That page, Kronk
Ah hA! The About page. The obligatory narcissistic void of every personal website, constructed specifically to tell yu things about me. My About page. That page... specifically written to be about me... is exactly where yu've landed. Let's paint an honest picture.
A lifetime measured in eggs, One basket measured in this
I'm Otokini Evan Evans, a deeply techno-optimistic 22yo CS student. Right now, most of my focus is on a project called Annevella. Beginning as a solution to my own problem, it's been about 18 months, and counting, of steady work. I don't have a perfect elevator pitch for it yet, but it sits in that category of 'this should exist already... why hasn't anyone made this?', so I'm building it until it does exist. Annevella is a project I've dedicated all my time to and I am deeply passionate about. I hope to bring it online as soon as possible.
Philosophically...
If there were a single operating thesis to sum up my world view, it would be: 'Indulge your eccentricities and Become ungovernable'... in that order. If there were a single over-arching philosophy to describe my day-to-day default, it would be e/acc. Not the political ideology, no. The feeling when the machine reached back in November 30, 2022 and the universe got bigger.
On the non-zero possibility of modern artificial intelligence systems being 'Stochastic Parrots', I care more about whether something expands what people can do than whether it fits neatly into existing categories. That shows up in how I choose problems more than anything I would call a belief system. I think it's fascinating that we've built systems whose behavior we can observe far more easily than we can explain.
Push me further on the question of intelligence in modern AI systems and I'd probably end up somewhere between Cogito, ergo sum and Arthur C. Clarke's third law. Ignoring the labels, these are systems that consistently surprise their creators.
On a personal note...
Because no one would ever truly know me as I experience myself, I built this place as a witness to me, the sum of context-dependent patterns, memory, mood, attention, and social framing, all voting in real time to keep my reality coherent and get me to say 'fuq that'. Expect the personality yu encounter, per piece, to vary widely... sometimes even within the same piece.
I built this place for all future me, whoever those guys are, whenever they decide to pop back in here... I hope they don't feel cringed out. To me, consciousness is the central mystery. I don't feel seen, maybe I don' want to be seen. Maybe that's because I am supposed to be doing the seeing.
Dawaba means Dream come true. Not quite there yet, but it's half a step every day.
I'd like coco with yu sometime... do reach out.
written to: Art is her reflection - BPMoore