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Richard_Kennaway

Karma: 7,101

Computer scientist, applied mathematician. Based in the eastern part of England.

Fan of control theory in general and Perceptual Control Theory in particular. Everyone should know about these, whatever subsequent attitude to them they might reach. These, plus consciousness of abstraction dissolve a great many confusions.

I created the Insanity Wolf Sanity Test. There it is, work out for yourself what it means.

Change ringer since 2022. It teaches learning and grasping abstract patterns, memory, thinking with your body, thinking on your feet, fixing problems and moving on, always looking to the future and letting both the errors and successes of the past go.

As of May 2025, I have yet to have a use for LLMs. (If this date is more than six months old, feel free to remind me to update it.)

Another rea­son why a lot of stud­ies may be wrong

Richard_KennawayMay 3, 2012, 11:17 AM
14 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Another co­op­er­a­tive ra­tio­nal­ity exercise

Richard_KennawayApr 25, 2012, 1:21 PM
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Me­mory in the microtubules

Richard_KennawayMar 23, 2012, 8:42 PM
5 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

How to prove any­thing with a re­view article

Richard_KennawayNov 22, 2011, 12:04 PM
26 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

What vi­sion­ary pro­ject would you fund?

Richard_KennawayNov 9, 2011, 12:38 PM
13 points
71 comments1 min readLW link

The self-un­fool­ing problem

Richard_KennawayOct 11, 2011, 8:36 AM
20 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] “The Limits of In­tel­li­gence”

Richard_KennawayJul 4, 2011, 4:29 PM
3 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

When is fur­ther re­search needed?

Richard_KennawayJun 17, 2011, 3:01 PM
1 point
81 comments3 min readLW link

LessWrongers at Easter­con, 22-25 April?

Richard_KennawayApr 7, 2011, 9:20 PM
2 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Omega and self-fulfilling prophecies

Richard_KennawayMar 19, 2011, 5:23 PM
14 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

A gene for bad mem­ory? (Link)

Richard_Kennaway15 Feb 2011 15:27 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Reach­ing the gen­eral public

Richard_Kennaway7 Feb 2011 17:52 UTC
20 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Christmas

Richard_Kennaway19 Dec 2010 14:40 UTC
10 points
49 comments1 min readLW link

Aieee! The stupid! it burns!

Richard_Kennaway3 Dec 2010 14:53 UTC
21 points
62 comments1 min readLW link

Outreach opportunity

Richard_Kennaway12 Nov 2010 11:07 UTC
18 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

There is no such thing as pleasure

Richard_Kennaway7 Oct 2010 13:49 UTC
6 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Den­nett’s heterophenomenology

Richard_Kennaway16 Jan 2010 20:40 UTC
9 points
23 comments3 min readLW link

The use­ful­ness of correlations

Richard_Kennaway4 Aug 2009 19:00 UTC
20 points
59 comments4 min readLW link

In­for­ma­tion cas­cades in sci­en­tific practice

Richard_Kennaway29 Jul 2009 12:08 UTC
10 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Causal­ity does not im­ply correlation

Richard_Kennaway8 Jul 2009 0:52 UTC
18 points
58 comments4 min readLW link