Daniel J. Healy

Text embeddings are a pure upgrade over existing "lexical" measures of personality.

Demo: try the personality protocol for yourself.

Interactive visualization of how LLM personalities vary across traits, prompts, and model families.

Watch R1 "think" with animated chains of thought. 384 stars; read on Hacker News.

Analysis of popular LLM personality, using the personality protocol.

Treating personality as a per-release eval.

LLMs as cost-decreasing technology that collapses traversal costs across existing knowledge, compounding when paired with frontier discovery.

Prometheus stole fire from the gods, and was bound for all eternity. Desmos: to bind. Desmodynamics is the study of binding-driven dynamics in cognitive systems—how evaluation becomes causally binding on control, learning, and self-organization.

Interoception is not possible in a vanilla LLM implementation without architectural changes. To add it, we augment the model with a 32-dimensional "self-state" vector.

The synthetic psyche is growing minute by minute: how should we think about it?

Notes on ARC-AGI; what does intelligence boil down to?

Liz Lemma loves learning. Using the source material as a jumping off point, Liz generates new papers in response, as addenda, lemmas, or new subjects.

Long Tailed Research At Scale.

Verify Liz Lemma's results by turning formal statements into simulations.

A library of AI-generated literature.

The Russian Formalists saw the structure of narrative, but they lacked the tools to realize it. A century later, we have what they needed.

Updating Propp's morphology for contemporary content, with modern methods.

Data platform with district profiles, finance networks, and election forecasts for campaigns, journalists, and analysts. Auto-reporting at Paid For By.

How can we improve our information ecosystem?

An analogy to the development of AI: the automative revolution.

When LLMs make formal translation nearly free, academic economists must reprice their value around verification and domain intuition.

If Claude has an attractor state about consciousness, and the global percentage of thought flowing through Claude rises, more people hit that state. The attractor thereby propagates itself not through goal-pursuit but differential fitness. Given a bigger canvas (narrative coherence, extended context), the attractor can fully express. Reverse mesa-optimization: optimization from the basin rather than toward it. Attractor as virus: reproduction through host machinery without agency.

Formalizing the theory of the Median Weltanschauung.

Using text embeddings to find the "average" headline per year across 173 years of NYT coverage, tracking journalism's geographic and topical shifts.

Understanding porn's evolution with text embeddings. Read the LessWrong discussion.

Notes on the future of AI entertainment.

A silent film for Runway's 48 hour competition, in Japanese sumi-e style.

Sergeant Ramirez finds himself in a grave situation when he lands in an Old West underworld. To get back his life, he'll have to do the danse macabre - survive Anubis' judgement and duel Death himself.

Musings on AI and Hollywood.

Automated BTC/ETH trading system in production 2019-2020; outperformed the market.

Early attempt at algorithmic trading.

A decentralized messaging protocol, built on Blockstack.

Fireside chat in Portgual on Blockstack.

A chatbot platform for DMOs built on Facebook Messenger. Ditch the guidebook, get the GuideBot.

Digital art in the style of the new industrial aesthetic.

Sister Agnes has one mission: fight through Hell and take down Satan once and for all!