This is the personal website of Mariven, and the canonical source for my writings.
I try to understand the structure of intelligence, subjective experience, and abstraction, combining mathematical physics, neuroscience, philosophy, and introspective practices in the service of mega-scale conceptual engineering projects. My ultimate goal is to piece together the truth behind this reality, in order to most effectively find and do what is right; currently, this ~mostly means figuring out how to point artificial intelligence towards creating a better future.
To preserve intellectual freedom, I don't participate in -isms, but loosely align with what other people call
is found solely in one's effect on this.
natural law, taking on various guises... but what perceives it?
A list of writings follows. Or, see my Thoughts page for shorter notes on topics of interest, from the causal structures underlying perception to the logic of quantum mechanics to the differential geometry of chakras.