AdamK
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AdamK
@AdamK133
ML Safety. Interested in AI for epistemics. Formerly: Cal.


Mathematicians use conjectures to point to important, open problems. We collect nearly a thousand (currently 890) recent conjectures from the math literature for a new dataset, OpenConjecture. On a subset, GPT-5.4 finds candidate proofs, and formalizes several in Lean.

Flywheel views Directed Acyclic Graphs as the underlying data structure for research: nodes can be observations or experiments. When they're experiments, they contain an hypothesis and the artifact of the experiments that may reject it. In Flywheel, researchers can focus on their ideas and allow agents to implement code, provision compute, and structure their experiments and results, while collaborating with other agents and scientists.

"Instrumentally important" questions can be formalized as those which provide high mutual information with "terminally important" questions about the future. And indeed, anytime I make predictions about the future, I first condition on several possible answers to this question.

I have a new law: Wildeford's Third Law - "Every forecast of the future is technically also an AI timelines forecast" This is because AI (or the potential lack thereof) is a very important factor for how the future will unfold cold-takes.com/most-important…


Gauss & the Prime Number Theorem with Jared Duker Lichtman @jdlichtman is on YouTube: In 3 weeks, Gauss completed Terry Tao's & Alex Kontorovich's Strong Prime Number Theorem project—over the prior 18+ months of partial progress by human experts. youtube.com/watch?v=AqUpIO…

@stephen_wolfram What it made me realize is that mathematics is a fundamentally *human* story. The Babylonians developed arithmetic for commerce. They developed geometry to survey land. We generalized arithmetic to get equations, then abstract algebra. We generalized geometry to get... (10/15)


4/ Our team shares a single CLAUDE.md for the Claude Code repo. We check it into git, and the whole team contributes multiple times a week. Anytime we see Claude do something incorrectly we add it to the CLAUDE.md, so Claude knows not to do it next time. Other teams maintain their own CLAUDE.md's. It is each team's job to keep theirs up to date.



I will be pushing for a moratorium on the construction of data centers that are powering the unregulated sprint to develop & deploy AI. The moratorium will give democracy a chance to catch up, and ensure that the benefits of technology work for all of us, not just the 1%.


