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Embodiment as generalized anti-prescriptivism
Standing in contrast to what I call constructionist theories of developmental, behavioral, and psychological phenomena are prescriptivist theories.
Feb 20
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Benjamin Lyons
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Third-person choice without counterfactuals via multicausality
Economics is all about making choices, so to apply economics to something, we need a way of observing whether that thing makes choices.
Feb 14
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Benjamin Lyons
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Behavior is about relational homeostasis, not persistence
Why do people do the things that they do?
Feb 7
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Benjamin Lyons
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Alignment processes create shared values
Art is famously subjective.
Feb 6
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Benjamin Lyons
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Alignment via opposed values
It may seem like aligning intelligent agents with each other requires that they share the same values.
Feb 4
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Benjamin Lyons
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Ingression within mathematics: Pattern ingression as questions asked by indexing categories
There’s something in math itself that looks like pattern ingression, where a simple pattern in one category can be used to organize the construction of…
Jan 30
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Benjamin Lyons
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Internalized values as resistance to alien heads
A developmental perspective
Jan 27
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Benjamin Lyons
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Externalities are defined with respect to a virtual governor
An externality is a neighborhood effect, a cost imposed by one person on another.
Jan 24
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Benjamin Lyons
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