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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

On Eat­ing the Sun

jessicata8 Jan 2025 4:57 UTC
84 points
92 comments3 min readLW link
(unstablerontology.substack.com)

2024 in AI predictions

jessicata1 Jan 2025 20:29 UTC
117 points
3 comments8 min readLW link

The Oblique­ness Thesis

jessicata19 Sep 2024 0:26 UTC
87 points
17 comments17 min readLW link

Book re­view: Xenosystems

jessicata16 Sep 2024 20:17 UTC
49 points
18 comments37 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Ex­e­cutable philos­o­phy as a failed to­tal­iz­ing meta-worldview

jessicata4 Sep 2024 22:50 UTC
93 points
40 comments4 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

A com­pu­ta­tional com­plex­ity ar­gu­ment for many worlds

jessicata13 Aug 2024 19:35 UTC
32 points
15 comments5 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Claude’s dark spiritual AI futurism

jessicata15 Jun 2024 0:57 UTC
22 points
7 comments43 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

How to elimi­nate cut?

jessicata11 Jun 2024 15:54 UTC
21 points
0 comments14 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Is Claude a mys­tic?

jessicata7 Jun 2024 4:27 UTC
60 points
23 comments13 min readLW link
(unstablerontology.substack.com)

Un­der­stand­ing Gödel’s com­plete­ness theorem

jessicata27 May 2024 18:55 UTC
39 points
0 comments15 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

The con­sis­tent guess­ing prob­lem is eas­ier than the halt­ing problem

jessicata20 May 2024 4:02 UTC
38 points
5 comments4 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

How do open AI mod­els af­fect in­cen­tive to race?

jessicata7 May 2024 0:33 UTC
60 points
13 comments3 min readLW link
(unstablerontology.substack.com)

De­quan­tify­ing first-or­der theories

jessicata23 Apr 2024 19:04 UTC
40 points
9 comments8 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

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

jessicata27 Mar 2024 19:59 UTC
88 points
37 comments36 min readLW link
(unstablerontology.substack.com)

Con­struc­tive Cauchy se­quences vs. Dedekind cuts

jessicata14 Mar 2024 23:04 UTC
47 points
23 comments4 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Sim­ple Kelly bet­ting in pre­dic­tion markets

jessicata6 Mar 2024 18:59 UTC
38 points
3 comments3 min readLW link
(unstablerontology.substack.com)

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

jessicata8 Feb 2024 23:19 UTC
12 points
1 comment12 min readLW link
(unstablerontology.substack.com)

2023 in AI predictions

jessicata1 Jan 2024 5:23 UTC
107 points
35 comments5 min readLW link

A case for AI al­ign­ment be­ing difficult

jessicata31 Dec 2023 19:55 UTC
105 points
58 comments15 min readLW link1 review
(unstableontology.com)

Scal­ing laws for dom­i­nant as­surance contracts

jessicata28 Nov 2023 23:11 UTC
36 points
5 comments7 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)