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Discovering when an agent is present in a system
New, formal definition of agency gives clear principles for causal modelling of AI agents and the incentives they face.Crossposted to our Deepmind
Tag : Causality
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Why Automation Will Unlock The Power of AI in Networking (Part 1)
You have probably heard about the old adage “Correlation does not imply causation”. This idea that one cannot deduce a causal relationship
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American Heart Updates Dietary Guidance – Almost
Dietary bias can be very slow to fade. The American Heart Association updated its dietary guidance for the first time in more than a decade. The new
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Hunting for the Causes of Obesity, and Maybe Solutions
The chronic disease of obesity is tough to wrap our heads around. On one hand, many people consider themselves to be amateur experts. Consumer media
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Facts and Values in Mortality Data during the Pandemic
Today's post is by Maria Cristina Amoretti and Elisabetta Lalumera. This is their second of two blog posts on applied philosophy of science and
Study Says Sweeteners Prompt Food Cravings? Nope.
Reporting on non-caloric sweeteners has more in common with reporting on religion than science reporting. We see a constant churn of reporting about
Gaudapada on the Appearance of a world
The most “radical version of Non-dual teaching” goes back to Revered Gaudapada (of 5th or 6th CE) who forms a watershed mark in the Advaita
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Causal Inferences and times series
In the last post, In the last post, moved by the necessity to compare time series, I browsed literature and my library of papers to find
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Progress on Causal Influence Diagrams
By Tom Everitt, Ryan Carey, Lewis Hammond, James Fox, Eric Langlois, and Shane LeggCrossposted to the alignmentforumAbout 2 years ago, we released
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Progress on Causal Influence Diagrams
By Tom Everitt, Ryan Carey, Lewis Hammond, James Fox, Eric Langlois, and Shane LeggCrossposted to the alignmentforumAbout 2 years ago, we released
Reframing the debate around free will - from the morass of moral responsibility to a grounding in biological agency
A recent article in the Guardian very nicely summarised “the free will debate”, or at least the more visible parts of it. The debate is a live
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Can Money Buy a Community Less Obesity?
Some time ago, the Beatles told us that money can’t buy us love. Now a new study from Molly Martin at Penn State suggests that it also may not buy
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What mechanisms drive agent behaviour?
By the Safety Analysis Team: Grégoire Déletang, Jordi Grau-Moya, Miljan Martic, Tim Genewein, Tom McGrath, Vladimir Mikulik, Markus Kunesch, Shane
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What mechanisms drive agent behaviour?
By the Safety Analysis Team: Grégoire Déletang, Jordi Grau-Moya, Miljan Martic, Tim Genewein, Tom McGrath, Vladimir Mikulik, Markus Kunesch, Shane
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The illusion of causality
Fighting bad thinking is an uphill battle, sometimes. Not only, or even primarily, because there's so much of it out there; the real problem is