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Questions about AI that bother me
Eleni Angelou
9d
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The Burden of Worldbuilding
lsusr
6mo
12
117
Situating LessWrong in contemporary philosophy: An interview with Jon Livengood
Suspended Reason
2y
21
27
A paradox of existence
Chris van Merwijk
8mo
27
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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
30
Book Review: Philosophical Investigations by Wittgenstein
Chris_Leong
1y
12
60
A simple sketch of how realism became unpopular
Rob Bensinger
3y
53
36
Life as metaphor for everything else.
Charlie Steiner
2y
11
6
Unity of Doctrine vs Unity of Method in Philosophy
JonathanErhardt
8mo
0
158
Less Wrong Rationality and Mainstream Philosophy
lukeprog
11y
342
27
Necessity and Warrant
namespace
2y
1
142
Philosophy: A Diseased Discipline
lukeprog
11y
448
39
Philosophy as low-energy approximation
Charlie Steiner
3y
20
88
There is essentially one best-validated theory of cognition.
abramdemski
1y
34
123
Trapped Priors As A Basic Problem Of Rationality
Scott Alexander
1y
29
69
[Lecture Club] Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
Vaniver
1y
186
79
Learning the prior
paulfchristiano
2y
29
78
Reasonable Explanations
Alicorn
3y
7
34
Learning the prior and generalization
evhub
2y
16
12
Our compressed perception
pchvykov
1y
0
105
Epistemic Luck
Alicorn
12y
133
96
"Nahh, that wouldn't work"
lionhearted
12y
50
63
The Statistician's Fallacy
ChrisHallquist
9y
69
95
Privileging the Hypothesis
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
131
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Positive Bias: Look Into the Dark
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
57
36
Sufficiently sincere confirmation bias is indistinguishable from science
Benquo
5y
19
92
The Crackpot Offer
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
75