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Ra­tion­al­ism be­fore the Sequences

Eric Raymond30 Mar 2021 14:04 UTC
599 points
83 comments11 min readLW link2 reviews

Fu­sion and Equiv­o­ca­tion in Korzyb­ski’s Gen­eral Semantics

abramdemski21 Dec 2020 5:44 UTC
67 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

Time Binders

Slimepriestess24 Feb 2020 9:55 UTC
24 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

Every­thing I Know About Se­man­tics I Learned From Mu­sic Notation

J Bostock9 Mar 2025 18:09 UTC
34 points
2 comments10 min readLW link

The Prac­tice & Virtue of Discernment

ozziegooen26 May 2021 0:34 UTC
41 points
11 comments11 min readLW link

Con­scious­ness of abstraction

Richard_Kennaway21 Dec 2020 21:35 UTC
28 points
12 comments7 min readLW link

Ex­treme Ra­tion­al­ity: It’s Not That Great

Scott Alexander9 Apr 2009 2:44 UTC
252 points
281 comments8 min readLW link

Im­pli­ca­ture Conflation

abramdemski9 Aug 2021 19:48 UTC
55 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

Sub­script­ing Ty­po­graphic Con­ven­tion For Ci­ta­tions/​Dates/​Sources/​Ev­i­den­tials: A Proposal

gwern8 Jan 2020 22:20 UTC
59 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

The Se­man­tic Man

namespace22 Nov 2018 8:38 UTC
19 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.generalsemantics.org)

A Semiotic Cri­tique of the Orthog­o­nal­ity Thesis

Nicolas Villarreal4 Jun 2024 18:52 UTC
3 points
10 comments15 min readLW link

[Question] I Tried to For­mal­ize Mean­ing. I May Have Ac­ci­den­tally De­scribed Con­scious­ness.

Erichcurtis9130 Apr 2025 3:16 UTC
0 points
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Time-Binding

Viliam14 Aug 2015 17:38 UTC
29 points
19 comments5 min readLW link

A Chi­nese Room Con­tain­ing a Stack of Stochas­tic Parrots

RogerDearnaley12 Jan 2024 6:29 UTC
21 points
4 comments5 min readLW link1 review

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence isn’t Ap­prox­i­mated by a Ra­tional Agent

Nicolas Villarreal24 Jul 2025 11:41 UTC
13 points
11 comments12 min readLW link

Struc­tural Es­ti­mates of Hu­man Computation

Nicolas Villarreal9 Nov 2025 13:46 UTC
−11 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Higher Order Signs, Hal­lu­ci­na­tion and Schizophrenia

Nicolas Villarreal2 Nov 2024 16:33 UTC
4 points
0 comments13 min readLW link
(nicolasdvillarreal.substack.com)

The Chi­nese Room re-vis­ited: How LLM’s have real (but differ­ent) un­der­stand­ing of words

James Diacoumis24 Sep 2025 14:06 UTC
6 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
(jamesdiacoumis.substack.com)

Ma­te­ri­al­ist Semiotics and the Na­ture of Qualia

Nicolas Villarreal10 Oct 2025 13:08 UTC
−1 points
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A Com­pat­i­bil­ist Defi­ni­tion of Santa Claus

Shiva's Right Foot23 Sep 2025 16:57 UTC
18 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
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