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Priors
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Trapped Priors As A Basic Problem Of Rationality
Scott Alexander
1y
29
111
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
95
Privileging the Hypothesis
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
131
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The Crackpot Offer
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
75
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There is essentially one best-validated theory of cognition.
abramdemski
1y
34
78
Reasonable Explanations
Alicorn
3y
7
69
[Lecture Club] Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
Vaniver
1y
186
63
The Statistician's Fallacy
ChrisHallquist
9y
69
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Case Study: Testing Confirmation Bias
gwern
10y
63
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Sufficiently sincere confirmation bias is indistinguishable from science
Benquo
5y
19
34
Guardian column on ugh fields, mentions LW
Kaj_Sotala
11y
45
33
Plan while your ugh field is down
XFrequentist
8y
12
79
Learning the prior
paulfchristiano
2y
29
73
A Priori
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
134
50
Priors as Mathematical Objects
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
20
38
Separating the roles of theory and direct empirical evidence in belief formation: the examples of minimum wage and anthropogenic global warming
VipulNaik
8y
66
34
Learning the prior and generalization
evhub
2y
16
23
Priors and Surprise
MichaelVassar
12y
32
16
The universal prior is malign
paulfchristiano
6y
0
12
Chapter 49: Prior Information
Eliezer Yudkowsky
7y
7
9
Cryonics priors
AnthonyC
9y
22
6
Against improper priors
DanielLC
11y
21
2
Priors Are Useless
DragonGod
5y
22
1
Simplicity priors with reflective oracles
Benya_Fallenstein
8y
0