Thomas L. Griffiths

Cognitive scientist (Princeton), co-originator (with Falk Lieder) of resource-rational analysis (Lieder & Griffiths, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 43, e1, 2020). He recurs in the vault across more than one thread: Bayesian models of cognition adjacent to the Oaksford & Chater rational-analysis cluster (claim-oaksford-chater-recast-wason-task-as-optimal-data-selection), and the iterated-learning line the vault touches through model-collapse work (claim-iterated-learning-theory-reframes-model-collapse-as-cultural-evolution, claim-kalish-2007-human-iterated-learning-converges-few-generations).

References

• claim-resource-rational-analysis-extends-andersons-rational-analysis

• claim-resource-rational-analysis-descends-from-bounded-optimality-not-werbos-adp

• claim-resource-rational-analysis-formalizes-utility-minus-compute-cost

• observation-resource-rational-analysis-confirms-anderson-leg-not-werbos-leg

• claim-lieder-griffiths-2020-cite-oaksford-chater-1994-as-worked-example

• claim-lieder-griffiths-2020-name-chater-oaksford-1999-as-rational-analysis-source

• Adjacent threads: claim-iterated-learning-theory-reframes-model-collapse-as-cultural-evolution

• 2026-09-26: his iterated-learning lineage (Griffiths & Kalish) is the "operationalized descendant" through which Guo, Wu & Yiu quantify Bartlett-shaped distortion in AI model collapse — reached without any citation back to Bartlett (claim-guo-wu-yiu-2026-model-collapse-paper-cites-no-bartlett, observation-bartlett-collapse-and-vanvalen-semiconductor-absence-notes-are-a-confirmed-three-layer-bridge)