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Principles

TagLast edit: 5 Aug 2020 10:54 UTC by Yoav Ravid

Principles are fundamental truths that serve as the foundations for behavior that gets you what you want out of life. They can be applied again and again in similar situations to help you achieve your goals.” ― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work.

Principles, Heuristics, and rules of thumb are generalizations that aim to produce an optimal outcome relative to their cheapness as decision rules.

Not using generalizations, Rules of thumb and Heuristics isn’t possible. precise decision rules such as Bayes Theorem are computationally intractable even to computers, and surely aren’t feasible for humans. the question become whether you have good and effective principles to guide you.

See also: Chesterton’s Fence, Conservation of Expected Evidence, Occam’s razor, Goodhart’s Law, More Dakka

Yes Re­quires the Pos­si­bil­ity of No

Scott Garrabrant17 May 2019 22:39 UTC
272 points
56 comments2 min readLW link2 reviews

Truth­seek­ing pro­cesses tend to be frame-invariant

Adele Lopez21 Mar 2023 6:17 UTC
21 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Mak­ing Beliefs Pay Rent (in An­ti­ci­pated Ex­pe­riences)

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Jul 2007 22:59 UTC
474 points
267 comments4 min readLW link

Joey Savoie from Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship and His Prin­ci­ples—OpenPrin­ci­ples Speaker Session

ti_guo10 Oct 2022 2:28 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Re­spect Ch­ester­ton-Schel­ling Fences

Shmi27 Feb 2023 0:09 UTC
58 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Oc­cam’s Razor

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Sep 2007 6:36 UTC
131 points
55 comments5 min readLW link

Be­ware of Other-Optimizing

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Apr 2009 1:58 UTC
186 points
119 comments5 min readLW link

Niche product design

Itay Dreyfus20 Jun 2024 6:34 UTC
2 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
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Be­ware The Man Of One Study

Scott Alexander12 Dec 2014 9:04 UTC
62 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

Re­v­ersed Stu­pidity Is Not Intelligence

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Dec 2007 22:14 UTC
182 points
120 comments3 min readLW link

Don’t Re­vere The Bearer Of Good Info

CarlShulman21 Mar 2009 23:22 UTC
126 points
72 comments3 min readLW link

Use­ful maxims

Paul Crowley11 Jul 2012 11:56 UTC
38 points
111 comments1 min readLW link

Some peo­ple just won’t get it

Amir Bolous12 Jun 2021 15:10 UTC
3 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Reflect­ing on build­ing my own tools from scratch and ‘in­vent­ing on prin­ci­ple’

Amir Bolous17 Jul 2021 18:43 UTC
44 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

OpenPrin­ci­ples Boot­camp (Free) -- Reflect & Act on your Ra­tion­al­ity Prin­ci­ples.

ti_guo8 Sep 2022 3:06 UTC
6 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Be­ware Iso­lated De­mands For Rigor

Scott Alexander2 Sep 2017 19:50 UTC
119 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

In­cor­rect hy­pothe­ses point to cor­rect observations

Kaj_Sotala20 Nov 2018 21:10 UTC
167 points
40 comments4 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)
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