Gavin Leech
gleech.org/now
“Is serial reasoning the product of thousands of heuristics? Is much of the brain irrelevant to problem solving? Is intelligence compression? What lets some of us do hyperpolation?”
Location:
Taipei, Taiwan
Professional title:
Researcher, mostly AI
What do you do?
I understand how things hang together at wholesale rates.
Why?
I can't help it
What should we read?
"Red Plenty" by Francis Spufford. One of the best living novelists digs into the emotional and technical details of the dead dream of command economies. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2524141468