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Confirmation Bias
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Priors
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Trapped Priors As A Basic Problem Of Rationality
Scott Alexander
1y
29
149
Positive Bias: Look Into the Dark
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
57
108
The Crackpot Offer
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
75
99
Privileging the Hypothesis
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
131
87
Epistemic Luck
Alicorn
12y
133
81
"Nahh, that wouldn't work"
lionhearted
12y
50
81
There is essentially one best-validated theory of cognition.
abramdemski
1y
34
71
[Lecture Club] Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
Vaniver
1y
186
67
Reasonable Explanations
Alicorn
3y
7
41
The Statistician's Fallacy
ChrisHallquist
9y
69
33
Case Study: Testing Confirmation Bias
gwern
10y
63
31
Living Metaphorically
lukeprog
11y
79
26
Guardian column on ugh fields, mentions LW
Kaj_Sotala
11y
45
22
Plan while your ugh field is down
XFrequentist
8y
12
97
A Priori
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
134
68
Learning the prior
paulfchristiano
2y
29
44
Priors as Mathematical Objects
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
20
26
Learning the prior and generalization
evhub
2y
16
26
Chapter 49: Prior Information
Eliezer Yudkowsky
7y
7
24
Separating the roles of theory and direct empirical evidence in belief formation: the examples of minimum wage and anthropogenic global warming
VipulNaik
8y
66
17
The universal prior is malign
paulfchristiano
6y
0
16
Priors and Surprise
MichaelVassar
12y
32
8
Cryonics priors
AnthonyC
9y
22
1
Simplicity priors with reflective oracles
Benya_Fallenstein
8y
0
1
Priors Are Useless
DragonGod
5y
22
-1
Against improper priors
DanielLC
11y
21