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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
87
Beware frictions from altruistic value differences
Magnus Vinding
19d
6
19
The Last Temptation of Christ (Alexander, 2012)
Will Aldred
11d
1
37
Tyranny of the Epistemic Majority
Scott Garrabrant
28d
2
98
Invisible impact loss (and why we can be too error-averse)
Lizka
2mo
14
19
The Geometric Expectation
Scott Garrabrant
27d
0
54
Scout Mindset Poster
Anthony Fleming
2mo
8
17
Geometric Exploration, Arithmetic Exploitation
Scott Garrabrant
26d
0
162
Global health is important for the epistemic foundations of EA, even for longtermists
Owen Cotton-Barratt
6mo
16
22
Critically Engaging with Long Articles
Elliot Temple
1mo
2
11
Good decisions
Yadav
24d
3
89
Limits to Legibility
Jan_Kulveit
5mo
3
47
Value of Life: VSL Estimates vs Community Perspective Evaluations
Joel Tan (CEARCH)
3mo
4
177
Flimsy Pet Theories, Enormous Initiatives
Ozzie Gooen
1y
57
26
Calibrate - New Chrome Extension for hiding numbers so you can guess
ChanaMessinger
2mo
4
162
EA should blurt
RobBensinger
28d
26
104
When reporting AI timelines, be clear who you're (not) deferring to
Sam Clarke
2mo
20
146
Deference Culture in EA
Joey
6mo
23
86
Deferring
Owen Cotton-Barratt
7mo
40
123
Independent impressions
MichaelA
1y
7
10
When should you defer to expertise? A useful heuristic
Sharmake
2mo
2
132
Some thoughts on deference and inside-view models
Buck
2y
31
50
"Good judgement" and its components
Owen Cotton-Barratt
2y
11
5
Hyperbolic Science: Or, Playing Games with Growth
Adam Green
3mo
1
118
In defence of epistemic modesty
Gregory Lewis
5y
49
18
Judgement as a key need in EA
Benjamin_Todd
2y
16
17
EA reading list: cluelessness and epistemic modesty
richard_ngo
2y
3
7
Epistemic trespassing, or epistemic squatting? | Noahpinion
BrownHairedEevee
1y
1
15
I knew a bit about misinformation and fact-checking in 2017. AMA, if you're really desperate.
MichaelA
2y
17