Keith Wynroe

Personal news: I'm leaving my current startup role, looking to figure out what's next. I'm interested in making AI go well, and open to a variety of options for doing so. I have 10+ years of quant research and technical management experience, based in London. DM if interested.

This is actually what the future will look like. When wearable AR glasses saturate the market a whole generation will grow up only knowing reality through a mixed virtual/real spatial computing lens. It will be chaotic and stimulating. They will cherish their digital objects.

Feynman on why he never learned "the name of the bird".

and they still managed to conquer half the world 🤯

When I was at Duke, senior colleagues regularly bullied me for publishing in high–impact-factor Cell Nature and Science journals and for having papers that drew a lot of citations. They’d make comments that anyone publishing in CNS must be dishonest or exploitative, and they’d insinuate that I must have done something untoward to get the work accepted. Much of that script came directly from Michael Eisen and his followers on social media. His framing became a ready-made narrative that faculty and administrators absorbed uncritically. Many of my colleagues looked to Eisen as their intellectual leader, repeating his talking points in meetings and even in conversations with students. It became a way to mask their own jealousy and insecurity behind the authority of someone else’s rhetoric. So yes, metrics aren’t perfect. But I’ve seen firsthand how quickly the absence of standards gets filled by gossip, cronyism, ideology, and professional jealousy. That experience is why I push back so hard against the idea that we should abandon metrics altogether.