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Doxa, Episteme, and Gnosis Revisited
Doxa, Episteme, and Gnosis Revisited
Exactly two years to the day I started writing this post I published Map and Territory’s most popular post of all time, “Doxa, Episteme…
G Gordon Worley III
Nov 20, 2019
Avoiding AGI Races Through Self-Regulation
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G Gordon Worley III
Mar 12, 2018
AI Alignment and Phenomenal Consciousness
AI Alignment and Phenomenal Consciousness
In the initial feedback I’ve received on my attempt to formally state the AI alignment problem, the primary objection I’ve heard is that I…
G Gordon Worley III
Feb 22, 2018
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The Map-Territory Distinction Creates Confusion
LessWrong isn’t exactly founded on the map-territory model of truth, but it’s definitely pretty core to the LessWrong worldview. The…
G Gordon Worley III
Jan 4, 2022
Why the Problem of the Criterion Matters
I think the problem of the criterion is really, really important. So important that I’m willing to risk annoying people by bringing it up…
G Gordon Worley III
Oct 30, 2021
Forcing yourself to keep your identity small is self-harm
The title lays out my thesis in perhaps the maximally provocative way: if you put direct effort into keeping your identity small (à la…
G Gordon Worley III
Apr 16, 2021
The Problem of the Criterion
The Problem of the Criterion
I keep finding cause to discuss the problem of the criterion, so I figured I’d try my hand at writing up a post explaining it. I don’t…
G Gordon Worley III
Jan 21, 2021
You are Dissociating (probably)
You are probably dissociating all the time and don’t realize it. Let’s look at just what I mean by this bold claim.
G Gordon Worley III
Jan 4, 2021
A Model of Ontological Development
In this post I present a model of human psychological development based on increases in the structural complexity of ontology. Or more…
G Gordon Worley III
Dec 30, 2020
Let Your Mind Be Not Fixed
Let Your Mind Be Not Fixed
When I was a teenager, I knew my mind was not like adults.
G Gordon Worley III
Aug 7, 2020
Normalization of Deviance
An important, ongoing part of the rationalist project is to build richer mental models for understanding the world. To that end I’d like…
G Gordon Worley III
Jan 2, 2020
Minimization of prediction error as a foundation for human values in AI alignment
Minimization of prediction error as a foundation for human values in AI alignment
I’ve mentioned in posts twice (and previously in several comments) that I’m excited about predictive coding, specifically the idea that…
G Gordon Worley III
Oct 9, 2019
Scope Insensitivity Judo
Scope Insensitivity Judo
It’s easy to bemoan scope insensitivity, a special case of that phenomenon where we mere humans end up caring more about the death of one…
G Gordon Worley III
Jul 19, 2019
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