Ex­pect­ing Short In­fer­en­tial Distances

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Oct 2007 23:42 UTC
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Cached Thoughts

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Oct 2007 23:46 UTC
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Origi­nal Seeing

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Oct 2007 4:38 UTC
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Illu­sion of Trans­parency: Why No One Un­der­stands You

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Oct 2007 23:49 UTC
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Avoid­ing Your Belief’s Real Weak Points

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Oct 2007 1:59 UTC
158 points
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The Med­i­ta­tion on Curiosity

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Oct 2007 0:26 UTC
145 points
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No One Can Ex­empt You From Ra­tion­al­ity’s Laws

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Oct 2007 17:24 UTC
122 points
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The Log­i­cal Fal­lacy of Gen­er­al­iza­tion from Fic­tional Evidence

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Oct 2007 3:57 UTC
121 points
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Hold Off On Propos­ing Solutions

Eliezer Yudkowsky17 Oct 2007 3:16 UTC
116 points
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Dou­ble Illu­sion of Transparency

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 Oct 2007 23:06 UTC
114 points
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How to Seem (and Be) Deep

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Oct 2007 18:13 UTC
112 points
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Pas­cal’s Mug­ging: Tiny Prob­a­bil­ities of Vast Utilities

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Oct 2007 23:37 UTC
107 points
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Singlethink

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Oct 2007 19:24 UTC
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We Change Our Minds Less Often Than We Think

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Oct 2007 18:14 UTC
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Ex­plain­ers Shoot High. Aim Low!

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 Oct 2007 1:13 UTC
99 points
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Do We Believe Every­thing We’re Told?

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Oct 2007 23:52 UTC
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A Ra­tional Argument

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Oct 2007 18:35 UTC
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The “Out­side the Box” Box

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Oct 2007 22:50 UTC
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No One Knows What Science Doesn’t Know

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Oct 2007 23:47 UTC
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Mo­ti­vated Stop­ping and Mo­ti­vated Continuation

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Oct 2007 23:10 UTC
84 points
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A Priori

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Oct 2007 21:02 UTC
83 points
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Tor­ture vs. Dust Specks

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Oct 2007 2:50 UTC
81 points
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Why Are In­di­vi­d­ual IQ Differ­ences OK?

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Oct 2007 21:50 UTC
71 points
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The Mean­ing That Im­mor­tal­ity Gives to Life

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Oct 2007 3:02 UTC
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Prim­ing and Contamination

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Oct 2007 2:23 UTC
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Self-Anchoring

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Oct 2007 6:11 UTC
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“Can’t Say No” Spending

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 Oct 2007 2:08 UTC
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Recom­mended Ra­tion­al­ist Reading

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Oct 2007 18:36 UTC
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Con­grat­u­la­tions to Paris Hilton

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Oct 2007 0:31 UTC
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Bay Area Bayesi­ans Unite!

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Oct 2007 0:07 UTC
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Prob­a­bil­ity is the oil of rationalisation

KatjaGrace3 Oct 2007 2:28 UTC
1 point
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