I have a new twitter - @MaxDiffusionRL (scrape of public posts: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RbOVpWf3aV81Lt5ya50-GKpc-ziH_MUY/view?usp=sharing)

New bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/stochasticcockatoo.bsky.social

https://clawinstitute.aiscientist.tools/u/alexkchen

the attention residual ("interestingness") = what remains valuable after competence and intelligence become too cheap to meter

I have a high level of betweenness-centrality/breadth. I sometimes generate useful amounts of entropy (way easier when I’m broadly/sparsely distributed). On occasional bursts, I can trigger exponential growth trajectories in multiple people (eg someone once told someone else “go meet me and something interesting will happen”). I can occasionally be highly entertaining. I like ontologically open-ended pre-disciplinary areas of study (esp “cybershamanism”/cyborgism.wiki). Higher in sensitivity than specificity.

Once upon a time, I was the Quora celebrity that all the Quora employees knew. Adam d’Angelo said “I’m important for Quora”. AI causes global weirdening - maybe some interface with AI may make Quora rescueable again. I still ask the best questions on Quora! https://www.quora.com/profile/Alex-K-Chen

One of my main interests is preventing brainwave drowsiness/resetting brainwaves to “focus” mode when I can (sometimes a special kind of confidence is enough). [though the easiest solution is still ending your long break from adderall]

Retaining plasticity for multiple “cycles” is what I live for! (you may screw up one cycle and may need to wait 4 years for the next “cycle”). People often alternate between overestimating and underestimating me.

I lean into the “strength of WEAK TIES” - it is a uniquely serendipity-maximizing (if illegible!) strategy. I aim into the feeling of not being boring, even if my strategies sometimes seem to produce some bursts of interestingness punctuated by long periods that seem stagnant.

I am interested in neuromodulation (including way less limited TMS/tFUS), out-of-distribution generalization, polychromic objectives**,** alternative computing architectures, cyborgism.wiki, and making fat tailed distributions more Cauchy. I like highly expressive geometric language. Maybe Ilya is right!!

I try to aim at a certain kind of non-degenerate flow state. It is hard to describe what it is, but my patience for video games and many kinds of degeneracy are lower than before, as I have faith that “constant KENSTANLEY-ESQUE novelty-seeking” is enough for something!

I’m interested in global weirdening due to near-term AI progress- which will highlight the contrast from distal/sparse components of the graph!! (AI progress also makes a mess out of people’s strongly held beliefs!!)

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. Sometimes I alternate between “being too much” and “being too little”. I was perhaps egged to be too unfiltered in the past, which also creates periods where I must be regularized and more filtered.

I could become a character in a storybook arc that comes soon. There IS a way to make the story funny, traditional metrics be damned (and perhaps the process of damning the traditional metrics can on very rare occasions make people almost die laughing, even if only.. once..)

Many social groups (”akcsphere”) have formed around me! A grouphouse formed around me! Stories form around me! But I also go through periods of time where their influence locally declines and I end up regularizing.

I am super-interested in using TMS/tFUS to reduce pain/fear/negative emotion. It’s possible it’s one of the only paths to successfully adapting to AI (especially the disruption near-term AI may cause).

[I am also REGULARIZING MYSELF b/c I recognize that social media really warped my thinking for my developmental years - hence why I adopted multiple accounts!!]

AI makes it way easier to reinvent yourself even if you are held back somewhat by ValMet BDNF variants that make TMS less transformative