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random philosophical thoughts on intelligence, the meaning of life, politics, and other useless topics :)

The Future of Benchmarking and the Meaning of Life

What's a benchmarking paradigm that'll scale to human-level intelligence? What's the meaning of life? How are these related?

15 min read · January 30, 2026

2026 · benchmarking, agi, human-level intelligence, life meaning, consciousness · AI, philosophy
The Future of Multimodal Does not Involve Text

What multimodal paradigm will win out?

8 min read · January 15, 2026

2026 · multimodal, llms, vllms, video, audio, text · AI
Energy-Based Transformers are Scalable Learners and Thinkers

What are Energy-Based Transformers and why should I care about them?

16 min read · June 01, 2025

2025 · deep learning, ai, reasoning, system-2-thinking, scaling, energy-based-models, energy_based_models, transformers, ebms, verification, scaling-law, test-time-compute, inference-time-compute, cognitively-inspired-energy-based-world-models · AI, neuroscience
The Different Components of Intelligence

What are the different components of intelligence?

10 min read · September 14, 2024

2024 · intelligence, memorization, few_shot_learning, generalization, creativity · AI, evolution
How Can We Improve Governments?

How can we change motivations to improve governments?

7 min read · January 03, 2024

2024 · government, communism, capitalism, corruption, motivation, reinforcement_learning · politics