Acorn is a research project of Caspar Oesterheld, Emery Cooper, and Chi Nguyen. We're focused on trying to make acausal stuff go well.

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Featured papers

A dataset of questions on decision-theoretic reasoning in Newcomb-like problems
Caspar Oesterheld, Emery Cooper, Miles Kodama, Linh Chi Nguyen, Ethan Perez
Handwritten decision theory questions to determine the decision-theoretic capabilities and inclinations of LLMs

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Caspar Oesterheld
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Latest podcast episodes

Introduction to decision theory
Chi Nguyen, Emery Cooper
A beginner's guide to decision theory