Rabbit Hole Core
Global Workspace Theory (Baars, Dehaene)
How research enterprise falls apart/ what constitutes good science
upcoming weekend thought experiment + writing/extrapolation into envs.
In-orbit biomanufacturing
01. Which proteins get meaningful structural improvements in microgravity?
02. Can we predict, a priori, which ones benefit (and why)?
Cooperation Deception Governance in Multi-Agent AI
01. Do more capable LLMs learn cooperative long-run policies?
02. Or do they use extra reasoning to find more sophisticated ways to strip-mine the commons?
03. How does model capability affect collapse probability and average welfare?
long term study:
empirical safety projects, especially around monitoring, deception, and long-horizon behavior.
Pheromone-gradient algorithms, probabilistic trail reinforcement, redundancy vs specialization, memoryless agents, quorum thresholds, +ve feedback w/ decay.
Can ant colony stigmergy (pheromone-gradient reinforcement w/ decay) be ported to dynamic resource allocation replacing a centralized scheduler under bursty arrivals? Examine whether the pheromone reinforcement + evaporation loop can yield lower tail latency + higher resilience to agent failure.
Natural short sleep/ FNSS. Understanding sleep need, resilience to sleep loss, the biology of sleep homeostasis.
01. Do verifiable cases exist who habitually sleep ≤6 hours per 24 h and show preserved daytime function without evidence of compensatory naps or stimulants?
02. If yes: are such individuals enriched for rare, functional variants (e.g., DEC2, ADRB1) relative to controls?
03. What molecular pathways converge in FNSS variants?
Recent papers on hardware-efficient inference and kernel optimization:
Temperaments of religions and the geography of origin
Seth Lloyd's "Programming the Universe" + Danah Zohar (meaning)