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Cog­ni­tive Science

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Cognitive science draws upon a variety of different disciplines to try to describe and explain the way humans think. It heavily involves neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. It differs from neuroscience in that it focuses less on relating structure to function, and more on using many approaches to form higher-level models to predict behaviour.

Do We Believe Every­thing We’re Told?

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Oct 2007 23:52 UTC
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Ver­bal Over­shad­ow­ing and The Art of Rationality

pangloss27 Apr 2009 23:39 UTC
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A Tax­on­omy of Bias: The Cog­ni­tive Miser

Kaj_Sotala2 Jul 2010 18:38 UTC
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Want­ing vs. Lik­ing Revisited

Scott Alexander9 Jul 2011 20:54 UTC
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A Crash Course in the Neu­ro­science of Hu­man Motivation

lukeprog19 Aug 2011 21:15 UTC
200 points
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The Cog­ni­tive Science of Rationality

lukeprog12 Sep 2011 20:48 UTC
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Con­cepts Don’t Work That Way

lukeprog28 Sep 2011 2:01 UTC
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Liv­ing Metaphorically

lukeprog28 Nov 2011 15:01 UTC
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Mini-Re­view: ‘The Oxford Hand­book of Philos­o­phy of Cog­ni­tive Science’

lukeprog1 Feb 2012 21:48 UTC
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[Link] Cog­ni­tive Sciences Stack Ex­change opened

Kaj_Sotala5 Feb 2012 8:07 UTC
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The Use­ful Idea of Truth

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Oct 2012 18:16 UTC
180 points
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[Lec­ture Club] Awak­en­ing from the Mean­ing Crisis

Vaniver8 Mar 2021 15:22 UTC
71 points
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Trapped Pri­ors As A Ba­sic Prob­lem Of Rationality

Scott Alexander12 Mar 2021 20:02 UTC
141 points
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Our com­pressed perception

pchvykov6 Apr 2021 11:01 UTC
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Mind­ful­ness as debugging

pchvykov30 Apr 2021 16:59 UTC
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On Humor

Chris Land18 Sep 2021 21:40 UTC
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[Book Re­view] Altered Traits

lsusr23 Sep 2021 0:33 UTC
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The Dark Side of Cog­ni­tion Hypothesis

Cameron Berg3 Oct 2021 20:10 UTC
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There is es­sen­tially one best-val­i­dated the­ory of cog­ni­tion.

abramdemski10 Dec 2021 15:51 UTC
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“Brain en­thu­si­asts” in AI Safety

18 Jun 2022 9:59 UTC
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(universalprior.substack.com)

Mis­takes as agency

pchvykov25 Jul 2022 16:17 UTC
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Ac­cep­tance and Com­mit­ment Ther­apy (ACT) 101

Evie Cottrell25 Sep 2022 7:25 UTC
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[Question] Is a PhD nec­es­sary to con­tribute mean­ingfully to a field?

TrudosKudos27 Sep 2022 21:27 UTC
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Feelings

Oren Montano13 Oct 2022 17:48 UTC
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[Heb­bian Nat­u­ral Ab­strac­tions] Introduction

21 Nov 2022 20:34 UTC
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(www.snellessen.com)

Take part in our gi­ant study of cog­ni­tive abil­ities and get a cus­tomized re­port of your strengths and weak­nesses!

spencerg25 Nov 2022 16:28 UTC
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(www.guidedtrack.com)

[Heb­bian Nat­u­ral Ab­strac­tions] Math­e­mat­i­cal Foundations

25 Dec 2022 20:58 UTC
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(www.snellessen.com)

Scal­ing laws vs in­di­vi­d­ual differences

beren10 Jan 2023 13:22 UTC
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Cri­tique of some re­cent philos­o­phy of LLMs’ minds

Roman Leventov20 Jan 2023 12:53 UTC
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Her­i­ta­bil­ity, Be­hav­iorism, and Within-Life­time RL

Steven Byrnes2 Feb 2023 16:34 UTC
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In defense of the MBTI

ZZZZZZ6 Feb 2023 21:08 UTC
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A multi-dis­ci­plinary view on AI safety research

Roman Leventov8 Feb 2023 16:50 UTC
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Learn­ing How to Learn (And 20+ Stud­ies)

maxa26 Feb 2023 22:46 UTC
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(max2c.com)

Emer­gent Analog­i­cal Rea­son­ing in Large Lan­guage Models

Roman Leventov22 Mar 2023 5:18 UTC
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(arxiv.org)

[Question] Ber­mudez In­ter­face Problem

Motor Vehicle27 Mar 2023 18:11 UTC
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Inch­ing “Kubla Khan” and GPT into the same in­tel­lec­tual frame­work @ 3 Quarks Daily

Bill Benzon28 Mar 2023 19:50 UTC
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Cor­rect­ing a mis­con­cep­tion: con­scious­ness does not need 90 billion neu­rons, at all

bvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbv31 Mar 2023 16:02 UTC
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Orthog­o­nal­ity is expensive

beren3 Apr 2023 10:20 UTC
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For al­ign­ment, we should si­mul­ta­neously use mul­ti­ple the­o­ries of cog­ni­tion and value

Roman Leventov24 Apr 2023 10:37 UTC
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Data and “to­kens” a 30 year old hu­man “trains” on

Jose Miguel Cruz y Celis23 May 2023 5:34 UTC
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Not an­other bias!

Lionel5 Jun 2023 17:50 UTC
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(lionelpage.substack.com)

Does biol­ogy mat­ter to con­scious­ness?

Reed6 Jul 2023 17:38 UTC
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[Question] Do we au­to­mat­i­cally ac­cept propo­si­tions?

Aaron Graifman11 Jul 2023 17:45 UTC
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An In­tro­duc­tion to Me

AlithyInfinity24 Aug 2023 16:45 UTC
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[Valence se­ries] 2. Valence & Normativity

Steven Byrnes7 Dec 2023 16:43 UTC
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[Valence se­ries] 3. Valence & Beliefs

Steven Byrnes11 Dec 2023 20:21 UTC
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[Paper] Tra­jec­to­ries through se­man­tic spaces in schizophre­nia and the re­la­tion­ship to rip­ple bursts

bvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbv15 Dec 2023 13:37 UTC
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(www.pnas.org)

[Question] Time Fuse in Head

Martin Rychlitzki25 Dec 2023 9:46 UTC
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The prospect of Teleo­nomic AI

Value5 Jan 2024 17:26 UTC
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Ap­ply to the PIBBSS Sum­mer Re­search Fellowship

12 Jan 2024 4:06 UTC
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Wor­ri­some mi­s­un­der­stand­ing of the core is­sues with AI transition

Roman Leventov18 Jan 2024 10:05 UTC
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Sur­vey for al­ign­ment re­searchers!

2 Feb 2024 20:41 UTC
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From Con­cep­tual Spaces to Quan­tum Con­cepts: For­mal­is­ing and Learn­ing Struc­tured Con­cep­tual Models

Roman Leventov6 Feb 2024 10:18 UTC
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(arxiv.org)

Quan­tum Dar­winism, so­cial con­structs, and the sci­en­tific method

pchvykov7 Feb 2024 7:04 UTC
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Core sys­tems of number

Bruce W. Lee9 Feb 2024 2:19 UTC
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(www.sciencedirect.com)

Shared sys­tem for or­der­ing small and large num­bers in mon­keys and humans

Bruce W. Lee9 Feb 2024 4:45 UTC
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(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

Num­ber Trumps Area for 7-Month-Old Infants

Bruce W. Lee9 Feb 2024 4:58 UTC
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(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

Causal­ity is Everywhere

silentbob13 Feb 2024 13:44 UTC
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Re­la­tional Think­ing in An­i­mals and Humans

Bruce W. Lee19 Feb 2024 18:34 UTC
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(psycnet.apa.org)

Rep­re­sen­ta­tions of Ab­stract Re­la­tions in Infancy

Bruce W. Lee20 Feb 2024 17:40 UTC
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(direct.mit.edu)

The role of philo­soph­i­cal think­ing in un­der­stand­ing large lan­guage mod­els: Cal­ibrat­ing and clos­ing the gap be­tween first-per­son ex­pe­rience and un­der­ly­ing mechanisms

Bill Benzon23 Feb 2024 12:19 UTC
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In­fants’ un­der­stand­ing of the causal power of agents and tools

Bruce W. Lee27 Feb 2024 18:36 UTC
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(www.pnas.org)

In­fants ask for help to avoid er­rors.

Bruce W. Lee2 Apr 2024 18:10 UTC
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(www.pnas.org)
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