Reading

RL & Language Models for Open-Ended Discovery and Cooperative Deliberation

• "Toward Efficient Exploration by Large Language Model Agents," Dilip Arumugam and Thomas L. Griffiths
• "Automated Hypothesis Validation with Agentic Sequential Falsifications," Kexin Huang, Ying Jin, Ryan Li, Michael Y. Li, Emmanuel Candès, and Jure Leskovec, ICML 2025
• "BED-LLM: Intelligent Information Gathering with LLMs and Bayesian Experimental Design," Deepro Choudhury, Sinead Williamson, Adam Goliński, Ning Miao, Freddie Bickford Smith, Michael Kirchhof, Yizhe Zhang, and Tom Rainforth
• "Kosmos: An AI Scientist for Autonomous Discovery," Ludovico Mitchener et al.
• "Scaling Up Active Testing to Large Language Models," Gabrielle Berrada, Jannik Kossen, Freddie Bickford Smith, Muhammed Razzak, Yarin Gal, and Tom Rainforth, NeurIPS 2025
• "Cooperative Inverse Reinforcement Learning," Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Anca Dragan, Pieter Abbeel, and Stuart Russell, NeurIPS 2016
• "Multi-Principal Assistance Games: Definition and Collegial Mechanisms," Arnaud Fickinger, Simon Zhuang, Andrew Critch, Dylan Hadfield-Menell, and Stuart Russell, NeurIPS 2020

Representation Learning for Belief Modeling

• "Utterance Is Place Enough: Mapping Conversation," Frances Richard on the "Argument Drawings" series, Cabinet Magazine
• "Interaction Dynamics as a Reward Signal for LLMs," Sian Gooding and Edward Grefenstette
• "Dual Goal Representations," Seohong Park, Deepinder Mann, and Sergey Levine
• "Proto Successor Measure: Representing the Behavior Space of an RL Agent," Siddhant Agarwal, Harshit Sikchi, Peter Stone, and Amy Zhang
• "Next-Latent Prediction Transformers Learn Compact World Models," Jayden Teoh, Manan Tomar, Kwangjun Ahn, Edward S. Hu, Pratyusha Sharma, Riashat Islam, Alex Lamb, and John Langford
• "The hippocampus as a predictive map," Kimberly L. Stachenfeld, Matthew M. Botvinick, and Samuel J. Gershman, Nature Neuroscience
• Course notes on duality, Matt Jones and Jun Zhang

Legally-Inspired Model Design

• "On Provable Copyright Protection for Generative Models," Nikhil Vyas, Sham Kakade, and Boaz Barak, ICML 2023
• "Audits Under Resource, Data, and Access Constraints: Scaling Laws For Less Discriminatory Alternatives," Sarah H. Cen, Salil Goyal, Zaynah Javed, Ananya Karthik, Percy Liang, and Daniel E. Ho, NeurIPS 2025
• "Foundation Models and Fair Use," Peter Henderson, Xuechen Li, Dan Jurafsky, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Mark A. Lemley, and Percy Liang, Journal of Machine Learning Research 24 (2023)
• "Self-Destructing Models: Increasing the Costs of Harmful Dual Uses of Foundation Models," Peter Henderson, Eric Mitchell, Christopher D. Manning, Dan Jurafsky, and Chelsea Finn, AIES 2023
• "Statutory Construction and Interpretation for Artificial Intelligence," Luxi He, Nimra Nadeem, Michel Liao, Howard Chen, Danqi Chen, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, and Peter Henderson

• "The Uncertain Judge," Courtney M. Cox, University of Chicago Law Review
• "Anticompetitive Interdependence In 'Gullible' Pricing Algorithms," Gregory Schwartz, Stanford Law Review (forthcoming 2026)
• "Autonomous algorithmic collusion: Q-learning under sequential pricing," Timo Klein
• "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox," Lina M. Khan, Yale Law Journal
• "Climate Injustice, Off the Books," Leehi Yona, UCLA Law Review (forthcoming 2026)
• "The Perils and Promise of Public Nuisance," Leslie Kendrick, Yale Law Journal
• "Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals," H.L.A. Hart, Harvard Law Review
• "Positivism and Fidelity to Law—A Reply to Professor Hart," Lon L. Fuller, Harvard Law Review
• "A Positive Theory of Statutory Interpretation," John A. Ferejohn and Barry R. Weingast, International Review of Law and Economics
• "How Not to Lie with Judicial Votes: Misconceptions, Measurement, and Models," Daniel E. Ho and Kevin M. Quinn, California Law Review
• Evidence-Based Policy: A Practical Guide to Doing It Better, Nancy Cartwright and Jeremy Hardie

• "Selflessness and the Loss of Self," Jean Hampton, Social Philosophy & Policy
• "Modern Moral Philosophy," G.E.M. Anscombe, Philosophy
• Utilitarianism: For and Against, Bernard Williams
• The Sovereignty of Good, Iris Murdoch
• Ethical Formation, Sabina Lovibond
• Realism and Imagination in Ethics, Sabina Lovibond
• Unprincipled Virtue, Nomy Arpaly
• A Social History of Truth, Steven Shapin
• Against Method, Paul Feyerabend
• Letters from a Stoic, Seneca Letter 3 and Letter 9

• "Why Go Out?" Sheila Heti, Brick
• "Looking for Alice," Henrik Karlsson, Escaping Flatland
• "Optimize What?" Jimmy Wu, Commune
• "On Keeping a Notebook," Joan Didion, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem
• "A Field Guide for Transformation," Leah Cardamore Stokes, in All We Can Save

• How Should a Person Be?, Sheila Heti
• White Teeth, Zadie Smith
• Outline, Rachel Cusk
• Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi
• The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson
• The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
• The Good Life Method: Reasoning Through the Big Questions of Happiness, Faith, and Meaning, Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko
• Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, N. T. Wright
• Speaking of Crime: The Language of Criminal Justice, Lawrence M. Solan
• Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?, Michael Sandel