Proposals and speculation

Things someone should probably build, and guesses about how things might go. Posted in the hope that someone finds them useful, or tells me why they will not work.

The DAO Proving Ground July 9, 2025
An Engineering Approach to Building Aligned Organizations

Freedom-Adjusted Life Years July 2, 2025
Are We Solving the Right Problems?

A Market for 'Truth' June 28, 2025
Using Bets to Find a Shared Truth

The Rain Protocol June 26, 2025
A Framework for Verifiable Promises

Entropism June 18, 2025
The Universe's Burning Ambition

Intelligent Immunity May 27, 2025
What if intelligence evolved within the immune system?

Pilot waves January 10, 2024
The classical alternative to quantum mechanics?

Language models are all you need November 10, 2022
for SMILES-based chemistry

Automatic integration October 13, 2022
Like automatic differentiation, but for integration

The future of environmental sciences? February 7, 2019
What could the profession of environmental engineering look like?

Wish list of psychological metrics November 5, 2018
What if we could accurately measure {INSERT}?

Inference via interference August 28, 2018
Learning by controlling the propagation speed of signals.

Automated science August 22, 2018
Model-based reinforcement learning, symbolic AI, and the limits of efficient learning.

Unsupervised skip connections May 30, 2018
How can we use ladder nets in the unsupervised setting?

Tax optimisation as an adversarial game March 27, 2018
A new perspective on tax law

Policy search engine December 10, 2017
Motivating a tool for tracking the effects of policies.

Conserved complexity September 26, 2017
A conservation law for algorithms?

A functional type of non-linear algebra? September 26, 2016
Functional programming plus neural network architectures.