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Disagreement

TagLast edit: 19 Mar 2023 20:06 UTC by Diabloto96

Disagreement is when two people have different beliefs.

Aumann’s Agreement Theorem

Considered of particular relevance to disagreement between people trying to be rational, Aumann’s agreement theorem can be informally interpreted as suggesting that if two people are honest seekers of truth, and both believe each other to be honest, then they should update on each other’s opinions and quickly reach agreement. The very fact that a person believes something is Rational evidence that that something is true, and so this fact should be taken into account when forming your belief.

Outside of well-functioning prediction markets, Aumann agreement can probably only be approximated by careful deliberative discourse. Interest in Aumann agreement has waned in recent years within the Rationalist community, perhaps out of a sense Aumann agreement cannot be practically achieved by humans – there is too much background information to be exchanged. Instead, people now focus on things more like Double-Crux

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References

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The Modesty Argument

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Dec 2006 21:42 UTC
54 points
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Bayesian Judo

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 Jul 2007 5:53 UTC
85 points
109 comments1 min readLW link

Ta­boo Your Words

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Feb 2008 22:53 UTC
236 points
130 comments3 min readLW link

The Rhythm of Disagreement

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Jun 2008 20:18 UTC
24 points
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Prin­ci­ples of Disagreement

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Jun 2008 7:04 UTC
20 points
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Hot Air Doesn’t Disagree

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Aug 2008 0:42 UTC
15 points
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The Me­chan­ics of Disagreement

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Dec 2008 14:01 UTC
14 points
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Wise Preten­sions v.0

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Feb 2009 17:02 UTC
15 points
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The Mis­take Script

jimrandomh9 Mar 2009 17:35 UTC
12 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

How to Not Lose an Argument

Scott Alexander19 Mar 2009 1:07 UTC
160 points
416 comments6 min readLW link

The Epistemic Pri­soner’s Dilemma

MBlume18 Apr 2009 5:36 UTC
94 points
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Fic­tion of interest

dclayh29 Apr 2009 18:47 UTC
14 points
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How to use “philo­soph­i­cal ma­jori­tar­i­anism”

jimmy5 May 2009 6:49 UTC
13 points
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Dissent­ing Views

byrnema26 May 2009 18:55 UTC
22 points
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A so­cial norm against un­jus­tified opinions?

Kaj_Sotala29 May 2009 11:25 UTC
16 points
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The Onion Goes In­side The Bi­ased Mind

patrissimo30 May 2009 17:33 UTC
8 points
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Bio­con­ser­va­tive and bio­mod­er­ate sin­gu­lar­i­tar­ian positions

Roko2 Jun 2009 13:19 UTC
13 points
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Causes of disagreements

JustinShovelain16 Jul 2009 21:51 UTC
27 points
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Let Them De­bate Col­lege Students

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Sep 2009 18:15 UTC
88 points
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In­tu­itive differ­ences: when to agree to disagree

Kaj_Sotala29 Sep 2009 7:56 UTC
35 points
36 comments4 min readLW link

Agree, Re­tort, or Ig­nore? A Post From the Future

Wei Dai24 Nov 2009 22:29 UTC
39 points
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Fre­quen­tist Statis­tics are Fre­quently Subjective

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Dec 2009 20:22 UTC
86 points
82 comments8 min readLW link

Rea­son­ing isn’t about logic (it’s about ar­gu­ing)

Morendil14 Mar 2010 4:42 UTC
66 points
31 comments3 min readLW link

Nav­i­gat­ing dis­agree­ment: How to keep your eye on the ev­i­dence

AnnaSalamon24 Apr 2010 22:47 UTC
47 points
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The Sin of Persuasion

Desrtopa27 Nov 2010 21:44 UTC
37 points
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It is OK to pub­li­cly make a mis­take and change your mind

JGWeissman12 Apr 2011 1:24 UTC
89 points
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Mal­ice, Stu­pidity, or Egal­ité Ir­réfléchie?

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)13 Jun 2011 20:57 UTC
32 points
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Oc­cupy Wall Street: Pre­dic­tions, Speculations

byrnema19 Oct 2011 0:44 UTC
−8 points
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Bet­ter Disagreement

lukeprog24 Oct 2011 21:13 UTC
89 points
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The prob­lem with too many ra­tio­nal memes

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 19 Jan 2012 0:56 UTC
121 points
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6 Tips for Pro­duc­tive Arguments

John_Maxwell18 Mar 2012 21:02 UTC
44 points
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Un­der-ac­knowl­edged Value Differences

Wei Dai12 Sep 2012 22:02 UTC
70 points
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Proofs, Im­pli­ca­tions, and Models

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Oct 2012 13:02 UTC
126 points
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Ac­cord­ing to Dale Carnegie, You Can’t Win an Ar­gu­ment—and He Has a Point

ChrisHallquist30 Nov 2013 6:23 UTC
111 points
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Fas­cists and Rakes

philh5 Jan 2014 0:41 UTC
58 points
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False Friends and Tone Policing

palladias18 Jun 2014 18:20 UTC
71 points
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Change Con­texts to Im­prove Arguments

palladias8 Jul 2014 15:51 UTC
42 points
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Six Ways To Get Along With Peo­ple Who Are To­tally Wrong*

RobertWiblin27 May 2015 12:37 UTC
38 points
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Flow­sheet Logic and Note­card Logic

moridinamael9 Sep 2015 16:42 UTC
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Dou­ble Crux — A Strat­egy for Mu­tual Understanding

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien2 Jan 2017 4:37 UTC
184 points
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Blind Goal­ten­ders: Un­pro­duc­tive Disagreements

PDV28 Sep 2017 16:19 UTC
19 points
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Rare Ex­cep­tion or Com­mon Exception

weft13 Oct 2017 22:02 UTC
14 points
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Seek Fair Ex­pec­ta­tions of Others’ Models

Zvi17 Oct 2017 14:30 UTC
60 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Against Modest Epistemology

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Nov 2017 20:40 UTC
68 points
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Ci­vil­ity Is Never Neutral

ozymandias22 Nov 2017 16:54 UTC
57 points
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The Right to be Wrong

sarahconstantin28 Nov 2017 23:43 UTC
48 points
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Nice­ness Stealth-Bombing

things_which_are_not_on_fire8 Jan 2018 22:16 UTC
23 points
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Tak­ing it Pri­vate: Short Cir­cuit­ing De­mon Threads (work­ing ex­am­ple)

Raemon22 Jan 2018 0:37 UTC
23 points
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Hufflepuff Cyn­i­cism on Crocker’s Rule

abramdemski14 Feb 2018 0:52 UTC
16 points
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Meta-tations on Moder­a­tion: Towards Public Archipelago

Raemon25 Feb 2018 3:59 UTC
78 points
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In­con­ve­nience Is Qual­i­ta­tively Bad

Alicorn26 Feb 2018 23:27 UTC
82 points
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Ar­gu­ment, in­tu­ition, and recursion

paulfchristiano5 Mar 2018 1:37 UTC
44 points
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Strength­en­ing the foun­da­tions un­der the Over­ton Win­dow with­out mov­ing it

KatjaGrace14 Mar 2018 2:20 UTC
12 points
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(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)

Diffus­ing “I can’t be that stupid”

Hazard24 Mar 2018 14:49 UTC
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Form Your Own Opinions

Ben Pace28 Apr 2018 19:50 UTC
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Va­ri­eties Of Ar­gu­men­ta­tive Experience

Scott Alexander8 May 2018 8:20 UTC
93 points
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(slatestarcodex.com)

Iter­a­tive Ar­gu­ments: Alter­na­tive to Ad­ver­sar­ial Collaboration

matsn12 Sep 2018 15:56 UTC
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You’re never wrong in­ject­ing com­plex­ity, but rarely you’re right

MrMind3 Oct 2018 14:20 UTC
36 points
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De­bate Rules In Ben­jamin Fran­klin’s Junto

namespace30 Oct 2018 23:42 UTC
77 points
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On Disingenuity

Chris_Leong26 Dec 2018 17:08 UTC
28 points
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The Tale of Alice Al­most: Strate­gies for Deal­ing With Pretty Good People

sarahconstantin27 Feb 2019 19:34 UTC
116 points
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(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Change A View: An in­ter­est­ing on­line community

habryka30 Apr 2019 18:34 UTC
50 points
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(changeaview.com)

Dishon­est Up­date Reporting

Zvi4 May 2019 14:10 UTC
59 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] How to deal with a mis­lead­ing con­fer­ence talk about AI risk?

rmoehn27 Jun 2019 21:04 UTC
21 points
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Self-con­scious­ness wants to make ev­ery­thing about itself

jessicata3 Jul 2019 1:44 UTC
42 points
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(unstableontology.com)

Do you fear the rock or the hard place?

Ruby20 Jul 2019 22:01 UTC
67 points
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The Power to De­mol­ish Bad Arguments

Liron2 Sep 2019 12:57 UTC
97 points
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Rev­er­sal Tests in Ar­gu­ment and Debate

Davis_Kingsley13 Sep 2019 9:18 UTC
32 points
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Notic­ing Frame Differences

Raemon30 Sep 2019 1:24 UTC
207 points
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[Question] Books/​Liter­a­ture on re­solv­ing tech­ni­cal dis­agree­ments?

Hazard14 Nov 2019 17:30 UTC
13 points
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Can you elimi­nate memetic scarcity, in­stead of fight­ing?

Raemon25 Nov 2019 2:07 UTC
69 points
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Karate Kid and Real­is­tic Ex­pec­ta­tions for Disagree­ment Resolution

Raemon4 Dec 2019 23:25 UTC
101 points
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Don’t Dou­ble-Crux With Suicide Rock

Zack_M_Davis1 Jan 2020 19:02 UTC
81 points
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High-pre­ci­sion claims may be re­futed with­out be­ing re­placed with other high-pre­ci­sion claims

jessicata30 Jan 2020 23:08 UTC
55 points
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(unstableontology.com)

Com­ment on “En­doge­nous Epistemic Fac­tion­al­iza­tion”

Zack_M_Davis20 May 2020 18:04 UTC
151 points
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Up­dated Hier­ar­chy of Disagreement

B Jacobs28 May 2020 15:57 UTC
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A Prac­ti­cal Guide to Con­flict Re­s­olu­tion: Comprehension

eapache13 Jun 2020 15:08 UTC
29 points
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Creat­ing bet­ter in­fras­truc­ture for con­tro­ver­sial dis­course

Rudi C16 Jun 2020 15:17 UTC
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Prac­ti­cal Con­flict Re­s­olu­tion: A Tax­on­omy of Disagreement

eapache19 Jun 2020 2:25 UTC
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The Ba­sic Dou­ble Crux pattern

Eli Tyre22 Jul 2020 6:41 UTC
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Sport­ing vs. Herd­ing: two styles of discourse

Suspended Reason25 Jul 2020 1:56 UTC
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Ba­sic Con­ver­sa­tional Co­or­di­na­tion: Micro-co­or­di­na­tion of In­ten­tion

Eli Tyre27 Jul 2020 22:41 UTC
40 points
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AXRP Epi­sode 3 - Ne­go­tiable Re­in­force­ment Learn­ing with An­drew Critch

DanielFilan29 Dec 2020 20:45 UTC
26 points
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Ar­gu­ing from a Gap of Perspective

ideenrun1 May 2021 22:42 UTC
6 points
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Reach­a­bil­ity De­bates (Are Often In­visi­ble)

J Bostock27 Sep 2021 22:05 UTC
17 points
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Ex­plain­ing Cap­i­tal­ism Harder

jefftk17 Oct 2021 2:40 UTC
105 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

Choos­ing bat­tles (on the In­ter­net)

PatrickDFarley20 Jan 2022 15:38 UTC
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[Question] Trans­fer­ring cre­dence with­out trans­fer­ring ev­i­dence?

Kaarel4 Feb 2022 8:11 UTC
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But­terfly Ideas

Elizabeth22 Feb 2022 7:40 UTC
171 points
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(acesounderglass.com)

Deferring

owencb12 May 2022 23:56 UTC
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Fun­da­men­tal Uncer­tainty: Chap­ter 3 - Why don’t we agree on what’s right?

Gordon Seidoh Worley25 Jun 2022 17:50 UTC
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A Quick On­tol­ogy of Agreement

ravedon26 Jun 2022 17:39 UTC
5 points
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Em­brac­ing the Op­po­si­tion’s Point

Yulia21 Aug 2022 9:51 UTC
21 points
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(yuliaverse.substack.com)

Gen­er­a­tors Of Disagree­ment With AI Alignment

George3d67 Sep 2022 18:15 UTC
27 points
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(www.epistem.ink)

Con­sider your ap­petite for disagreements

Adam Zerner8 Oct 2022 23:25 UTC
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[Question] What is a dis­agree­ment you have around AI safety?

tailcalled12 Jan 2023 16:58 UTC
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Aiming for Con­ver­gence Is Like Dis­cour­ag­ing Betting

Zack_M_Davis1 Feb 2023 0:03 UTC
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Re­ply to Dun­can Sa­bien on Strawmanning

Zack_M_Davis3 Feb 2023 17:57 UTC
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Hash­ing out long-stand­ing dis­agree­ments seems low-value to me

So8res16 Feb 2023 6:20 UTC
130 points
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“Ra­tion­al­ist Dis­course” Is Like “Physi­cist Mo­tors”

Zack_M_Davis26 Feb 2023 5:58 UTC
131 points
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Why There Is No An­swer to Your Philo­soph­i­cal Question

Bryan Frances24 Mar 2023 23:22 UTC
−12 points
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A decade of lurk­ing, a month of posting

Max H9 Apr 2023 0:21 UTC
70 points
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On “aiming for con­ver­gence on truth”

gjm11 Apr 2023 18:19 UTC
67 points
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Bet­ter debates

TsviBT10 May 2023 19:34 UTC
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As­sume Bad Faith

Zack_M_Davis25 Aug 2023 17:36 UTC
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Au­mann-agree­ment is common

tailcalled26 Aug 2023 20:22 UTC
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Po­lariza­tion is Not (Stan­dard) Bayesian

Kevin Dorst16 Sep 2023 16:31 UTC
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(kevindorst.substack.com)

Why We Disagree

zulupineapple25 Oct 2023 10:50 UTC
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In Defense of Epistemic Em­pa­thy

Kevin Dorst27 Dec 2023 16:27 UTC
54 points
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(kevindorst.substack.com)

Bayesian up­dat­ing in real life is mostly about un­der­stand­ing your hypotheses

Max H1 Jan 2024 0:10 UTC
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An­nounc­ing the Dou­ble Crux Bot

9 Jan 2024 18:54 UTC
39 points
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On the Con­trary, Steel­man­ning Is Nor­mal; ITT-Pass­ing Is Niche

Zack_M_Davis9 Jan 2024 23:12 UTC
39 points
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Ide­olog­i­cal Bayesians

Kevin Dorst25 Feb 2024 14:17 UTC
94 points
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(kevindorst.substack.com)

Inex­is­tence of Ra­tional Disagree­ment when In­for­ma­tion can be Freely Exchanged

Cheops Steller28 Mar 2024 12:40 UTC
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