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jessicata(Jessica Taylor)

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Jessica Taylor. CS undergrad and Master’s at Stanford; former research fellow at MIRI.

I work on decision theory, social epistemology, strategy, naturalized agency, mathematical foundations, decentralized networking systems and applications, theory of mind, and functional programming languages.

Blog: unstableontology.com

Twitter: https://​​twitter.com/​​jessi_cata

Con­struc­tive Cauchy se­quences vs. Dedekind cuts

jessicata14 Mar 2024 23:04 UTC
47 points
22 comments4 min readLW link
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Sim­ple Kelly bet­ting in pre­dic­tion markets

jessicata6 Mar 2024 18:59 UTC
37 points
3 comments3 min readLW link
(unstablerontology.substack.com)

A re­view of “Don’t for­get the bound­ary prob­lem...”

jessicata8 Feb 2024 23:19 UTC
12 points
1 comment12 min readLW link
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2023 in AI predictions

jessicata1 Jan 2024 5:23 UTC
105 points
34 comments5 min readLW link

A case for AI al­ign­ment be­ing difficult

jessicata31 Dec 2023 19:55 UTC
95 points
51 comments15 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Scal­ing laws for dom­i­nant as­surance contracts

jessicata28 Nov 2023 23:11 UTC
35 points
5 comments7 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Mo­ral Real­ity Check (a short story)

jessicata26 Nov 2023 5:03 UTC
137 points
44 comments21 min readLW link
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Non-su­per­in­tel­li­gent pa­per­clip max­i­miz­ers are normal

jessicata10 Oct 2023 0:29 UTC
65 points
4 comments9 min readLW link
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A Proof of Löb’s The­o­rem us­ing Com­putabil­ity Theory

jessicata16 Aug 2023 18:57 UTC
71 points
0 comments17 min readLW link
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SSA re­jects an­thropic shadow, too

jessicata27 Jul 2023 17:25 UTC
61 points
38 comments11 min readLW link
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A re­view of Prin­cipia Qualia

jessicata12 Jul 2023 18:38 UTC
56 points
6 comments10 min readLW link
(unstablerontology.substack.com)

Hell is Game The­ory Folk Theorems

jessicata1 May 2023 3:16 UTC
81 points
101 comments5 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

A short con­cep­tual ex­plainer of Im­manuel Kant’s Cri­tique of Pure Reason

jessicata3 Jun 2022 1:06 UTC
57 points
12 comments16 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

A method of writ­ing con­tent eas­ily with lit­tle anxiety

jessicata8 Apr 2022 22:11 UTC
64 points
19 comments3 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Oc­cu­pa­tional Infohazards

jessicata18 Dec 2021 20:56 UTC
35 points
133 comments47 min readLW link

“In­fo­haz­ard” is a pre­dom­i­nantly con­flict-the­o­retic concept

jessicata2 Dec 2021 17:54 UTC
44 points
17 comments14 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Selfish­ness, prefer­ence falsifi­ca­tion, and AI alignment

jessicata28 Oct 2021 0:16 UTC
52 points
28 comments13 min readLW link
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My ex­pe­rience at and around MIRI and CFAR (in­spired by Zoe Curzi’s writeup of ex­pe­riences at Lev­er­age)

jessicata16 Oct 2021 21:28 UTC
80 points
949 comments22 min readLW link

Many-wor­lds ver­sus dis­crete knowledge

jessicata13 Aug 2020 18:35 UTC
20 points
27 comments1 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Model­ing nat­u­ral­ized de­ci­sion prob­lems in lin­ear logic

jessicata6 May 2020 0:15 UTC
14 points
2 comments6 min readLW link
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