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$500 + $500 Bounty Problem: Does An (Approximately) Deterministic Maximal Redund Always Exist?
johnswentworth
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David Lorell
May 6, 2025, 11:05 PM
66
points
5
comments
3
min read
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$500 Bounty Problem: Are (Approximately) Deterministic Natural Latents All You Need?
johnswentworth
and
David Lorell
Apr 21, 2025, 8:19 PM
89
points
16
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Instrumental Goals Are A Different And Friendlier Kind Of Thing Than Terminal Goals
johnswentworth
and
David Lorell
Jan 24, 2025, 8:20 PM
180
points
61
comments
5
min read
LW
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Minimal Motivation of Natural Latents
johnswentworth
and
David Lorell
Oct 14, 2024, 10:51 PM
46
points
14
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Values Are Real Like Harry Potter
johnswentworth
and
David Lorell
Oct 9, 2024, 11:42 PM
86
points
21
comments
5
min read
LW
link
We Don’t Know Our Own Values, but Reward Bridges The Is-Ought Gap
johnswentworth
and
David Lorell
Sep 19, 2024, 10:22 PM
48
points
48
comments
5
min read
LW
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… Wait, our models of semantics should inform fluid mechanics?!?
johnswentworth
and
David Lorell
Aug 26, 2024, 4:38 PM
59
points
18
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Interoperable High Level Structures: Early Thoughts on Adjectives
johnswentworth
and
David Lorell
Aug 22, 2024, 9:12 PM
49
points
1
comment
7
min read
LW
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A Robust Natural Latent Over A Mixed Distribution Is Natural Over The Distributions Which Were Mixed
johnswentworth
and
David Lorell
Aug 22, 2024, 7:19 PM
42
points
4
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Some Unorthodox Ways To Achieve High GDP Growth
johnswentworth
and
David Lorell
Aug 8, 2024, 6:58 PM
57
points
6
comments
6
min read
LW
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A Simple Toy Coherence Theorem
johnswentworth
and
David Lorell
Aug 2, 2024, 5:47 PM
74
points
22
comments
7
min read
LW
link
A Solomonoff Inductor Walks Into a Bar: Schelling Points for Communication
johnswentworth
and
David Lorell
Jul 26, 2024, 12:33 AM
93
points
2
comments
13
min read
LW
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(Approximately) Deterministic Natural Latents
johnswentworth
and
David Lorell
Jul 19, 2024, 11:02 PM
42
points
1
comment
4
min read
LW
link
3C’s: A Recipe For Mathing Concepts
johnswentworth
and
David Lorell
Jul 3, 2024, 1:06 AM
81
points
5
comments
7
min read
LW
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Corrigibility = Tool-ness?
johnswentworth
and
David Lorell
Jun 28, 2024, 1:19 AM
78
points
8
comments
9
min read
LW
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What is a Tool?
johnswentworth
and
David Lorell
Jun 25, 2024, 11:40 PM
62
points
4
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Towards a Less Bullshit Model of Semantics
johnswentworth
and
David Lorell
Jun 17, 2024, 3:51 PM
94
points
44
comments
21
min read
LW
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Natural Latents Are Not Robust To Tiny Mixtures
johnswentworth
and
David Lorell
Jun 7, 2024, 6:53 PM
61
points
8
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Calculating Natural Latents via Resampling
johnswentworth
and
David Lorell
6 Jun 2024 0:37 UTC
55
points
4
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Why Care About Natural Latents?
johnswentworth
and
David Lorell
9 May 2024 23:14 UTC
56
points
3
comments
5
min read
LW
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