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johnswentworth

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The Me­dian Re­searcher Problem

johnswentworth2 Nov 2024 20:16 UTC
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Three No­tions of “Power”

johnswentworth30 Oct 2024 6:10 UTC
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In­for­ma­tion vs Assurance

johnswentworth20 Oct 2024 23:16 UTC
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Min­i­mal Mo­ti­va­tion of Nat­u­ral Latents

14 Oct 2024 22:51 UTC
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Values Are Real Like Harry Potter

9 Oct 2024 23:42 UTC
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We Don’t Know Our Own Values, but Re­ward Bridges The Is-Ought Gap

19 Sep 2024 22:22 UTC
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Why Large Bureau­cratic Or­ga­ni­za­tions?

johnswentworth27 Aug 2024 18:30 UTC
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… Wait, our mod­els of se­man­tics should in­form fluid me­chan­ics?!?

26 Aug 2024 16:38 UTC
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In­ter­op­er­a­ble High Level Struc­tures: Early Thoughts on Adjectives

22 Aug 2024 21:12 UTC
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A Ro­bust Nat­u­ral La­tent Over A Mixed Distri­bu­tion Is Nat­u­ral Over The Distri­bu­tions Which Were Mixed

22 Aug 2024 19:19 UTC
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What is “True Love”?

johnswentworth18 Aug 2024 16:05 UTC
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Some Unortho­dox Ways To Achieve High GDP Growth

8 Aug 2024 18:58 UTC
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A Sim­ple Toy Co­her­ence Theorem

2 Aug 2024 17:47 UTC
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A Solomonoff In­duc­tor Walks Into a Bar: Schel­ling Points for Communication

26 Jul 2024 0:33 UTC
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(Ap­prox­i­mately) Deter­minis­tic Nat­u­ral Latents

19 Jul 2024 23:02 UTC
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Dialogue on What It Means For Some­thing to Have A Func­tion/​Purpose

15 Jul 2024 16:28 UTC
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3C’s: A Recipe For Mathing Concepts

3 Jul 2024 1:06 UTC
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Cor­rigi­bil­ity = Tool-ness?

28 Jun 2024 1:19 UTC
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What is a Tool?

25 Jun 2024 23:40 UTC
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Towards a Less Bul­lshit Model of Semantics

17 Jun 2024 15:51 UTC
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