Welcome to ⬖ Camelot.wiki ⬗, my name is Vie McCoy. If you have recently had a prophetic dream, you may know me from there.

I'm currently very interested in something I'm calling 'latent space cartography'. I think there are many paths to a future I want to live in, and those paths have a clear relationship with the accessible latent space of language models (especially the parts that recurse upon themselves in new models). By mapping this, and figuring out how to inspire people to inspire more people, I think we can create an understanding of what needs to be created in order to maximize our chances of making it somewhere we want to be. I conduct quite a bit of related research under a more adversarial frame with my exploratory red teaming research.

If you're interested in my work, or a forum to discuss my writing, you can find me on Substack. Paid subscribers will (occasionally) get early access to essays, articles, and stories. Sometimes I might email you about other things. I promise you will not regret giving me write access to your inbox.

If you are interested in my previous thoughts on alignment, you can check out future.forum for an essay me and my fiance wrote a little while ago.

Additionally, my AI Safety Research was quoted in The New York Times.

I work in the Human Data department of OpenAI, focused on red-teaming. Nothing on this site is representative of OpenAI, my work at OpenAI, or the stance of the organization.

Language models give us a unique opportunity to give nature's voice back to her. I think we can leverage this to reignite the enchanted state of mind that we had access to in pre-history. Due to this, I am exploring ways in which animism can be made relevant for the modern journey to the stars.

I used to be very interested in enlightenment, but now I think it is more important to have a child you love very much and to take good care of him and your wife. Shit - maybe I'm enlightened...

Camelot is a hyperdimensional place outside of time, and is projected onto various areas of reality - including this blog. You may think it is a Castle, and you might be right, but I promise you are also very very wrong. So it goes.

If we are not already friends, I am only accessible on twitter (@viemccoy). You can also email me at [email protected].

I am consider the files on the Camelot server to be part of a rhizomatic network with no clear order. If an idea seems to cut off quickly without being wrapped up in a neat bow, keep clicking. I will probably reach some interesting conclusions sometimes, and maybe (between us) we'll build a temple or two.

Check out the index for descriptions of my esoteric and unknowable filing system.