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Why the tails come apart
Thrasymachus
8y
100
143
Reflection in Probabilistic Logic
Eliezer Yudkowsky
9y
172
131
Mental Context for Model Theory
So8res
9y
47
129
Should correlation coefficients be expressed as angles?
Sniffnoy
10y
25
127
Logical Pinpointing
Eliezer Yudkowsky
10y
344
123
How long does it take to become Gaussian?
Maxwell Peterson
2y
38
120
The Tails Coming Apart As Metaphor For Life
Scott Alexander
4y
37
119
Simpson's Paradox
bentarm
11y
58
109
Fermi Estimates
lukeprog
9y
110
103
Category Theory Without The Baggage
johnswentworth
2y
49
99
The Truth About Mathematical Ability
JonahS
7y
142
99
Completeness, incompleteness, and what it all means: first versus second order logic
Stuart_Armstrong
10y
39
95
Probability space has 2 metrics
Donald Hobson
3y
11
95
How to pick your categories
12y
22
139
Causal Universes
Eliezer Yudkowsky
10y
393
131
Causality: a chapter by chapter review
Vaniver
10y
20
124
Finite Factored Sets
Scott Garrabrant
1y
94
121
Causal Diagrams and Causal Models
Eliezer Yudkowsky
10y
284
115
Finite Factored Sets in Pictures
Magdalena Wache
9d
29
104
Stuff That Makes Stuff Happen
Eliezer Yudkowsky
10y
128
88
Is Caviar a Risk Factor For Being a Millionaire?
Anders_H
6y
9
88
Confound it! Correlation is (usually) not causation! But why not?
gwern
8y
34
87
Chaos Induces Abstractions
johnswentworth
1y
12
86
Public Static: What is Abstraction?
johnswentworth
2y
18
85
Fake Causality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
90
79
Book review: Pearl's Book of Why
PeterMcCluskey
4y
8
79
Causal Reference
Eliezer Yudkowsky
10y
246
70
Causal diagrams and software engineering
Morendil
10y
29