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Cat­e­gory Theory

TagLast edit: 22 Jan 2024 13:23 UTC by MIN0010

Category Theory is a subfield of pure mathematics studying any structure that contains objects and their relations (referred to as morphisms). It emerged in the study of algebraic topology, then went on to apply beyond mathematics and into various scientific disciplines, a metamathematical framework comparable to that of type theory and set theory. The notion of compositionality is what differs category theory from graph theory, in which the nodes themselves can be categories.

Current research on applied category theory and Categories for AI are useful and relevant for topics close to LW, such as Rationality, AI Safety, and Game theory. Due to its abstract nature, category theory is jokingly criticized as being “abstract nonsense”. A major theorem result is Yoneda embedding, which is basically the idea that an object can be defined by its all of its relations.

Towards Hodge-podge Alignment

Cleo Nardo19 Dec 2022 20:12 UTC
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Cat­e­gories: mod­els of models

countedblessings9 Oct 2019 2:45 UTC
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In­tro­duc­tion to In­tro­duc­tion to Cat­e­gory Theory

countedblessings6 Oct 2019 14:43 UTC
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Mul­ti­plica­tive Oper­a­tions on Carte­sian Frames

Scott Garrabrant3 Nov 2020 19:27 UTC
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Cat­e­gory The­ory Without The Baggage

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

johnswentworth8 Sep 2020 20:44 UTC
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Uncer­tainty in all its flavours

Cleo Nardo9 Jan 2024 16:21 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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Finite Fac­tored Sets to Bayes Nets Part 2

J Bostock3 Feb 2024 12:25 UTC
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Ab­strac­tions as mor­phisms be­tween (co)algebras

Erik Jenner14 Jan 2023 1:51 UTC
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Semi-Sim­pli­cial Types, Part I: Mo­ti­va­tion and History

astradiol9 Mar 2024 22:07 UTC
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Davi­dad’s Bold Plan for Align­ment: An In-Depth Explanation

19 Apr 2023 16:09 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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Roadmap for a col­lab­o­ra­tive pro­to­type of an Open Agency Architecture

Deger Turan10 May 2023 17:41 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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