Intro to Coherence
Jun 1, 2026
This is a high level introduction which is meant to overview and motivate some of my current projects under the heading of “coherence.” Nothing here is meant to be rigorous or exhaustive.
Intro When humans reason about objects in our environments, we understand ourselves to be reasoning about abstractions of a purported “real thing.” These abstractions tend to be composed of high level properties and behavioral models which are incredibly useful as the basis of various types of deductive and inductive reasoning chains.
What Is Thinking?
Dec 31, 2025
Thought as a type of computation which is used by intelligent systems to trade between computational complexity and informational complexity.
Digital Intelligence and Coordination
Oct 4, 2025
Digital abstraction simplifies coordination by dramatically reducing the complexity of verifiability and enforcement.
Digital Intelligence and Market Alignment
Oct 3, 2025
Digital abstraction simplifies coordination by dramatically reducing the complexity of verifiability and enforcement.
Notes on Active Inference
May 28, 2025
Disentangling the properties of the Active Inference algorithm.
How intelligence helps (and hurts) alignment
Mar 5, 2023
An initial reaction to AI alignment concerns.
Differential Privacy and Generalization
Dec 13, 2020
How differential privacy can be used to help solve problems of overfitting in adaptive data analysis.
Learning and Uniform Convergence
Nov 11, 2020
First post in a series on generalization in machine learning.
Plenoptic Camera Notes
Jul 1, 2019
Working notes related to the use of a plenoptic camera for estimating depth within a scene.