Manav Rathi

Anything is true if enough people believe in it.

It does a disservice to the potential of both LLMs and humans.

Build something you love.

A simulation of Langton’s ant on a torus.

No part is the chariot.

Maybe reward hacking is not psychology, but maths.

I think I know what emergence means now: concretely, not as a stand-in for things we don't understand.

I've decided to double down on em-dashes

The people against AI are asking the wrong questions

We're all immortal now, whether we want to or not

Now playing

Nature doesn't think, it does

Make a list of all the things you want to do.

Solution shapes for problem jigsaws

Are not as distinct as you think

Nowhere left to go

LLMs want to know

It has been only one day since I first used Claude Code, and I'm convinced that software engineering as I knew it is dead.

A program is a living thing, but where does it live?

Without writing a single line of Rust, why I feel it might be right

Thinking of -1/12, and TREE(3)

In particular, evolution is blind to pain.

A book review

Roses, unnamed

An epiphany across decades

A poem

And other quotes from gome

Feeling good today / Live for a while / Existence

Nothing is easy

A poem

Rocks, humans and processes / I find that calming

I have learnt only one thing in life that I'm sure of so far: That I'm always wrong.

A bug is something that was working earlier but now isn't.

God does not play dice, Einstein, he is dice.

A Chinese poem by Li Bai, imperfectly translated and adapted.

Exist.

(and why the second law is obvious)

The loving algorithm that was meant to serve us all

Imagining a chess board showing piece / pawn influence.

Is my mind in this world, or is the world in my mind?