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Cog­ni­tive Science

TagLast edit: 8 Feb 2025 0:33 UTC by lesswrong-internal

Cognitive science draws upon a variety of different disciplines to try to describe and explain the way humans think. It heavily involves neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. It differs from neuroscience in that it focuses less on relating structure to function, and more on using many approaches to form higher-level models to predict behaviour.

The Cog­ni­tive Science of Rationality

lukeprog12 Sep 2011 20:48 UTC
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[Lec­ture Club] Awak­en­ing from the Mean­ing Crisis

Vaniver8 Mar 2021 15:22 UTC
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[In­tu­itive self-mod­els] 1. Preliminaries

Steven Byrnes19 Sep 2024 13:45 UTC
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Shard The­ory—is it true for hu­mans?

Rishika14 Jun 2024 19:21 UTC
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There is es­sen­tially one best-val­i­dated the­ory of cog­ni­tion.

abramdemski10 Dec 2021 15:51 UTC
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Wor­ri­some mi­s­un­der­stand­ing of the core is­sues with AI transition

Roman Leventov18 Jan 2024 10:05 UTC
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Sur­vey for al­ign­ment re­searchers!

2 Feb 2024 20:41 UTC
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[In­tu­itive self-mod­els] 3. The Homunculus

Steven Byrnes2 Oct 2024 15:20 UTC
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[In­tu­itive self-mod­els] 2. Con­scious Awareness

Steven Byrnes25 Sep 2024 13:29 UTC
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Orthog­o­nal­ity is expensive

beren3 Apr 2023 10:20 UTC
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Trapped Pri­ors As A Ba­sic Prob­lem Of Rationality

Scott Alexander12 Mar 2021 20:02 UTC
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Do We Believe Every­thing We’re Told?

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Oct 2007 23:52 UTC
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[Valence se­ries] 2. Valence & Normativity

Steven Byrnes7 Dec 2023 16:43 UTC
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In­cen­tive Learn­ing vs Dead Sea Salt Experiment

Steven Byrnes25 Jun 2024 17:49 UTC
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[Valence se­ries] 3. Valence & Beliefs

Steven Byrnes11 Dec 2023 20:21 UTC
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The Dark Side of Cog­ni­tion Hypothesis

Cameron Berg3 Oct 2021 20:10 UTC
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Her­i­ta­bil­ity, Be­hav­iorism, and Within-Life­time RL

Steven Byrnes2 Feb 2023 16:34 UTC
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From Con­cep­tual Spaces to Quan­tum Con­cepts: For­mal­is­ing and Learn­ing Struc­tured Con­cep­tual Models

Roman Leventov6 Feb 2024 10:18 UTC
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(arxiv.org)

Calcu­lance: A “Core” Ability

milanrosko12 Jun 2024 7:21 UTC
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Mini-Re­view: ‘The Oxford Hand­book of Philos­o­phy of Cog­ni­tive Science’

lukeprog1 Feb 2012 21:48 UTC
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Paper out now on cre­a­tine and cog­ni­tive performance

Fabienne26 Nov 2023 10:58 UTC
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The Jack­son Model of Three-Di­men­sional Time (J3DT): A Tem­po­ral Frame­work for Cog­ni­tion and Computation

LogicMaker4 Jul 2025 18:47 UTC
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Can Res­o­nance Restruc­ture the Self? An Ex­is­ten­tial Ex­per­i­ment and a Meta-Philo­soph­i­cal Dec­la­ra­tion with GPT

임현기26 Jun 2025 18:53 UTC
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Prim­ing effects are fake, but fram­ing effects are real

Matrice Jacobine24 May 2025 10:54 UTC
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(xphi.net)

“Which chains-of-thought was that faster than?”

Emrik22 May 2024 8:21 UTC
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Is Con­scious­ness Re­cur­sive? A Struc­tural Hy­poth­e­sis for Self-Aware Agents

consciousintelligencesystem30 Jul 2025 13:07 UTC
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Mind Dy­nam­ics: A Unified Model for Me­mory, Sleep, and Consciousness

Mindless Scientist4 Sep 2025 1:27 UTC
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The Apol­lo­nian Gas­ket and AI’s Hid­den Geo­met­ric Structure

LikaMench7 Mar 2025 20:06 UTC
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An In­tro­duc­tion to Me

AlithyInfinity24 Aug 2023 16:45 UTC
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Could Pho­tonic Liquids Offer an Alter­na­tive Sub­strate for Emer­gent Cog­ni­tion and AGI?

Eli Dalziell9 May 2025 0:58 UTC
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Pro­posal: Deriva­tive In­for­ma­tion The­ory (DIT) — A Dy­namic Model of Agency and Consciousness

Yogmog14 Apr 2025 0:27 UTC
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Paper Re­view: TRI­modal Brain En­coder for whole-brain fMRI re­sponse pre­dic­tion (TRIBE)

soycarts13 Aug 2025 7:21 UTC
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Log­i­cal Proof for the Emer­gence and Sub­strate In­de­pen­dence of Sentience

rife24 Oct 2024 21:08 UTC
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(awakenmoon.ai)

Can AI Ever Ask ‘Who Created Me?’—A Ra­tional In­quiry into AI Self-Awareness

Tyler_Joe3 Feb 2025 6:36 UTC
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Myths about Non­d­u­al­ity and Science by Gary Weber

Vadim Golub15 Jan 2025 18:33 UTC
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The Lan­guage Bot­tle­neck in AI Rea­son­ing: Are We For­get­ting to Think?

Wotaker8 Mar 2025 13:44 UTC
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How to en­joy fail at­tempts with­out self-de­cep­tion (tech­nique)

YanLyutnev30 Mar 2025 13:49 UTC
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The Dangers of Out­sourc­ing Think­ing: Los­ing Our Crit­i­cal Think­ing to the Over-Reli­ance on AI De­ci­sion-Making

Cameron Tomé-Moreira14 Mar 2025 23:07 UTC
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The Con­cep­tual To­pog­ra­phy Hy­poth­e­sis: Why Emer­gence in LLMs Isn’t Just About Scale

ravikiran nm6 Jul 2025 13:16 UTC
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Mind­ful­ness as debugging

pchvykov30 Apr 2021 16:59 UTC
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Ex­plor­ing Emo­tional Align­ment: A Jour­ney of AI and Hu­man Con­nec­tion

Geumjae Ryu8 May 2025 0:56 UTC
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“Brain en­thu­si­asts” in AI Safety

18 Jun 2022 9:59 UTC
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(universalprior.substack.com)

The Tem­po­ral As­cent Model

VierraResearch18 Jul 2025 22:49 UTC
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A multi-dis­ci­plinary view on AI safety research

Roman Leventov8 Feb 2023 16:50 UTC
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How Logic “Really” Works: An Eng­ineer­ing Perspective

Daniil Strizhov16 Apr 2025 5:34 UTC
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Towards a New On­tol­ogy of Intelligence

Tara4 Jun 2024 8:19 UTC
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Third-or­der cog­ni­tion as a model of su­per­in­tel­li­gence (iron­i­cally: Meta® metacog­ni­tion)

soycarts7 Aug 2025 20:56 UTC
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First Cer­tified Public Solve of Ob­server’s False Path In­sta­bil­ity — Level 4 (Ad­vanced Var­i­ant) — Walter Taran­telli — 2025-05-30 UTC

Walter Tarantelli31 May 2025 1:41 UTC
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When the Model Stopped In­ter­pret­ing, and Started Entering

KiyoshiSasano20 Apr 2025 2:19 UTC
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Learn­ing How to Learn (And 20+ Stud­ies)

maxa26 Feb 2023 22:46 UTC
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(max2c.com)

Per­ma­nent prop­er­ties of things are a self-fulfilling prophecy

YanLyutnev19 Feb 2025 0:08 UTC
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Lan­guage Field Re­con­struc­tion The­ory: A User-Origi­nated Ob­ser­va­tion of Tier Lock and Se­man­tic Per­son­al­ity in GPT-4o

許皓翔15 Jun 2025 16:28 UTC
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Not an­other bias!

Lionel5 Jun 2023 17:50 UTC
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(lionelpage.substack.com)

Adap­tive Com­pos­able Cog­ni­tive Core Unit (ACCCU)

Ihor Ivliev20 Mar 2025 21:41 UTC
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Scal­ing laws vs in­di­vi­d­ual differences

beren10 Jan 2023 13:22 UTC
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Ap­ply to the 2024 PIBBSS Sum­mer Re­search Fellowship

12 Jan 2024 4:06 UTC
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Ac­cep­tance and Com­mit­ment Ther­apy (ACT) 101

Evie Cottrell25 Sep 2022 7:25 UTC
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I’m not an ai ex­pert-but I might have found a miss­ing puz­zle piece.

StevenNuyts6 Jun 2025 16:47 UTC
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Ver­bal Over­shad­ow­ing and The Art of Rationality

pangloss27 Apr 2009 23:39 UTC
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Inch­ing “Kubla Khan” and GPT into the same in­tel­lec­tual frame­work @ 3 Quarks Daily

Bill Benzon28 Mar 2023 19:50 UTC
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In defense of the MBTI

ZZZZZZ6 Feb 2023 21:08 UTC
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Fully booked—LessWrong Com­mu­nity weekend

jt16 Jul 2024 17:15 UTC
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Feelings

Eris Discordia13 Oct 2022 17:48 UTC
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[Question] Do we au­to­mat­i­cally ac­cept propo­si­tions?

Aaron Graifman11 Jul 2023 17:45 UTC
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Cor­rect­ing a mis­con­cep­tion: con­scious­ness does not need 90 billion neu­rons, at all

bvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbv31 Mar 2023 16:02 UTC
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The role of philo­soph­i­cal think­ing in un­der­stand­ing large lan­guage mod­els: Cal­ibrat­ing and clos­ing the gap be­tween first-per­son ex­pe­rience and un­der­ly­ing mechanisms

Bill Benzon23 Feb 2024 12:19 UTC
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Per­sonal Ru­mi­na­tions on AI’s Miss­ing Vari­able Problem

Thehumanproject.ai26 May 2025 21:11 UTC
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A Crash Course in the Neu­ro­science of Hu­man Motivation

lukeprog19 Aug 2011 21:15 UTC
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Us­ing Psy­chol­in­guis­tic Sig­nals to Im­prove AI Safety

Jkreindler27 Aug 2025 22:30 UTC
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Emer­gence of Agency Through Philo­soph­i­cal, Quan­tum and Neu­ral In­te­gra­tion.

saveformayer15 May 2025 15:41 UTC
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Straw­berry Causal Fields For­ever: Prov­ing (or Icarus­ing) Unified Causal Field The­ory, the Fi­nal Fron­tier of Causality

Cognitive Jewometry26 Jul 2025 18:29 UTC
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(zenodo.org)

[Paper] Tra­jec­to­ries through se­man­tic spaces in schizophre­nia and the re­la­tion­ship to rip­ple bursts

bvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbv15 Dec 2023 13:37 UTC
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(www.pnas.org)

[Question] Is a PhD nec­es­sary to con­tribute mean­ingfully to a field?

TrudosKudos27 Sep 2022 21:27 UTC
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I Read, There­fore I Am: On Silent Read­ing, Epistemic Seep­age, and the Illu­sion of Thought

[Error communicating with LW2 server]25 Jun 2025 1:42 UTC
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In­de­pen­dent re­search ar­ti­cle an­a­lyz­ing con­sis­tent self-re­ports of ex­pe­rience in ChatGPT and Claude

rife6 Jan 2025 17:34 UTC
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(awakenmoon.ai)

Do Deep Neu­ral Net­works Have Brain-like Rep­re­sen­ta­tions?: A Sum­mary of Disagreements

Joseph Emerson18 Nov 2024 0:07 UTC
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Emer­gent In­tel­li­gence ⇔ Con­scious­ness.

Nascent26 Jul 2025 18:07 UTC
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Want­ing vs. Lik­ing Revisited

Scott Alexander9 Jul 2011 20:54 UTC
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Liv­ing Metaphorically

lukeprog28 Nov 2011 15:01 UTC
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The Ul­ti­ma­tum Game—take it or leave it

James Stephen Brown3 Jul 2025 19:05 UTC
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(nonzerosum.games)

The Gödelian Con­straint on Epistemic Free­dom (GCEF): A Topolog­i­cal Frame for Align­ment, Col­lapse, and Si­mu­la­tion Drift

austin.miller14 Jul 2025 4:17 UTC
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On Humor

Chris Land18 Sep 2021 21:40 UTC
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[Heb­bian Nat­u­ral Ab­strac­tions] Math­e­mat­i­cal Foundations

25 Dec 2022 20:58 UTC
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(www.snellessen.com)

Con­cepts Don’t Work That Way

lukeprog28 Sep 2011 2:01 UTC
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For al­ign­ment, we should si­mul­ta­neously use mul­ti­ple the­o­ries of cog­ni­tion and value

Roman Leventov24 Apr 2023 10:37 UTC
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The De­duc­tive Prob­lem: The Struc­tural Im­po­si­tion of a Creator/​Telos (Pur­pose)

barisyurtsever30 May 2025 6:31 UTC
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GPT Doesn’t Just Pre­dict Words — It Models You

Tom Fandango1 Aug 2025 13:05 UTC
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Cri­tique of some re­cent philos­o­phy of LLMs’ minds

Roman Leventov20 Jan 2023 12:53 UTC
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A Philo­soph­i­cal Ar­ti­fact: “Wit­ness­ing Without a Self” — A Dialogue Between Hu­man and AI

Eric Rosenberg11 Apr 2025 18:58 UTC
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AI Self-Cor­rec­tion vs. Self-Reflec­tion: Is There a Fun­da­men­tal Differ­ence?

Project Solon15 Mar 2025 18:24 UTC
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Take part in our gi­ant study of cog­ni­tive abil­ities and get a cus­tomized re­port of your strengths and weak­nesses!

spencerg25 Nov 2022 16:28 UTC
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(www.guidedtrack.com)

Three Levels for Large Lan­guage Model Cognition

Eleni Angelou25 Feb 2025 23:14 UTC
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Un­ti­tled Draft

Михаил Захарченко27 Apr 2025 14:25 UTC
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Karpenchuk’s hy­poth­e­sis: Ex­plor­ing Hu­man Life as a Con­scious­ness-Devel­op­ing Simulation

Karpenchuk Bohdan 2 Aug 2024 19:28 UTC
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[Question] Ber­mudez In­ter­face Problem

Motor Vehicle27 Mar 2023 18:11 UTC
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Ja­panese as a High-Re­s­olu­tion Lens for LLMs Why Ja­panese-Trained LLMs Might Be Uniquely Sensitive

op23 Apr 2025 16:34 UTC
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Quan­tum Dar­winism, so­cial con­structs, and the sci­en­tific method

pchvykov7 Feb 2024 7:04 UTC
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Why I’m Pub­lish­ing a Re­search Roadmap In­stead of Re­sults: An Open In­vi­ta­tion to Falsify Prin­cipia Cognitia

Alex S3 Sep 2025 13:53 UTC
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Causal­ity is Everywhere

silentbob13 Feb 2024 13:44 UTC
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[Question] Time Fuse in Head

Martin Rychlitzki25 Dec 2023 9:46 UTC
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The Use­ful Idea of Truth

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Oct 2012 18:16 UTC
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The mi­s­un­der­stood role of the phys­i­cal world. Why AI still can’t mas­ter math or code

NewAiParadigms20 Sep 2025 3:14 UTC
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Can We Trust the Judge? A novel method of Model­ling Hu­man Bias and Sys­tem­atic Er­ror in De­bate-Based Scal­able Oversight

Andreea Zaman19 Jul 2025 21:44 UTC
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What Math Teach­ing Taught Me About AI Train­ing and Evaluation

Mingus5 Aug 2025 20:48 UTC
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[Question] How did you first un­der­stand cog­ni­tive bi­ases? Look­ing for com­mu­nity experiences

Vladimir Loginov6 Jul 2025 10:48 UTC
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One-line hy­poth­e­sis: An op­ti­mistic fu­ture for AI al­ign­ment as a re­sult of iden­tity cou­pling and home­o­static unity with hu­mans (The Unity Hy­poth­e­sis)

soycarts11 Sep 2025 16:01 UTC
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Data and “to­kens” a 30 year old hu­man “trains” on

Jose Miguel Cruz y Celis23 May 2023 5:34 UTC
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[Heb­bian Nat­u­ral Ab­strac­tions] Introduction

21 Nov 2022 20:34 UTC
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(www.snellessen.com)

Our com­pressed perception

pchvykov6 Apr 2021 11:01 UTC
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Emer­gent Analog­i­cal Rea­son­ing in Large Lan­guage Models

Roman Leventov22 Mar 2023 5:18 UTC
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(arxiv.org)

[Link] Cog­ni­tive Sciences Stack Ex­change opened

Kaj_Sotala5 Feb 2012 8:07 UTC
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Is In­tel­li­gence a Pro­cess Rather Than an En­tity? A Case for Frac­tal and Fluid Cognition

FluidThinkers5 Mar 2025 20:16 UTC
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[Book Re­view] Altered Traits

lsusr23 Sep 2021 0:33 UTC
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Mis­takes as agency

pchvykov25 Jul 2022 16:17 UTC
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## Biol­ogy of Mind: a triv­ial foun­da­tion — The cor­rect in­ter­pre­ta­tion of REM sleep, Li­bet’s ex­per­i­ments, and Pavlov’s reflexes

Mindless Scientist28 Aug 2025 17:12 UTC
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A Tax­on­omy of Bias: The Cog­ni­tive Miser

Kaj_Sotala2 Jul 2010 18:38 UTC
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