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David Lorell

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Con­di­tional On Long-Range Sig­nal, Is­ing Still Fac­tors Locally

12 Dec 2025 19:31 UTC
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An Analogue Of Set Re­la­tion­ships For Distributions

18 Nov 2025 1:03 UTC
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Toward Statis­ti­cal Me­chan­ics Of In­ter­faces Un­der Selec­tion Pressure

6 Nov 2025 23:21 UTC
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The Zen Of Max­ent As A Gen­er­al­iza­tion Of Bayes Updates

4 Nov 2025 0:02 UTC
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Re­sam­pling Con­serves Re­dun­dancy & Me­di­a­tion (Ap­prox­i­mately) Un­der the Jensen-Shan­non Divergence

David Lorell31 Oct 2025 1:07 UTC
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Nat­u­ral La­tents: La­tent Vari­ables Stable Across Ontologies

4 Sep 2025 0:33 UTC
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Do-Diver­gence: A Bound for Maxwell’s Demon

26 Aug 2025 17:07 UTC
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(∃ Stochas­tic Nat­u­ral La­tent) Im­plies (∃ Deter­minis­tic Nat­u­ral La­tent)

22 Aug 2025 21:46 UTC
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Re­sam­pling Con­serves Re­dun­dancy (Ap­prox­i­mately)

21 Aug 2025 22:43 UTC
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Cur­ing PMDD with Hair Loss Pills

David Lorell2 Jul 2025 21:35 UTC
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$500 + $500 Bounty Prob­lem: Does An (Ap­prox­i­mately) Deter­minis­tic Max­i­mal Re­dund Always Ex­ist?

6 May 2025 23:05 UTC
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$500 Bounty Prob­lem: Are (Ap­prox­i­mately) Deter­minis­tic Nat­u­ral La­tents All You Need?

21 Apr 2025 20:19 UTC
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In­stru­men­tal Goals Are A Differ­ent And Friendlier Kind Of Thing Than Ter­mi­nal Goals

24 Jan 2025 20:20 UTC
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Min­i­mal Mo­ti­va­tion of Nat­u­ral Latents

14 Oct 2024 22:51 UTC
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Values Are Real Like Harry Potter

9 Oct 2024 23:42 UTC
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We Don’t Know Our Own Values, but Re­ward Bridges The Is-Ought Gap

19 Sep 2024 22:22 UTC
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… Wait, our mod­els of se­man­tics should in­form fluid me­chan­ics?!?

26 Aug 2024 16:38 UTC
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In­ter­op­er­a­ble High Level Struc­tures: Early Thoughts on Adjectives

22 Aug 2024 21:12 UTC
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A Ro­bust Nat­u­ral La­tent Over A Mixed Distri­bu­tion Is Nat­u­ral Over The Distri­bu­tions Which Were Mixed

22 Aug 2024 19:19 UTC
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Some Unortho­dox Ways To Achieve High GDP Growth

8 Aug 2024 18:58 UTC
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