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hi, i’m ace.
i was born in the philippines and grew up in singapore.
i think living between two places made me aware, quite early, that there is never only one way to see the world. people can live very different lives, believe very different things, and still feel completely certain that their version is the real one.
i study computer science, and since 2018, i’ve been deeply interested in artificial intelligence and the possibility of superintelligence.
at first, i was interested in the technology itself.
then it became harder to separate from the larger questions.
what is consciousness?
what makes a person feel like the same person over time?
how much of reality do we actually see?
what happens when intelligence no longer belongs mainly to humans?
i never found complete answers. i’m not sure anyone does. but these questions stayed with me, and they shaped the way i looked at technology, people, time, and my own life.
outside of that, i lifted weights, trained combat sports, travelled, learned bits of different languages, coached people in the gym, taught english in azerbaijan, and built things whenever curiosity became difficult to ignore.
i did not always know where i was going.
i changed my mind often. i wanted many things. i cared deeply. sometimes too deeply. i spent a lot of time trying to understand life, when perhaps some parts of life can only be lived.
this blog holds some of what i found along the way.
things i built.
places i went.
people i loved.
mistakes i made.
questions i kept returning to.
i was never writing because i believed i had figured life out.
i was writing because i knew none of this would last forever.
and maybe this was my way of asking time not to take everything.