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Jakob Uexüll2010no dateBetween interface and truth: Multi-task selection drives ecologically veridical perception takes von Uexkull's Umwelt as a precursor to ecological veridicality, with the separation condition giving a mathematical formalisation of how species-specific perceptual worlds a…
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Elliott Sober2024no dateSober's recent treatment of evolutionary theory reinforces the methodological view, paired with Sober (2008) in Between interface and truth: Multi-task selection drives ecologically veridical perception, that population-level laws need initial conditions and auxiliaries…
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Elliott Sober2008no dateSober's analysis of evidence in evolution frames evidential support as model-comparative. We adopt this stance in Between interface and truth: Multi-task selection drives ecologically veridical perception to read our optimality and convergence theorems as conditional ad…
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Eugene Seneta2006no dateSeneta's treatise supplies the Perron-Frobenius machinery used in Between interface and truth: Multi-task selection drives ecologically veridical perception for reducible nonnegative matrices: the Frobenius block-triangular decomposition, the per-block Perron expansion…
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George R. Price1972no dateWe pair Price's 1972 extension with his 1970 paper throughout the Price-equation derivation in Between interface and truth: Multi-task selection drives ecologically veridical perception, using it as the standard reference for the covariance-plus-transmission identity th…
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George R. Price1970no datePrice's 1970 covariance identity is the starting point for the one-generation decomposition we apply in Between interface and truth: Multi-task selection drives ecologically veridical perception, partitioning change in any encoding trait into a selection covariance with…
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Zenon W. Pylyshyn1999no datePylyshyn's cognitive impenetrability supplies the structural premise of Between interface and truth: Multi-task selection drives ecologically veridical perception: the encoding is fixed across tasks while only downstream readouts vary, which is what makes multi-task per…
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Chetan Prakash2020no datePrakash and colleagues proved that single-task payoff functions generically fail to preserve total orders, group structures, and measurable spaces. Between interface and truth: Multi-task selection drives ecologically veridical perception uses this no-preservation resul…
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Massimo Pigliucci2006no datePigliucci and Kaplan argue that adaptationist explanations must be assessed against alternative causal pathways and developmental structure. We invoke this stance in Between interface and truth: Multi-task selection drives ecologically veridical perception to keep our t…
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Jeong-Man Park2010no dateWe cite Park, Munoz, and Deem in Between interface and truth: Multi-task selection drives ecologically veridical perception both to situate our frequency-independent recursion within quasispecies theory and to acknowledge that real populations are finite and stochastic,…
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Andreas Maurer2016no dateMaurer, Pontil, and Romera-Paredes derived finite-sample excess-risk bounds for multi-task representation learning. We carry their shared-representation insight into Between interface and truth: Multi-task selection drives ecologically veridical perception and recast it…
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Wassily Hoeffding1963no dateWe use Hoeffding's inequality in Between interface and truth: Multi-task selection drives ecologically veridical perception to bound the deviation of empirical from population Bayes risk, yielding, together with a union bound over encodings, a polynomial-in-N sample com…
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Donald D. Hoffman2019no dateHoffman's book draws the philosophical conclusion that perception shows icons on a desktop rather than reality. We engage this position in Between interface and truth: Multi-task selection drives ecologically veridical perception as the strong non-veridical reading our…
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Anne Greenbaum2020no dateWe rely in Between interface and truth: Multi-task selection drives ecologically veridical perception on Greenbaum, Li, and Overton for two ingredients: the first-order analytic perturbation of the simple Perron eigenpair around the diagonal fitness matrix, and the Baue…
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Peter Godfrey-Smith2024no dateCited alongside Godfrey-Smith (2009) in Between interface and truth: Multi-task selection drives ecologically veridical perception to support the model-based stance on Darwinian populations, which justifies treating our framework as an idealised map rather than a full b…
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Peter Godfrey-Smith2009no dateFollowing Godfrey-Smith's model-based treatment of Darwinian populations, we frame the apparatus of Between interface and truth: Multi-task selection drives ecologically veridical perception as an idealised map from ecological structure to selective pressure, with no cl…
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Steven A. Frank2025no dateFrank's force-metric-bias decomposition of the Price equation provides the conceptual bridge sketched in Between interface and truth: Multi-task selection drives ecologically veridical perception between evolutionary dynamics and algorithmic learning, with our Appendix…
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Stewart N. Ethier1986no dateWe invoke in Between interface and truth: Multi-task selection drives ecologically veridical perception the density-dependent population-process limit from Chapter 11 of Ethier and Kurtz to show Wright-Fisher trajectories converge in probability to the deterministic rep…
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Manfred Eigen1971no dateWe frame our deterministic recursion in Between interface and truth: Multi-task selection drives ecologically veridical perception as the frequency-independent quasispecies setting introduced by Eigen, where expected fitness depends on the encoding alone and the replica…
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Marlene D. Berke2022no dateBerke and colleagues showed by simulation that cognitively impenetrable encodings facing many tasks favour veridical perception, and called for mathematical models. We answer that call in Between interface and truth: Multi-task selection drives ecologically veridical perception…
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Jonathan Baxter2000no dateWe adapt in Between interface and truth: Multi-task selection drives ecologically veridical perception Baxter's analysis of inductive bias learning, where shared representations across related tasks improve sample complexity, porting that statistical-learning insight in…
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Jacob Andreas2022no dateAndreas's argument that language models can be read as agent models is cited in Task ecologies and the evolution of world-tracking representations in large language models as part of the recent debate over whether ML systems represent their targets in any substantive sense.
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Dimitri Coelho Mollo2025no datePaired with Sullivan on the vector grounding problem; Task ecologies and the evolution of world-tracking representations in large language models reframes that grounding worry as a question about which world-state distinctions a sufficient encoding must preserve.
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Naftali Tishby1999no dateWe position Task ecologies and the evolution of world-tracking representations in large language models as a specialization of the information bottleneck's compress-while-preserving-prediction tradeoff to the autoregressive ecology-relative setting.
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Kevin Laland2016no dateTask ecologies and the evolution of world-tracking representations in large language models invokes Laland and colleagues to frame model-generated text re-entering training corpora as a niche-construction problem, where future ecologies are reshaped by the very models adapti…
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Geoffrey E. Hinton1987no dateHinton and Nowlan are cited alongside Baldwin in Between interface and truth: Multi-task selection drives ecologically veridical perception to delimit how lifetime learning interacts with our static optimality results: learned encodings shape evolutionary trajectories o…
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James Mark Baldwin1896no dateWe invoke the Baldwin effect in Between interface and truth: Multi-task selection drives ecologically veridical perception to clarify the scope of within-lifetime learning: developmental optimisation of an encoding does not replace evolutionary convergence, it can accel…
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Barton L. Anderson2015no dateAnderson identified the logical gap in interface theory by arguing that organisms must adjust behaviour across multiple homeostatic demands within ontogenetic time. We take his philosophical critique…
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Chetan Prakash2021no datePrakash et al.'s simulation work showing that fitness-tuned interfaces dominate veridical encodings under broad conditions is treated in Between interface and truth: Multi-task selection drives ecologically veridical perception as the empirical backbone of the FBT case…
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Donald D. Hoffman2012no dateHoffman and Singh raised the multi-task question explicitly and conjectured that general-purpose encodings would not become more veridical with more tasks, calling for detailed mathematical models. Between interface and truth: Multi-task selection drives ecologically veridical perception…