Johannes C. Mayer

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Continuously Integrating Feelings: processing feelings moment to moment for reflectively stable policy changes

Johannes C. Mayer1 Mar 2026 10:47 UTC

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Glucose Supplementation for Sustained Stimulant Cognition

Johannes C. Mayer27 Dec 2025 19:58 UTC

34 points

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Drugs Aren’t A Moral Category

Johannes C. Mayer28 Nov 2025 18:16 UTC

36 points

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Evaluation Avoidance: How Humans and AIs Hack Reward by Disabling Evaluation Instead of Gaming Metrics

Johannes C. Mayer14 Nov 2025 0:39 UTC

19 points

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S-Expressions as a Design Language: A Tool for Deconfusion in Alignment

Johannes C. Mayer19 Jun 2025 19:03 UTC

5 points

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Constraining Minds, Not Goals: A Structural Approach to AI Alignment

Johannes C. Mayer13 Jun 2025 21:06 UTC

25 points

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The Insanity Detector and Writing

Johannes C. Mayer7 Mar 2025 11:19 UTC

20 points

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The Legacy of Computer Science

Johannes C. Mayer29 Dec 2024 13:15 UTC

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Vegans need to eat just enough Meat—emperically evaluate the minimum ammount of meat that maximizes utility

Johannes C. Mayer22 Dec 2024 22:08 UTC

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Doing Sport Reliably via Dancing

Johannes C. Mayer20 Dec 2024 12:06 UTC

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Goal: Understand Intelligence

Johannes C. Mayer3 Nov 2024 21:20 UTC

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A Cable Holder for 2 Cent

Johannes C. Mayer6 Sep 2024 11:01 UTC

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Why Reflective Stability is Important

Johannes C. Mayer5 Sep 2024 15:28 UTC

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Playing Minecraft with a Superintelligence

Johannes C. Mayer17 Aug 2024 22:47 UTC

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Cheap Whiteboards!

Johannes C. Mayer8 Aug 2024 13:52 UTC

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Whiteboard Pen Magazines are Useful

Johannes C. Mayer12 Jul 2024 17:15 UTC

45 points

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Scanning your Brain with 100,000,000,000 wires?

Johannes C. Mayer1 Jun 2024 18:37 UTC

6 points

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A Bi-Modal Brain Model

Johannes C. Mayer22 May 2024 20:10 UTC

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Fund me please—I Work so Hard that my Feet start Bleeding and I Need to Infiltrate University

Johannes C. Mayer18 May 2024 19:53 UTC

22 points

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If you are assuming Software works well you are dead

Johannes C. Mayer4 May 2024 12:54 UTC

0 points

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