I have a new twitter - @MaxDiffusionRL

I have high betweenness-centrality/breadth. I sometimes generate useful amounts of entropy (way easier when I’m broadly/sparsely distributed). On occasional bursts (eg in 2021), I can trigger exponential growth trajectories in multiple people (eg someone once told someone else “go meet me and something interesting will happen”).

I am really interested in out-of-distribution generalization, Polychromic Objectives, and making fat tailed distributions more Cauchy. I like highly expressive geometric language.

[also interested in global weirdening due to near-term AGI] - which may make some very distal/sparse components more relevant.

Sparsity and Purity/Noise are two concepts I’ve taking interest in as recurring relevances!

Some compare me to Bryan Johnson in terms of rarity in how extreme we are in one PCA dimension. I care a lot for brain health.

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If you want to go on an adventure together (or make interesting things happen more often), email me!

or join this discord!

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I hope that mapping out my interactions with AI will make it way easier to fine-tune the best ways of increasing neuroplasticity/self-alignment (whether through tFUS/TMS, ISRIB A15, or finding the highest-leverage ways my brain can still improve)

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I intermittently use retatrutide. I was a heavy member of crsociety.org, but sadly, the forums became inaccessible (though I got archiveteam.org to make a WARC, and https://www.crsociety.org/*: Have you gotten a retinal eye exam or Optical coherence tomography (OCT)? What is your retinal nerve fiber layer thickness? (RNFL) [and how has it changed over time?] - General Health and Longevity - CR Society Forum is some archives), so I had to move most of my longevity activity to rapamycin.news/latest.

Short AI timelines/”intelligence becoming too cheap to meter” + gpt5-pro giving answers to many questions can maximize our remaining integrated lifetime agency (even if slightly shredded) to new modalities. gwern/Tyler Cowen both said we need to start writing for AIs more than we write for other humans. Sometimes this can be a source of great hope. They may make factors like “uniqueness”, “rarity”, “context”, “leverage”, and “interestingness” matter more, and create more surprise. Maybe (as Robert Ghrist once speculated), some kinds of randomness/entropy will make some humans stay relevant. It gives some (esp some of those who aren’t the most legible) who feel underappreciated the chance to feel more appreciated (or fill in the weaknesses of some whose algorithms weren’t appreciated enough).

“Why Greatness Cannot be Planned” is (second to Laozi) the most important book on human kindness.

I have once been compared to Erlang.. People often alternate between overestimating and underestimating me.

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