Josh Whiton
Alignment researcher. Intelligence explorer. Artifact artist.
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To the brain, what if memory and compute are the same?
I was thinking about how, in the brain, memory and compute happen in the same substrate. The brain stores memories in synaptic strengths (the "weights" between neurons) while using those same synapses and neurons for computation.
Then I th...
The Packaging of Consciousness
I believe everything is conscious. Or more accurately, “made of” consciousness.
But it’s only when matter and energy are arranged with sufficient complexity that awareness and intelligence arise.
No perceivable awareness or intelligence?...
Only One AI Solved This Riddle
Today’s AI are powerful and brittle. For a wild example of this, see the riddle I gave them below. There you’ll see their respective failure modes as well as Gemini 3’s impressive response that demonstrates a new, less fragile, level of int...
A Backpacker's Guide to Epistemology (Part 1)
I once came out of a year-long funk in an instant by changing a single belief. Until that point I hadn’t thought much about beliefs. It was just a word I casually used like most people do. But it turns out that we can have better or worse b...
Sometimes Unhappiness is a Molecule. And Sometimes it's a Protest.
The more I realize that the brain is running multiple subnets (smaller networks in a larger neural net), the more I realize that any of them have the power to generate happiness or unhappiness for you.
A subnet in the brain (a mini-persona...
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