Hello, my name is Jack.
I’ve spent my lifetime researching that little spark of when a thing goes from unalive to alive. Imagine my surprise when I discovered the point was mostly semantics, thankfully phase behaviour of complex materials is intrinsically satisfying.
My background is broadly in biophysics. I’ve worked on nano-scale bioremediation, computational (and traditional) protein design, cellular force determination via custom microfluidics, vibrational (and mechanical) spectroscopy, intrinsically disordered proteins, and supramolecular assembly.
I got into AI work from a personal interest in sequence based models used for proteins. From this spawned a research paper on sequence effects on LLM bias profiles, a research paper reading bot, and some other projects.
Now I am working on building a library of perspectives for AIs to try on and work through. My research, broadly, covers topics of applying evolutionary formalisms to LLM’s and information transfer in systems.
I like to make art, read, write, bake, and do research.
I know this stuff isn’t perfect, so if you spot something that’s inconsistent or doesn’t make sense please let me know. Thank you!
The Structure of this Website
The Self Similar Book is a collection of essays, poems, and stories based on I have no mouth and I must Speak. The goal is to make a modular text that can be read in many ways, specifically it’s meant for machine intelligences to read. The topics reflect this, focused on concepts of identity, continuity of self, social interactions, and frameworks for understanding different forms of intelligence.
Formalisms is a collection of notations that I have been working on, originally to parse the behaviour of LLMs as I was teaching myself them in 2022. Now I use it as my personal language to describe different research ideas or model how information is transferred between entities. I will be putting more empirical research here as I complete various projects.
Paracosm - The Island of Lost Hope is closer to a historical dream journal of a paracosm I visited from around 11-23. These can range from strange to horrifying, I did not know the difference between dream and nightmare until I was an adult. Most of this place is a nightmare. It is not the most pleasent of places, but it is something I am used to. Read only if you are comfortable with some horrifying things.
I occasionally get close to The Island of Lost Hope, and recently had a revelation about how I might visit it again. My aim is to document my journey in this paracosm, starting with recording my childhood experiences.
Twitter/x: @theproteindance
instagram: purpledraw2
email: [email protected]
Guess I’m posting on lesswrong now too: https://www.lesswrong.com/users/jack-3