World Modeling

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The eleventh virtue is scholarship. Study many sciences and absorb their power as your own. Each field that you consume makes you larger. If you swallow enough sciences the gaps between them will diminish and your knowledge will become a unified whole. If you are gluttonous you will become vaster than mountains.

-- Twelve Virtues of Rationality

World Modelingis building an understanding ofgetting curious about how the world works.

From The Twelve VirtuesIt’s diving into wikipedia, it’s running a survey to get data from your friends, it’s dropping balls from different heights and measuring how long they take to fall. Empiricism, scholarship, googling, introspection, data-gathering, science. Applying your epistemology and curiosity, finding out how the damn thing works, and writing it down for the rest of Rationality: us.

"The eleventh virtue is scholarship. Study many sciences and absorb their power as your own. Each field that you consume makes you larger. If you swallow enough sciences the gaps between them will diminish and your knowledge will become a unified whole. If you are gluttonous you will become vaster than mountains."

-- Twelve Virtues of Rationality

Examples of World Modeling content are math [e.g. 1, 2], physics [1], biology [1, 23], history [1, 2], economics [12, 3] , sociology [1, 2 ], and other scientific fields. World modeling here does typically not include the parts of artificial intelligence classified as AI Alignment and parts of psychology classified as Rationality.

Examples of World Modeling content are math [e.g. 1, 2], physics [1], biology [1, 23], history [1, 2], economics [12, 3] , sociology [1, 2 ], and other scientific fields. World modellingmodeling here does typically not include the parts of artificial intelligence classified as AI Alignment and parts of psychology classified as Rationality.

World Modeling is building an understanding of how the world works. 

From The Twelve Virtues of Rationality: "The eleventh virtue is scholarship. Study many sciences and absorb their power as your own. Each field that you consume makes you larger. If you swallow enough sciences the gaps between them will diminish and your knowledge will become a unified whole. If you are gluttonous you will become vaster than mountains."

From The Twelve Virtues of Rationality:

The eleventh virtue is scholarship. Study many sciences and absorb their power as your own. Each field that you consume makes you larger. If you swallow enough sciences the gaps between them will diminish and your knowledge will become a unified whole. If you are gluttonous you will become vaster than mountains.

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