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Richard_Kennaway

Karma: 7,041

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 April 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.)

The world ac­cord­ing to ChatGPT

Richard_KennawayApr 7, 2025, 1:44 PM
11 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Ar­gu­ing all sides with ChatGPT 4.5

Richard_KennawayApr 7, 2025, 1:10 PM
6 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

Please do not use AI to write for you

Richard_KennawayAug 21, 2024, 9:53 AM
69 points
34 comments4 min readLW link

Reflex­ive de­ci­sion the­ory is an un­solved problem

Richard_KennawaySep 17, 2023, 2:15 PM
40 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

Ten vari­a­tions on red-pill-blue-pill

Richard_KennawayAug 19, 2023, 4:34 PM
23 points
34 comments3 min readLW link

Ar­gu­ing all sides with ChatGPT

Richard_KennawayMar 30, 2023, 7:50 PM
16 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

Richard_Ken­n­away’s Shortform

Richard_KennawayAug 5, 2022, 9:02 PM
7 points
75 commentsLW link

Hu­mans pre­tend­ing to be robots pre­tend­ing to be human

Richard_KennawayMar 28, 2022, 3:13 PM
25 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

“The Wis­dom of the Lazy Teacher”

Richard_KennawayNov 21, 2021, 9:11 PM
16 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Mi­graine hal­lu­ci­na­tions, phe­nomenol­ogy, and cognition

Richard_KennawayMay 8, 2021, 3:56 PM
38 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Con­scious­ness of abstraction

Richard_KennawayDec 21, 2020, 9:35 PM
20 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

[Question] Is the work on AI al­ign­ment rele­vant to GPT?

Richard_KennawayJul 30, 2020, 12:23 PM
24 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Utility need not be bounded

Richard_KennawayMay 14, 2020, 6:10 PM
30 points
34 comments2 min readLW link

Who lacks the qualia of con­scious­ness?

Richard_KennawayOct 5, 2019, 7:49 PM
29 points
55 comments1 min readLW link

Sto­ry­tel­ling and the evolu­tion of hu­man intelligence

Richard_KennawayJun 13, 2019, 8:13 PM
14 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ques­tions from an imag­i­nary statis­ti­cal meth­ods exam

Richard_KennawayFeb 4, 2015, 1:57 PM
21 points
25 comments2 min readLW link

[LINK] Ra­dio in­ter­view with Daniel Kahneman

Richard_KennawayAug 16, 2013, 8:31 AM
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Your Elu­sive Fu­ture Self

Richard_KennawayJan 8, 2013, 12:27 PM
28 points
37 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tional sub­jects and ra­tio­nal practitioners

Richard_KennawayDec 11, 2012, 2:40 PM
50 points
36 comments1 min readLW link

[Paper] Si­mu­la­tion of a com­plete cell

Richard_KennawayJul 24, 2012, 3:04 PM
27 points
17 comments1 min readLW link