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The brain is a datacenter
𝗛𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻
New preprint with Andrea Gambarotto. Neuroscience often treats control as a hierarchy: the structures behind a behavior hold a stable rank. We argue this mistakes a configuration for an architecture. 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2610.04643
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AI is a telescope for concept space
The bigger the model, the further out we can peer into the void of complexity
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research so good youre worried about releasing it bc itll accelerate the frontier
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People think the purpose of explicit analysis is to override intuition when the actual purpose is to give your intuitions more surface area to weigh in on.
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Always a great pleasure to chat with my friend @TOEwithCurt. Over the course of 2+ hours, we discuss the Hilbert-Gandy program, existential worries, the limitations of language and cognition, how to connect AI to the physical world, and why we left Princeton to build @lanyon_ai.
Math has a proof checker. Can physics get one? Jonathan Gorard @getjonwithit, an applied mathematician and the cofounder and CEO of Lanyon AI, joins to explain why AI took off in math and coding but not yet in physics. We discuss an AI finishing the formal check of a Fields Medal proof and why it scared him, why he thinks “I detected a particle” rests on 20 to 50 levels of theory, and what Alan Turing’s PhD student Robin Gandy tried to build for physics. The conversation also covers his push to make physics executable, why he thinks mysteries are artifacts of description languages, and whether there is still a place for the physicist.
youtu.be/oQypVVv1u1o
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