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Cartesian Frames

Oct 22, 2020 by Scott Garrabrant

Cartesian frames are a way to add a first-person perspective (with choices, uncertainty, and so on) on top of a set of possible worlds. This sequence introduces Cartesian frames and basic operations on frames.

51Introduction to Cartesian Frames
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24Additive Operations on Cartesian Frames
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17Biextensional Equivalence
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15Controllables and Observables, Revisited
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17Functors and Coarse Worlds
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21Subagents of Cartesian Frames
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13Multiplicative Operations on Cartesian Frames
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17Sub-Sums and Sub-Tensors
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10Additive and Multiplicative Subagents
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14Committing, Assuming, Externalizing, and Internalizing
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16Eight Definitions of Observability
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19Time in Cartesian Frames
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