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Questions about AI that bother me
Eleni Angelou
9d
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The Burden of Worldbuilding
lsusr
6mo
12
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Situating LessWrong in contemporary philosophy: An interview with Jon Livengood
Suspended Reason
2y
21
70
Deflationism isn't the solution to philosophy's woes
Rob Bensinger
1y
45
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What I'd change about different philosophy fields
Rob Bensinger
1y
52
21
A paradox of existence
Chris van Merwijk
8mo
27
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Book Review: Philosophical Investigations by Wittgenstein
Chris_Leong
1y
12
71
A simple sketch of how realism became unpopular
Rob Bensinger
3y
53
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Life as metaphor for everything else.
Charlie Steiner
2y
11
173
Less Wrong Rationality and Mainstream Philosophy
lukeprog
11y
342
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Necessity and Warrant
namespace
2y
1
41
"One Man's Modus Ponens Is Another Man's Modus Tollens"
gwern
3y
7
44
Philosophy as low-energy approximation
Charlie Steiner
3y
20
111
Train Philosophers with Pearl and Kahneman, not Plato and Kant
lukeprog
10y
515
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There is essentially one best-validated theory of cognition.
abramdemski
1y
34
97
Trapped Priors As A Basic Problem Of Rationality
Scott Alexander
1y
29
67
[Lecture Club] Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
Vaniver
1y
186
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Learning the prior
paulfchristiano
2y
29
89
Reasonable Explanations
Alicorn
3y
7
42
Learning the prior and generalization
evhub
2y
16
51
Sufficiently sincere confirmation bias is indistinguishable from science
Benquo
5y
19
85
The Statistician's Fallacy
ChrisHallquist
9y
69
123
Epistemic Luck
Alicorn
12y
133
111
"Nahh, that wouldn't work"
lionhearted
12y
50
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Privileging the Hypothesis
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
131
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Case Study: Testing Confirmation Bias
gwern
10y
63
52
Separating the roles of theory and direct empirical evidence in belief formation: the examples of minimum wage and anthropogenic global warming
VipulNaik
8y
66
44
Plan while your ugh field is down
XFrequentist
8y
12