Hi
I believe in capital-T Truth, that there are valid and invalid ways of accessing it, and in the primacy of conscious experience. Along the way I'd like to try to collect all knowledge, all qualia, and generally to become extraordinarily good at being alive while refining how. Things I'd most like to understand fully: the fundamental nature of reality, the material origin of consciousness, and the gestalt of the human physiome.
I'm currently a research scientist at OpenAI working on a generalization of how to train language models via reinforcement learning. I live in San Francisco, am an active pianist, and previously I was at Harvard.
I'm interested in longevity science, machine and human intelligence, metalearning, intellectual history, contemporary music composition, language learning, and much more.
I'd probably love to hear from you if you enjoy thinking about similar things: