📚 **书籍修订完成与经验分享**: 博主成功完成了书籍第四章的修订工作，尽管过程比预期更耗时。这主要归因于需要修正比预期更多的事实性错误，以及根据反馈重写了部分内容，重点转向了Löbian障碍而非贝叶斯自我信任问题。博主特别感谢了Claude在理解和梳理Löb定理方面的协助，强调了清晰准确地传达复杂概念的重要性。

🗓️ **近期活动预告与公开演讲**: 博主将于本周末（10月1日后）在伯克利参加Curve会议，并邀请大家届时前来打招呼。此外，博主还将在本月晚些时候就“后理性主义的起源”这一主题发表演讲，并表示演讲效果将决定是否会在此处发布相关内容。

💡 **内容创作与订阅邀请**: 博主透露，目前有多篇关于人工智能（AI）的文章正在准备中，并鼓励读者订阅以第一时间获取这些内容。同时，博主也鼓励读者关注其X（原Twitter）账号，以便及时了解其发布的其他有趣内容。

🧐 **对Löb定理的深入研究**: 为了完成书籍的修订，博主投入了大量时间深入研究Löb定理及其相关概念，特别是Löbian障碍。这一过程涉及阅读原始论文并与Claude进行反复的讨论和校对，以确保内容的准确性和逻辑性，展现了博主严谨的学术态度。

Published on October 1, 2025 2:50 PM GMT

Does the calendar say October? Well, like the good comptroller I am, I waited for the period to end before reviewing the books.

I don’t normally do that? You didn’t know I was a comptroller? Okay, fine, look, I could have posted this last week, but I had two good reasons not to.

First, last week’s Autofac Era essay was ready to go. It came together quickly after sitting on the ideas for a couple months, and I was excited to get it out.

Second, I was very close to finishing revisions on Chapter 4 of the book, and I’m happy to say they’re now complete! They took a bit longer than expected, both because the original version of the chapter had more factual mistakes than I had realized that needed fixing, and because I had to completely rewrite one of the sections based on the feedback that, to be correct, I’d really need to talk about the Löbian obstacle instead of issues with Bayesian self trust.

That meant I had to understand the Löbian obstacle well enough to write about it, which ate up plenty of time because I didn’t understand Löb’s theorem as well as I needed to. Much thanks to Claude for being smart enough to be able to read the original papers and keep pointing out my mistakes as I tried to explain the ideas by just continually checking if my words literally made sense compared to what was in the papers.

As ever, I’m hopeful that revisions on future chapters go more quickly. We shall see.

Other Happenings

I’ll be at the Curve conference this weekend in Berkeley. If you see me there, say hi!

I’m giving a talk about the origins of the post-rationalists later this month. Depending on how it goes, I might write something up here, too.

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