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Making of IAN v2
IAN v1 died expensive TPU death, IAN v2 rises from markdown ashes. Personal AI assistants, knowledge graphs, and the alignment problem when the AI is…
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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Making of IAN v2
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June 2025
Thoughts on AI Ontology
Nostalgebraist’s new essay on… many things?
Jun 15
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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Thoughts on AI Ontology
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January 2023
This week in fashion
TL;DR: A holiday obsession turns into a deep meditation on all things pretty. Albatrosses and reward *models* included. Also, check out…
Jan 23, 2023
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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This week in fashion
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Simulator Musings
TL;DR: a seminar series on simulator theory; a toy model, the semiotic coin flip, unpacks the strange physics of language models a tiny bit.
Jan 3, 2023
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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Simulator Musings
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December 2022
TSPSIs and How I Write
TL;DR: Writing about writing and having written, and self-referentiality. Complementary musings on AI.
Dec 28, 2022
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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November 2022
Introduction to Hebbian Natural Abstractions
A neuroscientific-perspective on translating concepts between world-models as a way of solving value-learning.
Nov 22, 2022
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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Samuel Nellessen
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Introduction to Hebbian Natural Abstractions
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September 2022
The Inter-Agent Facet of AI Alignment
TL;DR: Guest post by Michael Oesterle on coordination problems (and more) between advanced artificial agents.
Sep 19, 2022
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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Michael Oesterle
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The Inter-Agent Facet of AI Alignment
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July 2022
Via productiva. Audio version.
TL;DR: Introspection on how I do things and which rules and heuristics help me to be productive. Framed as Taleb's via negativa advice. Weaves in a bit…
Jul 24, 2022
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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15:42
Hello DALL-E!
TL;DR: I let my friend Ava (who actually knows a thing or two about art!) experiment with DALL-E 2 for a bit. She allowed me to share her reflections…
Jul 18, 2022
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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Ava Kiai
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Hello DALL-E!
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A quick one while he's away
TL;DR: deep reflections on names and identity, life-changing decisions, and mental renovations. And all of that in ~500 words!
Jul 3, 2022
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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A quick one while he's away
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Inferring utility functions from locally non-transitive preferences. Audio version.
TL;DR: Fanboying JvN, then a nuts-and-bolts description of the von-Neumann-Morgenstern theorem. A connection to reward modeling, some simulations, and…
Jul 3, 2022
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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June 2022
Task Decomposition And Scientific Inquiry. Audio version.
TL;DR: A curious asymmetry between making and criticizing, the scientific method as an approach to task decomposition, and a less-than-half-baked idea…
Jun 26, 2022
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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