recent posts
- AAAI 2026: Dual Encoding Spaces in LLMs for improved Mechanistic Interpretability
- [Archived] Modelling Human Cognition with Five Attributes
- Deception as Information Appreciation and Focus: why society, organizations, and our minds (and human-made intelligence agents) suffer from self-deception
- AI Hype post: how LLM chatbots helped me get a research paper accepted at a very competitive conference over a couple weekends
- Zomboid Brains: Necromancing a Frankenstein Intelligence
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[April 20, 2020] Bread lines. Mandated curfews. The lack of services due to the deliberate shutdown of the efficiencies of capitalism. And, my favorite, the socially-enforced spurious practices of wearing cloth masks. You know what? I’m going to reverse the order of that list. Medical masks, particularly high quality ones, work by two principles. (1)…
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[Originally published here: https://www.psychologyinaction.org/2016-04-26-the-case-for-reality ; Dissecting the arguments of this particular brand of panpsychism.] Omar Claflin April 26, 2016 This morning, I read an article on consciousness and physics “The Case Against Reality” in The Atlantic. The beginning of the article is understandable and not totally at odds with intuition: That our senses aren’t completely accurate; that the world…
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[~2012; I’ll post the rest when I find it] My first day, not sure where to wait, I found myself in a slow holding pattern in a maze of hallways laid out in square patterns all leading back to lounge areas that seemed deliberately designed to not be used. Paintings on the wall of over-suited,…
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[Reposted from 2019 in response to Google Deepmind team releasing a comprehensive AI for Starcraft 2] 2/12/2019 The Event: DeepMind (Google’s AI team run by Demis Hassabis) tested some artificial agents against two high-level professional Starcraft 2 players this week and essentially won all the matches. Me: I watched most of the matches, and read…
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This post is not intended as a comprehensive overview of ‘agentic AI’ but just as a description of an agentic AI content creation project I recently was brought in to lead. Potentially, this captures abstractions/methods of thinking useful to those who don’t spend much time using these tools but find themselves having to work with…
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This is a post intended to cover some of the more advanced analyses techniques from a project ~5 years ago (2020-2021) which enabled greater-than-state-of-the-art accuracy with single-trial, non-invasive, non-visual-paradigm signal capture. Motivation: I was attempting to build a non-invasive learning-assistant peripheral that could capture real-time brain signals (non-laboratory paradigm). There were a large number of…
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This is intended to be a post on the process and workflow of establishing a recent AI project within a company environment, based on my experience. Book Scoring Briefly, the company I work at has the world’s second largest grade-level book scorer (second to Lexile), and seemed like a potential opportunity to upgrade the company’s…
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[Posted: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00269] This post updates my previous work with a final post on my feature integration in neural networks project (previous posts) with a novel interpretability architecture that substantially improves both reconstruction fidelity and behavioral preservation. layman’s tl;dr: Scientists attempt to read the “thinking” of AI use a technique called Autoencoders to convert raw neural signals…
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