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Philosophy: A Diseased Discipline
lukeprog
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Trapped Priors As A Basic Problem Of Rationality
Scott Alexander
1y
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149
Positive Bias: Look Into the Dark
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
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143
Less Wrong Rationality and Mainstream Philosophy
lukeprog
11y
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Where Recursive Justification Hits Bottom
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
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Situating LessWrong in contemporary philosophy: An interview with Jon Livengood
Suspended Reason
2y
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The Crackpot Offer
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
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Train Philosophers with Pearl and Kahneman, not Plato and Kant
lukeprog
10y
515
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Privileging the Hypothesis
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
131
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A Priori
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
134
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Epistemic Luck
Alicorn
12y
133
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"Nahh, that wouldn't work"
lionhearted
12y
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There is essentially one best-validated theory of cognition.
abramdemski
1y
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[Lecture Club] Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
Vaniver
1y
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Talking Snakes: A Cautionary Tale
Scott Alexander
13y
232
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What will 2040 probably look like assuming no singularity?
Daniel Kokotajlo
1y
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Atheism = Untheism + Antitheism
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
179
141
Stranger Than History
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
336
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Universal Law
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
26
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Hindsight bias
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
25
69
The Sacred Mundane
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
117
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Why do Contemplative Practitioners Make so Many Metaphysical Claims?
romeostevensit
3y
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If you can see the box, you can open the box
ThePrussian
7y
108
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You're Entitled to Arguments, But Not (That Particular) Proof
Eliezer Yudkowsky
12y
229
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The Correct Contrarian Cluster
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
255
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After critical event W happens, they still won't believe you
Eliezer Yudkowsky
9y
107
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The Zombie Preacher of Somerset
Scott Alexander
13y
34
54
Mere Messiahs
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
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