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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

Dutch-book re­sis­tant prob­a­bil­ity over cen­tered worlds

jessicata8 Aug 2026 23:05 UTC
31 points
7 comments7 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Sim­ple Dutch books ver­sus Sleep­ing Beauty halfers

jessicata26 Jul 2026 5:41 UTC
20 points
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Pow­er­ful qual­ities in type B physicalism

jessicata28 Jun 2026 23:21 UTC
17 points
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Does it feel any differ­ent to be re­verse-chiral life?

jessicata18 Jun 2026 22:56 UTC
10 points
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Men­tal cau­sa­tion is not load-bearing

jessicata7 Jun 2026 20:43 UTC
38 points
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Un­der­stand­ing com­plex con­ju­gates in quan­tum mechanics

jessicata9 Jan 2026 20:45 UTC
17 points
8 comments12 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

2025 in AI predictions

jessicata2 Jan 2026 4:29 UTC
246 points
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In­vert­ing qualia with group theory

jessicata1 Dec 2025 1:44 UTC
41 points
25 comments8 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Ma­tri­ces map be­tween biproducts

jessicata15 Nov 2025 18:05 UTC
41 points
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(unstableontology.com)

Ho­mo­mor­phi­cally en­crypted con­scious­ness and its implications

jessicata22 Oct 2025 20:27 UTC
43 points
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(unstableontology.com)

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
34 points
10 comments9 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Towards plau­si­ble moral naturalism

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

Gen­er­al­iz­ing zom­bie arguments

jessicata15 Jul 2025 5:09 UTC
25 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
28 points
6 comments10 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

“Self-Black­mail” and Alternatives

jessicata9 Feb 2025 23:20 UTC
20 points
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(unstableontology.com)

On Eat­ing the Sun

jessicata8 Jan 2025 4:57 UTC
96 points
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(unstablerontology.substack.com)

2024 in AI predictions

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

The Oblique­ness Thesis

jessicata19 Sep 2024 0:26 UTC
107 points
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