Now

2009-03-05 — 2026-03-02

Wherein the author’s employment at CSIRO is noted, a move to Melbourne and membership of the Ouroboros cohousing project are described, and work on hybrid ML, AI safety and DJ mixes is set out.

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Hi, I’m Dan MacKinlay. This is my now page, in a constellation of now pages.

1 Pivoting to AI safety as my critical-risk project.

My current active research interests are causal agency and AI disempowerment, although I remain voaciously interested in everything. I maintain a separate, aspirational reading and writing worklist.

2 Living a human life

I’m trying to level up my engagement with my new home town of to Melbourne as part of my cohousing project ( Ouroboros is the housing group; we’d love skill shares) and my new, explicit extrovert’s commitment to group projects in general. I’m trying to build out a gig space in our shopfront, but it’s hard when the collective is small and time is short.

3 Arts

Musically, I’m still DJing, but not professionally any longer. I’ll upload some new mixes if I can work out which old mixes to delete. I don’t have much time for music production at the moment, but our Lotekno EPs are gradually coming out.