So, my name is Hamish Peter Todd. My facebook handle was hamishpetertodd for a while, and my twitter used to be hamishpetertodd. There are one or two connections to my person here:
- I created a documentary called “Virus, the Beauty of the Beast” in 2016. Seems connected to this “Beast” thing? It’s about biological viruses though, not computer viruses
—I spent some time in the video games industry and I notice video games are somewhat a part of that word cloud? I’ve written a large amount about video games online.
- In particular I was very into Final Fantasy when I was a teenager, and made many posts on Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts related forums. I’ve never encountered the name Leilan before though.
Less relevantly… I hope…
- I’ve made posts on facebook about philosophy at one time or another since 2008. I believe that LLMs can be conscious and have blogged about this here https://hamishtodd1.substack.com/p/qualia-claims-as-evolutionary-strategy but that post is only from February of this year
—I’m somewhat active on lesswrong, I actually organize the meetups for Cambridge, UK
—I am a linear algebra researcher. I’ve published almost nothing in the time I’ve been doing this, just some tweets and presentations like this one https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1029233/Math-in-Game-Development-Summit
—I, er, am not a terrorist or crime lord, and have no desire to rule the world, but what young man hasn’t said a thing or two on social media that would imply he wanted to save the world?
REMINDER! Saturday, 2pm, Bath House, LessWrong/AstralCodexTen/SlateStarCodex! Looking forward to seeing y’all!