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Epistemology
Truth, Semantics, & Meaning
Map and Territory
Calibration
Mind Projection Fallacy
Humility
Games (posts describing)
Reductionism
Aumann's Agreement Theorem
Modest Epistemology
Underconfidence
The Problem of the Criterion
171 posts
Philosophy
Religion
Futurism
Confirmation Bias
Priors
Cognitive Science
Absurdity Heuristic
Aversion
Hindsight Bias
Addiction
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The Lens That Sees Its Flaws
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
41
193
Mundane Magic
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
97
183
Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
157
161
The Useful Idea of Truth
Eliezer Yudkowsky
10y
543
154
The Proper Use of Humility
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
54
148
My research methodology
paulfchristiano
1y
36
137
Use Normal Predictions
Jan Christian Refsgaard
11mo
69
132
Irrational Modesty
Tomás B.
1y
7
131
Why Truth?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
56
129
How to Convince Me That 2 + 2 = 3
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
407
105
How Much Evidence Does It Take?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
33
101
2-Place and 1-Place Words
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
38
99
No One Can Exempt You From Rationality's Laws
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
55
96
Skill: The Map is Not the Territory
Eliezer Yudkowsky
10y
181
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Talking Snakes: A Cautionary Tale
Scott Alexander
13y
232
158
Less Wrong Rationality and Mainstream Philosophy
lukeprog
11y
342
142
Philosophy: A Diseased Discipline
lukeprog
11y
448
131
Atheism = Untheism + Antitheism
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
179
123
Trapped Priors As A Basic Problem Of Rationality
Scott Alexander
1y
29
117
Situating LessWrong in contemporary philosophy: An interview with Jon Livengood
Suspended Reason
2y
21
116
What will 2040 probably look like assuming no singularity?
Daniel Kokotajlo
1y
87
111
Positive Bias: Look Into the Dark
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
57
107
Train Philosophers with Pearl and Kahneman, not Plato and Kant
lukeprog
10y
515
107
Stranger Than History
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
336
105
Epistemic Luck
Alicorn
12y
133
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"Nahh, that wouldn't work"
lionhearted
12y
50
96
Where Recursive Justification Hits Bottom
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
78
95
Privileging the Hypothesis
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
131