Caspar Oesterheld

Karma: 825

Academic website: https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/coesterh/

Blog: https://casparoesterheld.com/

Training a Conceptual Reasoning Judge

Kevin Zhang and Caspar Oesterheld

14 Aug 2026 20:33 UTC

17 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

Introducing the Conceptual Reasoning Index

Chi Nguyen, Emery Cooper, Caspar Oesterheld, Alex Kastner and Joe Benton

12 Aug 2026 17:08 UTC

83 points

16 comments5 min readLW link

(alignment.anthropic.com)

Conceptual reasoning dataset v0.1 available (AI for AI safety/AI for philosophy)

Chi Nguyen, Emery Cooper and Caspar Oesterheld

12 Nov 2025 1:12 UTC

20 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

A dataset of questions on decision-theoretic reasoning in Newcomb-like problems

Caspar Oesterheld, Ethan Perez and Chi Nguyen

16 Dec 2024 22:42 UTC

53 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Stop-gradients lead to fixed point predictions

Johannes Treutlein, Caspar Oesterheld, Rubi J. Hudson and Emery Cooper

28 Jan 2023 22:47 UTC

37 points

2 comments24 min readLW link

Proper scoring rules don’t guarantee predicting fixed points

Johannes Treutlein, Rubi J. Hudson and Caspar Oesterheld

16 Dec 2022 18:22 UTC

80 points

8 comments21 min readLW link

Extracting Money from Causal Decision Theorists

Caspar Oesterheld28 Jan 2021 17:58 UTC

27 points

35 comments1 min readLW link

(doi.org)

Moral realism and AI alignment

Caspar Oesterheld3 Sep 2018 18:46 UTC

13 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(casparoesterheld.com)

The law of effect, randomization and Newcomb’s problem

Caspar Oesterheld15 Feb 2018 15:31 UTC

7 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(casparoesterheld.com)

Naturalized induction – a challenge for evidential and causal decision theory

Caspar Oesterheld22 Sep 2017 8:15 UTC

15 points

15 comments7 min readLW link

A survey of polls on Newcomb’s problem

Caspar Oesterheld20 Sep 2017 16:50 UTC

3 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

(casparoesterheld.com)

Invitation to comment on a draft on multiverse-wide cooperation via alternatives to causal decision theory (FDT/UDT/EDT/...)

Caspar Oesterheld29 May 2017 8:34 UTC

6 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Are causal decision theorists trying to outsmart conditional probabilities?

Caspar Oesterheld16 May 2017 8:01 UTC

7 points

10 comments3 min readLW link

Publication on formalizing preference utilitarianism in physical world models

Caspar Oesterheld22 Sep 2015 16:46 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Two-boxing, smoking and chewing gum in Medical Newcomb problems

Caspar Oesterheld29 Jun 2015 10:35 UTC

29 points

93 comments1 min readLW link

Request for feedback on a paper about (machine) ethics

Caspar Oesterheld28 Sep 2014 12:03 UTC

9 points

2 comments1 min readLW link