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Rationality
Epistemology
Statistics
Cognitive bias
Scope neglect
Optimizer's curse
Bayesian epistemology
Giving and happiness
Thinking at the margin
Conflict theory vs. mistake theory
Bayes' Theorem
20 posts
Epistemic deference
Independent impression
5
Debate About Biased Methodology | Corentin Biteau and Elliot Temple
Elliot Temple
1mo
57
2
Why you think you're right - even when you're wrong
EA Handbook
4mo
2
1
Ignoring “Small” Errors
Elliot Temple
19d
7
79
Beware frictions from altruistic value differences
Magnus Vinding
19d
6
8
My Experience with My Debate Policy
Elliot Temple
1mo
18
84
Probability distributions of Cost-Effectiveness can be misleading
Lorenzo Buonanno
5mo
52
-5
Multi-Factor Decision Making Math
Elliot Temple
1mo
13
40
Binding Fuzzies and Utilons Together
eleni
2y
8
142
Invisible impact loss (and why we can be too error-averse)
Lizka
2mo
14
13
In extremely high-stakes scenarios, it's ok not to maximise expected utility
Pivocajs
2mo
12
7
Good decisions
Yadav
24d
3
46
Scout Mindset Poster
Anthony Fleming
2mo
8
11
The Last Temptation of Christ (Alexander, 2012)
Will Aldred
11d
1
45
Tyranny of the Epistemic Majority
Scott Garrabrant
28d
2
146
EA should blurt
RobBensinger
28d
26
128
When reporting AI timelines, be clear who you're (not) deferring to
Sam Clarke
2mo
20
12
When should you defer to expertise? A useful heuristic
Sharmake
2mo
2
-1
Hyperbolic Science: Or, Playing Games with Growth
Adam Green
3mo
1
139
Independent impressions
MichaelA
1y
7
134
Some thoughts on deference and inside-view models
Buck
2y
31
17
"Entitlement to believe" is lacking in Effective Altruism (by Andrew Critch)
ricoh_aficio
6y
0
11
Will MacAskill: How can effective altruism stay curious?
EA Global
4y
0
15
Epistemic trespassing, or epistemic squatting? | Noahpinion
BrownHairedEevee
1y
1
134
Deference Culture in EA
Joey
6mo
23
118
Deferring
Owen Cotton-Barratt
7mo
40
42
Judgement as a key need in EA
Benjamin_Todd
2y
16
19
Gregory Lewis and Oliver Habryka: Trusting experts
EA Global
4y
0
110
In defence of epistemic modesty
Gregory Lewis
5y
49