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View article: Industrial Distraction
Industrial Distraction Open
There are myriad techniques industry actors use to shape the public understanding of science. While a naive view might assume these techniques typically involve fraud or outright deception, the truth is more nuanced. This paper analyzes in…
View article: Effective theory building and manifold learning
Effective theory building and manifold learning Open
Manifold learning and effective model building are generally viewed as fundamentally different types of procedure. After all, in one we build a simplified model of the data, in the other, we construct a simplified model of the another mode…
View article: Industrial Distraction
Industrial Distraction Open
There are myriad techniques industry actors use to shape the public understanding of science. While a naive view of this sort of influence might assume these techniques typically involve fraud and/or outright deception, the truth is more n…
View article: Rational factionalization for agents with probabilistically related beliefs
Rational factionalization for agents with probabilistically related beliefs Open
General epistemic polarization arises when the beliefs of a population grow further apart, in particular when all agents update on the same evidence. Epistemic factionalization arises when the beliefs grow further apart, but different beli…
View article: Efficiency and fairness trade-offs in two player bargaining games
Efficiency and fairness trade-offs in two player bargaining games Open
Recent work on the evolution of social contracts and conventions has often used models of bargaining games, with reinforcement learning. A recent innovation is the requirement that every strategy must be invented either through through lea…
View article: Sloppy Models, Renormalization Group Realism, and the Success of Science
Sloppy Models, Renormalization Group Realism, and the Success of Science Open
The “sloppy models” program originated in systems biology, but has seen applications across a range of fields. Sloppy models are dependent on a large number of parameters, but highly insensitive to the vast majority of parameter combinatio…
View article: Haag as a How-To Theorem
Haag as a How-To Theorem Open
Haag's theorem is a classic no-go theorem. It rigorously demonstrates there is a logical problem with the interaction picture (IP), one of the most widely used modeling tools in quantum field theory (QFT). The significance of the theorem f…
View article: How Haag-tied is QFT, really?
How Haag-tied is QFT, really? Open
Haag's theorem cries out for explanation and critical assessment: it sounds the alarm that something is (perhaps) not right in one of the standard way of constructing interacting fields to be used in generating predictions for scattering e…
View article: The Invention of New Strategies in Bargaining Games
The Invention of New Strategies in Bargaining Games Open
Bargaining games have played a prominent role in modeling the evolution of social conventions. Previous models assumed that agents must choose from a predetermined set of strategies. I present a new model of two agents learning in bargaini…