Thanks for putting this all on my radar! I will be catching up on your posts and talk. Glad to see that you have already presented a lot of this in an EA context :)
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Footnote 9 also on theme
This is awesome. Thank you for creating this!
This was a really great summary and I know I’ll be coming back to this post multiple times in the future. Thank you so much for writing it up, Peter!
Have you encountered the idea of qualia formalism? At QRI, we believe that the quantity of valence / happiness in a single moment of experience is a precise and objective property of that moment of experience. Mike Johnson’s Principia Qualia lays the groundwork for this thesis.
Was wondering if you can explain more about the reasoning for funding Connor Flexman. Right now, the write-up doesn’t explain much and makes me curious what “independent research” means. Also would be interested in learning what past projects Connor has worked on that led to this grant.