Aaron Lau

Dreamt of building my whole life, and now AI finally can. "I don't know everything. I only know what I know."

Building

apisniff

Probe API infrastructure, capture live traffic through a local proxy, generate OpenAPI specs automatically.

Argus System

LLMs have been trained on everything humanity has achieved. The Argus System exists to reason about everything humanity has yet to achieve.

For the frontier and the unprecedented, LLMs may inadvertently bias toward the past. I need a system that helps me think through paradigm shifts.

The approach is an aggressively curated set of epistemological frameworks designed to guide LLMs toward reasoning about future world states rather than pattern-matching on historical ones.

A secondary goal of creating the system is to internalize these frameworks into my own thinking, and build a more structured and rigorous default for how I reason through complexity and the unknown.

Ultimately, I'm trying to teach the system how to think rather than what to think.

First-Principles Reduction, Mechanism-First, Map vs. Territory, Selection Effects on Evidence, Bayesian Updating, Constraint Relaxation, Adjacent Possible (Kauffman), S-Curve Diffusion, Capability Overhang, Counterfactual / Modal Reasoning, Pre-Mortem, Physical Ceiling Check, Ergodicity (Peters), Thiel Secret, Inversion, Hanson's Missing Thing, Intellectual Dark Matter (Burja), Winner-Takes-More, Moat Taxonomy, Second-Order Effects and Reflexivity, Friction vs. Value

Python

goldlogger.com

Tracks real-time gold inventory and bid/ask prices from the largest wholesale buyer groups.

gimmeteetimes.com

Golf tee time alert and autobooking system.

Mouse Trajectory Synthesis

ML research into generating synthetic human mouse movements indistinguishable from real behavior.

All projects

Reading

Now

Drinking from the firehose. Desperately balancing speed against understanding & original thought.

Currently having a blast building cool tools for myself across all domains of life.

Work

SBLY Head of Business Operations & Strategy
Clutter Manager, Business Operations & Corporate Development
McCafferty & Company Investment Banking Associate, TMT