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The Lens That Sees Its Flaws
Eliezer Yudkowsky
23 Sep 2007 0:10 UTC
380
points
48
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Applause Lights
Eliezer Yudkowsky
11 Sep 2007 18:31 UTC
378
points
99
comments
2
min read
LW
link
9/26 is Petrov Day
Eliezer Yudkowsky
26 Sep 2007 16:14 UTC
276
points
64
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Burdensome Details
Eliezer Yudkowsky
20 Sep 2007 23:46 UTC
255
points
45
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Bottom Line
Eliezer Yudkowsky
28 Sep 2007 17:47 UTC
209
points
16
comments
4
min read
LW
link
What is Evidence?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
22 Sep 2007 6:43 UTC
197
points
62
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Planning Fallacy
Eliezer Yudkowsky
17 Sep 2007 7:06 UTC
193
points
43
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Availability
Eliezer Yudkowsky
6 Sep 2007 6:55 UTC
189
points
23
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Einstein’s Arrogance
Eliezer Yudkowsky
25 Sep 2007 1:29 UTC
183
points
90
comments
3
min read
LW
link
How Much Evidence Does It Take?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
24 Sep 2007 4:06 UTC
167
points
33
comments
4
min read
LW
link
“Science” as Curiosity-Stopper
Eliezer Yudkowsky
3 Sep 2007 20:04 UTC
162
points
61
comments
3
min read
LW
link
How to Convince Me That 2 + 2 = 3
Eliezer Yudkowsky
27 Sep 2007 23:00 UTC
155
points
410
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Human Evil and Muddled Thinking
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13 Sep 2007 23:43 UTC
147
points
144
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Rationality and the English Language
Eliezer Yudkowsky
12 Sep 2007 22:55 UTC
144
points
33
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Stranger Than History
Eliezer Yudkowsky
1 Sep 2007 18:57 UTC
137
points
335
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Occam’s Razor
Eliezer Yudkowsky
26 Sep 2007 6:36 UTC
136
points
55
comments
5
min read
LW
link
What Evidence Filtered Evidence?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
29 Sep 2007 23:10 UTC
123
points
43
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Explain/Worship/Ignore?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
2 Sep 2007 20:01 UTC
119
points
88
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Crackpot Offer
Eliezer Yudkowsky
8 Sep 2007 14:32 UTC
118
points
73
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Doublethink (Choosing to be Biased)
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14 Sep 2007 20:05 UTC
101
points
169
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Anchoring and Adjustment
Eliezer Yudkowsky
7 Sep 2007 21:33 UTC
82
points
22
comments
2
min read
LW
link
We Don’t Really Want Your Participation
Eliezer Yudkowsky
10 Sep 2007 19:53 UTC
64
points
24
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Conjunction Controversy (Or, How They Nail It Down)
Eliezer Yudkowsky
20 Sep 2007 2:41 UTC
60
points
25
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Absurdity Heuristic, Absurdity Bias
Eliezer Yudkowsky
5 Sep 2007 3:20 UTC
58
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Conjunction Fallacy
Eliezer Yudkowsky
19 Sep 2007 1:54 UTC
56
points
46
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Why is the Future So Absurd?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
7 Sep 2007 8:42 UTC
52
points
17
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Why I’m Blooking
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15 Sep 2007 17:49 UTC
49
points
20
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Radical Honesty
Eliezer Yudkowsky
10 Sep 2007 6:09 UTC
43
points
37
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Kahneman’s Planning Anecdote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
17 Sep 2007 16:39 UTC
38
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Markets are a kind of electrochemical cell
KatjaGrace
4 Sep 2007 16:49 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Who needs democracy, free speech and all that rubbish when you can prescribe the values of your citizens?
KatjaGrace
3 Sep 2007 14:58 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Is outdoing monkeys while imagining free will the only way you can feel like a man?
KatjaGrace
29 Sep 2007 0:34 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
So much for the factual public debate that democracies completely fail to be built on
KatjaGrace
6 Sep 2007 15:07 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
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