Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, ‘How did he do it? He must be a genius! ― Gian-Carlo Rota, Indiscrete Thoughts

Intelligence Research:

• what is the correct incentive structure for RL on LLMs to explore instead of exploit?
  • a concrete benchmark is generating diverse, novel, interesting mathematical conjectures
• is novelty a continuous or discontinous process?
  • if an LLM had the full context of Einstein’s brain in Jan 1915 would it be able to write down the EFE?
• does the integration of open-endedness into transformer based LRMs require new architectures?
• how does alignment originate in multi-agent systems such as societies?

Other research:

• what are the major attacks on the non-foundational metaphysics posed by Madyamaka buddhism and can formalization via higher order metaphysics cut through this?
• how can one formulate a philosophical basis for each of the two major US political parties grounded in Christian theology?
  • Roughly 75% of Republicans and 65% of Democrats are Christian in the US so an argument relying on Miracles (eg Butler, PA) may be under-utilized relative to reason in certain areas.
• what does Economic transformative AI (TAI) look like for developing countries?
  • A small niche of literature has emerged of models of developed nations under TAI, little has been written on developing countries.
  • In turn, how does this shape the action space of these nations and what economic infrastructure can be built in SSA so that this goes as well as possible?

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