Fake Explanations

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Aug 2007 21:13 UTC
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Is Molec­u­lar Nan­otech­nol­ogy “Scien­tific”?

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Aug 2007 4:11 UTC
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Scien­tific Ev­i­dence, Le­gal Ev­i­dence, Ra­tional Evidence

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Aug 2007 5:36 UTC
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Hind­sight De­val­ues Science

Eliezer Yudkowsky17 Aug 2007 19:39 UTC
256 points
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Hind­sight bias

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Aug 2007 21:58 UTC
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One Ar­gu­ment Against An Army

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Aug 2007 18:39 UTC
111 points
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Up­date Your­self Incrementally

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Aug 2007 14:56 UTC
121 points
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Con­ser­va­tion of Ex­pected Evidence

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Aug 2007 15:55 UTC
298 points
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Ab­sence of Ev­i­dence Is Ev­i­dence of Absence

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Aug 2007 20:34 UTC
181 points
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I Defy the Data!

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Aug 2007 21:33 UTC
104 points
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Your Strength as a Rationalist

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Aug 2007 0:21 UTC
307 points
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The Apoca­lypse Bet

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Aug 2007 17:23 UTC
50 points
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You Can Face Reality

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Aug 2007 1:46 UTC
203 points
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The Virtue of Narrowness

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Aug 2007 17:57 UTC
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The Proper Use of Doubt

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Aug 2007 20:29 UTC
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Fo­cus Your Uncertainty

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Aug 2007 20:49 UTC
126 points
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The Im­por­tance of Say­ing “Oops”

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Aug 2007 3:17 UTC
284 points
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Reli­gion’s Claim to be Non-Disprovable

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Aug 2007 3:21 UTC
360 points
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God is irrelevant

KatjaGrace3 Aug 2007 10:57 UTC
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Belief as Attire

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Aug 2007 17:13 UTC
155 points
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Pro­fess­ing and Cheering

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Aug 2007 7:20 UTC
132 points
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Bayesian Judo

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 Jul 2007 5:53 UTC
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Belief in Belief

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Jul 2007 17:49 UTC
227 points
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Mak­ing Beliefs Pay Rent (in An­ti­ci­pated Ex­pe­riences)

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Jul 2007 22:59 UTC
531 points
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Free will isn’t a con­cept (un­less you mean de­ter­minism)

KatjaGrace15 Jul 2007 13:51 UTC
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Two More Things to Un­learn from School

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Jul 2007 17:45 UTC
177 points
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Open Thread

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Jul 2007 19:38 UTC
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Are Your Ene­mies In­nately Evil?

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Jun 2007 21:13 UTC
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Cor­re­spon­dence Bias

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Jun 2007 0:58 UTC
110 points
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Risk-Free Bonds Aren’t

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Jun 2007 22:30 UTC
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One Life Against the World

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 May 2007 22:06 UTC
127 points
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Scope Insensitivity

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 May 2007 2:53 UTC
356 points
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Third Alter­na­tives for After­life-ism

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 May 2007 7:41 UTC
35 points
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The Third Alternative

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 May 2007 23:47 UTC
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Be­ware the Unsurprised

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 May 2007 22:45 UTC
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Think Like Reality

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 May 2007 6:36 UTC
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Univer­sal Law

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Apr 2007 6:41 UTC
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Univer­sal Fire

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Apr 2007 21:15 UTC
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Feel­ing Rational

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Apr 2007 4:48 UTC
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Con­soli­dated Na­ture of Mo­ral­ity Thread

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Apr 2007 23:00 UTC
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Your Ra­tion­al­ity is My Business

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Apr 2007 7:31 UTC
174 points
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New Im­proved Lottery

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Apr 2007 23:42 UTC
132 points
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Lot­ter­ies: A Waste of Hope

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Apr 2007 5:36 UTC
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Pri­ors as Math­e­mat­i­cal Objects

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Apr 2007 3:24 UTC
53 points
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Marginally Zero-Sum Efforts

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Apr 2007 5:22 UTC
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Fu­tur­is­tic Pre­dic­tions as Con­sum­able Goods

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Apr 2007 0:18 UTC
35 points
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Suggested Posts

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Apr 2007 2:32 UTC
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“In­duc­tive Bias”

Eliezer Yudkowsky8 Apr 2007 19:52 UTC
39 points
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De­bi­as­ing as Non-Self-Destruction

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Apr 2007 20:20 UTC
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Know­ing About Bi­ases Can Hurt People

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Apr 2007 18:01 UTC
234 points
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