Satya Benson

It’s often said that one of the motivators or desiderata for natural abstraction is robustness to ontology shifts.

Below is the text of an email I shared with some of my friends and family recently, sharing my thoughts on the dangerous situation humanity is in.

We’d like to know how much limits on compute scaling will constrain AI R&D.

Humans are contacted by a mysterious type of being calling themselves “Galabren” who say they are “aelthous”.

I hold a position of normative eliminativism: the view that no universal moral truths or common goods exist.

Here’s a conversation which I wanted to save so I could refer back to.

In hindsight, I really should have considered parallel processing more thoroughly, instead of hand-waving it away for simplicity.

I just made a really good soup.

Our existing intuitions about how to be a good student apply to LLMs very seamlessly.

This is part of a series.

Try the thesis tag.

This is part of a series.

This is part of a series.

In an op-ed, Satya Benson ’26 critiques responses to recently published opinion pieces in the Record.

Over the past few days, lem has been over at misfin.org on gemini making the new internet mail protocol a reality.

Consciousness Is an Emergent Property of Matter Way back in 1641, René Descartes dropped Meditations on First Philosophy, in which he famously claimed he was certain that he existed.

While browsing geminispace, I came across this article by negatethis.

Judgements of good and bad are always, as far as I can tell, made on the basis of aesthetics, which are subjective but have some universality rooted in biology.

By Satya Benson Rain down I’m shivering to the bone Drenched, and standing alone Rain down on me Let it rain My warmth will flow out from my blood My consciousness will fade from my brain The water and cold air will turn my flesh blue And my shaking will…

This summer is an odd one.

Hi!

Over the past year or so I’ve been using Pixelmator Pro, mostly for specific projects, but occasionally just for fun.

Stuff I Might Study In College (I Guess) A lot of people I barely know ask me questions about my life, and I guess I try to answer them, but it’s always kinda awkward and confusing.

My friend Arden just released her first EP!

I’ve been thinking about movies that have really stuck with me, and I noticed that while the majority of them are well known, there are a few lesser known ones I thought I’d write about.

A quote from Howard University’s removal of classics is a spiritual catastrophe by Cornel West and Jeremy Tate.

From The House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende: “His father… ordered Nicolás to take a bath and put on some normal clothes if he wanted to stay in the house, but Nicolás stared at him without seeing and did not reply.

From Napoleon Dynamite

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. ~ from The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R.

Look at these gorgeous illustrations This is a great way to get a sense of your character’s appearance and physicality, as well as Thurber and Simont’s aesthetic.

At my family’s small lowbush blueberry farm in late July and early August, the energy is festive.

12/18/52 The loaf felt soft in his hand.

By Satya Benson Lying in bed, imagining all the wonderful creations To come, crying tears inside because they won’t, I can’t fight, I am too weak even though I can be strong and eat the fruit Of labour I won’t, I will not though I want, though I must walk,