Paul Bricman

We're excited to share the first volume of Elements of Computational Philosophy, an interdisciplinary and collaborative project series focused on operationalizing fundamental philosophical notions in ways that are natively compatible with the current paradigm in AI. The first volume paints a broad-strokes picture of operationalizing truth and truth-seeking. Beyond this...

This post is part of my hypothesis subspace sequence, a living collection of proposals I'm exploring at Refine. Preceded by an exploration of Boolean primitives in the context of coupled optimizers. Thanks Alexander Oldenziel and Paul Colognese for discussions which inspired this post. Intro Simplicity prior, speed prior, and stability...

This post is part of my hypothesis subspace sequence, a living collection of proposals I'm exploring at Refine. Preceded by an interlude. Thanks Adam Shimi, @artaxerxes, Herbert Jaeger, Tamsin Leake, and Ze Shen for discussion informing this post. Intro In the previous post, I explored a grammar of alignment proposals...

This post is part of my hypothesis subspace sequence, a living collection of proposals I'm exploring at Refine. Preceded by representational tethers. Intro Consider diffusion models. DALL-E is able to take in an image as input and imperceptibly edit it so that it becomes slightly more meaningful (i.e. closer to...

This post is part of my hypothesis subspace sequence, a living collection of proposals I'm exploring at Refine. Preceded by ideological inference engines, and followed by an interlude. Thanks Adam Shimi, Alexander Oldenziel, Tamsin Leake, and Ze Shen for useful feedback. TL;DR: Representational tethers describe ways of connecting internal representations...

* Rather, making deontology play well with differentiable systems trained end-to-end. This post is part of my hypothesis subspace sequence, a living collection of proposals I'm exploring at Refine. Preceded by oversight leagues, and followed by representational tethers. TL;DR: An ideological inference engine is a mechanism for automatically refining a...

This post is part of my hypothesis subspace sequence, a living collection of proposals I'm exploring at Refine. Followed by ideological inference engines. Thanks Adam Shimi for advice on putting more legible content out there. Thanks Eric Winsor, Leo Grinsztajn, Linda Linsefors, Lucas Texeira, Tammy Leake, Ze Shen for discussions...