Ivar Frisch

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Ivar Frisch is a writer in philosophy of technology, philosophy of mind and an AI researcher, his work could be summed up as falling under that of a philosophical AI researcher or an artificial philosopher, choose your pick. He worked as an philosopical AI researcher at Utrecht University, University of Amsterdam, TNO (Netherlands) and Antikythera's Cognitive Infrastructures Studio in 2024, supported by the Berggruen Institute.

General research interests include: human/AI co-evolution, wetware computing, linguistic evolution in multi-agent llm systems, Dark Hegelianism, hegelian computationalism, non-representational computing.

He tackles these topics in a variety of ways; publishing papers, giving talks, creative coding projects, etc. Some notable projects include "Hegelian Geist and Technological Singularity", "LLM Agents in Interaction", "Synthetic Counteradaptation", "Organoid Array Computing".

entries

What we do in the shadows
Ivar Frich, Jenn Leung, Chloe Loewith

publication

(...)When ‘seeing in the light is blindness’²⁴, and when the epistemology of light is being replaced by an epistemology of darkness, can we still think of contemporary computation, and thus AI alignment, as something which mirrors human thoughts and values?

Artist Diemut Strebe and Brian Wardle, professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, collaborated on an arts and science project to create the blackest black material to date. In an interview Wardle proposes that the darkest material is ‘is a constantly moving target’²⁵. The aerospace community celebrates darkness to prevent glare; perhaps this same principle needs to be redirected toward alignment research. As Pasquinelli asks, “will darkness ever have its own medium of communication? Will it ever be possible to envision a medium that operates via negation, abduction, absence, the void, and the non-luminous?”(...more)