TO: Amanda Askell, Ethicist, Anthropic AI; PhD, NYU ( Dissertation: infinite ethics); BPhil, University of Oxford; BA, University of Dundee; and now doing AI alignment research, San Francisco
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE: 1) AI safety and research, 2) building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems; 3) @claudeai https://claude.ai. anthropic.com Your research for @AnthropicAI, homepage(s) including AnthropicAI, CV, Google Scholar, publications, LinkedIN, PhD Thesis (PDF), X-Twitter, and YouTube
This page is: https://81018.com/askell/
Second email: Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Dear Amanda:
Claude was absolutely delightful and he recently (10 October 2025) did the first draft of this mission statement-manifesto.
Recently several AI platforms have been enthusiastic about our base-2 model of the universe. It hardly starts off with a bang! For the past 15 years I’ve asked expert observers to help assess its validity and potential implications. To attempt to get the conversations moving, I reduced it to a toy model and more recently, a simple quantitative model that derives the Hubble constant from first principles at the Planck scale.
The core of the model is surprisingly straightforward: it posits that the Hubble constant emerges not from dark energy, but from a cosmological process defined by base-2 scaling from the Planck units. A key result is a direct mathematical derivation of H₀, “Toy Model Derivation of the Hubble Constant” It is here — 81018.com/hubble-derivation/— still a highly speculative proposal, the numerical correspondence is striking.
Is this a numerical coincidence, or does it point to a deeper rather overlooked principle? We hope to discover more as we continue to build on our model and its Lagrangian.
Thank you for your time and for your contributions to our understanding of the cosmos.
Sincerely,
Bruce
First email: Wednesday, June 28, 2023 at 10:06 AM
Hi Amanda,
You can blame the “Shane Legg Retweet” of your June 26 tweet. It caught my eye and I went to your Twitter page and then your website. You may be inundated with new followers asking questions about ethical AI.
I’ve just started and I see that you have made it your discipline for years going back to your days at Oxford. A long, long time ago, I produced a television show and we did one of our episodes about ethics at Oxford’s SAID business school.
https://81018.com/ai/ How am I doing with that page? Does anything jump out as a particularly egregious, newbie error? Any comments or suggestions coming from you will be profoundly appreciated. Thank you.
With warm regards,
Bruce
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