This is the canonical website for !c{my}{(Mariven)} writings. Trim the URL and you'll find my old site; while it was powered by Notion, this site was coded from scratch by me so that I could manually code up all the hypertextual features I want (see the dropdown key in the upper-right corner) while also having $\LaTeX$, images, and so on
Mainly, I write about the structure of intelligence and the nature of abstraction; my "official" focus is mathematics—specifically, category theory and mathematical physics—but you won't find much here (except as examples given for other points, of which it's a very rich source). My goal is to find the truth of reality that I might be as effective as I can at doing what is right, and, currently, this means making sure that artificial intelligence is pointed towards creating a better future rather than a blank one.
You won't be able to pin me down in any specific school of thought, as I keep my identity loose and my thought eclectic, but you'll find it to be mostly congruent with a sort of sub-additive utilitarian !c{sentiocentrist}{prioritization of all sentient life}
but sometimes veridically} metaphysics, a subjective Bayesian rationalist epistemology, a !c{metaphysical naturalist}{there is only matter acting according to
natural law, taking on various guises} ontology, and something between a cognitivist and functionalist theory of mind. The only thinker who I consider an influence is Kant—though I think he was wrong about most things, he was attacking the right problem (what are the necessary conditions for us to be able to know anything at all?) with the right strategy (determining the structure of cognition, and of reality's coupling to it)—and the only thinker who I seem to agree with unusually often is Yudkowsky; he says few non-obvious things, but nobody else seems to think in the same way, which is concerning.
As a perfectionist writing at immense levels of abstraction, technicality, and volume
A list of my main writings follows. The blocks that are filled in lead to completed essays; the others are the ones I'm currently working on. Whether complete or not, you can hover over each block to get an idea of what it's about.