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Why the tails come apart
Thrasymachus
8y
100
137
The Tails Coming Apart As Metaphor For Life
Scott Alexander
4y
37
134
How long does it take to become Gaussian?
Maxwell Peterson
2y
38
117
Category Theory Without The Baggage
johnswentworth
2y
49
114
Six (and a half) intuitions for KL divergence
TheMcDouglas
2mo
16
113
Logical Pinpointing
Eliezer Yudkowsky
10y
344
109
Fermi Estimates
lukeprog
9y
110
108
Reflection in Probabilistic Logic
Eliezer Yudkowsky
9y
172
108
Introduction to Introduction to Category Theory
countedblessings
3y
20
106
Mental Context for Model Theory
So8res
9y
47
100
Should correlation coefficients be expressed as angles?
Sniffnoy
10y
25
98
0 And 1 Are Not Probabilities
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
144
97
Simpson's Paradox
bentarm
11y
58
93
New Improved Lottery
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
43
148
Finite Factored Sets in Pictures
Magdalena Wache
9d
29
137
Finite Factored Sets
Scott Garrabrant
1y
94
133
Causal Diagrams and Causal Models
Eliezer Yudkowsky
10y
284
118
Causal Universes
Eliezer Yudkowsky
10y
393
100
Causality: a chapter by chapter review
Vaniver
10y
20
96
Stuff That Makes Stuff Happen
Eliezer Yudkowsky
10y
128
95
Fake Causality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
90
88
Chaos Induces Abstractions
johnswentworth
1y
12
82
Public Static: What is Abstraction?
johnswentworth
2y
18
68
Book review: Pearl's Book of Why
PeterMcCluskey
4y
8
67
Is Caviar a Risk Factor For Being a Millionaire?
Anders_H
6y
9
66
Confound it! Correlation is (usually) not causation! But why not?
gwern
8y
34
65
Causal Reference
Eliezer Yudkowsky
10y
246
61
Possibility and Could-ness
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
116