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Mind Projection Fallacy
Map and Territory
Reductionism
35 posts
Truth, Semantics, & Meaning
17
Explanations as Hard to Vary Assertions
Alexander
1y
24
11
Reductionism is not the ultimate tool for causal inference
tailcalled
11mo
1
193
Mundane Magic
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
97
183
Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
157
9
Applied Mathematical Logic For The Practicing Researcher
Jan
1y
9
96
Skill: The Map is Not the Territory
Eliezer Yudkowsky
10y
181
78
Bridge Collapse: Reductionism as Engineering Problem
Rob Bensinger
8y
62
101
2-Place and 1-Place Words
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
38
96
Reductionism
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
165
99
No One Can Exempt You From Rationality's Laws
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
55
89
Chaotic Inversion
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
67
55
Reality is weirdly normal
Rob Bensinger
9y
81
57
Mixed Reference: The Great Reductionist Project
Eliezer Yudkowsky
10y
358
37
Tapestries of Gold
Shane_Patt
8y
27
12
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
58
ELK Thought Dump
abramdemski
9mo
18
27
The Map-Territory Distinction Creates Confusion
Gordon Seidoh Worley
11mo
50
18
Knowledge is not just digital abstraction layers
Alex Flint
1y
4
161
The Useful Idea of Truth
Eliezer Yudkowsky
10y
543
40
The Missing Math of Map-Making
johnswentworth
3y
8
1
A basic lexicon of telic concepts
mrcbarbier
1mo
0
94
Building Phenomenological Bridges
Rob Bensinger
8y
116
30
Finding the variables
Stuart_Armstrong
3y
1
22
Cartographic Processes
johnswentworth
3y
3
131
Why Truth?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
56
13
How webs of meaning grow and change
Hazard
2y
0
25
Bridging syntax and semantics, empirically
Stuart_Armstrong
4y
4