Many thanks to Stephan Hartmann for the invitation to visit LMU Munich. I had a wonderful time meeting colleagues across the university and was honored to give a Philosophy & Physics Colloquium talk, “AI Meets Philosophy of Science: Towards a Foundation of AI.” Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMyk...

Philosophy and Physics Colloquium: Eddy Chen - AI meets Philosophy of Science

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Grateful to @thebjps.bsky.social for featuring our recent paper and making it free to read! Glad to see philosophy of science in the news!

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science@thebjps.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"The wave function of the universe is like a cosmic secret that physics itself conspires to keep." New Scientist covers recent work by Eddy Keming Chen & Roderich Tumulka published in the BJPS: www.newscientist.com/article/2513... Link to the (free) paper in next comment. #philsci #philsky #hps

Excited to give a talk on observation typicality at the Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control (CQIQC, U of Toronto)! Looking forward to meeting Aephraim Steinberg and colleagues to discuss quantum foundations. Event page: cqiqc.physics.utoronto.ca/events/quant...

A super interesting paper on universal steering of AI models just appeared in Science, with striking evidence for the Linear Representation Hypothesis. Congrats Misha Belkin and coauthors! www.science.org/eprint/URRDN...

Toward universal steering and monitoring of AI models

Artificial intelligence (AI) models contain much of human knowledge. Understanding the representation of this knowledge will lead to improvements in model capabilities and safeguards. Building on adva...

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Grateful to @apaphilosophy.bsky.social for highlighting my @nature.com Comment coauthored with Mikhail Belkin, Leon Bergen, and David Danks. We argue that the artificial general intelligence (AGI) has arrived, and the evidence is clear.

American Philosophical Association@apaphilosophy.bsky.social · 6mo ago

APA member @eddykemingchen.bsky.social is part of an interdisciplinary team at @ucsandiego.bsky.social whose research on artificial general intelligence (AGI) was recently published in @nature.com. www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/artific...

My paper with Roderich Tumulka is featured in @newscientist.com! We prove that the quantum state of the universe is, in a sense, fundamentally unknowable. Nature keeps its deepest secrets.

New Scientist@newscientist.com · 6mo ago

Even given a set of possible quantum states for our cosmos, it's impossible for us to determine which one of them is correct

Does AI already have human-level general intelligence (AGI)? Our answer in @nature.com today: Yes, AGI has arrived. The evidence is clear. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear

The vision of human-level machine intelligence laid out by Alan Turing in the 1950s is now a reality. Eyes unclouded by dread or hype will help us to prepare for what comes next.

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Excited to give "AI Meets Philosophy of Science" talks in Arizona—today at @arizonastateuni.bsky.social , next Fri at @uarizona.bsky.social . Why does ML work so well? I argue it reveals abundant learnable structure in nature, motivating an expanded view of laws beyond fundamental physics.

Very happy to share that my paper coauthored with Rodi Tumulka has been accepted for publication in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science! The result was unexpected and points to fundamental limits on knowledge in a quantum universe. arxiv.org/abs/2410.168...

Heading to my first NeurIPS, this time right here in San Diego! Lots of great sessions related to AI foundations! neurips.cc

My paper, “The Simplicity of Physical Laws,” is now out in Noûs. One of the hardest problems I’ve worked on. The solution came as a surprise. It’s also shaping my current thinking about the foundations of AI. Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The simplicity of physical laws

Physical laws are strikingly simple, yet there is no a priori reason for them to be so. I propose that nomic realists—Humeans and non-Humeans—should recognize simplicity as a fundamental epistemic gu....

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New preprint with Jeff Barrett! We derive the Principal Principle—rational credence should match known chance—without circularity. Key idea: statistical constraint laws (algorithmic randomness) + exchangeable priors (inductive assumptions) → PP. philpapers.org/rec/BARARE-9

Jeffrey A. Barrett & Eddy Keming Chen, Algorithmic Randomness, Exchangeability, and the Principal Principle - PhilPapers

We introduce a framework uniting algorithmic randomness with exchangeable credences to address foundational questions in philosophy of probability and philosophy of science. To demonstrate its power, ...

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New paper with Jeff Barrett coming out in @thebjps.bsky.social ! We develop new notions of probability and probabilistic laws. Years in the making. Next: a natural proof of the Principal Principle. Link: philpapers.org/rec/BARARA-17

Excited to be giving a talk on philosophy of science and foundations of AI at the National University of Singapore, hosted by the Department of Philosophy. It’s a special occasion for me—NUS is where I began my philosophical training as an undergraduate 15 years ago.

Looking forward to talking about exchangeability, algorithmic randomness, and the Principal Principle tomorrow at the Institute of Data Science at the University of Hong Kong! (Joint work with Jeff Barrett)

Debating laws of physics + metaphysics with my former PhD supervisor Barry Loewer on Theories of Everything. Plenty of disagreements, but always learning! Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZna...

Do The Laws of Physics Exist?

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Just finished a semester-long reading group on my book with the All Milan History & Philosophy of Physics group, thanks to the amazing Silvia De Bianchi. Incredible discussions on laws of nature, simplicity, and cosmology. Grateful for the sharp questions & insights!

Lofty Math Problem Called Hilbert’s Sixth Closer to Being Solved www.scientificamerican.com/article/loft...

Mathematicians Crack 125-Year-Old Problem, Unite Three Physics Theories

A breakthrough in Hilbert’s sixth problem is a major step in grounding physics in math

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Had the privilege to visit Armin Schwartzman’s group @ucsdhealthsci.bsky.social (Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute + Biostatistics) to talk about algorithmic randomness, exchangeability, and the Principal Principle. Great conversations on probability and AI foundations!

Honored to receive the APA’s 2024 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Prize for “The Preordained Quantum Universe” (Nature, 2023). Thanks to @apaphilosophy for supporting public-facing philosophy! #Quantum #Philosophy #APA2024

Very happy that my paper with @eddykemingchen.bsky.social is officially published with Synthese with open access. It was a great opportunity to survey the space of options when it comes to the Born Rule for Everettians, and see how density matrix realism generalizes them!

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Happy to share that my paper with @eugenechua.bsky.social is now officially published with open access! 🚀 "Decoherence, branching, and the Born rule in a mixed-state Everettian multiverse" link.springer.com/article/10.1... Thanks to all who offered feedback!

Happy to share that my paper with @eugenechua.bsky.social is now officially published with open access! 🚀 "Decoherence, branching, and the Born rule in a mixed-state Everettian multiverse" link.springer.com/article/10.1... Thanks to all who offered feedback!

Decoherence, branching, and the Born rule in a mixed-state Everettian multiverse - Synthese

In Everettian quantum mechanics, justifications for the Born rule appeal to self-locating uncertainty or decision theory. Such justifications have focused exclusively on a pure-state Everettian multiv...

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Just found this (Italian!) YouTube breakdown of Laws of Physics by physicist @davidedebiasio.bsky.social on his channel Spazi Attorcigliati. He dives into the first 20 pages—ontology, nomology, laws as constraints. I'm honored! Thanks to #ChatGPT I could follow along! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDBD...

Le Leggi della Fisica (1/2) | Fisica: Filosofia e Fondamenti 3

YouTube video by Spazi Attorcigliati | Davide De Biasio

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5. Andrews, Mel (2023) The Devil in the Data: Machine Learning & the Theory-Free Ideal

3. Brown, Matthew J. (2020) Science and Moral Imagination: A New Ideal for Values in Science. Science, Values, and the Public. 4. Ardourel, Vincent and Bangu, Sorin (2023) Finite-size scaling theory: Quantitative and qualitative approaches to critical phenomena.

Visit the PhilSci Archive 📄 to read the most downloaded preprints for the last 6 months: philsci-archive.pitt... 1. Chen, Eddy Keming (2023) Laws of Physics. 2. Rushing, Bruce and Gomez-Lavin, Javier (2024) Is the Scaling Hypothesis Falsifiable?

Excited to talk about density matrix realism and a new result on observation typicality at the Chapman workshop on quantum foundations in two days!

Had a wonderful time in Berkeley, speaking at the Logic Group on Friday and the Metaphysics Workshop on Saturday! I presented two joint papers with Jeff Barrett—on chancy laws as constraints and deriving the Principal Principle from them. Great discussions and feedback.

Had a fantastic visit at Stanford—thanks to Elliott Sober and Thomas Icard for the kind invitation! Tomorrow, Linda and I are heading to Berkeley! Looking forward to engaging with faculty and students to discuss foundations of AI, algorithmic randomness, and the laws of nature.

Thrilled to see my book Laws of Physics as the most downloaded item on PhilSci Archive for the last six months—a title it has held since September 2024! Grateful for the continued interest and support from readers, colleagues, and the @philsci.bsky.social community. #PhilosophyOfScience