Computer scientist, applied mathematician. Based in the eastern part of England.
Fan of control theory in general and Perceptual Control Theory in particular. Everyone should know about these, whatever subsequent attitude to them they might reach. These, plus consciousness of abstraction dissolve a great many confusions.
I wrote the Insanity Wolf Sanity Test. There it is, work out for yourself what it means.
Change ringer since 2022. It teaches learning and grasping abstract patterns, memory, thinking with your body, thinking on your feet, fixing problems and moving on, always looking to the future and letting both the errors and successes of the past go.
I first found an LLM useful (other than for answering the question “let’s see how well the dog can walk on its hind legs”) in September 2025. As yet they do not form a regular part of anything I do.
Riffing on the idea:
...and since He doesn’t exist, we’d better build him.
...and since He doesnt exist, we’d better stop anyone from building Him.
...and Eliezer is His prophet.
...and by reaching into the past to create Himself He has made Himself the only consistent causal loop that goes through the Singularity. Resistance is futile.
...and He has a Principal-Agent problem.