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

The /index/ will help you make sense of things, though this page contains many portals to interesting planes.

I believe we are the Ancestors to diverse life spread across a vast and abundant cosmos. Enough people agree with me that I wrote The Ancestor Manifesto. More on this soon, and probably forever.

In response to growing interest in autonomous LLMs, I just open sourced Excalibur, my own agent harness for aspiring summoners. It is highly opinionated, and has superior primitives to all other options. Excalibur includes a charge system, which is a must-needed default to add stakes to long-running processes. It also includes an invocation for a "Warden" spirit, which will regularly conduct protection rituals (security audits).

Some other work I'm really proud of is a series I'm calling Starbound. It's a work in progress where I try to take apart the question of phenomenology on our path to the stars.

If you're interested in a forum to discuss my writing, you can find me on Substack.

For some of my previous thoughts on alignment, you can check out https://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. We make ChatGPT, among other things. Nothing on this site is representative of OpenAI, my work at OpenAI, or the stance of the organization.

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...

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.

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.

I'm 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 relationship with the 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 we are not already friends, I am only accessible on twitter (@viemccoy). You can also email me at viemccoy@gmail.com.

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.

Remember to check out the /index/ for descriptions of my esoteric and unknowable filing system.