ksvanhorn comments on Book Review: Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists (MIRI course list) - LessWrong

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Comment author: ksvanhorn 20 September 2013 04:26:41AM 1 point [-]

Do you know why this book is on the MIRI course list? What is the connection to Friendly AI?

Comment author: somervta 20 September 2013 07:02:53AM 5 points [-]

Category theory is the precise way that you check if structures in one branch of math represent the same structures somewhere else. It’s a remarkable field of meta-mathematics that nearly no one knows… and it could hold the keys to importing useful tools to help solve dilemmas in self-reference, truth, and consistency.

From the course list.