7 routes through 1,524 pages

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The books form a sequence, but the research program can also be entered through a problem you already care about.

01

Categorical foundations

Acquire the language of categories, sketches, functors, tangent structure, and internal models.

  1. Categories for AGI · Sections I–II
  2. LINCS · Chapter 0 and Categorical Foundations
  3. Infinitesimal Creativity · Chapter 0
  4. Discovering Compositional Worlds · Chapters 0–3
02

Compositional learning

Move from diagrammatic backpropagation to diagnosis, localization, repair, and admission.

  1. Categories for AGI · Compositional Learning
  2. LINCS · Foundations and DLINCS
  3. Infinitesimal Creativity · Chapters 2–5 and 10
  4. Discovering Compositional Worlds · Chapters 5–8
03

Causality and intervention

Follow the progression from categorical causal models to infinitesimal and actively probed causal structure.

  1. Categories for AGI · Categorical Models of Causality
  2. LINCS · IC and BRIDGE/SKFM
  3. Infinitesimal Creativity · CLIC and Chapters 16–17
  4. Discovering Compositional Worlds · Chapters 3, 5, and 14
04

Scientific discovery

Separate pattern discovery, mechanism revision, experimental design, and reusable theory construction.

  1. LINCS · Frontiers of Infinitesimal Learning
  2. Infinitesimal Creativity · Chapters 6 and 15–17
  3. Discovering Compositional Worlds · Chapters 0, 5, 16–17
05

Visual generation and repair

See how declared scene structure supports diagnosis and repair, then examine the harder problem of inventing reusable visual operations.

  1. Infinitesimal Creativity · Chapter 18 (ARTISTIC)
  2. Infinitesimal Creativity · Chapter 19 (DILATE)
06

Doctrines and world discovery

Follow the shift from learning a supplied structure to discovering the kind of compositional world that generated experience.

  1. Categories for AGI · Chapters 1–4
  2. LINCS · Chapters 0–3
  3. Infinitesimal Creativity · Chapters 2–5
  4. Discovering Compositional Worlds · Chapters 0–8 and 17
07

Online decisions and agentic safety

Study learning under progressive, partial, asynchronous information and the trust contracts needed by deployed teams.

  1. LINCS · Chapters 7, 19–20
  2. Infinitesimal Creativity · Chapters 13–14
  3. Discovering Compositional Worlds · Chapters 9–15
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