Hello, I'm Rob Knight. I'm a research engineer working on programmable cryptography, with application to multi-agent systems and verifiable computation.
I'm interested in language design, distributed systems, and systems theory.
Archive
2023
- AI aligment by analogy
A brief sketch of AI alignment as an engineering problem
- Network states and eudaimonia
Only states whose citizens are flourishing deserve to survive
- AI in the cozyweb
From the all-seeing eye of Google, to the AI in every chat room
- Models are cultures
Traditional software is culturally-unaware, but deep learning models can grasp more of human meaning
- The economics of due diligence
Why did so many people get scammed in crypto?
- LLMs are hustlers
Computers that can't talk to each other can't trade with each other, but LLMs are good at talking