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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

A philo­soph­i­cal ker­nel: bit­ing an­a­lytic bullets

jessicata15 Aug 2025 1:35 UTC
64 points
21 comments13 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Mea­sur­ing in­tel­li­gence and re­verse-en­g­ineer­ing goals

jessicata11 Aug 2025 2:08 UTC
33 points
10 comments9 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Towards plau­si­ble moral naturalism

jessicata17 Jul 2025 1:51 UTC
17 points
9 comments9 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Gen­er­al­iz­ing zom­bie arguments

jessicata15 Jul 2025 5:09 UTC
23 points
9 comments7 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

The Weighted Per­plex­ity Bench­mark: To­k­enizer-Nor­mal­ized Eval­u­a­tion for Lan­guage Model Comparison

7 Jul 2025 21:43 UTC
21 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(www.morpheus.systems)

Why I am not a Theist

jessicata5 Jul 2025 3:02 UTC
27 points
6 comments10 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

“Self-Black­mail” and Alternatives

jessicata9 Feb 2025 23:20 UTC
20 points
12 comments7 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

On Eat­ing the Sun

jessicata8 Jan 2025 4:57 UTC
96 points
98 comments3 min readLW link
(unstablerontology.substack.com)

2024 in AI predictions

jessicata1 Jan 2025 20:29 UTC
125 points
3 comments8 min readLW link

The Oblique­ness Thesis

jessicata19 Sep 2024 0:26 UTC
96 points
19 comments17 min readLW link

Book re­view: Xenosystems

jessicata16 Sep 2024 20:17 UTC
50 points
18 comments37 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Ex­e­cutable philos­o­phy as a failed to­tal­iz­ing meta-worldview

jessicata4 Sep 2024 22:50 UTC
95 points
40 comments4 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

A com­pu­ta­tional com­plex­ity ar­gu­ment for many worlds

jessicata13 Aug 2024 19:35 UTC
32 points
15 comments5 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Claude’s dark spiritual AI futurism

jessicata15 Jun 2024 0:57 UTC
22 points
7 comments43 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

How to elimi­nate cut?

jessicata11 Jun 2024 15:54 UTC
22 points
0 comments14 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Is Claude a mys­tic?

jessicata7 Jun 2024 4:27 UTC
60 points
23 comments13 min readLW link
(unstablerontology.substack.com)

Un­der­stand­ing Gödel’s com­plete­ness theorem

jessicata27 May 2024 18:55 UTC
40 points
0 comments15 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

The con­sis­tent guess­ing prob­lem is eas­ier than the halt­ing problem

jessicata20 May 2024 4:02 UTC
38 points
5 comments4 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

How do open AI mod­els af­fect in­cen­tive to race?

jessicata7 May 2024 0:33 UTC
60 points
13 comments3 min readLW link
(unstablerontology.substack.com)

De­quan­tify­ing first-or­der theories

jessicata23 Apr 2024 19:04 UTC
40 points
9 comments8 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)