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ZD_2_11 Verified Information & Computation

ZD_2_11 — Reinforcement Learning: Agents, Rewards, and Sequential Decision-Making

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a paradigm of machine learning in which an agent learns to make sequential decisions by interacting with an environment, receiving rewards (or penalties) for its actions, and adjusting its

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Y_1_18 Verified Altered States

Y_1_18 — Addiction Neurochemistry: Reward Circuits, Tolerance & Therapeutic Frontiers

Addiction — now formally termed substance use disorder (SUD, DSM-5) — is a chronic, relapsing brain disorder characterized by compulsive drug seeking despite harmful consequences, affecting approximately 35 million peopl

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X_4_15 Verified Medicine & Healing

X_4_15 — Addiction Medicine & Substance Abuse

Addiction medicine is a medical subspecialty formally recognised by the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) in October 2015, though its intellectual roots stretch to Dr. Benjamin Rush's 1784 description of alcoh

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T_2_07 Verified Psychology & Social

T_2_07 — Psychology of Addiction

Addiction — compulsive engagement with a substance or behavior despite harmful consequences — is now understood as a chronic brain disorder involving neuroplastic changes in reward, motivation, memory, and executive cont

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ZD_2_17 Credible Information & Computation

ZD_2_17 — AI Alignment & Existential Risk

AI alignment — the challenge of ensuring artificial intelligence systems pursue goals consistent with human values and intentions — has emerged as one of the defining technical and philosophical problems of the 21st cent

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S_1_01 Verified Future Technology

S_1_01 — Artificial General Intelligence and Existential Risk

Artificial General Intelligence — a system with human-level or greater cognitive capabilities across ALL domains — may be the most consequential invention in human history. Current foundational AI systems (GPT-4, Claude,

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