‘ontology’ directory
- See Also
- Gwern
- “The Fourth Truth Of Pain ”, Gwern et al 2022
- “Human Cannibalism Alignment Chart ”, Gwern et al 2025
- “The Meta-LW Doomsday Argument ”, Gwern 2025
- “The Second Apocalypse: Freedom In An Unfree Universe ”, Gwern 2017
- “Paperclip Alignment Chart ”, Gwern 2023
- “On Seeing Through and Unseeing: The Hacker Mindset ”, Gwern 2012
- “‘Story Of Your Life’ Is Not A Time-Travel Story ”, Gwern 2012
- Links
- “A Technical Introduction to Solomonoff Induction without K-Complexity ”, Lang 2025
- “Cyc: Obituary for the Greatest Monument to Logical AGI ”, Liu 2025
- “
cyc-Archive: An Archive of Material Related to the Cyc Project ”, Liu 2025 - “Why Is the Speed of Light So Fast? (Part 2) ”
- “The Platonic Representation Hypothesis ”, Huh et al 2024
- “Paperclip Alignment Chart (Alternate) ”, saturn2 2023
- “Getting from Generative AI to Trustworthy AI: What LLMs Might Learn from Cyc ”, Lenat & Marcus 2023
- “Sciama’s Argument on Life in a Random Universe: Distinguishing Apples from Oranges ”, Wang & Braunstein 2023
- “AI Is a Lot of Work: As the Technology Becomes Ubiquitous, a Vast Tasker Underclass Is Emerging—And Not Going Anywhere ”, Dzieza 2023
- “Life in a Random Universe: Sciama’s Argument Reconsidered ”, Wang & Braunstein 2021
- “Reality As a Vector in Hilbert Space ”, Carroll 2021
- “The Quantum Field Theory on Which the Everyday World Supervenes ”, Carroll 2021
- “Forming Extended Analogies With GPT-3 ”, Summers-Stay 2020
- “Representational Measurement Theory: Is Its Number Up? ”, Michell 2020
- “I Worked for Cycorp for a Few Years Recently. AMA, I Guess? ”, catpolice 2019
- “A Meta-Doomsday Argument: Uncertainty About the Validity of the Probabilistic Prediction of the End of the World ”, Turchin 2019
- “I Don’t Trust People Whose Metaphysics Are Weirder Than Their Politics. If You’re a Secular Materialist or Nondenominational… ”, raggedjackscarlet 2018
- “Law without Law: from Observer States to Physics via Algorithmic Information Theory ”, Mueller 2017
- “Metaphysics of the Principle of Least Action ”, Terekhovich 2015
- “The Failure of Analysis and the Nature of Concepts ”, Huemer 2015
- “In The Future, Everyone Will Be Famous To 15 People ”, Alexander 2014
- “Ontological Crises in Artificial Agents’ Value Systems ”, Blanc 2011
- “Emergence in Cognitive Science ”, McClelland 2010
- “The Finale of the Ultimate Meta Mega Crossover ”, Yudkowsky 2009
- “Gravity Has No Friends ”, Perlin 2009
- “Time Variation of a Fundamental Dimensionless Constant ”, Scherrer 2009
- “Possible Girls ”, Sinhababu 2008
- “Digging for hrönir: a Second Reading of "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" ”, Fishburn 2008
- “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate ”, Chiang 2007
- “A Universe Without Weak Interactions ”, Harnik et al 2006
- “Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History § Chapter 3: Trees ”, Moretti 2005
- “Philosophical Problems in Logic § Ultrafinitism ”, Friedman 2002 (page 4)
- Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information, Wright 1988
- “Watchmaker [Watchmen, Chapter 4] ”, Moore 1986
- “Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle and the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum § Alienness Mechanics ”, Hofstadter 1981 (page 21)
- “Semantic and Conceptual Development: An Ontological Perspective ”, Keil 1979
- “The Paradoxes of Time Travel ”, Lewis 1976
- “Why Do Mirrors Reverse Right/Left but Not Up/Down? ”, Block 1974
- “Democritus and Plato ”, Ferwerda 1972
- “Seven Strictures on Similarity ”, Goodman 1972
- “Explanation and Reduction ”, Brittan 1970
- “Natural Kinds ”, Quine 1969
- “An Atomist Illustration In Aristotle ”, West 1969
- “What Numbers Could Not Be ”, Benacerraf 1965
- “The Dematerialization of Matter ”, Hanson 1962
- “Symposium: Universals and the ‘Method of Analysis’ ”, Joseph et al 1926
- “Universals ”, Ramsey 1925
- “Carvaka [From Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha] ”, Acharya et al 1914
- “Wrangling Guideline ”, Own 2025
- “List of Articles Every Wikipedia Should Have ”
- “Quantum-Bayesian and Pragmatist Views of Quantum Theory ”
- “Like a Lemon to a Lime, a Lime to a Lemon ”
- “Sanderson’s First Law ”, Sanderson 2025
- “Inside vs Outside View ”, LessWrong 2025
- matttomic
- Sort By Magic
- Wikipedia (13)
- Miscellaneous
- Bibliography
See Also
Gwern
“The Fourth Truth Of Pain ”, Gwern et al 2022
“Human Cannibalism Alignment Chart ”, Gwern et al 2025
“The Meta-LW Doomsday Argument ”, Gwern 2025
“The Second Apocalypse: Freedom In An Unfree Universe ”, Gwern 2017
“Paperclip Alignment Chart ”, Gwern 2023
“On Seeing Through and Unseeing: The Hacker Mindset ”, Gwern 2012
“‘Story Of Your Life’ Is Not A Time-Travel Story ”, Gwern 2012
Links
“A Technical Introduction to Solomonoff Induction without K-Complexity ”, Lang 2025
A Technical Introduction to Solomonoff Induction without K-Complexity :
“Cyc: Obituary for the Greatest Monument to Logical AGI ”, Liu 2025
“cyc-Archive: An Archive of Material Related to the Cyc Project ”, Liu 2025
cyc-archive: An archive of material related to the Cyc project
“Why Is the Speed of Light So Fast? (Part 2) ”
“The Platonic Representation Hypothesis ”, Huh et al 2024
“Paperclip Alignment Chart (Alternate) ”, saturn2 2023
“Getting from Generative AI to Trustworthy AI: What LLMs Might Learn from Cyc ”, Lenat & Marcus 2023
Getting from Generative AI to Trustworthy AI: What LLMs might learn from Cyc
“Sciama’s Argument on Life in a Random Universe: Distinguishing Apples from Oranges ”, Wang & Braunstein 2023
Sciama’s argument on life in a random universe: Distinguishing apples from oranges
“AI Is a Lot of Work: As the Technology Becomes Ubiquitous, a Vast Tasker Underclass Is Emerging—And Not Going Anywhere ”, Dzieza 2023
“Life in a Random Universe: Sciama’s Argument Reconsidered ”, Wang & Braunstein 2021
“Reality As a Vector in Hilbert Space ”, Carroll 2021
“The Quantum Field Theory on Which the Everyday World Supervenes ”, Carroll 2021
The Quantum Field Theory on Which the Everyday World Supervenes
“Forming Extended Analogies With GPT-3 ”, Summers-Stay 2020
“Representational Measurement Theory: Is Its Number Up? ”, Michell 2020
“I Worked for Cycorp for a Few Years Recently. AMA, I Guess? ”, catpolice 2019
“A Meta-Doomsday Argument: Uncertainty About the Validity of the Probabilistic Prediction of the End of the World ”, Turchin 2019
“I Don’t Trust People Whose Metaphysics Are Weirder Than Their Politics. If You’re a Secular Materialist or Nondenominational… ”, raggedjackscarlet 2018
“Law without Law: from Observer States to Physics via Algorithmic Information Theory ”, Mueller 2017
Law without law: from observer states to physics via algorithmic information theory
“Metaphysics of the Principle of Least Action ”, Terekhovich 2015
“The Failure of Analysis and the Nature of Concepts ”, Huemer 2015
“In The Future, Everyone Will Be Famous To 15 People ”, Alexander 2014
“Ontological Crises in Artificial Agents’ Value Systems ”, Blanc 2011
“Emergence in Cognitive Science ”, McClelland 2010
“The Finale of the Ultimate Meta Mega Crossover ”, Yudkowsky 2009
“Gravity Has No Friends ”, Perlin 2009
“Time Variation of a Fundamental Dimensionless Constant ”, Scherrer 2009
“Possible Girls ”, Sinhababu 2008
“Digging for hrönir: a Second Reading of "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" ”, Fishburn 2008
Digging for hrönir: a second reading of "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" :
View PDF:
“The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate ”, Chiang 2007
“A Universe Without Weak Interactions ”, Harnik et al 2006
“Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History § Chapter 3: Trees ”, Moretti 2005
Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History § Chapter 3: Trees
“Philosophical Problems in Logic § Ultrafinitism ”, Friedman 2002 (page 4)
Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information, Wright 1988
Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information
“Watchmaker [Watchmen, Chapter 4] ”, Moore 1986
“Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle and the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum § Alienness Mechanics ”, Hofstadter 1981 (page 21)
“Semantic and Conceptual Development: An Ontological Perspective ”, Keil 1979
Semantic and Conceptual Development: An Ontological Perspective
“The Paradoxes of Time Travel ”, Lewis 1976
“Why Do Mirrors Reverse Right/Left but Not Up/Down? ”, Block 1974
“Democritus and Plato ”, Ferwerda 1972
“Seven Strictures on Similarity ”, Goodman 1972
“Explanation and Reduction ”, Brittan 1970
“Natural Kinds ”, Quine 1969
View PDF:
“An Atomist Illustration In Aristotle ”, West 1969
“What Numbers Could Not Be ”, Benacerraf 1965
“The Dematerialization of Matter ”, Hanson 1962
“Symposium: Universals and the ‘Method of Analysis’ ”, Joseph et al 1926
Symposium: Universals and the ‘Method of Analysis’ :
View PDF:
“Universals ”, Ramsey 1925
View PDF:
“Carvaka [From Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha] ”, Acharya et al 1914
“Wrangling Guideline ”, Own 2025
“List of Articles Every Wikipedia Should Have ”
List of articles every Wikipedia should have :
View External Link:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_articles_every_Wikipedia_should_have
“Quantum-Bayesian and Pragmatist Views of Quantum Theory ”
“Like a Lemon to a Lime, a Lime to a Lemon ”
“Sanderson’s First Law ”, Sanderson 2025
“Inside vs Outside View ”, LessWrong 2025
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Bibliography
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04445: “Getting from Generative AI to Trustworthy AI: What LLMs Might Learn from Cyc ”,https://www.theverge.com/features/23764584/ai-artificial-intelligence-data-notation-labor-scale-surge-remotasks-openai-chatbots: “AI Is a Lot of Work: As the Technology Becomes Ubiquitous, a Vast Tasker Underclass Is Emerging—And Not Going Anywhere ”,2019-turchin.pdf: “A Meta-Doomsday Argument: Uncertainty About the Validity of the Probabilistic Prediction of the End of the World ”,https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1756-8765.2010.01116.x: “Emergence in Cognitive Science ”,1981-hofstadter.pdf#page=21: “Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle and the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum § Alienness Mechanics ”,1974-block.pdf: “Why Do Mirrors Reverse Right/Left but Not Up/Down? ”,