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Confirmation Bias
Cognitive Science
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Priors
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There is essentially one best-validated theory of cognition.
abramdemski
1y
34
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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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Reasonable Explanations
Alicorn
3y
7
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
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"Nahh, that wouldn't work"
lionhearted
12y
50
91
Privileging the Hypothesis
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
131
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Case Study: Testing Confirmation Bias
gwern
10y
63
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Plan while your ugh field is down
XFrequentist
8y
12
24
Subtle Forms of Confirmation Bias
abramdemski
5y
5
76
The Crackpot Offer
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
75
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Positive Bias: Look Into the Dark
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
57
90
Learning the prior
paulfchristiano
2y
29
42
Learning the prior and generalization
evhub
2y
16
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
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Priors as Mathematical Objects
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
20
49
A Priori
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
134
15
The universal prior is malign
paulfchristiano
6y
0
30
Priors and Surprise
MichaelVassar
12y
32
13
Against improper priors
DanielLC
11y
21
10
Cryonics priors
AnthonyC
9y
22
3
Priors Are Useless
DragonGod
5y
22
1
Simplicity priors with reflective oracles
Benya_Fallenstein
8y
0
-2
Chapter 49: Prior Information
Eliezer Yudkowsky
7y
7