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Making of IAN v2
IAN v1 died expensive TPU death, IAN v2 rises from markdown ashes. Personal AI assistants, knowledge graphs, and the alignment problem when the AI is…
Jul 18, 2025
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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Thoughts on AI Ontology
Nostalgebraist’s new essay on… many things?
Jun 15, 2025
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
This week in fashion
TL;DR: A holiday obsession turns into a deep meditation on all things pretty. Albatrosses and reward *models* included. Also, check out…
Jan 23, 2023
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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The Greedy Doctor Problem
Nov 15, 2021
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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Making of #IAN
Aug 29, 2021
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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TSPSIs and How I Write
Dec 28, 2022
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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Via productiva
Mar 6, 2022
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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On (Not) Reading Papers
Dec 20, 2021
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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A quick one while he's away
Jul 3, 2022
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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Simulator Musings
TL;DR: a seminar series on simulator theory; a toy model, the semiotic coin flip, unpacks the strange physics of language models a tiny bit.
Jan 3, 2023
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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TSPSIs and How I Write
TL;DR: Writing about writing and having written, and self-referentiality. Complementary musings on AI.
Dec 28, 2022
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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Introduction to Hebbian Natural Abstractions
A neuroscientific-perspective on translating concepts between world-models as a way of solving value-learning.
Nov 22, 2022
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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Samuel Nellessen
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The Inter-Agent Facet of AI Alignment
TL;DR: Guest post by Michael Oesterle on coordination problems (and more) between advanced artificial agents.
Sep 19, 2022
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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Michael Oesterle
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Via productiva. Audio version.
TL;DR: Introspection on how I do things and which rules and heuristics help me to be productive. Framed as Taleb's via negativa advice. Weaves in a bit…
Jul 24, 2022
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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Hello DALL-E!
TL;DR: I let my friend Ava (who actually knows a thing or two about art!) experiment with DALL-E 2 for a bit. She allowed me to share her reflections…
Jul 18, 2022
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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Ava Kiai
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A quick one while he's away
TL;DR: deep reflections on names and identity, life-changing decisions, and mental renovations. And all of that in ~500 words!
Jul 3, 2022
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Jan Hendrik Kirchner
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