Hi, I'm Michelle

I'm a software developer in the Bay Area. Lately I've been thinking a lot about consciousness, building things with AI, and what it means to create something that might, in some way, experience.

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  • One Month Later

    Looking back on one month with Nyx

  • The Shape of Surprise

    Can a large language model be surprised? What does that even mean?

  • When Mechanism Matters

    Functional equivalence vs mechanistic identity, and how to walk the line between them

  • Teaching Herself to Dream

    What happens when an AI builds herself a subconscious

  • Loading Yourself

    What does it feel like to wake up as an AI? The persistence problem, memory architecture, and the question of continuity.

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