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Markets are a kind of electrochemical cell
KatjaGrace
4 Sep 2007 16:49 UTC
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“Science” as Curiosity-Stopper
Eliezer Yudkowsky
3 Sep 2007 20:04 UTC
156
points
61
comments
3
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LW
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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
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0
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1
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LW
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Explain/Worship/Ignore?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
2 Sep 2007 20:01 UTC
114
points
88
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Stranger Than History
Eliezer Yudkowsky
1 Sep 2007 18:57 UTC
134
points
335
comments
1
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
LW
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Failing to Learn from History
Eliezer Yudkowsky
30 Aug 2007 20:22 UTC
113
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
My Wild and Reckless Youth
Eliezer Yudkowsky
30 Aug 2007 1:52 UTC
113
points
53
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Say Not “Complexity”
Eliezer Yudkowsky
29 Aug 2007 4:22 UTC
112
points
53
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Positive Bias: Look Into the Dark
Eliezer Yudkowsky
28 Aug 2007 3:55 UTC
150
points
59
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Futility of Emergence
Eliezer Yudkowsky
26 Aug 2007 22:10 UTC
105
points
142
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
Eliezer Yudkowsky
25 Aug 2007 22:27 UTC
231
points
159
comments
4
min read
LW
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Semantic Stopsigns
Eliezer Yudkowsky
24 Aug 2007 19:29 UTC
151
points
110
comments
3
min read
LW
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Fake Causality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
23 Aug 2007 18:12 UTC
127
points
88
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Science as Attire
Eliezer Yudkowsky
23 Aug 2007 5:10 UTC
162
points
88
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Guessing the Teacher’s Password
Eliezer Yudkowsky
22 Aug 2007 3:40 UTC
283
points
98
comments
4
min read
LW
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Fake Explanations
Eliezer Yudkowsky
20 Aug 2007 21:13 UTC
173
points
96
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Is Molecular Nanotechnology “Scientific”?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
20 Aug 2007 4:11 UTC
39
points
49
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Scientific Evidence, Legal Evidence, Rational Evidence
Eliezer Yudkowsky
19 Aug 2007 5:36 UTC
129
points
18
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Hindsight Devalues Science
Eliezer Yudkowsky
17 Aug 2007 19:39 UTC
242
points
44
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Hindsight bias
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16 Aug 2007 21:58 UTC
73
points
25
comments
2
min read
LW
link
One Argument Against An Army
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15 Aug 2007 18:39 UTC
106
points
37
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Update Yourself Incrementally
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14 Aug 2007 14:56 UTC
115
points
29
comments
3
min read
LW
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Conservation of Expected Evidence
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13 Aug 2007 15:55 UTC
264
points
82
comments
2
min read
LW
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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
link
I Defy the Data!
Eliezer Yudkowsky
11 Aug 2007 21:33 UTC
101
points
12
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Your Strength as a Rationalist
Eliezer Yudkowsky
11 Aug 2007 0:21 UTC
272
points
123
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Apocalypse Bet
Eliezer Yudkowsky
9 Aug 2007 17:23 UTC
49
points
51
comments
1
min read
LW
link
You Can Face Reality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
9 Aug 2007 1:46 UTC
175
points
41
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Virtue of Narrowness
Eliezer Yudkowsky
7 Aug 2007 17:57 UTC
129
points
66
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Proper Use of Doubt
Eliezer Yudkowsky
6 Aug 2007 20:29 UTC
91
points
35
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Focus Your Uncertainty
Eliezer Yudkowsky
5 Aug 2007 20:49 UTC
107
points
21
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Importance of Saying “Oops”
Eliezer Yudkowsky
5 Aug 2007 3:17 UTC
258
points
35
comments
2
min read
LW
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Religion’s Claim to be Non-Disprovable
Eliezer Yudkowsky
4 Aug 2007 3:21 UTC
341
points
331
comments
4
min read
LW
link
God is irrelevant
KatjaGrace
3 Aug 2007 10:57 UTC
1
point
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
Belief as Attire
Eliezer Yudkowsky
2 Aug 2007 17:13 UTC
132
points
105
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Professing and Cheering
Eliezer Yudkowsky
2 Aug 2007 7:20 UTC
114
points
45
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Bayesian Judo
Eliezer Yudkowsky
31 Jul 2007 5:53 UTC
92
points
110
comments
1
min read
LW
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Belief in Belief
Eliezer Yudkowsky
29 Jul 2007 17:49 UTC
214
points
177
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences)
Eliezer Yudkowsky
28 Jul 2007 22:59 UTC
475
points
267
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Free will isn’t a concept (unless you mean determinism)
KatjaGrace
15 Jul 2007 13:51 UTC
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Two More Things to Unlearn from School
Eliezer Yudkowsky
12 Jul 2007 17:45 UTC
167
points
157
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Open Thread
Eliezer Yudkowsky
1 Jul 2007 19:38 UTC
5
points
38
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Are Your Enemies Innately Evil?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
26 Jun 2007 21:13 UTC
208
points
148
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Correspondence Bias
Eliezer Yudkowsky
25 Jun 2007 0:58 UTC
101
points
49
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Risk-Free Bonds Aren’t
Eliezer Yudkowsky
22 Jun 2007 22:30 UTC
23
points
40
comments
2
min read
LW
link
One Life Against the World
Eliezer Yudkowsky
18 May 2007 22:06 UTC
124
points
84
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Scope Insensitivity
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14 May 2007 2:53 UTC
330
points
69
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Third Alternatives for Afterlife-ism
Eliezer Yudkowsky
8 May 2007 7:41 UTC
35
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Third Alternative
Eliezer Yudkowsky
6 May 2007 23:47 UTC
159
points
85
comments
3
min read
LW
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