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Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 4, 2007, 6:01 PM
226
points
82
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Majority Is Always Wrong
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 3, 2007, 1:12 AM
54
points
55
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Error of Crowds
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 1, 2007, 9:50 PM
32
points
13
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Useful Statistical Biases
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Apr 1, 2007, 4:51 AM
19
points
4
comments
3
min read
LW
link
“Statistical Bias”
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Mar 30, 2007, 6:55 PM
22
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Tsuyoku vs. the Egalitarian Instinct
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Mar 28, 2007, 5:49 PM
92
points
35
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Tsuyoku Naritai! (I Want To Become Stronger)
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Mar 27, 2007, 5:49 PM
338
points
82
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Self-deception: Hypocrisy or Akrasia?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Mar 26, 2007, 5:03 PM
68
points
21
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Chronophone Motivations
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Mar 24, 2007, 5:23 PM
58
points
17
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Archimedes’s Chronophone
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Mar 23, 2007, 5:43 PM
58
points
94
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Useless Medical Disclaimers
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Mar 19, 2007, 4:48 PM
22
points
15
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Superstimuli and the Collapse of Western Civilization
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Mar 16, 2007, 6:10 PM
152
points
90
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Blue or Green on Regulation?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Mar 15, 2007, 6:04 PM
91
points
40
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Scales of Justice, the Notebook of Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Mar 13, 2007, 4:00 PM
114
points
22
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Burch’s Law
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Mar 8, 2007, 2:39 AM
64
points
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Policy Debates Should Not Appear One-Sided
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Mar 3, 2007, 6:53 PM
274
points
187
comments
4
min read
LW
link
You Are Not Hiring the Top 1%
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Mar 2, 2007, 5:34 AM
98
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Just Lose Hope Already
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Feb 25, 2007, 12:39 AM
147
points
78
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Politics is the Mind-Killer
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Feb 18, 2007, 9:23 PM
305
points
243
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Outside the Laboratory
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Jan 21, 2007, 3:46 AM
158
points
351
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Some Claims Are Just Too Extraordinary
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Jan 20, 2007, 7:14 AM
37
points
12
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Power of Intelligence
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Jan 1, 2007, 8:00 PM
123
points
6
comments
4
min read
LW
link
A Fable of Science and Politics
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Dec 23, 2006, 4:50 AM
355
points
101
comments
5
min read
LW
link
“I don’t know.”
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Dec 21, 2006, 6:27 PM
58
points
22
comments
6
min read
LW
link
The Modesty Argument
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Dec 10, 2006, 9:42 PM
59
points
40
comments
10
min read
LW
link
The Proper Use of Humility
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Dec 1, 2006, 7:55 PM
195
points
54
comments
5
min read
LW
link
What’s a Bias?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Nov 27, 2006, 1:50 AM
195
points
17
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Why Truth?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Nov 27, 2006, 1:49 AM
183
points
61
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Martial Art of Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Nov 22, 2006, 8:00 PM
316
points
49
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Twelve Virtues of Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Jan 1, 2006, 8:00 AM
374
points
13
comments
7
min read
LW
link
A Technical Explanation of Technical Explanation
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Jan 1, 2005, 8:00 AM
74
points
10
comments
57
min read
LW
link
An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes’s Theorem
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Jan 1, 2003, 8:00 PM
69
points
10
comments
25
min read
LW
link
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