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Rob Bensinger 10 May 2019 23:13 UTC
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The wiki glossary for the sequences / Rationality: A-Z ( https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/RAZ_Glossary ) is updated now with the glossary entries from the print edition of vol. 1-2.
New entries from Map and Territory:
anthropics, availability heuristic, Bayes’s theorem, Bayesian, Bayesian updating, bit, Blue and Green, calibration, causal decision theory, cognitive bias, conditional probability, confirmation bias, conjunction fallacy, deontology, directed acyclic graph, elan vital, Everett branch, expected value, Fermi paradox, foozality, hindsight bias, inductive bias, instrumental, intentionality, isomorphism, Kolmogorov complexity, likelihood, maximum-entropy probability distribution, probability distribution, statistical bias, two-boxing
New entries from How to Actually Change Your Mind:
affect heuristic, causal graph, correspondence bias, epistemology, existential risk, frequentism, Friendly AI, group selection, halo effect, humility, intelligence explosion, joint probability distribution, just-world fallacy, koan, many-worlds interpretation, modesty, transhuman
A bunch of other entries from the M&T and HACYM glossaries were already on the wiki; most of these have been improved a bit or made more concise.
- Said Achmiz 11 May 2019 7:41 UTC
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  This reminds me of something I’ve been meaning to ask:
  
  Last I checked, the contents of the Less Wrong Wiki were licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, which is… rather inconvenient. Is it at all possible to re-license it (ideally as CC BY-NC-SA, to match R:AZ itself)?
  
  (My interest in this comes from the fact that the Glossary is mirrored on ReadTheSequences.com, and I’d prefer not to have to deal with two different licenses, as I currently have to.)
  - habryka 11 May 2019 8:24 UTC
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    I can reach out to Trike Apps about this, but can we actually do this? Seems plausible that we would have to ask for permission from all editors involved in a page before we can change the license.
    - Said Achmiz 11 May 2019 8:50 UTC
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      I have no idea; I cannot claim to really understand the GFDL well enough to know… but if doable, this seems worthwhile, as there’s a lot of material on the wiki which I and others could do various useful/interesting things with, if it were released under a convenient license.
- Rob Bensinger 10 May 2019 23:19 UTC
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  Are there any other OK-quality rationalist glossaries out there? https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Jargon is the only one I know of. I vaguely recall there being one on http://www.bayrationality.com/ at some point, but I might be misremembering.
  - Said Achmiz 11 May 2019 7:36 UTC
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    https://namespace.obormot.net/Jargon/Jargon
    - Rob Bensinger 11 May 2019 20:21 UTC
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      Fantastic!
  - jimrandomh 11 May 2019 0:31 UTC
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    It’s optimized on a *very* different axis, but there’s the Rationality Cardinality card database.
    - Rob Bensinger 11 May 2019 20:18 UTC
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      That counts! :) Part of why I’m asking is in case we want to build a proper LW glossary, and Rationality Cardinality could at least provide ideas for terms we might be missing.