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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

Prob­a­bil­is­tic Or­a­cle Machines and Nash Equilibria

jessicata6 Feb 2015 1:14 UTC
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UDT in the Land of Prob­a­bil­is­tic Oracles

jessicata8 Feb 2015 9:13 UTC
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Statis­ti­cal learn­ing the­ory and ro­bust con­cept learning

jessicata7 Mar 2015 4:13 UTC
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Fo­rum Digest: Reflec­tive Oracles

jessicata22 Mar 2015 4:02 UTC
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Reflec­tive or­a­cles and the pro­cras­ti­na­tion paradox

jessicata26 Mar 2015 22:18 UTC
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Min­i­max as an ap­proach to re­duced-im­pact AI

jessicata2 Apr 2015 22:00 UTC
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Learn­ing a con­cept us­ing only pos­i­tive examples

jessicata28 Apr 2015 3:57 UTC
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Reflec­tive prob­a­bil­is­tic logic can­not as­sign pos­i­tive prob­a­bil­ity to its own co­her­ence and an in­ner re­flec­tion principle

jessicata7 May 2015 21:00 UTC
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MIRIx Stan­ford report

jessicata11 May 2015 6:11 UTC
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PA+100 can­not always pre­dict modal UDT

jessicata12 May 2015 20:26 UTC
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A prob­lem with re­source-bounded Solomonoff in­duc­tion and un­pre­dictable environments

jessicata27 Jul 2015 3:03 UTC
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Quan­tiliz­ers max­i­mize ex­pected util­ity sub­ject to a con­ser­va­tive cost constraint

jessicata28 Sep 2015 2:17 UTC
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Con­ser­va­tive classifiers

jessicata2 Oct 2015 3:56 UTC
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A first look at the hard prob­lem of corrigibility

jessicata15 Oct 2015 20:16 UTC
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What do we need value learn­ing for?

jessicata29 Nov 2015 1:41 UTC
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Three prefer­ence frame­works for goal-di­rected agents

jessicata2 Dec 2015 0:06 UTC
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A sketch of a value-learn­ing sovereign

jessicata20 Dec 2015 21:32 UTC
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Another view of quan­tiliz­ers: avoid­ing Good­hart’s Law

jessicata9 Jan 2016 4:02 UTC
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A pos­si­ble train­ing pro­ce­dure for hu­man-imitators

jessicata16 Feb 2016 22:43 UTC
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A scheme for safely han­dling a mix­ture of good and bad predictors

jessicata17 Feb 2016 5:35 UTC
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