Husan Isomiddinov
Some things about me:
- I am on my 2nd gap year, building and testing ideas in my native Tashkent. I believe college is not entirely about education. I can get that education on my own, sitting in my room. (In fact, college or not, any great mind is an autodidact.) For me, college is about learning and learning. The former, traditional learning; the latter, the one you only have from the people around. So I apply to the colleges I think I need to be at. And they are surely hard to get into.
- I pursued politics and philosophy throughout my high school years. I was passionate. Kant, Arendt, Ibn Khaldun, Locke, Rousseau—read them all. I wanted to understand how societies decide what's true, how power shapes collective belief. But when I tried to apply these ideas, I discovered politics optimizes for agreement over truth. Didn’t align with my builder-thinker ambition. So I shifted to startups. Not just startups, but startups in AI, because that's where the construction is happening. Read Graham's essays on building. Joined Twitter and tracked the modern thinkers—Michael Nielsen, Kate Crawford, Hassabis, and Fei-Fei Li. Built and scaled my own EdTech, Agora. (SATashkent acquisition). Even had time to binge through the Pied Piper's story at the Silicon Valley show. And now, I am learning the technical foundations—cognitive science, ML systems, symbolic reasoning—because talking about how AI learns without understanding the math underneath is like studying Rawls without reading the American Constitution. I am not sure whether this path is where I belong, but the pure intellectual ambition of these “small-team-fast-execution” communities excites me to contribute.
Some things I'm interested in:
- Philosophy of Mind & AI. These spheres combine my interest in exploring how knowledge architectures work in conscious beings vs imitation in artifical machines.
- Energy Economics. If AI cost floors at energy cost, the next decade depends more on fusion/nuclear than algorithms. Tracking this. For the future.
- Health and Body. I like to see myself athletic: training not only the mind but the body too, for they depend on each other.
- Conversations. Not even the best book matches the amount of knowledge one gleans from a 20 minute philosophical coffee-chat.
- Learning. This should be everyone's default setting. We have a limited time, why not use it to the best.