My Affiliation with DOGE LLC and Other Questions about Credibility

I have had a few folks message me about various things they have seen about me on the internet, and I would like to clarify on the record a few things. Particularly, there have been articles that I've been in that connect me to DOGE, Jordan Peterson - and questioms about my career, and my research.

Firstly, I do not have any affiliation to DOGE. I did (accidentally) file a "DOGE LLC" as I was trying to see if it would be possible to file such an organization which would be ironic, as Elon Musk's DOGE organization did operate independently almost as a private entity or an LLC in spite of being ostensibly a part of the government. I wanted to investigate the possibility of filing an LLC with the same name to see if it was possible through legalzoom. Immediately after I discovered it was filed, I had it disbanded, which should be public record - and if it's not, it is pretty simple to show my correspondence with legal zoom that I have the docs to show it.

I was not wrongfully terminated from Microsoft for this, and this LLC was disbanded immediately after I discovered it was created - and I immediately alerted Microsoft HR about this once I discovered it was created. No meetings or even financial transactions were made by this entity. The reason cited for my PIP at Microsoft was delays on my feature item, which I've discussed at length in other posts. I still at times hear attempted character assassinations from folks about this - particularly on reddit.

Some redditors with personal ties to Microsoft have attempted to associate me with DOGE to distract from the wrongful terminations going on at Microsoft, which is somewhat ironic given that the primary reason that folks are not thrilled with DOGE is wrongful terminations of federal employees, and my primary criticisms of Microsoft include wrongful terminations of their engineers.

Secondly, I did have an interview many years ago with Dr. Jordan Peterson. My personal view is that Dr. Peterson capitalized on a vacuum left in the culture - particularly young people have found themselves trapped between the ideals and norms set by the older generations and an increasingly more difficult socioeconomic and sociocultural landscape, where attaining traditional markers of adulthood feel out of reach. These young people are often told they need to "work on themselves" or seek "mental" health treatment to deal with their socioeconomic anxiety - a void which once was filled by local community and affordable cost of living relative to wages that has declined. This despondency led to the rise of figures like Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson who offered a narrative to young men which, like the rhetoric from the Democratic party, was ultimately hollow. So while I did discuss this with Dr. Jordan Peterson, I did challenge him on his points during the hour long discussion.

I have also had people reach out to me, wondering why it is that I've attended so many universities. A part of the problem is that my situation has often been unstable - family drama and witnessing, for example, UC Berkeley devolve into (sometimes violent) protests amid budget cuts where 10% of my peers were left homeless is one example of that. Living situations and coordinating academics was not always easy.

When it comes to my research, I will say that some of the ideas I've presented are currently controversial. Ties to Dr. Penrose's Orch-Or theory are most frequently criticized. I do believe that Dr. Penrose did not have the full story, but many of his critiques of current paradigms of computation and consciousness are correct - there is empirical evidence supporting many of his claims, or at least that challenge conventional neural network based models (for example, the observation of superradiance and majorana biophotons in brain tissue, wide range frequencies measured in microtubules, and the fact that anesthetics do indeed target these microtubules implicated in his theory).

I have presented theoretical models which do have peer reviewed support, but most of these ideas must be tested and shown by means of experiment. For that, after crafting a hypothesis, funding is needed to run experiments - and with recent cuts to science research in the US, that will be increasingly more difficult to come by. Still - there are many exciting unexplored ideas here. The possible connection between the Monster CFT and the Riemann hypothesis, the discovery that gravity may be a thermodynamic force, and the UV completion of gravity (where the maths implicating RG flows may provide clues into the Navier Stokes equations as well) are all established in literature. Many of these ideas, I've crafted over the course of many years starting with my exposure to lattice maths and high level physics at UC Berkeley under my undergraduate professor and fields medalist Dr. Borcherds. Scientists and researchers have commented on these ideas with positive reception, where I've posted some of these conversations on my LinkedIn page.