4 papers
Algorithmic Randomness and Physical Typicality
Jeffrey A. Barrett, Eddy Keming Chen, Josiah Lopez-Wild
Appeals to typicality are common in physics, but it is often unclear what it means for a physical state to be typical relative to a probability measure, and correspondingly unclear…
The Distribution Postulate in Algorithmic Bohmian Mechanics
Jeffrey A. Barrett, Eddy Keming Chen, Josiah Lopez-Wild
In order to make the right empirical predictions Bohmian mechanics requires a special statistical boundary condition -- the distribution postulate -- but it is unclear how best to…
At the Edge of Putnam's Program: Limitative Results For Computable Inductive Logics
Antoine Mercier, Josiah Lopez-Wild, Elijah Spiegel
The task of inductive logic is to develop a formal framework to analyze inductive reasoning. Historically this was accomplished by assigning probabilities to sentences of a logical…
Cartesian Frames
Scott Garrabrant, Daniel A. Herrmann, Josiah Lopez-Wild
We introduce a novel framework, the theory of Cartesian frames (CF), that gives powerful tools for manipulating sets of acts. The CF framework takes as its most fundamental buildin…