This Sunday, 12PM PT: Scott Garrabrant on "Finite Factored Sets"

post by Raemon · 2021-05-19T01:48:48.674Z · ? · GW · 4 comments

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This Sunday at 12pm (PT), we're running another LW weekly online meetup.
MIRI's Scott Garrabrant will be giving a talk introducing Finite Factored Sets, a new proposed successor to Judea-Pearl-style causal reasoning. Scott writes that Finite Factored Sets is "a framework which I find roughly as technically interesting as logical induction", with wide applications to embedded agency, inference, abstraction, causality, and temporal reasoning.

In the days after the talk, Scott will be posting a sequence on Finite Factored Sets to LessWrong. For now, if you want to read more, Scott has written a short post on background motivations [LW · GW].

The talk will be given in Zoom. Afterwards there'll be Q&A and some open-ended discussion.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7151633248?pwd=a2ZkQlpwNU9IbWF5c3U4ejlvdFRvUT09

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comment by Daniel Kokotajlo (daniel-kokotajlo) · 2021-05-19T08:09:19.796Z · ? · GW

Will the talk be recorded?

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comment by Rob Bensinger (RobbBB) · 2021-05-19T13:21:30.382Z · ? · GW

Yes, and we'll be posting the basic content to LW later that day, so people who don't like talks or have scheduling conflicts can just read a written version.

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comment by Rob Bensinger (RobbBB) · 2021-05-23T21:16:09.975Z · ? · GW

Here's the basic content, in the form of a transcript+video of a version of this talk Scott gave at Topos 12 days ago: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/N5Jm6Nj4HkNKySA5Z/finite-factored-sets. [LW · GW] This heavily overlaps with the LW talk today.

I'm guessing we'll release the LW talk video sometime too.