Natural Abstractions: Key claims, Theorems, and Critiques

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attributed to: LawrenceC, Leon Lang, Erik Jenner, John Wentworth

posted by: KabirKumar

TL;DR: We distill John Wentworth’s Natural Abstractions agenda by summarizing its key claims: the Natural Abstraction Hypothesis—many cognitive systems learn to use similar abstractions—and the Redundant Information Hypothesis—a particular mathematical description of natural abstractions. We also formalize proofs for several of its theoretical results. Finally, we critique the agenda’s progress to date, alignment relevance, and current research methodology.

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