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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
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[Lecture Club] Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
Vaniver
1y
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Reasonable Explanations
Alicorn
3y
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12
Our compressed perception
pchvykov
1y
0
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Epistemic Luck
Alicorn
12y
133
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"Nahh, that wouldn't work"
lionhearted
12y
50
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The Statistician's Fallacy
ChrisHallquist
9y
69
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Privileging the Hypothesis
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
131
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Positive Bias: Look Into the Dark
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
57
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Sufficiently sincere confirmation bias is indistinguishable from science
Benquo
5y
19
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The Crackpot Offer
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
75
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Case Study: Testing Confirmation Bias
gwern
10y
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Plan while your ugh field is down
XFrequentist
8y
12
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Learning the prior
paulfchristiano
2y
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Learning the prior and generalization
evhub
2y
16
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Separating the roles of theory and direct empirical evidence in belief formation: the examples of minimum wage and anthropogenic global warming
VipulNaik
8y
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A Priori
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
134
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Priors as Mathematical Objects
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
20
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The universal prior is malign
paulfchristiano
6y
0
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Priors and Surprise
MichaelVassar
12y
32
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Chapter 49: Prior Information
Eliezer Yudkowsky
7y
7
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Cryonics priors
AnthonyC
9y
22
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Against improper priors
DanielLC
11y
21
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Priors Are Useless
DragonGod
5y
22
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Simplicity priors with reflective oracles
Benya_Fallenstein
8y
0