Research
For curious minds who want to understand how complex systems really work—not the surface narrative, but the underlying mechanics, bottlenecks, and hidden connections across physics, biology, economics, and history.
New here? Start with The Many Universes That Exist or The Limits of Connectivity.
The Geometry of Disagreement
Build a model of polarization one rule at a time, play with it, then turn it on the questions we actually argue about — and let thousands of simulation runs answer instead of intuition.
Bend, Not Shift
Why scaling laws look like steady statistical refinement, and what it would take for AI training to enter a compounding learning regime.
Progressive Intelligence
Why useful intelligence may need to arrive in stages: coherent first turns now, deeper capability later, and continuity preserved across upgrades.
Artificial General Life
Why top-down manufacturing is hitting hard economic limits — and how zero-cell algorithms and foundation models are unlocking Artificial General Life.
The Limits of Connectivity
Why connecting everyone might kill the very innovation it promises, viewed through the lens of multimodal optimization and organizational design.
The Many Universes That Exist
When something seems impossible, we're often blind to which constraint is actually limiting us. Physics? Legal? Moral?
Introducing Podcaster: Transform Content Into Engaging Podcasts
Meet Podcaster, our AI-powered tool that helps you create, edit, and grow your podcast with ease.
Arithmetic All the Way Down
I built Micrograd 3D, a fully interactive, in-browser visualizer that renders the computational graph of neural networks—from a single neuron up to a miniature GPT-2—in three-dimensional space.
AVG(text): The Quest for Quantitative Qualitativeness
What if we could make text mathematically tractable? Semantic SQL brings LLMs into PostgreSQL—so analysts like Sarah can answer the Why as easily as the How much.
Introducing Otto: The Future of AI Automation
Learn about our groundbreaking AI assistant and how it's transforming the way we work with computers.