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Mind Projection Fallacy
Map and Territory
Reductionism
35 posts
Truth, Semantics, & Meaning
16
Explanations as Hard to Vary Assertions
Alexander
1y
24
9
Reductionism is not the ultimate tool for causal inference
tailcalled
11mo
1
102
Bridge Collapse: Reductionism as Engineering Problem
Rob Bensinger
8y
62
9
Applied Mathematical Logic For The Practicing Researcher
Jan
1y
9
161
Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
157
100
Skill: The Map is Not the Territory
Eliezer Yudkowsky
10y
181
145
Mundane Magic
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
97
77
Reality is weirdly normal
Rob Bensinger
9y
81
102
2-Place and 1-Place Words
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
38
64
Mixed Reference: The Great Reductionist Project
Eliezer Yudkowsky
10y
358
50
Tapestries of Gold
Shane_Patt
8y
27
94
No One Can Exempt You From Rationality's Laws
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
55
84
Chaotic Inversion
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
67
48
Vanilla and chocolate and preference judgements
Swimmer963
11y
32
67
ELK Thought Dump
abramdemski
9mo
18
12
Contingency is not arbitrary
Gordon Seidoh Worley
2mo
0
9
Do we have the right kind of math for roles, goals and meaning?
mrcbarbier
1mo
1
33
The Map-Territory Distinction Creates Confusion
Gordon Seidoh Worley
11mo
50
23
Knowledge is not just digital abstraction layers
Alex Flint
1y
4
52
The Missing Math of Map-Making
johnswentworth
3y
8
157
The Useful Idea of Truth
Eliezer Yudkowsky
10y
543
123
Building Phenomenological Bridges
Rob Bensinger
8y
116
38
Finding the variables
Stuart_Armstrong
3y
1
27
Cartographic Processes
johnswentworth
3y
3
16
How webs of meaning grow and change
Hazard
2y
0
25
Leaky Concepts
Elo
3y
2
28
Bridging syntax and semantics, empirically
Stuart_Armstrong
4y
4
61
On counting and addition
Anatoly_Vorobey
10y
23