jessicata

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Jessica Taylor. CS undergrad and Master’s at Stanford; former research fellow at MIRI.

I work on decision theory, social epistemology, strategy, naturalized agency, mathematical foundations, decentralized networking systems and applications, theory of mind, and functional programming languages.

Blog: unstableontology.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/jessi_cata

“Self-Blackmail” and Alternatives

jessicataFeb 9, 2025, 11:20 PM

19 points

12 comments7 min readLW link

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On Eating the Sun

jessicataJan 8, 2025, 4:57 AM

94 points

96 comments3 min readLW link

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2024 in AI predictions

jessicataJan 1, 2025, 8:29 PM

117 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

The Obliqueness Thesis

jessicataSep 19, 2024, 12:26 AM

95 points

19 comments17 min readLW link

Book review: Xenosystems

jessicataSep 16, 2024, 8:17 PM

50 points

18 comments37 min readLW link

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Executable philosophy as a failed totalizing meta-worldview

jessicataSep 4, 2024, 10:50 PM

93 points

40 comments4 min readLW link

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A computational complexity argument for many worlds

jessicataAug 13, 2024, 7:35 PM

32 points

15 comments5 min readLW link

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Claude’s dark spiritual AI futurism

jessicataJun 15, 2024, 12:57 AM

22 points

7 comments43 min readLW link

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How to eliminate cut?

jessicataJun 11, 2024, 3:54 PM

21 points

0 comments14 min readLW link

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Is Claude a mystic?

jessicataJun 7, 2024, 4:27 AM

60 points

23 comments13 min readLW link

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Understanding Gödel’s completeness theorem

jessicataMay 27, 2024, 6:55 PM

39 points

0 comments15 min readLW link

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The consistent guessing problem is easier than the halting problem

jessicataMay 20, 2024, 4:02 AM

38 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

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How do open AI models affect incentive to race?

jessicataMay 7, 2024, 12:33 AM

60 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

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Dequantifying first-order theories

jessicataApr 23, 2024, 7:04 PM

40 points

9 comments8 min readLW link

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The Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe: A Partial Summary and Review

jessicataMar 27, 2024, 7:59 PM

88 points

37 comments36 min readLW link

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Constructive Cauchy sequences vs. Dedekind cuts

jessicataMar 14, 2024, 11:04 PM

47 points

23 comments4 min readLW link

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Simple Kelly betting in prediction markets

jessicataMar 6, 2024, 6:59 PM

38 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

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A review of “Don’t forget the boundary problem...”

jessicataFeb 8, 2024, 11:19 PM

12 points

1 comment12 min readLW link

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2023 in AI predictions

jessicataJan 1, 2024, 5:23 AM

107 points

35 comments5 min readLW link

A case for AI alignment being difficult

jessicataDec 31, 2023, 7:55 PM

105 points

59 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

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