Thinking in ways that lead to true beliefs and optimal decisions. “Rationality” is used here specifically for content that relates to cognitive algorithms.
Object-level stuff not directly about minds, e.g. practical advice, is clustered under World Modeling and Practical.
How the world is. Science. Math. Statistics. History. Biology. Sociology. Engineering. That kind of stuff.
Models that pertains to minds/thinking, how to improve the world or oneself, and AI are mostly excluded from this cluster. They can be found under the Rationality, World Optimization, and AI Alignment tags.
Since these models pertain directly to questions how to optimize the world, they are grouped primarily under World Optimization rather than World Modeling. Some posts will be dual-tagged.
For posts that are about individuals and groups who participate on LessWrong or are part of our broader community. This includes projects and practices.
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AI
Everything to do with the effects of advanced artificial intelligence on the world, especially ensuring the outcomes are good.
AI Boxing (Containment)
Factored Cognition
Mesa-Optimization
Orthogonality Thesis
Value Learning
Utility Functions (also #Rationality)
Instrumental Convergence
GPT-2
Meta
Research Agendas (not exclusively AI Alignment)
See also Forecasting & Predictions which contains AI-related forecasts.
Rationality
Thinking in ways that lead to true beliefs and optimal decisions. “Rationality” is used here specifically for content that relates to cognitive algorithms.
Object-level stuff not directly about minds, e.g. practical advice, is clustered under World Modeling and Practical.
Formal / Theoretical
Conservation of Expected Evidence
Decision Theory
Game Theory
Solomonoff Induction
Utility Functions
Value of Information
Robust Agents
Models of the Mind / Agents
Perceptual Control Theory
Techniques & Skills
Techniques
Focusing
Trigger Action Planning / Trigger Action Patterns
Goal Factoring (also under #Practical)
Hamming Questions
Identity
Betting
Forecasting & Prediction (methodology)
Forecasts (concrete predictions)
Scholarship & Learning
Replicability (see also #World Modeling)
Dark Arts (also a Failure Mode)
Failure Modes
Bucket Errors
Compartmentalization
Goodhart’s Law
Heuristics and Biases
Mind Projection Fallacy
Rationalization
Motivated Reasoning
Confirmation Bias
Sunk-Cost Fallacy
Logical Fallacies
Pica
Pitfalls of Rationality
Communication / Argument
Inferential Distance
Information Cascades
Steelmanning
Other
Rationality Quotes
World Modeling
How the world is. Science. Math. Statistics. History. Biology. Sociology. Engineering. That kind of stuff.
Models that pertains to minds/thinking, how to improve the world or oneself, and AI are mostly excluded from this cluster. They can be found under the Rationality, World Optimization, and AI Alignment tags.
Biology
Causality
Consciousness (also #Rationality)
Economics
Cost Disease
History
Machine Learning
Probability & Statistics
Programming
Social Reality
Fact Posts
Meta (see also #Rationality)
Epistemic Review
Replicability
See #Rationality and #World-Optimization for content on scholarship, learning, and research.
World Optimization
Changing the world so that it’s better. Figuring what “better” is.
Aesthetics
Ethics & Metaethics
Moloch
Moral Mazes
Politics
Signaling
Social Reality
Voting Theory
Since these models pertain directly to questions how to optimize the world, they are grouped primarily under World Optimization rather than World Modeling. Some posts will be dual-tagged.
Causes / Interventions / Domains
Animal Welfare
Coronavirus
Prediction Markets
Practical
All content which offers practical, actionable advice on how to achieve goals and generally succeed.
Virtues
Practical Advice
Cryonics
Goal Factoring (also #Rationality)
Meditation
Pica
Productivity
Slack
Scholarship & Learning (also #Rationality)
Spaced Repetition
Motivations
Willpower
Akrasia
Financial Investing
See Rationality for content on memory and learning (pertains to cognitive algorithms).
Optimizing with Others
Circling (has individual benefits too)
Communication Cultures
Game Theory
Groupthink
Information Hazards
Meta-Honesty
Ritual
Community
For posts that are about individuals and groups who participate on LessWrong or are part of our broader community. This includes projects and practices.
Research Agendas
Solstice Celebration
Petrov Day
Ritual
Other
Good tags that don’t fit under the core tags.
Postmortems & Retrospectives
Fiction
Humor
Eldritch Analogies
Paradoxes
Content Type
Book Reviews
Interviews
List of Links
Site Meta
All content that concerns the LessWrong website or online community.
GreaterWrong Meta
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