cultivate your garden

welcome

My name is Charles, welcome to my website. This is a place I use for things I write, build, and think about. The title is borrowed from Voltaire's Candide: tend to what's in front of you.

◆ current focus Independent mechanistic interpretability research; investigating how language models internally organize information

recent work

writing / technology Virtue Ethics Are Best for AI Alignment February 19, 2026 — Why virtue ethics, not rules or utility functions, should guide how we align AI. technology My First Independent Interpretability Research February 5, 2026 — A journal of my first attempt at independent interpretability research, using GPT-2 and open-source tools. writing How Would You Behave? February 11, 2026 — A thought experiment on what you'd actually do if you believed AI would remake the world.