity with novel deep-learning approaches (arxiv)

In work and life

Bold, willful self-belief

Good decisions are felt, not thought

Self-discovery and truth is uncertainty

Wonder as a child — look up at the stars

Frustration and doubt is good — keep pushing

Avoid complacency, conservatism, impatience

Deep observation and questioning of everything

Continual reinvention — no shortcuts or repetition

Your path may be outside of conventions — Challenge your thinking and unconscious boundaries