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Cat­e­gory Theory

TagLast edit: 1 Aug 2020 12:05 UTC by adamShimi

Category Theory is a subfield of Mathematics studying mathematical structures and their conservation through various transformation. It emerged in the study of algebraic topology, then went on to apply to most parts of mathematics.

Despite some work on applied category theory, it’s usefulness for problem solving (especially in topics close to LW, such as Rationality and AI Safety) is still controversial. One possible explanation is that category theory usually comes after the results, to structure them and find the links with previous results in other fields.

In­tro­duc­tion to In­tro­duc­tion to Cat­e­gory Theory

countedblessings6 Oct 2019 14:43 UTC
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Cat­e­gories: mod­els of models

countedblessings9 Oct 2019 2:45 UTC
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Towards Hodge-podge Alignment

Cleo Nardo19 Dec 2022 20:12 UTC
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Cat­e­gory The­ory Without The Baggage

johnswentworth3 Feb 2020 20:03 UTC
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CTWTB: Paths of Com­pu­ta­tion State

johnswentworth8 Sep 2020 20:44 UTC
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Ad­di­tive Oper­a­tions on Carte­sian Frames

Scott Garrabrant26 Oct 2020 15:12 UTC
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Biex­ten­sional Equivalence

Scott Garrabrant28 Oct 2020 14:07 UTC
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Mul­ti­plica­tive Oper­a­tions on Carte­sian Frames

Scott Garrabrant3 Nov 2020 19:27 UTC
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Carte­sian frames as gen­er­al­ised models

Stuart_Armstrong16 Feb 2021 16:09 UTC
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Ex­am­in­ing Arm­strong’s cat­e­gory of gen­er­al­ized models

Morgan_Rogers10 May 2022 9:07 UTC
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What is cat­e­gory the­ory?

countedblessings6 Oct 2019 14:33 UTC
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[Question] Why does cat­e­gory the­ory ex­ist?

Ben Pace25 Apr 2019 4:54 UTC
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The sen­tence struc­ture of mathematics

countedblessings7 Oct 2019 18:58 UTC
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Ex­am­ples of Categories

countedblessings10 Oct 2019 1:25 UTC
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Gen­er­al­ised mod­els as a category

Stuart_Armstrong16 Feb 2021 16:08 UTC
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Cat­e­gor­i­cal-mea­sure-the­o­retic ap­proach to op­ti­mal poli­cies tend­ing to seek power

jacek12 Jan 2023 0:32 UTC
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Ab­strac­tions as mor­phisms be­tween (co)algebras

Erik Jenner14 Jan 2023 1:51 UTC
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