Systems Thinking

TagLast edit: 18 Aug 2020 21:45 UTC by Raemon

13 Jun 2019 12:38 UTC

36 points

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Cybernetic dreams: Beer’s pond brain

Yuxi_Liu19 Nov 2019 12:48 UTC

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Research agenda for training aligned AIs using concave utility functions following the principles of homeostasis and diminishing returns

Roland Pihlakas and Three Laws

28 Dec 2025 21:53 UTC

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Queuing theory: Benefits of operating at 60% capacity

ampdot1 Dec 2023 18:48 UTC

45 points

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(less.works)

Non-termination: Why We Cannot “Solve” the AI Problem

Linety4 Feb 2026 3:52 UTC

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Predictive Reasoning Systems

ozziegooen20 Feb 2019 19:44 UTC

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Building AI safety benchmark environments on themes of universal human values

Roland Pihlakas and Three Laws

3 Jan 2025 4:24 UTC

18 points

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(docs.google.com)

Could I have cracked the alignment code… 34 years ago?

John Silliphant11 Jun 2026 18:07 UTC

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Review and Comparison: Onto-Cartography & Promise Theory

Josephine9 May 2021 0:42 UTC

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Book Review: All I Want To Know Is Where I’m Going To Die So I’ll Never Go There

Anmoljain13 Oct 2021 3:46 UTC

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Review of the System Theory as a Field of Knowledge

siarshai17 Feb 2026 21:34 UTC

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Designing Human-Like Consciousness for AGI

Yu Tian18 Jun 2025 9:47 UTC

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The Individual as a Failing Unit of Control

ananyat6979-commits22 Jan 2026 5:43 UTC

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AI Ethics: Can Ethics be Fundamentally Embedded?

Circa89 Jun 2026 14:50 UTC

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Exponentials vs The Universe

amitlevy496 Sep 2025 23:52 UTC

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(open.substack.com)

Why Some Systems Remember Themselves

alyssa.solen@gmail.com15 Aug 2025 15:14 UTC

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How Logic “Really” Works: An Engineering Perspective

Daniil Strizhov16 Apr 2025 5:34 UTC

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Why modelling multi-objective homeostasis is essential for AI alignment (and how it helps with AI safety as well). Subtleties and open challenges.

Roland Pihlakas and Three Laws

12 Jan 2025 3:37 UTC

48 points

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you won’t one-shot a perfect system, but try anyway

PossiblyElaine11 Jun 2026 22:43 UTC

7 points

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(possiblyelaine.substack.com)

The Kognetik: Toward a Functional Grammar of Consciousness

Serkan Elbasan23 Oct 2025 19:04 UTC

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Mirror Thinking

C.M. Aurin24 Mar 2025 15:34 UTC

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Relational Design Can’t Be Left to Chance

Priyanka Bharadwaj22 Jun 2025 15:32 UTC

5 points

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Systems Analysis: AI Alignment and the Principal-Agent Problem

NelsonDP11 Dec 2025 3:48 UTC

1 point

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Training Regime Day 10: Systemization

Mark Xu24 Feb 2020 17:20 UTC

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Introducing The Logical Foundation, an EA-Aligned Nonprofit with a Plan to End Poverty With Guaranteed Income

Michael Simm18 Nov 2022 8:13 UTC

9 points

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[Question] How can guesstimates work?

Bird Concept10 Jul 2019 19:33 UTC

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Adversarial vs Collaborative Contexts

jefftk4 Oct 2022 2:40 UTC

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(www.jefftk.com)

Designing a Behavioral Architecture for Self-Direction

Slotherium Studios4 Aug 2025 16:46 UTC

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Modularity and assembly: AI safety via thinking smaller

NelsonDP20 Feb 2025 0:58 UTC

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(criticalreason.substack.com)

Quiet Echoes—A reflection on the permanence of character

satpugnet3 Dec 2025 16:41 UTC

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Can Al Inherit Moral Memory Without the Conditions That Formed it?

Circa825 Jun 2026 21:44 UTC

1 point

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(open.substack.com)

Towards a New Ontology of Intelligence

Tara4 Jun 2024 8:19 UTC

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The Semantic Hazard: When Meaning, Not Data, Becomes the Failure Mode

Paul Kachris-Newman19 Dec 2025 3:14 UTC

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A physicist’s approach to Origins of Life

pchvykov28 Jun 2022 15:23 UTC

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Boundaries enable positive material-informational feedback loops

jessicata22 Dec 2018 2:46 UTC

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AGI is Inevitable — Theoretical Physics Might Tell Us When

Bernard Minn30 Mar 2025 4:31 UTC

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(medium.com)

Physics of Celestial Bodies Applied to Social Dynamics

Quan8 Jan 2025 23:16 UTC

1 point

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