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Rationality

Core TagLast edit: Feb 9, 2024, 1:57 AM by jimrandomh

Rationality is the art of thinking in ways that result in accurate beliefs and good decisions. It is the primary topic of LessWrong.

Rationality is not only about avoiding the vices of self-deception and obfuscation (the failure to communicate clearly), but also about the virtue of curiosity, seeing the world more clearly than before, and achieving things previously unreachable to you. The study of rationality on LessWrong includes a theoretical understanding of ideal cognitive algorithms, as well as building a practice that uses these idealized algorithms to inform heuristics, habits, and techniques, to successfully reason and make decisions in the real world.

Topics covered in rationality include (but are not limited to): normative and theoretical explorations of ideal reasoning; the capabilities and limitations of our brain, mind and psychology; applied advice such as introspection techniques and how to achieve truth collaboratively; practical techniques and methodologies for figuring out what’s true ranging from rough quantitative modeling to full research guides.

Note that content about how the world is can be found under World Modeling, and practical advice about how to change the world is categorized under World Optimization or Practical.


Theory /​ Concepts

Anticipated Experiences
Aumann’s Agreement Theorem
Bayes Theorem
Bounded Rationality
Conservation of Expected
Contrarianism
Decision Theory
Epistemology
Game Theory
Gears-Level
Hansonian Pre-Rationality
Law-Thinking
Map and Territory
Newcomb’s Problem
Occam’s razor
Robust Agents
Solomonoff Induction
Truth, Semantics, & Meaning
Utility Functions

Applied Topics

Alief
Betting
Cached Thoughts
Calibration
Dark Arts
Empiricism
Epistemic Modesty
Forecasting & Prediction
Group Rationality
Identity
Inside/​Outside View
Introspection
Intuition
Practice & Philosophy of Science
Scholarship & Learning
Taking Ideas Seriously
Value of Information

Failure Modes

Affect Heuristic
Bucket Errors
Compartmentalization
Confirmation Bias
Fallacies
Goodhart’s Law
Groupthink
Heuristics and Biases
Mind Projection Fallacy
Motivated Reasoning
Pica
Pitfalls of Rationality
Rationalization
Self-Deception
Sunk-Cost Fallacy

Communication

Common Knowledge
Conversation
Decoupling vs Contextualizing
Disagreement
Distillation & Pedagogy
Double-Crux
Good Explanations (Advice)
Ideological Turing Tests
Inferential Distance
Information Cascades
Memetic Immune System
Philosophy of Language
Steelmanning

Techniques

Double-Crux
Focusing
Goal Factoring
Internal Double Crux
Hamming Questions
Noticing
Techniques
Trigger Action Planning/​Patterns

Models of the Mind

Consciousness
Dual Process Theory (System 1 & 2)
General Intelligence
Subagents
Predictive Processing
Perceptual Control Theory
Zombies

Other

Center for Applied Rationality
Curiosity
Rationality Quotes
Updated Beliefs (examples of)

This list is not comprehensive! The tagging system is new. Many needed tags have not been created and/​or added to the above list.


What we’re calling “rationality”

A good heuristic is that rationality is about cognitive algorithms. Rather than being a synonym for true or optimal, the term rational should be reserved for describing whether or not a cognitive algorithm results in true beliefs and optimal actions.

This is distinct from practical advice, such as how to improve relationships or implement productivity systems, which should not be considered “rationality” per se. Some have pushed against labeling self-help as “rational dating”, etc. for reasons along these lines [1, 2], and they are probably correct.

In accordance with this, LessWrong classifies most self-help type advice under the World Optimization tag and not the Rationality tag.

Similarly, most object-level material about how the world is, e.g. math, biology, history, etc. is tagged under World Modeling tag, with exceptions for neuroscience and probability theory, etc., which have concrete consequences for how one ought to think.

Heuristics and Biases

Early material on LessWrong frequently describes rationality with reference to heuristics and biases [1, 2]. Indeed, LessWrong grew out of the blog Overcoming Bias and even Rationality: A-Z opens with a discussion of biases [1] with the opening chapter titled Predictably Wrong. The idea is that human mind has been shown to systematically make certain errors of reasoning, like confirmation bias. Rationality then consists of overcoming these biases.

Apart from the issue of the replication crises which discredited many examples of bias that were commonly referenced on LessWrong, e.g. priming, the “overcoming biases” frame of rationality is too limited. Rationality requires the development of many positive skills, not just removing negative biases to reveal underlying perfect reasoning. These are skills such as how to update the correct amount in response to evidence, how to resolve disagreements with others, how to introspect, and many more.

Instrumental vs Epistemic Rationality

Classically, on LessWrong, a distinction has been made between instrumental rationality and epistemic rationality, however, these terms may be misleading – it’s not as though epistemic rationality can be traded off for gains in instrumental rationality. Only apparently, and to think one should do this is a trap.

Instrumental rationality is defined as being concerned with achieving goals. More specifically, instrumental rationality is the art of choosing and implementing actions that steer the future toward outcomes ranked higher in one’s preferences. Said preferences are not limited to ‘selfish’ preferences or unshared values; they include anything one cares about.

Epistemic rationality is defined as the part of rationality which involves achieving accurate beliefs about the world. It involves updating on receiving new evidence, mitigating cognitive biases, and examining why you believe what you believe. It can be seen as a form of instrumental rationality in which knowledge and truth are goals in themselves, whereas in other forms of instrumental rationality, knowledge and truth are only potential aids to achieving goals. Someone practicing instrumental rationality might even find falsehood useful.

The Art and Science of Rationality

In a field like biology, we can draw a distinction between the science of biology, which involves various theories and empirical data about biological life, and the art of being a biologist, which is the specific way that a biologist thinks and plays with ideas and interacts to the world around them. Similarly, rationality is both a science and an art. There’s study of the iron-clad laws of reasoning and mechanics of the human mind, but there’s also the general training to be the kind of person who reasons well.

Rationalist

The term rationalist as a description of people is used in a couple of ways. It can refer to someone who endeavors to think better and implement as much rationality as they can. Many prefer the term aspiring rationalist to convey that the identifier is a claim to the goal of being more rational rather than a claim of having attained it already.

Perhaps more commonly, rationalist is used to refer culturally to someone associated with various rationalist communities separate from their efforts to improve their rationality.

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[Question] Is it true that most stud­ies in Kah­ne­man’s ‘Think­ing fast and slow’ are not repli­ca­ble and the book is largely not sup­ported by ev­i­dence?

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I do not like math

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New­comblike prob­lems are the norm

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Tel­ling more ra­tio­nal stories

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Plans are Re­cur­sive & Why This is Important

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Use re­silience, in­stead of im­pre­ci­sion, to com­mu­ni­cate uncertainty

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The Ba­sic Dou­ble Crux pattern

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Ag­gre­gat­ing forecasts

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Mean­ing is Quasi-Idempotent

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No Ul­ti­mate Goal and a Small Ex­is­ten­tial Crisis

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Schools Pro­lifer­at­ing Without Evidence

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How I do research

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Prune

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Gears-Level Models are Cap­i­tal Investments

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Model Com­bi­na­tion and Adjustment

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The Out­side View’s Domain

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Real­ism about rationality

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Learned Blankness

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Beau­tiful Probability

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Univer­sal Fire

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Out­side the Laboratory

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What is Bayesi­anism?

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How to Con­vince Me That 2 + 2 = 3

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Re­v­ersed Stu­pidity Is Not Intelligence

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Truly Part Of You

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Thou Art Physics

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Reflec­tions on ra­tio­nal­ity a year out

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Public Po­si­tions and Pri­vate Guts

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[Question] What makes peo­ple in­tel­lec­tu­ally ac­tive?

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Ac­tion and habit

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A Per­sonal Ra­tion­al­ity Wishlist

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In­fer­ence & Empiricism

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Think Like Reality

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Astray with the Truth: Logic and Math

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Im­prove­ment Without Superstition

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Ex­clud­ing the Supernatural

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Science like a chef

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High-pre­ci­sion claims may be re­futed with­out be­ing re­placed with other high-pre­ci­sion claims

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When Gears Go Wrong

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Sus­pi­ciously bal­anced evidence

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Ham­mer­time Day 4: Design

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You Can Face Reality

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 9, 2007, 1:46 AM
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Self-skep­ti­cism: the first prin­ci­ple of rationality

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Phys­i­cal and Men­tal Behavior

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I trans­lated ‘Twelve Virtues of Ra­tion­al­ity’ into He­brew.

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Some Claims Are Just Too Extraordinary

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Tune Your Cog­ni­tive Strategies

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Ten­sions in Truth­seek­ing

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Tsuyoku Nar­i­tai! (I Want To Be­come Stronger)

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 27, 2007, 5:49 PM
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We tend to for­get com­pli­cated things

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A Devel­op­men­tal Frame­work for Rationality

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[Question] Can So­cial Dy­nam­ics Ex­plain Con­junc­tion Fal­lacy Ex­per­i­men­tal Re­sults?

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Asch Con­for­mity Could Ex­plain the Con­junc­tion Fallacy

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The Foun­da­tional Toolbox for Life: Introduction

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Where Philos­o­phy Meets Science

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 12, 2008, 9:21 PM
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Many Wor­lds, One Best Guess

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Re­sist the Happy Death Spiral

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Draw­ing Less Wrong: Overview of Skills, and Rele­vance to Rationality

RaemonNov 19, 2011, 5:05 AM
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Towards a For­mal­i­sa­tion of Log­i­cal Counterfactuals

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So­cial Interfaces

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Prob­a­bil­ity Space & Au­mann Agreement

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Au­mann Agree­ment Game

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Au­mann Agree­ment by Combat

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Au­mann vot­ing; or, How to vote when you’re ignorant

PhilGoetzApr 2, 2009, 6:54 PM
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An ex­pla­na­tion of Au­mann’s agree­ment theorem

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Sta­tus Reg­u­la­tion and Anx­ious Underconfidence

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 16, 2017, 7:35 PM
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The Joys of Con­ju­gate Priors

TCBMay 21, 2011, 2:41 AM
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Some ra­tio­nal­ity tweets

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Nav­i­gat­ing dis­agree­ment: How to keep your eye on the ev­i­dence

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If It’s Worth Do­ing, It’s Worth Do­ing With Made-Up Statistics

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Se­cure Your Beliefs

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This Ter­ri­tory Does Not Exist

ikeAug 13, 2020, 12:30 AM
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Hand vs. Fingers

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 30, 2008, 12:36 AM
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De­bi­as­ing as Non-Self-Destruction

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 7, 2007, 8:20 PM
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“In­duc­tive Bias”

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How webs of mean­ing grow and change

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misc raw re­sponses to a tract of Crit­i­cal Rationalism

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Ex­plicit and tacit rationality

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Self-Anchoring

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 22, 2007, 6:11 AM
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False Laughter

Eliezer YudkowskyDec 22, 2007, 6:03 AM
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To Lead, You Must Stand Up

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Why Does Power Cor­rupt?

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 14, 2008, 12:23 AM
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Self-Similar­ity Experiment

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Bind Your­self to Reality

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 22, 2008, 5:09 AM
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My Child­hood Death Spiral

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My Nat­u­ral­is­tic Awakening

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The ABC’s of Luminosity

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Lights, Cam­era, Ac­tion!

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The Spotlight

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How some al­gorithms feel from inside

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Are You a Par­a­lyzed Subor­di­nate Mon­key?

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False Majorities

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Don’t es­ti­mate your cre­ative in­tel­li­gence by your crit­i­cal intelligence

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Zib­bal­done With It All

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[Question] Why would code/​English or low-ab­strac­tion/​high-ab­strac­tion sim­plic­ity or brevity cor­re­spond?

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Up­dates Thread

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“Win First” vs “Chill First”

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Your Stan­dards are Too High

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Public trans­mit metta

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Do­mains of truth

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Does cog­ni­tive ther­apy en­courage bias?

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Charisma is a Force Multiplier

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A full ex­pla­na­tion to New­comb’s para­dox.

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Msg Len

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The Sun Room

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Knowl­edge, ma­nipu­la­tion, and free will

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Bab­ble & Prune Thoughts

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Things are al­lowed to be good and bad at the same time

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Bet­ting Thread

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My case for start­ing blogging

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[Question] Is it the case that when hu­mans ap­prox­i­mate back­ward in­duc­tion they vi­o­late the markov prop­erty?

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Would most peo­ple benefit from be­ing less co­er­cive to them­selves?

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Build Your Num­ber Sense

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Feed­back for learning

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Deep­mind has made a gen­eral in­duc­tor (“Mak­ing sense of sen­sory in­put”)

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[Question] Has any­body used quan­tifi­ca­tion over util­ity func­tions to define “how good a model is”?

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Bayesian in­fer­ence on 1st or­der logic

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A Gen­tle In­tro­duc­tion on How to Use Anki to Im­prove Your Memory

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[Question] Any layper­son-ac­cessible refer­ence posts on how to op­er­a­tional­ize be­liefs ?

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Net­work­ing and Ex­pert Con­sult­ing As Ra­tion­al­ity Bottlenecks

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[Question] What does flow feel like for “men­tal ac­tivi­ties”?

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The Fear Experiments

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Book re­view: Sleight of Mind (Matt Cook)

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Con­tact with reality

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Gen­er­al­ised mod­els as a category

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The feel­ing of break­ing an Over­ton window

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How Strong is Our Con­nec­tion to Truth?

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Train­ing sweetness

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Utility Max­i­miza­tion = De­scrip­tion Length Minimization

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Short­cuts With Chained Probabilities

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Fore­cast­ing Prize Results

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En­tan­gled with Real­ity: The Shoelace Example

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[Question] How to build com­mon knowl­edge of ra­tio­nal­ity and hon­esty?

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Prin­ci­ples of Agile Rationalism

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Two types of deference

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Min­i­mal Map Constraints

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The Com­pre­hen­sion Curve

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Over­com­ing Helplessness

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Yes, words can cause harm

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Coin­ci­dences are Improbable

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Com­pro­mis­ing with Compulsion

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Never Go Full Kelly

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My Thoughts on the Ap­per­cep­tion Engine

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[Question] Can you be 100% con­fi­dent in your moral be­liefs?

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We should not raise awareness

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Links for Feb 2021

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The Flex­i­bil­ity of Ab­stract Concepts

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[Question] Does any­one else some­times “run out of gas” when try­ing to think?

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How To Think About Over­pa­ram­e­ter­ized Models

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Seven Years of Spaced Rep­e­ti­tion Soft­ware in the Classroom

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A Semitech­ni­cal In­tro­duc­tory Dialogue on Solomonoff Induction

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Make learn­ing a reality

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[Link] On the para­dox of tol­er­ance in re­la­tion to fas­cism and on­line con­tent mod­er­a­tion – Un­sta­ble Ontology

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Five views of Bayes’ Theorem

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De­ci­sion the­ory and dy­namic inconsistency

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Car­ry­ing the Torch: A Re­sponse to Anna Sala­mon by the Guild of the Rose

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Pre­dict­ing Parental Emo­tional Changes?

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Prin­ci­ples for Align­ment/​Agency Projects

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Taste & Shaping

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Im­manuel Kant and the De­ci­sion The­ory App Store

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Mak­ing de­ci­sions us­ing mul­ti­ple worldviews

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What should you change in re­sponse to an “emer­gency”? And AI risk

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Don’t take the or­ga­ni­za­tional chart literally

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What’s next for in­stru­men­tal ra­tio­nal­ity?

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Cu­rat­ing “The Epistemic Se­quences” (list v.0.1)

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Eaves­drop­ping on Aliens: A Data De­cod­ing Challenge

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90% of any­thing should be bad (& the pre­ci­sion-re­call trade­off)

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There are no rules

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ex­is­ten­tial self-determination

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Builder/​Breaker for Deconfusion

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If it seems in­tu­itive, you’re not build­ing intuition

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The cor­rect re­sponse to un­cer­tainty is *not* half-speed

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I learn bet­ter when I frame learn­ing as Vengeance for losses in­curred through ig­no­rance, and you might too

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When ap­par­ently pos­i­tive ev­i­dence can be nega­tive evidence

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Les­sons from ‘Famine, Affluence, and Mo­ral­ity’ and its re­flec­tion on to­day.

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Am I se­cretly ex­cited for AI get­ting weird?

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Gan­dalf or Saru­man? A Soldier in Scout’s Clothing

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Brain as hard­ware, meme­plexes as soft­ware, lan­guage as the op­er­at­ing system

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Se­quence Reread: Fake Beliefs [plus se­quence spotlight meta]

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Cross-Void Optimization

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[Question] Is there any dis­cus­sion on avoid­ing be­ing Dutch-booked or oth­er­wise taken ad­van­tage of one’s bounded ra­tio­nal­ity by re­fus­ing to en­gage?

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di­v­ine carrot

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Devel­oper ex­pe­rience for the motivation

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The two con­cep­tions of Ac­tive In­fer­ence: an in­tel­li­gence ar­chi­tec­ture and a the­ory of agency

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The Echo Principle

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Utili­tar­i­anism Meets Egalitarianism

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Always know where your ab­strac­tions break

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Geo­met­ric Ra­tion­al­ity is Not VNM Rational

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Bi­ases are en­g­ines of cognition

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Be less scared of overconfidence

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MrBeast’s Squid Game Tricked Me

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A Ten­ta­tive Timeline of The Near Fu­ture (2022-2025) for Self-Accountability

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Free Will is [REDACTED]

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The nov­elty quotient

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Re­search Ham­ming Questions

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Set­ting the Zero Point

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When you plan ac­cord­ing to your AI timelines, should you put more weight on the me­dian fu­ture, or the me­dian fu­ture | even­tual AI al­ign­ment suc­cess? ⚖️

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Del­e­gate a Forecast

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The 5-Se­cond Level

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Your Ra­tion­al­ity is My Business

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New edi­tion of “Ra­tion­al­ity: From AI to Zom­bies”

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Right­ing a Wrong Question

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No One Can Ex­empt You From Ra­tion­al­ity’s Laws

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Ham­mer­time Fi­nal Exam

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Hold Off On Propos­ing Solutions

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Mo­ral frame­works and the Har­ris/​Klein debate

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How to en­joy be­ing wrong

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Some­thing’s Wrong

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Branches of ra­tio­nal­ity

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Only say ‘ra­tio­nal’ when you can’t elimi­nate the word

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Ex­treme Ra­tion­al­ity: It’s Not That Great

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Prospect The­ory: A Frame­work for Un­der­stand­ing Cog­ni­tive Biases

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The Good News of Si­tu­a­tion­ist Psychology

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Ab­solute Authority

Eliezer YudkowskyJan 8, 2008, 3:33 AM
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Hind­sight bias

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Singlethink

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 6, 2007, 7:24 PM
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Ra­tion­al­ity and the English Language

Eliezer YudkowskySep 12, 2007, 10:55 PM
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Re­view of Scott Adams’ “How to Fail at Al­most Every­thing and Still Win Big”

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Life as metaphor for ev­ery­thing else.

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Ra­tion­al­ity: Com­mon In­ter­est of Many Causes

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 29, 2009, 10:49 AM
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Sort­ing Out Sticky Brains

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(Ir)ra­tio­nal­ity of Pas­cal’s wager

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Epistemic Effort

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Epistea Sum­mer Ex­per­i­ment (ESE)

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Fun­da­men­tally Flawed, or Fast and Fru­gal?

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Ir­ra­tional Re­sis­tance to Busi­ness Success

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Ra­tion­al­ity Les­sons in the Game of Go

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Level­ing Up in Ra­tion­al­ity: A Per­sonal Journey

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How to Be­come a 1000 Year Old Vampire

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Let them eat cake: In­ter­per­sonal Prob­lems vs Tasks

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Don’t Believe Wrong Things

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Skill and leverage

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You Are Likely To Be Eaten By A Grue

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Test Your Rationality

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CFAR Par­ti­ci­pant Hand­book now available to all

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Heuris­tic is not a bad word

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Only hu­mans can have hu­man values

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That Cri­sis thing seems pretty useful

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Ra­tion­al­ity: An Introduction

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Ra­tion­al­ity Power Tools

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[Question] Will AGI have “hu­man” flaws?

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Quadratic, not logarithmic

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Time­less Identity

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Aim to get re­jected often

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Direct effects mat­ter!

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Use­ful Ques­tions Repository

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[Question] What if we could use the the­ory of Mechanism De­sign from Game The­ory as a medium achieve AI Align­ment?

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The Ree­bok effect

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Cu­rated con­ver­sa­tions with brilli­ant rationalists

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Good Macro, Bad Micro

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If You Want to Find Truth You Need to Step Into Cringe

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Ir­ra­tional Modesty

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The World is Con­tin­u­ous, Not Discrete

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[Question] Do Bayesi­ans like Bayesian model Aver­ag­ing?

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[Question] Halpern’s pa­per—A re­fu­ta­tion of Cox’s the­o­rem?

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[Question] Has Van Horn fixed Cox’s the­o­rem?

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Ra­tion­al­ity Is Ex­per­tise With Reality

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Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Psy­chomagic | Chap­ter 1: Affect

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[Question] Why do we talk about autism (spec­trum) with­out talk­ing about bor­der­line p.d.?

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What makes us happy and de­pressed?

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关于中国的“巫”的部分解释(Some ex­pla­na­tions of “wu” in China)

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Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Psy­chomagic | Chap­ter 2: The Global Neu­ronal Workspace

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Foma: Beliefs that Cause Them­selves to be True

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Laplace’s rule of succession

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I’m tak­ing a course on game the­ory and am faced with this ques­tion. What’s the ra­tio­nal de­ci­sion?

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As­tralCodexTen and Ra­tion­al­ity Meetup Or­ganisers’ Re­treat — Europe, Mid­dle East, and Africa 2023

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Apollo

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De­ci­sion mak­ing un­der model am­bi­guity, moral un­cer­tainty, and other agents with free will?

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The Fu­til­ity of Sta­tus and Signalling

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Ra­tional over­con­fi­dence in the tens of billions: re­cent example

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Re­search Prin­ci­ples for 6 Months of AI Align­ment Studies

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[Question] How should I judge the im­pact of giv­ing $5k to a fam­ily of three kids and two men­tally ill par­ents?

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Pod­cast: What’s Wrong With LessWrong

AlfredDec 21, 2022, 7:06 AM
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Men­tal ac­cep­tance and reflection

Dec 22, 2022, 2:32 PM
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In­tro­duc­tion: Bias in Eval­u­at­ing AGI X-Risks

Dec 27, 2022, 10:27 AM
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Pre­sump­tive Listen­ing: stick­ing to fa­mil­iar con­cepts and miss­ing the outer rea­son­ing paths

RemmeltDec 27, 2022, 3:40 PM
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To Be Par­tic­u­lar About Morality

AGODec 31, 2022, 7:58 PM
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Effec­tively self-study­ing over the Internet

libaiJan 3, 2023, 4:23 PM
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Orange County ACX 14 Forer State­ments and Boundaries

Michael MichalchikJan 6, 2023, 4:39 AM
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You’re Not One “You”—How De­ci­sion The­o­ries Are Talk­ing Past Each Other

keith_wynroeJan 9, 2023, 1:21 AM
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Ra­tion­al­ity Prac­tice: Self-Deception

DarmaniJan 9, 2023, 4:07 AM
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Fore­cast­ing ex­treme outcomes

AidanGothJan 9, 2023, 4:34 PM
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Idea: Learn­ing How To Move Towards The Metagame

AlgonJan 10, 2023, 12:58 AM
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Talents

jennJan 10, 2023, 5:17 PM
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A sim­ple thought ex­per­i­ment show­ing why re­ces­sions are an un­nec­es­sary bug in our eco­nomic system

skogsnisseJan 11, 2023, 12:43 AM
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Write to Think

Michael SamoilovJan 12, 2023, 12:33 AM
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The AI Con­trol Prob­lem in a wider in­tel­lec­tual context

philosophybearJan 13, 2023, 12:28 AM
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Wok­ism, re­think­ing pri­ori­ties and the Bostrom case

Arturo MaciasJan 14, 2023, 2:27 AM
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Wheel of Con­sent The­ory for Ra­tion­al­ists and Effec­tive Altruists

adamwilderJan 13, 2023, 5:59 PM
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Aligned with what?

Program DenJan 14, 2023, 10:28 AM
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Non-di­rected con­cep­tual found­ing

TsviBTJan 15, 2023, 2:56 PM
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Freiburg—Units of Exchange

omarkJan 15, 2023, 9:34 PM
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Panop­ti­cons aren’t enough

Program DenJan 15, 2023, 12:55 PM
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Why you ask the sig­nifi­cance ques­tion why

SliderJan 16, 2023, 3:44 AM
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hol­low­ing’s Shortform

hollowingJan 16, 2023, 6:10 PM
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What can thought-ex­per­i­ments do?

Cleo NardoJan 17, 2023, 12:35 AM
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Five Rea­sons to Lie

DzoldzayaJan 17, 2023, 4:53 PM
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Pro­duc­tivity.txt

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Quotes Worth Talk­ing About

akaTricksterJan 17, 2023, 9:26 PM
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Pro­to­type of Us­ing GPT-3 to Gen­er­ate Text­book-length Content

Rafael CosmanJan 18, 2023, 2:25 PM
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A prob­lem with group epistemics

Mckay JensenJan 18, 2023, 5:06 PM
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Pare­to­ism, a “safe” AI gov­er­nance paradigm

Jonas MetzgerJan 19, 2023, 11:09 PM
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In­ter­sub­jec­tivity Col­lapse and Idea Scarcity Fallacy

Michael MichalchikJan 20, 2023, 11:28 PM
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A new Heuris­tic to Up­date on the Cre­dences of Others

aaron_maiJan 21, 2023, 9:00 PM
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Quan­tum Suicide, De­ci­sion The­ory, and The Multiverse

SlimepriestessJan 22, 2023, 8:44 AM
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What fills a vac­uum?

Logan KiellerJan 22, 2023, 7:25 PM
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Reg­u­lar Meetup (topic: Defin­ing Ra­tion­al­ity)

HaroldJan 23, 2023, 8:53 AM
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The Hu­man-AI Reflec­tive Equilibrium

Allison DuettmannJan 24, 2023, 1:32 AM
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Vi­su­al­i­sa­tion of Prob­a­bil­ity Mass

brookJan 25, 2023, 3:09 PM
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As­tralCodexTen /​ LessWrong Meetup

Søren ElverlinJan 25, 2023, 6:36 PM
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Just an­other thought ex­per­i­ment

Bohdan Kudlai Jan 26, 2023, 7:29 PM
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Alex Lof­tus’s Shortform

Alex LoftusJan 26, 2023, 9:05 PM
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Ba­sics of Ra­tion­al­ist Discourse

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)Jan 27, 2023, 2:40 AM
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Spooky ac­tion at a dis­tance in the loss landscape

Jan 28, 2023, 12:22 AM
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The Knock­down Ar­gu­ment Paradox

Bryan FrancesJan 28, 2023, 7:23 PM
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Fe­bru­ary Meetup – Rea­son­ing in the face of bias from ob­ser­va­tion se­lec­tion effects

shaneebertJan 29, 2023, 5:20 PM
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Si­mu­lacra Levels Summary

ZviJan 30, 2023, 1:40 PM
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What­ever their ar­gu­ments, Covid vac­cine scep­tics will prob­a­bly never con­vince me

contrarianbritJan 30, 2023, 1:42 PM
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Kar­ls­ruhe Ra­tion­al­ity Meetup: How to be Less Wong [sic] about Dating

Felix KargJan 30, 2023, 10:59 PM
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Be­ware of Fake Alternatives

silentbobJan 31, 2023, 10:21 AM
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Nice Clothes are Good, Actually

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJan 31, 2023, 7:22 PM
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Su­biti­sa­tion of Self

vitaliyaFeb 1, 2023, 9:18 AM
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A sim­ple tech­nique to re­duce nega­tive rumination

cranberry_bearFeb 2, 2023, 1:33 AM
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OC LW/​ACX Satur­day (2/​4/​23) Chat GPT simu­lates safety and 12 virtues of ra­tio­nal­ity

Michael MichalchikFeb 2, 2023, 9:51 PM
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Stan­zas On Power Calculation

DirectedEvolutionFeb 5, 2023, 7:15 PM
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The Per­va­sive Illu­sion of See­ing the Com­plete World

ShmiFeb 9, 2023, 6:47 AM
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FLI Pod­cast: Con­nor Leahy on AI Progress, Chimps, Memes, and Mar­kets (Part 1/​3)

Feb 10, 2023, 1:55 PM
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[S] D&D.Sci: All the D8a. Allllllll of it.

aphyerFeb 10, 2023, 9:14 PM
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The Prac­ti­tioner’s Path 2.0: the Prag­ma­tist Archetype

EvenflairFeb 11, 2023, 3:48 PM
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How I Learn From Textbooks

DirectedEvolutionFeb 12, 2023, 4:45 AM
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[Question] Is writ­ing an effec­tive way to im­prove crit­i­cal think­ing? How do we val­i­date that?

JD RanpariyaFeb 12, 2023, 7:54 AM
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