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Mind Projection Fallacy
Map and Territory
Reductionism
35 posts
Truth, Semantics, & Meaning
18
Explanations as Hard to Vary Assertions
Alexander
1y
24
13
Reductionism is not the ultimate tool for causal inference
tailcalled
11mo
1
241
Mundane Magic
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
97
205
Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
157
9
Applied Mathematical Logic For The Practicing Researcher
Jan
1y
9
92
Skill: The Map is Not the Territory
Eliezer Yudkowsky
10y
181
136
Reductionism
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
165
100
2-Place and 1-Place Words
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
38
104
No One Can Exempt You From Rationality's Laws
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
55
94
Chaotic Inversion
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
67
54
Bridge Collapse: Reductionism as Engineering Problem
Rob Bensinger
8y
62
50
Mixed Reference: The Great Reductionist Project
Eliezer Yudkowsky
10y
358
73
Mind Projection Fallacy
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
92
66
Angry Atoms
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
60
15
Do we have the right kind of math for roles, goals and meaning?
mrcbarbier
1mo
1
12
Contingency is not arbitrary
Gordon Seidoh Worley
2mo
0
49
ELK Thought Dump
abramdemski
9mo
18
5
A basic lexicon of telic concepts
mrcbarbier
1mo
0
21
The Map-Territory Distinction Creates Confusion
Gordon Seidoh Worley
11mo
50
165
The Useful Idea of Truth
Eliezer Yudkowsky
10y
543
13
Knowledge is not just digital abstraction layers
Alex Flint
1y
4
196
Why Truth?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
56
168
The Simple Truth
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
7
28
The Missing Math of Map-Making
johnswentworth
3y
8
65
Building Phenomenological Bridges
Rob Bensinger
8y
116
12
The whirlpool of reality
Gordon Seidoh Worley
2y
2
22
Finding the variables
Stuart_Armstrong
3y
1
17
Cartographic Processes
johnswentworth
3y
3