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The Blue-Minimizing Robot
Scott Alexander
11y
162
145
Dark Matters
Diffractor
1y
24
134
Make more land
jefftk
3y
32
127
Two More Things to Unlearn from School
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
157
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The Second Law of Thermodynamics, and Engines of Cognition
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
71
105
I'm still mystified by the Born rule
So8res
1y
43
102
Einstein's Arrogance
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
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Explaining vs. Explaining Away
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
101
85
So you think you understand Quantum Mechanics
shminux
10y
64
85
Thou Art Physics
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
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The mathematical universe: the map that is the territory
ata
12y
123
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Can we really prevent all warming for less than 10B$ with the mostly side-effect free geoengineering technique of Marine Cloud Brightening?
mako yass
3y
55
70
How counting neutrons explains nuclear waste
jasoncrawford
1y
11
69
If Many-Worlds Had Come First
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
189
153
Generalized Heat Engine
johnswentworth
2y
12
129
Introduction to abstract entropy
Alex_Altair
2mo
70
113
Litany of a Bright Dilettante
shminux
9y
72
104
Message Length
Zack_M_Davis
2y
25
91
Occam's Razor
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
56
87
The Telephone Theorem: Information At A Distance Is Mediated By Deterministic Constraints
johnswentworth
1y
21
78
You Can Face Reality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
36
78
Information theory and the symmetry of updating beliefs
Academian
12y
29
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Calibration proverbs
Malmesbury
11mo
19
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Mathematics as a lossy compression algorithm gone wild
shminux
8y
80
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Msg Len
Zack_M_Davis
2y
4
61
Savanna Poets
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
40
60
Occam's Razor May Be Sufficient to Infer the Preferences of Irrational Agents: A reply to Armstrong & Mindermann
Daniel Kokotajlo
3y
39
60
Best of Rationality Quotes, 2012 Edition
DanielVarga
9y
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