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The Reasonable Effectiveness of Virtue Ethics in AI Alignment Preface This essay argues that rational people don’t have goals, and that rational AIs shouldn’t...
18th Feb 2026
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The Reasonable Effectiveness of Virtue Ethics in AI Alignment

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18th Feb 2026
Preface This essay argues that rational people don’t have goals, and that rational AIs shouldn’t have goals. Human actions are rational not because we direct them at some final ‘goals,’ but because we align actions to practices[1]: networks of actions, action-dispositions,...
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AGI Is Not Multimodal "In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied...
4th Jun 2025
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AGI Is Not Multimodal

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4th Jun 2025
"In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied understanding that undergirds our intelligence." –Terry Winograd The recent successes of generative AI models have convinced some that AGI is imminent. While these models appear to capture...
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Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research What is the Role of Mathematics in Modern Machine Learning? The past decade has witnessed a shift in...
16th Nov 2024
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Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research

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16th Nov 2024
What is the Role of Mathematics in Modern Machine Learning? The past decade has witnessed a shift in how progress is made in machine learning. Research involving carefully designed and mathematically principled architectures result in only marginal improvements while...
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What's Missing From LLM Chatbots: A Sense of Purpose LLM-based chatbots’ capabilities have been advancing every month. These improvements are mostly...
9th Sep 2024
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What's Missing From LLM Chatbots: A Sense of Purpose

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9th Sep 2024
LLM-based chatbots’ capabilities have been advancing every month. These improvements are mostly measured by benchmarks like MMLU, HumanEval, and MATH (e.g. sonnet 3.5, gpt-4o). However, as these measures get more and more saturated, is user experience increasing in proportion to...
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We Need Positive Visions for AI Grounded in Wellbeing Introduction Imagine yourself a decade ago, jumping directly into the present shock of conversing...
3rd Aug 2024
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We Need Positive Visions for AI Grounded in Wellbeing

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3rd Aug 2024
Introduction Imagine yourself a decade ago, jumping directly into the present shock of conversing naturally with an encyclopedic AI that crafts images, writes code, and debates philosophy. Won’t this technology almost certainly transform society — and hasn’t AI’s impact on us so...
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A Brief Overview of Gender Bias in AI A brief overview and discussion on gender bias in AI
8th Apr 2024
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A Brief Overview of Gender Bias in AI

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8th Apr 2024
A brief overview and discussion on gender bias in AI
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Do text embeddings perfectly encode text? 'Vec2text' can serve as a solution for accurately reverting embeddings back into text, thus...
5th Mar 2024
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Do text embeddings perfectly encode text?

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5th Mar 2024
'Vec2text' can serve as a solution for accurately reverting embeddings back into text, thus highlighting the urgent need for revisiting security protocols around embedded data.
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Why Doesn’t My Model Work? Have you ever trained a model you thought was good, but then it failed miserably when applied to...
24th Feb 2024
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Why Doesn’t My Model Work?

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24th Feb 2024
Have you ever trained a model you thought was good, but then it failed miserably when applied to real world data? If so, you’re in good company.
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Deep learning for single-cell sequencing: a microscope to see the diversity of cells On the the pivotal role that Deep Learning has played as a key enabler for advancing single-cell...
13th Jan 2024
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Deep learning for single-cell sequencing: a microscope to see the diversity of cells

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13th Jan 2024
On the the pivotal role that Deep Learning has played as a key enabler for advancing single-cell sequencing technologies.
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Salmon in the Loop On fish counting – a complex sociotechnical problem in a field that is going through the process of...
16th Dec 2023
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Salmon in the Loop

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16th Dec 2023
On fish counting – a complex sociotechnical problem in a field that is going through the process of digital transformation.
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