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johnswentworth

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Nat­u­ral La­tents: La­tent Vari­ables Stable Across Ontologies

4 Sep 2025 0:33 UTC
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[Question] When Both Peo­ple Are In­ter­ested, How Often Is Flir­ta­tious Es­ca­la­tion Mu­tual?

johnswentworth2 Sep 2025 23:37 UTC
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Do-Diver­gence: A Bound for Maxwell’s Demon

26 Aug 2025 17:07 UTC
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Be­fore LLM Psy­chosis, There Was Yes-Man Psychosis

johnswentworth25 Aug 2025 17:47 UTC
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(∃ Stochas­tic Nat­u­ral La­tent) Im­plies (∃ Deter­minis­tic Nat­u­ral La­tent)

22 Aug 2025 21:46 UTC
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Re­sam­pling Con­serves Re­dun­dancy (Ap­prox­i­mately)

21 Aug 2025 22:43 UTC
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Gen­er­al­ized Com­ing Out Of The Closet

johnswentworth12 Aug 2025 21:38 UTC
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A Self-Dialogue on The Value Propo­si­tion of Ro­man­tic Relationships

johnswentworth10 Aug 2025 1:28 UTC
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Fol­low-up to “My Em­pa­thy Is Rarely Kind”

johnswentworth31 Jul 2025 17:21 UTC
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My Em­pa­thy Is Rarely Kind

johnswentworth30 Jul 2025 3:49 UTC
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Gen­er­al­ized Han­gri­ness: A Stan­dard Ra­tion­al­ist Stance Toward Emotions

johnswentworth10 Jul 2025 18:22 UTC
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Fic­tional Think­ing and Real Thinking

johnswentworth17 Jun 2025 19:13 UTC
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The Value Propo­si­tion of Ro­man­tic Relationships

johnswentworth2 Jun 2025 13:51 UTC
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That’s Not How Epi­ge­netic Mod­ifi­ca­tions Work

johnswentworth24 May 2025 0:15 UTC
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Ori­ent­ing Toward Wizard Power

johnswentworth8 May 2025 5:23 UTC
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$500 + $500 Bounty Prob­lem: Does An (Ap­prox­i­mately) Deter­minis­tic Max­i­mal Re­dund Always Ex­ist?

6 May 2025 23:05 UTC
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Mis­rep­re­sen­ta­tion as a Bar­rier for In­terp (Part I)

29 Apr 2025 17:07 UTC
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$500 Bounty Prob­lem: Are (Ap­prox­i­mately) Deter­minis­tic Nat­u­ral La­tents All You Need?

21 Apr 2025 20:19 UTC
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So You Want To Make Marginal Progress...

johnswentworth7 Feb 2025 23:22 UTC
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In­stru­men­tal Goals Are A Differ­ent And Friendlier Kind Of Thing Than Ter­mi­nal Goals

24 Jan 2025 20:20 UTC
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