Introduction: Gaussian Natural Latents

·LessWrong··

Short introductory post for my research direction: Gaussian Natural Latents. I explain the motivation and give a preview of the forthcoming results.The Natural Abstractions agenda, in my view, is a promising research program that asks important theoretical questions about the nature of agency and optimization. Here's an excerpt from Nate Soares' excellent post:Imaginary John: I suspect there's a common format to concepts, that is a fairly objective fact about the math of the territory, and that—...

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