I have a new twitter - @MaxDiffusionRL

AND a new bluesky - stochastickea.bsky.social

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 open-ended pre-disciplinary areas of study.

I try to revert my brainwaves in “focus” mode when I can (sometimes a special kind of confidence is enough).

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”). Also, reducing drowsiness.

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.

While straightforwardedness is impossible, I am at least guaranteed to be non-boring in some way.

I consume all the neuroscience/genetics I can and go after everyone/everything!

I am interested in neuromodulation (including way less limited TMS/tFUS), out-of-distribution generalization, polychromic objectives**,** 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!