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Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences)
Eliezer Yudkowsky
28 Jul 2007 22:59 UTC
473
points
267
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Expecting Short Inferential Distances
Eliezer Yudkowsky
22 Oct 2007 23:42 UTC
368
points
106
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3
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Applause Lights
Eliezer Yudkowsky
11 Sep 2007 18:31 UTC
343
points
99
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2
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Religion’s Claim to be Non-Disprovable
Eliezer Yudkowsky
4 Aug 2007 3:21 UTC
341
points
331
comments
4
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The Lens That Sees Its Flaws
Eliezer Yudkowsky
23 Sep 2007 0:10 UTC
336
points
45
comments
3
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Scope Insensitivity
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14 May 2007 2:53 UTC
326
points
69
comments
2
min read
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Tsuyoku Naritai! (I Want To Become Stronger)
Eliezer Yudkowsky
27 Mar 2007 17:49 UTC
322
points
82
comments
3
min read
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Feeling Rational
Eliezer Yudkowsky
26 Apr 2007 4:48 UTC
296
points
86
comments
3
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Politics is the Mind-Killer
Eliezer Yudkowsky
18 Feb 2007 21:23 UTC
286
points
242
comments
2
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Guessing the Teacher’s Password
Eliezer Yudkowsky
22 Aug 2007 3:40 UTC
282
points
98
comments
4
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9/26 is Petrov Day
Eliezer Yudkowsky
26 Sep 2007 16:14 UTC
276
points
64
comments
2
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Your Strength as a Rationalist
Eliezer Yudkowsky
11 Aug 2007 0:21 UTC
267
points
123
comments
2
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Policy Debates Should Not Appear One-Sided
Eliezer Yudkowsky
3 Mar 2007 18:53 UTC
264
points
187
comments
4
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Conservation of Expected Evidence
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13 Aug 2007 15:55 UTC
260
points
82
comments
2
min read
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The Importance of Saying “Oops”
Eliezer Yudkowsky
5 Aug 2007 3:17 UTC
250
points
35
comments
2
min read
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Hindsight Devalues Science
Eliezer Yudkowsky
17 Aug 2007 19:39 UTC
241
points
44
comments
2
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Burdensome Details
Eliezer Yudkowsky
20 Sep 2007 23:46 UTC
236
points
45
comments
4
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Thou Art Godshatter
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13 Nov 2007 19:38 UTC
235
points
83
comments
5
min read
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Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
Eliezer Yudkowsky
25 Aug 2007 22:27 UTC
230
points
159
comments
4
min read
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Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People
Eliezer Yudkowsky
4 Apr 2007 18:01 UTC
220
points
82
comments
2
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Belief in Belief
Eliezer Yudkowsky
29 Jul 2007 17:49 UTC
214
points
177
comments
5
min read
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An Alien God
Eliezer Yudkowsky
2 Nov 2007 6:57 UTC
213
points
162
comments
8
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Are Your Enemies Innately Evil?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
26 Jun 2007 21:13 UTC
207
points
148
comments
3
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Cached Thoughts
Eliezer Yudkowsky
11 Oct 2007 23:46 UTC
205
points
93
comments
3
min read
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The Bottom Line
Eliezer Yudkowsky
28 Sep 2007 17:47 UTC
200
points
16
comments
4
min read
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Universal Fire
Eliezer Yudkowsky
27 Apr 2007 21:15 UTC
198
points
46
comments
3
min read
LW
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Making History Available
Eliezer Yudkowsky
31 Aug 2007 19:52 UTC
192
points
87
comments
3
min read
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Truly Part Of You
Eliezer Yudkowsky
21 Nov 2007 2:18 UTC
185
points
61
comments
4
min read
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Lost Purposes
Eliezer Yudkowsky
25 Nov 2007 9:01 UTC
183
points
79
comments
6
min read
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Reversed Stupidity Is Not Intelligence
Eliezer Yudkowsky
12 Dec 2007 22:14 UTC
182
points
120
comments
3
min read
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Planning Fallacy
Eliezer Yudkowsky
17 Sep 2007 7:06 UTC
180
points
43
comments
3
min read
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What is Evidence?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
22 Sep 2007 6:43 UTC
177
points
61
comments
3
min read
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Avoiding Your Belief’s Real Weak Points
Eliezer Yudkowsky
5 Oct 2007 1:59 UTC
174
points
212
comments
4
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You Can Face Reality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
9 Aug 2007 1:46 UTC
173
points
41
comments
1
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Fake Explanations
Eliezer Yudkowsky
20 Aug 2007 21:13 UTC
173
points
96
comments
2
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The Hidden Complexity of Wishes
Eliezer Yudkowsky
24 Nov 2007 0:12 UTC
173
points
192
comments
8
min read
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Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs
Eliezer Yudkowsky
7 Dec 2007 23:08 UTC
171
points
50
comments
3
min read
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Availability
Eliezer Yudkowsky
6 Sep 2007 6:55 UTC
170
points
23
comments
2
min read
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Illusion of Transparency: Why No One Understands You
Eliezer Yudkowsky
20 Oct 2007 23:49 UTC
170
points
52
comments
3
min read
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The Meditation on Curiosity
Eliezer Yudkowsky
6 Oct 2007 0:26 UTC
170
points
101
comments
4
min read
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Absence of Evidence Is Evidence of Absence
Eliezer Yudkowsky
12 Aug 2007 20:34 UTC
168
points
118
comments
3
min read
LW
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Original Seeing
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14 Oct 2007 4:38 UTC
168
points
29
comments
2
min read
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Two More Things to Unlearn from School
Eliezer Yudkowsky
12 Jul 2007 17:45 UTC
167
points
157
comments
2
min read
LW
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Einstein’s Arrogance
Eliezer Yudkowsky
25 Sep 2007 1:29 UTC
167
points
90
comments
3
min read
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Hug the Query
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14 Dec 2007 19:51 UTC
161
points
22
comments
1
min read
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Science as Attire
Eliezer Yudkowsky
23 Aug 2007 5:10 UTC
161
points
88
comments
2
min read
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Lonely Dissent
Eliezer Yudkowsky
28 Dec 2007 4:23 UTC
157
points
90
comments
4
min read
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Adaptation-Executers, not Fitness-Maximizers
Eliezer Yudkowsky
11 Nov 2007 6:39 UTC
156
points
33
comments
3
min read
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Your Rationality is My Business
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15 Apr 2007 7:31 UTC
155
points
28
comments
3
min read
LW
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“Science” as Curiosity-Stopper
Eliezer Yudkowsky
3 Sep 2007 20:04 UTC
155
points
61
comments
3
min read
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