Language, Semantic Hypergraphs, and the Exploration of Information
Exploration of how reality is fundamentally information, and how semantic hypergraphs are used as lossy compression.
About
Co-founder of Bee Sumbodi, to solve the problem of human memory. Essayist and 2x ex-founder of security-focused marketplace and real-time AI prevention startups.
Language, Semantic Hypergraphs, and the Exploration of Information — a recent essay I've written.
Things I Believe & Curious About
Core philosophical positions that shape my worldview and research.
- I am an advocate for open-access knowledge. Understanding the world is not something that should be blocked by artificial boundaries.
- As Wittgenstein famously said, "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world." The truth of reality is ultimately bound by what we can conceive to describe. Perception already compresses reality; language compresses it even more. I see this as a paradox: language shapes thought (Sapir-Whorf), yet abstracts away from reality. Counterintuitive thinking is often what leads to innovation since it breaks the compression.
- I align with existentialism and self-derived meaning.
- No matter how good you are, there is someone better than you.
- God is how people anthropomorphise cosmic uncertainty.
- Traditional meaning structures, such as human exceptionalism, religion, and nationalism, are collapsing— I am curious to see the new meaning frameworks that emerge.
- There is no such thing as 'no bias'—we are all very biased in good and bad ways.
- The human-AI merge has already happened—we just didn’t notice because it came in fragments. The internet centralised the collective human brain, social media centralised tribalism, AI externalised thought, mobile phones made us cyborgs, and medicine let us cheat death.
Essays & Papers
I've written essays and published papers discussing artificial intelligence and the nature of reality. There are also other related essays on topics that I have interest in, such as understanding human rationality, psychology, and examining belief systems. Some essays are very short, and they serve as the foundation for other (or snippets), more detailed writings. Note— Many are currently in draft/archive and are being refined.
Bee Sumbodi
A new project aiming to solve the problem of human memory.
The Causal Fabric of Reality: Redefining Existence Beyond Material Tangibility
What's more real, your arm or a dream? Is our definition of "real" flawed?
Gödel, Epistemic Limits, and the Logical Constraints on God
Examining the logical impossibilities in traditional concepts of an omnipotent deity, and whether there is such thing as absolute truth.
Everything Is "Nothing"
Exploring how structured "nothing" gives rise to what we perceive as "something" and the philosophical implications of this physical understanding.
A Very Short Essay: Do Written Laws Fail to Rewrite Deep-Seated Biases?
Examining how legal progress often fails to match cultural evolution, as internalised beliefs and collective biases persist despite institutional changes.
A Very Short Essay: What is Artificial Intelligence?
A short exploration of what artificial intelligence really means, why the definition is elusive, and why AI is a gradient, not a binary concept.
Uncertainty and the Shape of Morality
Is morality objective, subjective, or can it be both? Exploring how we anthropomorphise uncertainty to find moral grounding within human systems.
System-Relative Impossibility
Dismantling the false claims that "anything is possible" and "nothing is impossible" through framework-relative constraints and logical necessity.
The Mind Beyond the Senses: Axiomatic Thought and Its Independence from Perception
Challenging the assumption that thought requires sensory capability, arguing that axiomatic reasoning forms the bedrock of cognition independent of perception.
Is Mathematics the Map and the Territory?
Examining whether mathematics is merely a tool for describing reality or if it constitutes the fundamental structure of reality itself.
The Next 100 Years of Human Evolution: The Existential Revolution
Exploring how technological advancement and philosophical understanding will reshape human existence and consciousness in the coming century.
The Paradox of Certainty, Is Irrationality Beneficial?
Investigating whether absolute certainty is achievable or desirable, and exploring the potential benefits of embracing uncertainty and irrationality.
Practical Certainty vs. Theoretical Uncertainty in Science and Theology
Examining the tension between practical decision-making and theoretical uncertainty in both scientific and theological contexts.
The Anthropomorphic Bias In Robotics and Thinking Machines
Analyzing how human-centered thinking limits our understanding and development of artificial intelligence and robotic systems.
Critical Thinking Should Be Taught Like Mathematics and English
Arguing for critical thinking as a fundamental educational discipline that should be systematically taught alongside traditional core subjects.
A Short Essay: You Can't Consciously Fine-Tune Your Neurons
Exploring the limits of conscious control over neural processes and the implications for self-improvement and cognitive enhancement.
A Short Essay: How Self-Organising Systems Abstract 'Meaning'
Investigating how complex systems develop emergent properties and abstract concepts without explicit programming or design.
The Paradox of Personal Experience
Examining the philosophical challenges of subjective experience and the difficulty of communicating personal consciousness to others.
A Very Short Essay: Qualia Is Just Mechanistic Variance, The Hard Problem Of Anthropocentric Bias
Arguing that qualia and the hard problem of consciousness stem from anthropocentric biases rather than fundamental mysteries.
Facing Uncertainty
Exploring strategies for navigating an uncertain world and the psychological and philosophical implications of embracing uncertainty.
The Things We Do For Attention
Analyzing human attention-seeking behavior and its impact on society, relationships, and personal development.
A Very Short Essay: Why Reading Is Essential
Making the case for reading as a fundamental skill for intellectual development and understanding the world.
A Very Short Essay: The Statistical Universe
Examining the anthropic principle and why the universe appears fine-tuned for life through a statistical lens rather than design.
Artificial Intelligence - Technical Writings
Technical writings/lectures on artificial intelligence.
The Language and Philosophy of Linear Algebra
An exploration of linear algebra as both a mathematical language and a philosophical framework for understanding transformations, spaces, and relationships.
Principles of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
A comprehensive exploration of multi-agent reinforcement learning, covering foundations, game theory, and advanced RL algorithms.