High-consequence systems for minds that don't flinch.
I build decision systems. Previously at Stripe, Salesforce, and Kraken - companies working on real problems at scale. Now building D5U, a computational reasoning system, because I got tired of waiting for someone else to do it. I also write, and make electronic music when the code and the words both stop working (which is frequent).
London → Melbourne → Silicon Valley → Melbourne → Silicon Valley ↗
What I'm Building
The mainstream AI safety consensus treats alignment like a solved philosophical problem. It assumes we know what human values are, that they're worth encoding permanently, and that the future should look like the present with better autocomplete. I start from a different premise.
The values we're encoding into AI built surveillance capitalism, climate inaction, and wealth concentration that would embarrass feudal lords. Maybe we shouldn't encode those into successor intelligence.
D5U is a computational reasoning system - built for intelligence amplification, not liability management dressed up as ethics. Systems that can tell you you're wrong and explain why. Reasoning that doesn't hedge its conclusions into meaninglessness.
Capability convergence over value alignment. Tools that make humans and AI sharper together, not tools that make one party feel safe about the other.
Writing
I write about technology, AI, culture, and the gaps between how things actually work and how they're described. The social systems, the incentive structures, the things nobody says plainly because it's not in anyone's interest to.
Music
Electronic, house, atmospheric, alternative. Music for the misfits - the people who feel let down by modern society, unheard by its systems, overstimulated by its noise. Big melodic architecture, harmonics that don't resolve where you expect, and lyrics built from abstract imagery rather than tidy narrative. Comfort found inside the sadness, not around it.
I make it when I need to process things that don't fit into words. I wouldn't say it's a side project, more the other side of me. Thanks for listening.