Some phrases in The Map that… Confuse me- help please, to make my review of it better!


I recently read

A Map that Reflect the Territory: Essays by the Less Wrong Community

I will be posting a review of it on the lesswrong site soon.

But I want to improve it first and need your help!

There were some words or phrases that were used that either confused me
or I could not find a definition on the web anywhere! So please clarify if you can.


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In the article

What Motivated Rescuers During the Holocaust? by Martin Sustrik,

is the following:

As I already said, I am not an expert on the topic, but if what we see
here is not an instance of the bystander effect, I’ll eat my hat.

He is referring to that people who begin helping one Jew escape the Nazi’s
end up helping more.

The phrase Bystander Effect is on the web! A lot!
It seems to be that

the more people that are bystanders who could prevent something bad from
happenings the less likely someone really will.

This seems different from how its used in the essay.
(Side note- I couldn’t seem to find this essay on the less wrong website.)

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Yed graphs.
In the article

What Makes People Intellectually Active? by Abram Demski

https://​​www.lesswrong.com/​​posts/​​XYYyzgyuRH5rFN64K/​​what-makes-people-intellectually-active

is the following:

I might write one day on topics that interest me, and have sprawling Yed graphs
in which I’m trying to make sense of confusing and conflicting evidence.


What are Yed Graphs?

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In the article

What Makes People Intellectually Active? by Abram Demski

https://​​www.lesswrong.com/​​posts/​​XYYyzgyuRH5rFN64K/​​what-makes-people-intellectually-active

is the following:

Its like the only rationality technique is TAPs, and you only set up taps of the form
``resemblance to rationality concept″ IMPLIES ``think of rationality concept″.

What is TAP?