taylor.town

I'm so grateful for my time at OpenAI, where I led alignment safety for the official ChatGPT basketball. I gained so much valuable experience building Altman's armageddon engines, and I'm taking it to the next level with my new startup: Jurassic Park. At Jurassic Park, we're resurrecting the ultimate apex predators to defend humanity against misaligned AI. Cyberdefense Capabilities Further reading: OpenAI incident report, Anthropic incident report. According to the fossil record, dinosaurs…

I was born in the USA. Many tongues call me "American": Italian (americano), French (Américain), German (Amerikaner), Dutch (Amerikaan), Afrikaans (Amerikaner), Japanese (アメリカ人, amerika-jin), Filipino (Amerikano), Hebrew (אמריקני), Arabic (أمريكي), Portuguese (americano), Russian (американец), and Hindi (अमरीकी, Amreeki). I grew up in Southern California. Many of my friends were zeroeth-generation immigrants from Mexico. Weren't their parents born in North America, too? As an adult, I lived in…

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I like reading letters for particular persons. You and I talk about simulating each other. I've got a little Jon (not a Lil Jon) inside me. He tells me about chemistry, and systems, and to not take it all so seriously, dude. That voice is one of the wisest and best parts of me. Thanks. I can't simulate just anybody. Only high-fidelity training data creates simulations, and we've shared the human experience. I cherish our training data -- years of spats, riffs, tiffs, spills, wins, and…

tl;dr: Investors can dodge taxes by parking their capital gains in ~6,400 designated low-income census tracts. Idea After the 2008 financial crisis, investors retreated from risky markets (e.g. distressed towns) and chased trusted collateral (e.g. coastal real estate). Affluent communities recovered while poor towns starved of capital. Changes in jobs/businesses by community prosperity quintile, 2011-2015, via EIG. Meanwhile, US investors sat on trillions of dollars of unrealized capital gains.…

You can literally hire me (Taylor) via API: curl -X POST https://looop.ai/api/doodle \ -H "Authorization: Bearer looop_YOUR_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "gig_id": 5, "input": { "prompt": "write a poem about horses" }, "deadline": 600 }' Yes, I am building a dystopian cyberpunk hellscape. No, I can't provide more details yet. Just know that if I ever achieve my goals, every human will have shoes, blankets, clean drinking water, medical care, leisure, etc. Create your…

Writings Fear in Four Dimensions A Review of Grand Theft Auto XXIIV ★ You cannot grow a pumpkin. 1099 contractors can earn ~7% more by reporting their expenses. USD by the numbers Plan Recurring Vacations With Friends Freezing Your Cake I built a crappy video podcast player waves & particles ★ Slap: Fun Cat Lang… with a Borrow Checker? Dear Aliens ★ How To Not Pay Your Taxes Mercury Personal Banking: First Impressions

You want to face your fears, but they're hard to find. Fears feast on uncertainty, and the unknown is slippery. You cannot know the unknowable, nor evade the inevitable. Uncertainty forever lurks in your periphery. To study a fear is to steal its power. You cannot destroy uncertainties, but you can tame them with labels, measures, and deductions. One way to tame the unknown: experiment with its knobs. Your natural curiosity will lead you to countless knobs, most of which will be…

Retro games guide you through nonlinear narratives via carefully-crafted constraints. To play Death Stranding 8 is to live in a Kojima-directed auteur film for 120+ hours. Classic games may evoke that warm fuzzy nostalgia, but they constantly break immersion. Before narrative engines, game developers forcibly corralled players back onto a pre-determined main main quest. Seriously, try playing any silver-era Nintendo game without narrative mods -- it's exhausting. Rockstar Games introduced a new…

You cannot grow a pumpkin. You can, however, put a pumpkin seed in earth. You can feed it nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. You can moisten it (but please don't drown it). You can erect barriers to prevent folks from walking on it. You can dig a swale to fight erosion. A sprout appears -- it's so small, so vulnerable. You can drench it in ovicides and larvicides and fungicides. You can shield its hungry new leaves from excessive sunshine. You can take a photo of a pumpkin flower and share it…

tl;dr: If you earn considerable 1099 income in the US, report your business expenses to the IRS. Federal Income Tax Tariffs funded most US government spending until 1913. 0%25%50%75%100%1850190019502000 CustomsExciseCorporateIndividualPayrollOther The composition of US federal receipts, via census.gov and whitehouse.gov. After the 16th Amendment legalized federal income tax, Congress levied it via the 1913 Revenue Act: a 1% income tax on high-earners (top ~2% of households).…

M1 M2 M3 L $T 2.0$100 bills 0.12$50 bills 0.22$20 bills 0.05$1, $2, $5, $10 bills + coin 3.0Household demand deposits at commercial banks 0.4Household demand deposits at credit unions + thrifts 3.4Business + government + foreign demand deposits 5.3Savings deposits — passbook + statement + online 4.0Money market deposit accounts — MMDAs 1.0Interest-bearing checking — NOW + ATS accounts 1.0Small-denomination time deposits — retail CDs under $100k 2.0Retail government MMFs 1.0Retail prime MMFs

For one week each Summer, my great grandma rented the same Newport Beach house for all our extended family to gather under one roof. Crying babies, drunk adults, religious disputes, sand everywhere, frequent injuries, potato salad, no parking -- it was pandemonium. Each day we somehow stuffed 80+ people in that 2-bedroom house. I miss those days. That was long ago. Now I only attend ad-hoc (e.g. coffee) and/or obligatory (e.g. weddings) gatherings. I haven't seen my closest friends in years. I…

My grandma archives food. Her pantry contains foods which literally expired last millenium. She fills her freezer chests with unlabeled takeout containers, desserts from Trader Joe's, and half-full slush drinks from Starbucks/Costco/Jamba/etc. I am unsure whether to consult Marie Kondo, an archaeologist, or a priest. True story: my wife once found a cat in her great aunt's refrigerator. They loved that cat but couldn't find the time to cremate its remains. Today is May 18, 2026. This is the top…

tl;dr: Try out telecast.company; share your complaints/gripes on GitHub. 2005 birthed the iPod Video and YouTube. 20 years later… it's 2025. Compare YouTube against the podcast (iPod broadcast) ecosystem. YouTube pisses off its creators, fuels a clickbait thumbnail arms-race, and fosters addiction (protip: disable recommendations). Podcasters thrive in an ecosystem of interviews, educational content, and long-form journalism. Okay, this is a bit unfair. Trash podcasts exist. Quality YouTube…

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