Reli­gion’s Claim to be Non-Disprovable

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Aug 2007 3:21 UTC
316 points
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Guess­ing the Teacher’s Password

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Aug 2007 3:40 UTC
265 points
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Con­ser­va­tion of Ex­pected Evidence

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Aug 2007 15:55 UTC
241 points
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Your Strength as a Rationalist

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Aug 2007 0:21 UTC
230 points
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Hind­sight De­val­ues Science

Eliezer Yudkowsky17 Aug 2007 19:39 UTC
228 points
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The Im­por­tance of Say­ing “Oops”

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Aug 2007 3:17 UTC
213 points
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Mys­te­ri­ous An­swers to Mys­te­ri­ous Questions

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Aug 2007 22:27 UTC
207 points
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Fake Explanations

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Aug 2007 21:13 UTC
154 points
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Ab­sence of Ev­i­dence Is Ev­i­dence of Absence

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Aug 2007 20:34 UTC
152 points
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You Can Face Reality

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Aug 2007 1:46 UTC
150 points
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Science as Attire

Eliezer Yudkowsky23 Aug 2007 5:10 UTC
149 points
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Se­man­tic Stopsigns

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 Aug 2007 19:29 UTC
138 points
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Pos­i­tive Bias: Look Into the Dark

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Aug 2007 3:55 UTC
130 points
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Belief as Attire

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Aug 2007 17:13 UTC
124 points
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Scien­tific Ev­i­dence, Le­gal Ev­i­dence, Ra­tional Evidence

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Aug 2007 5:36 UTC
123 points
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The Virtue of Narrowness

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Aug 2007 17:57 UTC
115 points
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Fake Causality

Eliezer Yudkowsky23 Aug 2007 18:12 UTC
113 points
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Pro­fess­ing and Cheering

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Aug 2007 7:20 UTC
108 points
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My Wild and Reck­less Youth

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Aug 2007 1:52 UTC
105 points
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Up­date Your­self Incrementally

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Aug 2007 14:56 UTC
101 points
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Say Not “Com­plex­ity”

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Aug 2007 4:22 UTC
99 points
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Fo­cus Your Uncertainty

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Aug 2007 20:49 UTC
98 points
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Failing to Learn from History

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Aug 2007 20:22 UTC
96 points
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One Ar­gu­ment Against An Army

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Aug 2007 18:39 UTC
95 points
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I Defy the Data!

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Aug 2007 21:33 UTC
93 points
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The Fu­til­ity of Emergence

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Aug 2007 22:10 UTC
92 points
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The Proper Use of Doubt

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Aug 2007 20:29 UTC
84 points
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Hind­sight bias

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Aug 2007 21:58 UTC
73 points
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The Apoca­lypse Bet

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Aug 2007 17:23 UTC
49 points
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Is Molec­u­lar Nan­otech­nol­ogy “Scien­tific”?

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Aug 2007 4:11 UTC
39 points
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God is irrelevant

KatjaGrace3 Aug 2007 10:57 UTC
1 point
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