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Intuition

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Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without recourse to conscious reasoning. Also relevant are Intuition Pumps, a thought experiment, a model, or anything else, that’s structured to allow the thinker to use their intuition to develop an answer to a problem. (From Wikipedia 1, 2) Sometimes intuitions are useful, but sometimes they may be misleading; this itself is a facet of rationality.

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Trust your in­tu­ition—Kah­ne­man’s book misses the for­est for the trees

mnvr29 Nov 2023 4:37 UTC
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Spiral Staircase

Michael Samoilov1 Aug 2023 21:51 UTC
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Six (and a half) in­tu­itions for SVD

CallumMcDougall4 Jul 2023 19:23 UTC
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Hu­mans don’t un­der­stand how we do most things

Nathan11235 Jun 2023 14:35 UTC
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For­mal­iz­ing the “AI x-risk is un­likely be­cause it is ridicu­lous” argument

Christopher King3 May 2023 18:56 UTC
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The Art and Science of In­tu­ition Pumping

adamShimi22 Feb 2022 0:18 UTC
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Mo­ral Golems

Erich_Grunewald3 Apr 2021 10:12 UTC
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(www.erichgrunewald.com)

[Question] Ways to run mul­ti­ple form-in­com­pat­i­ble men­tal­ities?

Self_Optimization22 Nov 2020 17:57 UTC
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Los­ing the for­est for the trees with grid drawings

Adam Zerner24 Sep 2020 21:13 UTC
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In­tu­itions on Univer­sal Be­hav­ior of In­for­ma­tion at a Distance

johnswentworth20 Apr 2020 21:44 UTC
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Math­e­mat­i­cal In­tu­ition­ism and the Flow of Time

Polytopos14 Apr 2020 0:25 UTC
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[Question] What are some ex­er­cises for build­ing/​gen­er­at­ing in­tu­itions about key dis­agree­ments in AI al­ign­ment?

riceissa16 Mar 2020 7:41 UTC
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Re­fac­tor­ing EMH – Thoughts fol­low­ing the lat­est mar­ket crash

Alex_Shleizer28 Feb 2020 15:53 UTC
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Build­ing In­tu­itions On Non-Em­piri­cal Ar­gu­ments In Science

Scott Alexander7 Nov 2019 6:50 UTC
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(slatestarcodex.com)

Is my re­sult wrong? Maths vs in­tu­ition vs evolu­tion in learn­ing hu­man preferences

Stuart_Armstrong10 Sep 2019 0:46 UTC
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How the MtG Color Wheel Ex­plains AI Safety

Scott Garrabrant15 Feb 2019 23:42 UTC
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Mark Eichen­laub: How to de­velop sci­en­tific intuition

Kaj_Sotala23 Oct 2018 13:30 UTC
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Some in­tu­ition on why con­scious­ness seems subjective

SoerenMind27 Jul 2018 22:37 UTC
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Monty Hall in the Wild

Jacob Falkovich6 Jun 2018 18:03 UTC
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Every Im­ple­men­ta­tion of You is You: An In­tu­ition Ladder

lolbifrons29 Mar 2018 5:14 UTC
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Ar­gu­ment, in­tu­ition, and recursion

paulfchristiano5 Mar 2018 1:37 UTC
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In­tu­ition should be ap­plied at the low­est pos­si­ble level

Rafael Harth27 Feb 2018 22:58 UTC
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Sources of in­tu­itions and data on AGI

Scott Garrabrant31 Jan 2018 23:30 UTC
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Cog­ni­tive Core Sys­tems ex­plain­ing in­tu­itions be­hind be­lief in souls, free will, and cre­ation myths

Kaj_Sotala6 May 2017 12:13 UTC
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An In­tu­ition on the Bayes-Struc­tural Jus­tifi­ca­tion for Free Speech Norms

Zack_M_Davis9 Mar 2017 3:15 UTC
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Pat­tern-botch­ing: when you for­get you understand

MalcolmOcean15 Jun 2015 22:58 UTC
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Ra­tion­al­ity is about pat­tern recog­ni­tion, not reasoning

JonahS26 May 2015 19:23 UTC
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In­tu­itions and utilitarianism

KatjaGrace2 Aug 2014 1:21 UTC
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To cap­ture anti-death in­tu­itions, in­clude mem­ory in utilitarianism

Kaj_Sotala15 Jan 2014 6:27 UTC
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In­tu­itions Aren’t Shared That Way

lukeprog29 Nov 2012 6:19 UTC
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Thoughts on moral intuitions

Kaj_Sotala30 Jun 2012 6:01 UTC
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More in­tu­itive ex­pla­na­tions!

XiXiDu6 Jan 2012 18:10 UTC
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In­tu­ition and Mathematics

XiXiDu31 Dec 2011 18:58 UTC
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When In­tu­itions Are Useful

lukeprog9 May 2011 19:40 UTC
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In­tu­ition and Un­con­scious Learning

lukeprog6 May 2011 18:47 UTC
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Your Evolved Intuitions

lukeprog5 May 2011 16:21 UTC
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How to make your in­tu­itions cost-sensitive

apophenia8 Feb 2011 9:59 UTC
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Your in­tu­itions are not magic

Kaj_Sotala10 Jun 2010 0:11 UTC
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How to come up with ver­bal probabilities

jimmy29 Apr 2009 8:35 UTC
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When (Not) To Use Probabilities

Eliezer Yudkowsky23 Jul 2008 10:58 UTC
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The “In­tu­itions” Be­hind “Utili­tar­i­anism”

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Jan 2008 16:29 UTC
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Zut Allais!

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Jan 2008 3:18 UTC
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