Stephen Fowler

Jan 18, 2025 | kdlg.org | Stephen Fowler

DETROIT — The Democratic Party begins 2025 with several looming questions about its future. Among them: how to recover from losing the White House and the Senate, in an election that saw Democrats lose ground across nearly every demographic group; who will lead its national party apparatus; and how it will handle President-elect Donald Trump's second term.

Aug 7, 2024 | wfdd.org | Quil Lawrence |Stephen Fowler |Brian Mann

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Jan 24, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Steven Byrnes |Thomas Kwa |Stephen Fowler |Charlie Steiner

In the 2D case, there's no escaping exponential decay of the autocorrelation function for any observable satisfying certain regularity properties. (I'm not sure if this is known to be true in higher dimensions.

Jan 2, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Alex K. Chen |Stephen Fowler

For the goal of maintaining the safety and autonomy of particular agents (and potential moral patients), there seems to be something important about maintaining the membranes and boundaries of those agents. A few examples:A bacterium uses its membrane to protect its internal processes from external influences. A nation maintains its sovereignty by defending its borders. A human protects their mental integrity by selectively filtering the information that comes in and out of their mind.

Nov 14, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Stephen Fowler

So. I have a theory of feedbackloop-first rationality. It has a lot of parts. I think each part is promising on it's own, and I have a dream that they interconnect into something promising and powerful. I also have a standard, which is that you should be able to tell if it's helping. One of those parts (I think/hope), is "the generalized skill of Deliberate Practice." That is, the meta skill of:Noticing that your goals are bottlenecked on some kind of skill (or skills).