I’m a mathematician and independent researcher working on artificial general intelligence and the automated design of machines. To describe the shape of the problem, I’ve been posting notes on various technical details; feedback is welcome! In particular, if you’re a neuroscientist or machine learning researcher, I’d love to hear from you.

You can reach me at sid@sidmani.com, or on twitter.

## Writing

### Sci-fi and speculation

• Old technology as a totem
• Some examples of techno-worship in science fiction
• Consumption
• What is $$\lim_{t \rightarrow \infty}$$ of “software is eating the world”?
• Names
• The name given to an object exchanges meaning with the object itself

## Research interests

• Artificial general intelligence
• Will deep learning ever lead to real AGI? (I don’t think so)
• How does the brain work?
• Is connectionism a useful model?
• What happens inside the neuron?
• How is data stored?
• Vision
• Is there a way to represent 3D objects in memory that respects geometry, part decomposition and semantics?
• Computation and the physical world
• What is computation?
• The physical Church-Turing thesis: can all physical systems be simulated on a Turing machine?
• How can we test the hypothesis that the universe is a simulation?

## Projects

• Quasar jet simulator
• Simulate the helical jets of active galactic nuclei, with relativistic effects, in your browser!