Alex Flint on "A software engineer's perspective on logical induction"

post by Raemon · 2021-04-17T06:56:10.952Z · ? · GW · 8 comments

This Sunday at noon PT, Alex Flint [LW · GW] will be giving a short talk on how he thinks about Logical Induction [? · GW] from a software engineer's perspective. He describes the talk as "My attempt to understand and re-explain logical induction as a practical alternative to probability."

We'll be meeting in the Walled Garden at noon, on Sunday April 18th.

http://garden.lesswrong.com?code=qCM0&event=alex-flint-on-logical-induction-from-a-software-engineer-s

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comment by GuySrinivasan · 2021-04-17T15:06:40.564Z · ? · GW

Any way this one can be recorded? The main bits, regardless of subsequent small-group discussions.

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↑ comment by Raemon · 2021-04-18T19:49:38.311Z · ? · GW

I attempted to record this but accidentally did so in a way that didn't capture audio.

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↑ comment by Ben Pace (Benito) · 2021-04-18T20:29:12.078Z · ? · GW

I would say that, if-and-only-if it's still alive for Alex, I'd enjoy him just writing down the basic things he said in his talk in like a couple of paragraphs, both the preamble at the top and his 4 slides or so.

↑ comment by GuySrinivasan · 2021-04-18T20:56:18.621Z · ? · GW

How many times have I done similar... :D

Thanks for attempting though!

↑ comment by Alex Flint (alexflint) · 2021-05-09T19:35:09.682Z · ? · GW

Guy- the slides are available here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AhDGjZrl7Xk7lssG7HwsWBtJY8oJ5ynuJMCI-7toox8/edit?usp=sharing

Would love to chat with you 1-1 about this if you're interested. Perhaps we could even record a 1-1 conversation and post it for others.

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↑ comment by Rob Bensinger (RobbBB) · 2021-05-19T00:51:29.872Z · ? · GW

I was also hoping to see a recording -- if you give the talk again, or have a conversation like this, I'd be interested to check it or a recording out.