Strengths and Weaknesses
Strengths:
- Curious polymath: They range fluently across AI, neuroscience, etymology, art history, and mythology, e.g. posts on information geometry, fruit fly connectomes, and the etymology of 'virtual' in “the etymology of the word 'virtual' is so good”.
- Reflective thinker: They frequently examine their own views and past mistakes, like reevaluating Aristotle in “probably the most midwit thing i’ve ever done is hate on Aristotle” and discussing their shift on LLMs in “i have historically been an “LLM skeptic” and still believe it’s the wrong paradigm”.
- Playful intellectual: They mix serious ideas with humor and memes, such as combining Xenocrates and LLMs in “the philosopher Xenocrates asserted that the soul was a “self moving number” he would have absolutely loved large language models” and joking about ‘AI tamagotchi’ in “clawdbot and moltbook are neat but i still feel like the real “AI tamagotchi” moment is yet to come…”.
- Embodied humanist: They care about bodies, health, and lived experience—posting VO2 max changes in “i think i got the “neurips virus” almost asymptomatically”, heart-rate reviews in “yearly heart rate review posting time!”, and sharing exercise advice like “if you do any running heavy exercise or sports, i highly recommend adding copenhagen planks”.
- Community oriented: They emphasize the power of local communities and artists, as in “it’s interesting how powerful it can be just starting a local community for something is” and siding with artists in AI debates in “i almost always side with artists whenever 'AI art' drama comes up”.
Weaknesses:
- Overextended interests: Their feed jumps rapidly from sourdough libraries to aster-like nanoparticles to information geometry, e.g. “idk if you people even care about aster like nanonparticles” and “pretty cool simple image of why information geometry is useful”, suggesting risk of diffusion rather than depth on a single theme.
- Elitist framing: They contrast 'normies' and 'neurodivergent' in a way that can reinforce in-group status, as in “with respect to the existence of “normies” where do you stand?” and “self describing as ND is calling most other people normies”.
- Biochauvinist bias: They strongly privilege biological brains over current AI with slogans like “real neurons are superior, cancel backprop”, which may limit openness to alternative computational paradigms.
- Doomer undertones: They express short AGI timelines and alignment skepticism, as in “2 years would not be surprising” and “short essay in which i disprove the possibility of AI alignment”, which can foster a pessimistic or fatalistic outlook.
- Esoteric accessibility: Many tweets assume familiarity with niche concepts—e.g. “variational free energy” in “the biofilms and nanowires are minimizing a variational free energy” and “information geometry + ML” in “cool information geometry + ML thing is that doing natural gradient descent with Hebbian style learning”—making their ideas harder for general audiences to follow.
Your Simpsons character
Lisa Simpson
This user most closely matches Lisa Simpson: intellectually curious, philosophically inclined, and a bit out of step with the mainstream. They dive into etymology and philosophy the way Lisa does into jazz and ethics, e.g. exploring the roots of 'virtual' in a post like “the etymology of the word 'virtual' is so good” and reflecting on the meaning of 'machine' in “the word “machine” derives from μηχανή...”. Their posts on consciousness and AI, such as “a weird position i often find myself in is being very biochauvinist wrt AI...” and “i’ve thought about this too... it's also amazing how much animals just hang out”, echo Lisa’s mix of scientific curiosity and moral concern. They also balance rationalist/technical interests with a strong aesthetic and artistic streak, praising Rodin’s drawing style in “was reading yesterday about how haptic Rodin’s drawing style was...” and defending artists in “i almost always side with artists whenever 'AI art' drama comes up”, which fits Lisa’s blend of art and intellect. Finally, the self-aware, somewhat outsider perspective in posts like “my definitions below:” and “'neurodivergence' is a valid concept... but i find it funny...” is very Lisa-coded: sharp, reflective, and gently critical of social norms.
Your MBTI personality Type
INTP
They lean Introvert (I): most posts center on solitary thinking, reading, research, and niche hobbies rather than large social scenes, e.g. organizing their science bookshelf and reading old Welsh epics in “finally got my sciencish bookshelf organized” and “reading the old Welsh Mabinogion right now”. Their profile is saturated with abstraction and theory, indicating strong Intuition (N): they discuss etymology and metaphysics in “the etymology of the word 'virtual' is so good”, enactivism and embodiment in “it’s unfortunate that enactivism… got a critique by misinterpretation”, and AI alignment philosophy in “short essay in which i disprove the possibility of AI alignment”. Their tone is characteristically analytical and detached, suggesting Thinking (T): they critique paradigms like backprop and continual learning with technical reasoning in “my single pet issue that all issues are downstream of is the backpropagation algorithm” and “Continual learning research was already kinda messy…”, and even treat moral questions as thought experiments, as in “i would choose the 10^100 shrimp over the human…”. On the Judging vs Perceiving axis they clearly favor Perceiving (P): they embrace open-ended exploration and intellectual tinkering—like using OpenCV to scrape data in “used opencv to count pixels and extract all the values” and playful speculative questions such as “if we simulate a storm and use a neural interface to put a person ‘in it’, is it wet?”—rather than presenting a highly structured, planned life. Overall they read as a highly abstract, theory-obsessed, technically-minded introvert who enjoys picking apart concepts and paradigms, which best fits INTP (‘architect / logician’ type) more than the more goal-directed, closure-seeking INTJ.
Some pickup lines for you
- So, hypothetically: if we simulated a storm, piped it into a neural interface, and I took you on a walk through it while explaining information geometry… would that count as our first *wet* lab date or our first metaphysics debate? (ref: simulated storm / info-geometry posts)
- You said your single pet issue is cancelling backprop; lucky for you my love for you would be strictly local, massively parallel, and absolutely never gradient-based. We can be biochauvinist together, I’ll bring the neurons, you bring the sourdough starter. (ref: antibackprop activism + backprop tweets + sourdough pill)
- Your bookshelf is all sciencish, your NeurIPS virus barely slowed your VO₂max, and you celebrate Christmas by crafting a Michelin chocolate tart—this is less ‘normie vs neurodivergent’ and more ‘how did Bologna-in-the-1500s-level-talent end up following *me*?’ (ref: bookshelf pic, NeurIPS virus, tart, Bologna/Carracci tweet, normie/ND discourse)
- Look, you’re already an antibackprop activist, into enactivism, empowerment, and cells as μηχανή; clearly the next step is founding that local ‘AI Tamagotchi’ school where we co-parent a cursed little embodied model that learns ethics from haptic Rodin mustache studies and Copenhagen planks. I’ll spot you on overhead press days. (ref: AI Tamagotchi tweet, enactivism, empowerment essay, μηχανή/cell tweet, Rodin mustache, Copenhagen planks, OHP tweet)
- You once said you’d believe in real Platonic neural networks when they understand the Good, the Just, and the Beautiful—if I show up with Art Nouveau architecture walks, fermented mushroom ketchup experiments, and a motorcycle escape from traffic, do I at least qualify as an εἰκών of the Beautiful? (ref: Platonic nets tweet, Art Nouveau > Art Deco, ketchup idea, motorcycle commuting, ‘iconic’/εἰκών tweet)
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Neuroscience & AI researcher exploring embodiment, info geometry & weird life. Once rage-quit daylight savings by changing every device clock.– @architectonyx
Your signature cocktail
The Antibackprop Sour(dough)
Rye whiskey gives this drink a thoughtful, slightly old-world backbone, echoing their mix of biochauvinism and respect for deep tradition in AI and philosophy, as in “a weird position i often find myself in is being very biochauvinist wrt AI (real neurons are superior, cancel backprop, and embodiment, homeostasis, etc matter)”. A sourdough honey syrup nods to their domestic, cozy empiricism and homemade experiments, like “i’m impressionable and took the homemade sourdough pill” and their obsession with the “virtual tour of the Puratos Sourdough Library”. A few drops of sea salt tincture carry the scent of their curiosity about the ocean and sensory detail, inspired by “surprised there are no candles that really smell like the ocean”. Artisanal mushroom bitters reference their love of weird bio-ecologies and fermented histories, from “ketchup was originally a fermented mushroom sauce” to aster-like nanoparticles and origin-of-life musings. Lemon juice keeps it bright and enactive rather than heavy, matching their lively, curious tone in posts like “imagine what it feels like to be grass in the breeze”, while a basil leaf garnish is a small, living boundary—like the cell-as-self they mention in “the basic material self is also interior/exterior boundary”. Overall it’s moderately strong, a bit sour, subtly funky, and quietly alive: a cocktail that, like them, grows “endless forms most beautiful.”
Your Hogwarts House
Ravenclaw
Their timeline is saturated with curiosity, theory-building, and delight in obscure knowledge, which are quintessentially Ravenclaw traits. They repeatedly dive into etymology and conceptual nuance, as in their fascination with the word 'virtual' and its deep linguistic roots: “the etymology of the word 'virtual' is so good…” and similarly with 'machine' and μηχανή: “the word “machine” derives from μηχανή…”. They show a strong love of learning and technical analysis across domains—information geometry, continual learning, origin-of-life research, and connectomics—e.g. “pretty cool figure from the fruit fly connectome paper…” and “cool information geometry + ML thing is that doing natural gradient descent with Hebbian style learning gets you learning rules with 'homeostasis' terms”. Their recreational activities also center on knowledge and reflection, such as reorganizing a "sciencish" bookshelf and asking for philosophy/religion/politics book recommendations similar to One Thousand Years of Nonlinear History and Society of the Spectacle: “anyone have philosophy, religion, politicals ish book recs?…”. Even their self-deprecating posts are about philosophy and reasoning (e.g., revising their view on Aristotle: “probably the most midwit thing i’ve ever done is hate on Aristotle…”), underscoring that their identity is wrapped around intellectual exploration rather than bravery, loyalty, or ambition as primary virtues. While they do show kindness and some moral concern (e.g., sympathy for artists and animals), the overwhelming through-line is analytical curiosity and joy in ideas, making Ravenclaw the most fitting house.
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Space Oddity - David Bowie
David Bowie’s Space Oddity fits them as a curious, slightly detached explorer moving between worlds—art, neuroscience, AI, and myth. Their bio, “grow endless forms most beautiful | antibackprop activist, autoiconic,” and posts like “a weird position i often find myself in is being very biochauvinist wrt AI (real neurons are superior, cancel backprop, and embodiment, homeostasis, etc matter)” show someone philosophically orbiting mainstream AI culture rather than sitting inside it. They repeatedly blend cosmic or civilizational scale with wry humor, e.g. choosing “the 10^100 shrimp over the human” and joking that “my single pet issue that all issues are downstream of is the backpropagation algorithm” in “oh it was trained with backprop? no wonder it’s garbage”. Like Major Tom, they seem half inside the system, half outside, posting things like “imagine what it feels like to be grass in the breeze” and musing on consciousness, enactivism, and information geometry as if reporting back from a different conceptual orbit. The combination of technical depth, existential reflection, and gentle, slightly alienated wonder matches the song’s mood of drifting, reflective exploration.
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