Archive - Jack's Lab

What Does Analysis Teach?

My favorite essay so far.

Jul 16 •

Diachronic Liberty

Why Odysseus cannot stop the disco

Jul 11 •

Can Christians Believe in Insect Suffering?

Why doesn't Bentham's Bulldog talk about this?

Jul 6 •

Cyborg Sleeping Beauty Gets Rich

Sneaky information transmission is cool

Jul 1 •

June 2025

Can UDT Survive a Killer Omega?

A formalism in progress

Jun 25 •

Whose Free Will is it, Anyway?

Questions about freedom in twin PDs

Jun 22 •

Advanced FDT Escapes My Traps!

Some lessons from community feedback

Jun 18 •

A Theory of Forethought, not Hindsight

There are two ways to precommit

Jun 13 •

FDT Does Not Endorse Itself in Asymmetric Games

A killshot to Yudkowsky & Soares

Jun 10 •

What the DFA Couldn't Know

A computational lens on Doug's Law

Jun 7 •

Every Major LLM Endorses Newcomb One-Boxing

If we want to understand their strategy, we better understand this!

Jun 2 •

Introduction to Functional Decision Theory

The "spooky action at a distance" of rationality

Jun 2 •

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