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Religion’s Claim to be Non-Disprovable
Eliezer Yudkowsky
4 Aug 2007 3:21 UTC
377
points
333
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Guessing the Teacher’s Password
Eliezer Yudkowsky
22 Aug 2007 3:40 UTC
331
points
100
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Your Strength as a Rationalist
Eliezer Yudkowsky
11 Aug 2007 0:21 UTC
328
points
124
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Conservation of Expected Evidence
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13 Aug 2007 15:55 UTC
318
points
86
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Importance of Saying “Oops”
Eliezer Yudkowsky
5 Aug 2007 3:17 UTC
305
points
39
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Hindsight Devalues Science
Eliezer Yudkowsky
17 Aug 2007 19:39 UTC
266
points
44
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
Eliezer Yudkowsky
25 Aug 2007 22:27 UTC
263
points
161
comments
4
min read
LW
link
You Can Face Reality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
9 Aug 2007 1:46 UTC
225
points
41
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Fake Explanations
Eliezer Yudkowsky
20 Aug 2007 21:13 UTC
198
points
98
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Positive Bias: Look Into the Dark
Eliezer Yudkowsky
28 Aug 2007 3:55 UTC
193
points
59
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Absence of Evidence Is Evidence of Absence
Eliezer Yudkowsky
12 Aug 2007 20:34 UTC
189
points
120
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Science as Attire
Eliezer Yudkowsky
23 Aug 2007 5:10 UTC
189
points
88
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Semantic Stopsigns
Eliezer Yudkowsky
24 Aug 2007 19:29 UTC
172
points
111
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Belief as Attire
Eliezer Yudkowsky
2 Aug 2007 17:13 UTC
168
points
106
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Scientific Evidence, Legal Evidence, Rational Evidence
Eliezer Yudkowsky
19 Aug 2007 5:36 UTC
160
points
18
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Virtue of Narrowness
Eliezer Yudkowsky
7 Aug 2007 17:57 UTC
150
points
66
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Fake Causality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
23 Aug 2007 18:12 UTC
150
points
88
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Professing and Cheering
Eliezer Yudkowsky
2 Aug 2007 7:20 UTC
146
points
45
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Focus Your Uncertainty
Eliezer Yudkowsky
5 Aug 2007 20:49 UTC
138
points
22
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Futility of Emergence
Eliezer Yudkowsky
26 Aug 2007 22:10 UTC
138
points
142
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Say Not “Complexity”
Eliezer Yudkowsky
29 Aug 2007 4:22 UTC
135
points
53
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Failing to Learn from History
Eliezer Yudkowsky
30 Aug 2007 20:22 UTC
135
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Update Yourself Incrementally
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14 Aug 2007 14:56 UTC
129
points
29
comments
3
min read
LW
link
My Wild and Reckless Youth
Eliezer Yudkowsky
30 Aug 2007 1:52 UTC
126
points
54
comments
3
min read
LW
link
One Argument Against An Army
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15 Aug 2007 18:39 UTC
124
points
37
comments
2
min read
LW
link
I Defy the Data!
Eliezer Yudkowsky
11 Aug 2007 21:33 UTC
104
points
12
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Proper Use of Doubt
Eliezer Yudkowsky
6 Aug 2007 20:29 UTC
98
points
35
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Hindsight bias
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16 Aug 2007 21:58 UTC
74
points
25
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Apocalypse Bet
Eliezer Yudkowsky
9 Aug 2007 17:23 UTC
53
points
51
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Is Molecular Nanotechnology “Scientific”?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
20 Aug 2007 4:11 UTC
42
points
50
comments
2
min read
LW
link
God is irrelevant
KatjaGrace
3 Aug 2007 10:57 UTC
1
point
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
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