I'll admit , "antipsychotic" is a bit of a scary word. The second half, "psychotic," refers to some of the most extreme and frightening experiences a human can have. I think the word evokes imagery of psychiatric wards, confusion, strait jackets, possibly violence, and overall distress. A treatment designed to suppress such a serious condition might suggest being powerful enough to match the strength of the condition, thus giving antipsychotics their own stigma—especially if

In another post , I shared some thoughts on why the physical boundaries of You  might be difficult to make solid on the basis that...

I'd like to make two distinctions. An Instantaneous You  and a Distributional You . The Instantaneous You  represents a singular point...

Something I am curious about is the role of other people, or other stimuli that prompt awareness of self, in influencing the formation of...

The most common generative models in deep learning include GANs, diffusion models, and autoregressive models. What they all have in common is that they are all methods of both modeling and sampling from p(x), a data distribution of interest, just different methods of decomposing the problem and relying on varying assumptions. Though in the end, all of them can do both: Create convincing samples that somewhat blend in with other real data samples. Give an estimate of the proba

We appear to experience life through the point of view of a discretely singular, egocentric entity, distinct from everything else. Pride...

There was an interesting quote from Janus's article on simulators. "GPT" is not the text which [it] writes itself Furthermore, they...

From an evolutionary perspective, it's clear that humans have made it to the top of the food chain, but what did it take for us to reach...

Many facets of our universe seem to gravitate towards unstable, chaotic equilibria. One such example is criticality, a threshold where a...

We are racing toward an uncertain future that draws nearer every day. We have a rough idea of what the future could look like. I'm inclined to think some of our guesses and fictional depictions may hold some weight. Historically, we've been good at that. Possibly now more than ever, we understand ourselves, as humans, to know the things we will seek and the trend we are on. Meanwhile, in our sciences, theories and understandings have outpaced implementation, extending our vis

Once upon a time, I was set on becoming a psychiatrist. Throughout life, I've spent probably a near unhealthy amount of time thinking...

The Distillery - a look under the hood of vibe coding Introduction Vibe coding may be one of the best and worst things 2025 has had to...

One conviction I hold very strongly is that "special" people are possibly much more common than we may be lead to believe. While sure, we are all special in our own way, in this post, "special" refers to having seemingly super-human skills that lead high social standing, being seen as an expert of a field, and generating significant economic, cultural, or scientific impact. Not necessarily the acts you see on America's Got Talent, but the skills that make us think of child pr

Within the study of machine learning, you'll often hear that the objective is to find the solution that maximizes likelihood . We have a...

Mandelbrot function: Zn+1 = (Zn)^2 + C | Location: -1.4732524061369524549 + -0.0058138265122775765014 i , Radius:...

One of the most interesting things about the development of AI was the order of achieved milestones. Relatively small models can create convincingly masterful lifelike art while a much larger language model may fail common sense problems that your average 10 year old may have no problem with . But then at the same time, they are incredibly capable. The same language models failing at some trivial tasks may also explain difficult math concepts in a very intuitive manner and

"Would someone without free will do this?" is one of the most common responses I've heard to the proposition that free will might not...

Art from "In the Aeroplane over the Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel There are several dimensions by which we may feel small. You may feel...

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