Mak­ing Beliefs Pay Rent (in An­ti­ci­pated Ex­pe­riences)

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Jul 2007 22:59 UTC
473 points
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Ex­pect­ing Short In­fer­en­tial Distances

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Oct 2007 23:42 UTC
368 points
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Ap­plause Lights

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Sep 2007 18:31 UTC
343 points
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Reli­gion’s Claim to be Non-Disprovable

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Aug 2007 3:21 UTC
341 points
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The Lens That Sees Its Flaws

Eliezer Yudkowsky23 Sep 2007 0:10 UTC
336 points
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Scope Insensitivity

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 May 2007 2:53 UTC
326 points
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Tsuyoku Nar­i­tai! (I Want To Be­come Stronger)

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Mar 2007 17:49 UTC
322 points
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Feel­ing Rational

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Apr 2007 4:48 UTC
296 points
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Poli­tics is the Mind-Killer

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 Feb 2007 21:23 UTC
286 points
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Guess­ing the Teacher’s Password

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Aug 2007 3:40 UTC
282 points
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9/​26 is Petrov Day

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Sep 2007 16:14 UTC
276 points
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Your Strength as a Rationalist

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Aug 2007 0:21 UTC
267 points
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Policy De­bates Should Not Ap­pear One-Sided

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Mar 2007 18:53 UTC
264 points
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Con­ser­va­tion of Ex­pected Evidence

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Aug 2007 15:55 UTC
260 points
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The Im­por­tance of Say­ing “Oops”

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Aug 2007 3:17 UTC
250 points
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Hind­sight De­val­ues Science

Eliezer Yudkowsky17 Aug 2007 19:39 UTC
241 points
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Bur­den­some Details

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Sep 2007 23:46 UTC
236 points
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Thou Art Godshatter

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Nov 2007 19:38 UTC
235 points
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Mys­te­ri­ous An­swers to Mys­te­ri­ous Questions

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Aug 2007 22:27 UTC
230 points
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Know­ing About Bi­ases Can Hurt People

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Apr 2007 18:01 UTC
220 points
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Belief in Belief

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Jul 2007 17:49 UTC
214 points
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An Alien God

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Nov 2007 6:57 UTC
213 points
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Are Your Ene­mies In­nately Evil?

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Jun 2007 21:13 UTC
207 points
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Cached Thoughts

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Oct 2007 23:46 UTC
205 points
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The Bot­tom Line

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Sep 2007 17:47 UTC
200 points
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Univer­sal Fire

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Apr 2007 21:15 UTC
198 points
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Mak­ing His­tory Available

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 Aug 2007 19:52 UTC
192 points
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Truly Part Of You

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Nov 2007 2:18 UTC
185 points
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Lost Purposes

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Nov 2007 9:01 UTC
183 points
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Re­v­ersed Stu­pidity Is Not Intelligence

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Dec 2007 22:14 UTC
182 points
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Plan­ning Fallacy

Eliezer Yudkowsky17 Sep 2007 7:06 UTC
180 points
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What is Ev­i­dence?

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Sep 2007 6:43 UTC
177 points
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Avoid­ing Your Belief’s Real Weak Points

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Oct 2007 1:59 UTC
174 points
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You Can Face Reality

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Aug 2007 1:46 UTC
173 points
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Fake Explanations

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Aug 2007 21:13 UTC
173 points
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The Hid­den Com­plex­ity of Wishes

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 Nov 2007 0:12 UTC
173 points
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Eva­po­ra­tive Cool­ing of Group Beliefs

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Dec 2007 23:08 UTC
171 points
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Availability

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Sep 2007 6:55 UTC
170 points
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Illu­sion of Trans­parency: Why No One Un­der­stands You

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Oct 2007 23:49 UTC
170 points
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The Med­i­ta­tion on Curiosity

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Oct 2007 0:26 UTC
170 points
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Ab­sence of Ev­i­dence Is Ev­i­dence of Absence

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Aug 2007 20:34 UTC
168 points
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Origi­nal Seeing

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Oct 2007 4:38 UTC
168 points
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Two More Things to Un­learn from School

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Jul 2007 17:45 UTC
167 points
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Ein­stein’s Arrogance

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Sep 2007 1:29 UTC
167 points
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Hug the Query

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Dec 2007 19:51 UTC
161 points
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Science as Attire

Eliezer Yudkowsky23 Aug 2007 5:10 UTC
161 points
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Lonely Dissent

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Dec 2007 4:23 UTC
157 points
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Adap­ta­tion-Ex­e­cuters, not Fit­ness-Maximizers

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Nov 2007 6:39 UTC
156 points
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Your Ra­tion­al­ity is My Business

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 Apr 2007 7:31 UTC
155 points
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“Science” as Cu­ri­os­ity-Stopper

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Sep 2007 20:04 UTC
155 points
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