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Less Wrong Rationality and Mainstream Philosophy
lukeprog
11y
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Philosophy: A Diseased Discipline
lukeprog
11y
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Situating LessWrong in contemporary philosophy: An interview with Jon Livengood
Suspended Reason
2y
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Train Philosophers with Pearl and Kahneman, not Plato and Kant
lukeprog
10y
515
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Where Recursive Justification Hits Bottom
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
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Concepts Don't Work That Way
lukeprog
11y
92
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Deflationism isn't the solution to philosophy's woes
Rob Bensinger
1y
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A simple sketch of how realism became unpopular
Rob Bensinger
3y
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What I'd change about different philosophy fields
Rob Bensinger
1y
52
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Can You Prove Two Particles Are Identical?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
107
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[Poll] Less Wrong and Mainstream Philosophy: How Different are We?
Jayson_Virissimo
10y
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Settled questions in philosophy
lukeprog
11y
44
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Against Modal Logics
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
61
50
LW Philosophers versus Analytics
Ronny Fernandez
11y
85
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Trapped Priors As A Basic Problem Of Rationality
Scott Alexander
1y
29
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Positive Bias: Look Into the Dark
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
57
105
Epistemic Luck
Alicorn
12y
133
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"Nahh, that wouldn't work"
lionhearted
12y
50
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Privileging the Hypothesis
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
131
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The Crackpot Offer
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
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There is essentially one best-validated theory of cognition.
abramdemski
1y
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Learning the prior
paulfchristiano
2y
29
78
Reasonable Explanations
Alicorn
3y
7
73
A Priori
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
134
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[Lecture Club] Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
Vaniver
1y
186
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The Statistician's Fallacy
ChrisHallquist
9y
69
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Case Study: Testing Confirmation Bias
gwern
10y
63
50
Priors as Mathematical Objects
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
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