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Can Intrinsic Rewards Save RL?

I argue that prevailing surprise-based conceptions of intrinsic reward fail to explain human curiosity and explanatory understanding.

6 min read · December 14, 2025

2025 · reinforcement-learning intrinsic-motivation curiosity philosophy-of-ai cognition
Voting and the Scale-Free Theory of Intelligence

Arrow’s theorem, Popper, and the strange idea that your neurons might be voting too.

6 min read · October 1, 2025

2025 · democracy voting intelligence scale-free arrow
AI discovers "X"

AI discovers new science (with some help)

3 min read · October 1, 2025

2025 · ai automated-science alphaevolve