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noreward4u.bsky.social
Reward-Free Model-based Maximalist. High-dimensional Empowerment. Self-Preserving Autonomous Agents. Theories of intelligence grounded in compositional control.
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Unfortunately for SlipFrosty, a theory of instrumental intelligence is inseparable from a theory of normative intelligence. Abolish the value function!

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

My favorite interview from the past year, of philosopher Pete Wolfendale. Recommended to anyone interested in AI, the relationship between value, aesthetics and ethics, or anyone who wants a reason to abandon "rationality as Bayes + Utility". www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xMc...

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

IMO, A problem with RL is that, in sparse-reward problems, value functions don’t have a general decomposition over high-dimensional transition kernels so people are trying to learn neural-net approximations to difficult-to-generalize functions from a lot of experience. Fun ep.

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submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

Stellar new work lead by the inimitable James Whittington in Neuron that develops a new theory unifying episodic and working memory and explains diverse hippocampal and prefrontal data: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... w/Will Dorrell, @behrenstimb.bsky.social Mohamedy El Gaby

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments

Starter packs are making it easier to keep constructing niches, so I made this one for people broadly interested in intrinsic motivation, with some focus on RL, neuroscience and cognitive science. Haven’t found many people on Bluesky that I wanted to add here, so help me out! go.bsky.app/TPNrnpE

submitted 92 days ago • 3 comments

BSKY academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about 1. High-dim planning 2. What are the minimal requirements for two agents to recognize each other as acting on behalf of reasons.

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

The concept of system state is fundamental in theories of control and computation. I wrote down a few thoughts on the history of this idea and its connections to rationalist and empiricist perspectives in philosophy.

submitted 102 days ago • 4 comments

Coming over from twitter, please give me a follow! My thesis below is on the connection between compositional planning and intrinsic motivation for self-preserving agents 🙂 drive.google.com/file/d/1peG7...

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment