Archive - An almanac of curious thoughts

Constraints - and a draft amnesty

I want to start writing again.

Mar 6 •

Juliette Culver

April 2024

Moving: Vanda Scaravelli, The Alexander Technique, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

Apr 27, 2024 •

Juliette Culver

March 2024

Abstractions #2 Intelligence as an Abstraction Optimisation Process

Are some abstractions 'better' than others?

Mar 23, 2024 •

Juliette Culver

September 2023

Abstractions #1 The source of explanations

How I like to define an 'abstraction'

Sep 26, 2023 •

Juliette Culver

July 2023

Induction vs Universal Darwinism

Two interesting papers, Solomonoff Induction, Popper, Deutsch and free will

Jul 15, 2023 •

Juliette Culver

June 2023

Ways I See the World #2 Syzygy

Holding the tension of opposites

Jun 18, 2023 •

Juliette Culver

Permaculture, Effective Altruism and Efficiency-Antifragility tradeoffs

How Permaculture and Effective Altruism are opposites

Jun 13, 2023 •

Juliette Culver

May 2023

Are Agents Decomposable?

Is the Orthogonality Thesis related to whether we can decompose agents?

May 31, 2023 •

Juliette Culver

Alignment and The Bit Flip Problem

The potential fragility of alignment

May 20, 2023 •

Juliette Culver

April 2023

Connection, multiplicities and dance

Apr 16, 2023 •

Juliette Culver

Ways I see the World #1

Two aspects to being human, both fundamental

Apr 1, 2023 •

Juliette Culver

March 2023

An occasional series of things that I have been enjoying or that have piqued my interest.

Mar 31, 2023 •

Juliette Culver

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