> "If your life choices led you to a place where you had to figure out anthropics before you could decide what to do next, are you really living your life correctly?" > > – Eliezer Yudkowsky To revisit our premises: Why should we think the end result is achievable...
This is part of a series covering my current research agenda. Refer to the linked post for additional context. This is going to be a very short part. As I'd mentioned in the initial post, I've not yet done much work on this subproblem. From Part 1, we more or...
This is part of a series covering my current research agenda. Refer to the linked post for additional context. Let's revisit our initial problem. We're given the lowest-level representation of a well-abstracting universe, and we want to transform it into its minimal representation / the corresponding well-structured world-model. The tools...
This is part of a series covering my current research agenda. Refer to the linked post for additional context. Suppose we have a dataset consisting of full low-level histories of various well-abstracting universes. For simplicity, imagine them as n-vectors, corresponding e. g. to the position of each particle at a...
tl;dr: I outline my research agenda, post bounties for poking holes in it or for providing general relevant information, and am seeking to diversify my funding sources. This post will be followed by several others, providing deeper overviews of the agenda's subproblems and my sketches of how to tackle them....
Consider concepts such as "a vector", "a game-theoretic agent", or "a market". Intuitively, those are "purely theoretical" abstractions: they don't refer to any specific real-world system. Those abstractions would be useful even in universes very different from ours, and reasoning about them doesn't necessarily involve reasoning about our world. Consider...
It's a standard assumption, in anthropic reasoning, that effectively, we simultaneously exist in every place in Tegmark IV that simulates this precise universe (see e. g. here). How far does this reasoning go? Suppose that the universe's state is described by n low-level variables x1,…,xn. However, your senses are "coarse":...