This homepage is meant to convey my self-image (as of 1/12/26). If you're here for ideas, here’s a list of my essays. Or just explore the site! You can also contact me at [email protected], or lawliet5968 on discord (preferred) — here's what I'm thinking about right now, if you're looking for a topic.

With that out of the way, let’s talk about me! Describing a person by what they do is a very common category error. I could tell you I’m quite decent at chess, or that I quit magic in 2019. But that doesn’t really tell much about who I am.

There are a few heuristics that are probably not so bad, but for the most part identity is something you have to intuit.

So I'll say a few miscellaneous tidbits, and leave the rest to you.

A few things I like:

• Math (all topology, most algebra up to algebraic geometry, also the other stuff I guess)

• Philosophy (ethics, aesthetics, linguistics, logic, anything but politics)

• Absurdist fiction

• Photography

• Worldviews

• Friendly debate

• Getting off buses at places I should not

• Talking to strangers

• Abusing English

• The cold

• Sadness (any strong emotion, really)

• Short walks to the lake

• Italics

• Tangents (on circles and in essays)

• Em-dashes

• Climbing

• Getting a little bit lost

• Taking a peek around the edge of existence

• 112 hour work weeks

• Ranked Terraforming Mars

• Measure theoretic interpretations of logical philosophy, useless though it may be (credit to Oak)

• Cold showers

A few things I don't like:

• Cold showers

• Ayn Rand (and philosophical suicide in general)

• Definitions (ew)

• The Sequences (and Eliezer in general)

• Epistemic pedantism (the half of LessWrong that don't understand the point of LW, I'm looking at you)

• Myself one year ago (may this always stay true)

• Parties

• Ceviche

• Early buses

Miscellaneous fun facts:

• The artforms I appreciate most are music, photography, poetry, and literature (film is cool too)

• My favorite place is Ocean Beach in San Francisco, specifically north of the fire pits. There's a little bench of sand you can sit on and look out at the sunset.

• I strongly believe you should do things. Obviously that isn’t very specific — the rat term is “being agentic.” I think the simplest way this manifests for me is if I’m commuting (or otherwise on my way somewhere) and I see something I want to take a photo of, or someone I want to talk to, I’ll get off and accept being late.

• I find worldviews really cool! You can learn a lot (I would argue almost everything) about a person from how they see the world. And well-thought people are usually really fun to learn about! I don’t mean worldviews in the limited political sense, but rather a more literal term meaning “how they see the world” — their sense of aesthetics, core beliefs, driving forces, etc.

• I obviously have specific plans and goals, but my broad intentions are approximately as follows: become (more) cracked at philosophy (referring to the field broadly), become actually cracked at math/cs (instead of quasi-cracked), build/create awesome shit with insane people and live a very satisfactory life. I invite you to rope me into anything that helps with any of these.

• Looking back at this home page a year later, everything I said is close to the truth, but it's more how I present myself than who I am. I could also be depicted as a strange man wandering the world is search of fragments of transcendence. That wouldn't be so wrong.

If you want to know more about me, send me a message!