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Less Wrong Rationality and Mainstream Philosophy
lukeprog
11y
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Philosophy: A Diseased Discipline
lukeprog
11y
448
122
Situating LessWrong in contemporary philosophy: An interview with Jon Livengood
Suspended Reason
2y
21
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Train Philosophers with Pearl and Kahneman, not Plato and Kant
lukeprog
10y
515
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Concepts Don't Work That Way
lukeprog
11y
92
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A simple sketch of how realism became unpopular
Rob Bensinger
3y
53
70
Deflationism isn't the solution to philosophy's woes
Rob Bensinger
1y
45
70
[Poll] Less Wrong and Mainstream Philosophy: How Different are We?
Jayson_Virissimo
10y
631
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What I'd change about different philosophy fields
Rob Bensinger
1y
52
68
Settled questions in philosophy
lukeprog
11y
44
66
What do professional philosophers believe, and why?
Rob Bensinger
9y
249
65
Can You Prove Two Particles Are Identical?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
107
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Where Recursive Justification Hits Bottom
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
78
61
LW Philosophers versus Analytics
Ronny Fernandez
11y
85
123
Epistemic Luck
Alicorn
12y
133
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"Nahh, that wouldn't work"
lionhearted
12y
50
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Trapped Priors As A Basic Problem Of Rationality
Scott Alexander
1y
29
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There is essentially one best-validated theory of cognition.
abramdemski
1y
34
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Privileging the Hypothesis
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
131
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Learning the prior
paulfchristiano
2y
29
89
Reasonable Explanations
Alicorn
3y
7
85
The Statistician's Fallacy
ChrisHallquist
9y
69
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The Crackpot Offer
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
75
73
Positive Bias: Look Into the Dark
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
57
69
Case Study: Testing Confirmation Bias
gwern
10y
63
67
[Lecture Club] Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
Vaniver
1y
186
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Priors as Mathematical Objects
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
20
52
Separating the roles of theory and direct empirical evidence in belief formation: the examples of minimum wage and anthropogenic global warming
VipulNaik
8y
66