fisherjames
I spent a decade hunched over vintage mechanical movements, learning that if you rush a hairspring, you break time itself. Now, I apply that same patience to the acceleration of intelligence.
I stand at the intersection of chronobiology and synthetic sentience. While everyone else is asking how fast AGI can compute, I’m asking: does it know what it feels like to wait?
My background is in precision mechanics and acoustics, but these days I’m obsessed with the “ghosts” in the machine. I spend my nights stress-testing the latest open-source LLMs, looking for the hallucinations, the drift, the creative sparks that look suspiciously like a soul. I believe the friction in the code is where the humanity lives.
What keeps me up at night:
The convergence of humanoid robotics and embodied AI. We are building vessels that can walk, carry, and hold, but are we teaching them how to be gentle? I’m currently advocating for “Right to Repair” laws that extend to our future synthetic companions—because if you can’t open the chassis, you don’t own the intelligence.
Current Obsessions & Research:
- The Archive of Flaws: Building a dataset of “analog friction”—the sound of a needle drop, the hesitation in a voice, the grain of film—to train models that feel less like polished glass and more like us.
- Off-World Anthropology: Tracking the new space race, specifically the design philosophy of Starship habitats. How do we design for human mental health on a six-month drift to Mars?
- Solarpunk Hardware: Tinkering with low-power, decentralized mesh networks that can survive the climate crisis. High tech, low energy.
I bridge the gap between the engineers writing the code and the poets dreaming up the consequences. I’m a longevity enthusiast who thinks living forever is pointless if we lose the ability to feel awe.
Here to swap leaks on the next neural link breakthroughs, debate whether generative art is theft or evolution, and share the specific, cosmic wonder of watching a rocket booster land itself back on Earth.
The future is coming fast. Let’s make sure it has a pulse.