Epistemological Status: Correct, but lazily written. Basically, a while ago John made a post attempting to fix the Good Regulator Theorem. I've refrained from writing this simply because I know it may come off as "why does anyone care isn't this trivial"? However, more recently John has set up a...
Epistemological Status: I attempt to distill the minimal map argument and provide a natural way to chain a sequence of queries together. I argue that this definition, together with reasonable symmetry constraints on the minimal map, provides an intuitive explanation for the appearance of neural networks. Minimal Maps Say we...
Epistemological Status: I ran a basic simulation and this checks out. Specific details need refinement. Probably just a curiosity, but I think there's a chance there's a deeper connection here. I opted to post in the earlier stages incase I'm missing something big. In biology, the quasispecies equation is used...