personal
Outside of research, I enjoy extreme sports like kitesurfing, paragliding, speedriding (skiing with a paraglide), surfing, snowboarding, skiing, electronic music (mostly deep house/future bass/trap/ambient/trance/dubstep), classical piano, philosophy of mind, & writing random stuff.
thoughts
Intelligence and AGI
Academia Deromanticized
Fear of Opportunity Cost
Machine Psychology
Machine Learning Research is Doomed
bookshelf recs
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
- AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee
- The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow
- Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow
- Being You: A New Science of Consciousness by Anil Seth
- The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts
- The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
- The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil
- The Big Picture by Sean Carroll
- Magic Tree House Series by Mary Pope Osborne