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Cog­ni­tive Science

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Cognitive science draws upon a variety of different disciplines to try to describe and explain the way humans think. It heavily involves neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. It differs from neuroscience in that it focuses less on relating structure to function, and more on using many approaches to form higher-level models to predict behaviour.

The Cog­ni­tive Science of Rationality

lukeprogSep 12, 2011, 8:48 PM
139 points
111 comments15 min readLW link

[Lec­ture Club] Awak­en­ing from the Mean­ing Crisis

VaniverMar 8, 2021, 3:22 PM
72 points
207 comments2 min readLW link

Shard The­ory—is it true for hu­mans?

RishikaJun 14, 2024, 7:21 PM
71 points
7 comments15 min readLW link

There is es­sen­tially one best-val­i­dated the­ory of cog­ni­tion.

abramdemskiDec 10, 2021, 3:51 PM
89 points
33 comments3 min readLW link

Calcu­lance: A “Core” Ability

milanroskoJun 12, 2024, 7:21 AM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Dark Side of Cog­ni­tion Hypothesis

Cameron BergOct 3, 2021, 8:10 PM
19 points
1 comment16 min readLW link

[Valence se­ries] 3. Valence & Beliefs

Steven ByrnesDec 11, 2023, 8:21 PM
77 points
12 comments21 min readLW link1 review

In­cen­tive Learn­ing vs Dead Sea Salt Experiment

Steven ByrnesJun 25, 2024, 5:49 PM
30 points
1 comment28 min readLW link

Wor­ri­some mi­s­un­der­stand­ing of the core is­sues with AI transition

Roman LeventovJan 18, 2024, 10:05 AM
5 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

[In­tu­itive self-mod­els] 1. Preliminaries

Steven ByrnesSep 19, 2024, 1:45 PM
90 points
23 comments15 min readLW link

Orthog­o­nal­ity is expensive

berenApr 3, 2023, 10:20 AM
43 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

Sur­vey for al­ign­ment re­searchers!

Feb 2, 2024, 8:41 PM
71 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

From Con­cep­tual Spaces to Quan­tum Con­cepts: For­mal­is­ing and Learn­ing Struc­tured Con­cep­tual Models

Roman LeventovFeb 6, 2024, 10:18 AM
8 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Mini-Re­view: ‘The Oxford Hand­book of Philos­o­phy of Cog­ni­tive Science’

lukeprogFeb 1, 2012, 9:48 PM
11 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

[In­tu­itive self-mod­els] 2. Con­scious Awareness

Steven ByrnesSep 25, 2024, 1:29 PM
82 points
60 comments16 min readLW link

Her­i­ta­bil­ity, Be­hav­iorism, and Within-Life­time RL

Steven ByrnesFeb 2, 2023, 4:34 PM
39 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

[Valence se­ries] 2. Valence & Normativity

Steven ByrnesDec 7, 2023, 4:43 PM
88 points
7 comments28 min readLW link1 review

Trapped Pri­ors As A Ba­sic Prob­lem Of Rationality

Scott AlexanderMar 12, 2021, 8:02 PM
150 points
33 comments14 min readLW link3 reviews

Do We Believe Every­thing We’re Told?

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 10, 2007, 11:52 PM
105 points
41 comments2 min readLW link

[In­tu­itive self-mod­els] 3. The Homunculus

Steven ByrnesOct 2, 2024, 3:20 PM
78 points
38 comments25 min readLW link

Fully booked—LessWrong Com­mu­nity weekend

jtJul 16, 2024, 5:15 PM
20 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Karpenchuk’s hy­poth­e­sis: Ex­plor­ing Hu­man Life as a Con­scious­ness-Devel­op­ing Simulation

Karpenchuk Bohdan Aug 2, 2024, 7:28 PM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Is In­tel­li­gence a Pro­cess Rather Than an En­tity? A Case for Frac­tal and Fluid Cognition

FluidThinkersMar 5, 2025, 8:16 PM
−4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Three Levels for Large Lan­guage Model Cognition

Eleni AngelouFeb 25, 2025, 11:14 PM
21 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Log­i­cal Proof for the Emer­gence and Sub­strate In­de­pen­dence of Sentience

rifeOct 24, 2024, 9:08 PM
4 points
31 comments1 min readLW link
(awakenmoon.ai)

Do Deep Neu­ral Net­works Have Brain-like Rep­re­sen­ta­tions?: A Sum­mary of Disagreements

Joseph EmersonNov 18, 2024, 12:07 AM
9 points
0 comments26 min readLW link

The Apol­lo­nian Gas­ket and AI’s Hid­den Geo­met­ric Structure

LikaMenchMar 7, 2025, 8:06 PM
1 point
0 comments3 min readLW link

The Lan­guage Bot­tle­neck in AI Rea­son­ing: Are We For­get­ting to Think?

WotakerMar 8, 2025, 1:44 PM
1 point
0 comments7 min readLW link

In­de­pen­dent re­search ar­ti­cle an­a­lyz­ing con­sis­tent self-re­ports of ex­pe­rience in ChatGPT and Claude

rifeJan 6, 2025, 5:34 PM
4 points
20 comments1 min readLW link
(awakenmoon.ai)

Myths about Non­d­u­al­ity and Science by Gary Weber

Vadim GolubJan 15, 2025, 6:33 PM
2 points
0 comments23 min readLW link

The Dangers of Out­sourc­ing Think­ing: Los­ing Our Crit­i­cal Think­ing to the Over-Reli­ance on AI De­ci­sion-Making

Cameron Tomé-MoreiraMar 14, 2025, 11:07 PM
10 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

AI Self-Cor­rec­tion vs. Self-Reflec­tion: Is There a Fun­da­men­tal Differ­ence?

Project SolonMar 15, 2025, 6:24 PM
−3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Adap­tive Com­pos­able Cog­ni­tive Core Unit (ACCCU)

Ihor IvlievMar 20, 2025, 9:41 PM
1 point
0 comments4 min readLW link

Can AI Ever Ask ‘Who Created Me?’—A Ra­tional In­quiry into AI Self-Awareness

Tyler_JoeFeb 3, 2025, 6:36 AM
1 point
0 comments3 min readLW link

Emer­gent Analog­i­cal Rea­son­ing in Large Lan­guage Models

Roman LeventovMar 22, 2023, 5:18 AM
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

[Question] Ber­mudez In­ter­face Problem

Motor VehicleMar 27, 2023, 6:11 PM
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

Inch­ing “Kubla Khan” and GPT into the same in­tel­lec­tual frame­work @ 3 Quarks Daily

Bill BenzonMar 28, 2023, 7:50 PM
5 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Cor­rect­ing a mis­con­cep­tion: con­scious­ness does not need 90 billion neu­rons, at all

bvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvMar 31, 2023, 4:02 PM
21 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

For al­ign­ment, we should si­mul­ta­neously use mul­ti­ple the­o­ries of cog­ni­tion and value

Roman LeventovApr 24, 2023, 10:37 AM
23 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

A Tax­on­omy of Bias: The Cog­ni­tive Miser

Kaj_SotalaJul 2, 2010, 6:38 PM
67 points
38 comments5 min readLW link

Con­cepts Don’t Work That Way

lukeprogSep 28, 2011, 2:01 AM
88 points
92 comments8 min readLW link

Ver­bal Over­shad­ow­ing and The Art of Rationality

panglossApr 27, 2009, 11:39 PM
68 points
24 comments3 min readLW link

A Crash Course in the Neu­ro­science of Hu­man Motivation

lukeprogAug 19, 2011, 9:15 PM
204 points
93 comments38 min readLW link

Want­ing vs. Lik­ing Revisited

Scott AlexanderJul 9, 2011, 8:54 PM
63 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Data and “to­kens” a 30 year old hu­man “trains” on

Jose Miguel Cruz y CelisMay 23, 2023, 5:34 AM
15 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Not an­other bias!

LionelJun 5, 2023, 5:50 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(lionelpage.substack.com)

Liv­ing Metaphorically

lukeprogNov 28, 2011, 3:01 PM
37 points
80 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Do we au­to­mat­i­cally ac­cept propo­si­tions?

Aaron GraifmanJul 11, 2023, 5:45 PM
10 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

An In­tro­duc­tion to Me

AlithyInfinityAug 24, 2023, 4:45 PM
0 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

The Use­ful Idea of Truth

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 2, 2012, 6:16 PM
194 points
545 comments14 min readLW link

Learn­ing How to Learn (And 20+ Stud­ies)

maxaFeb 26, 2023, 10:46 PM
63 points
12 comments6 min readLW link
(max2c.com)

[Link] Cog­ni­tive Sciences Stack Ex­change opened

Kaj_SotalaFeb 5, 2012, 8:07 AM
28 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Our com­pressed perception

pchvykovApr 6, 2021, 11:01 AM
12 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Mind­ful­ness as debugging

pchvykovApr 30, 2021, 4:59 PM
21 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

On Humor

Chris LandSep 18, 2021, 9:40 PM
6 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

[Book Re­view] Altered Traits

lsusrSep 23, 2021, 12:33 AM
68 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

“Brain en­thu­si­asts” in AI Safety

Jun 18, 2022, 9:59 AM
63 points
5 comments10 min readLW link
(universalprior.substack.com)

Mis­takes as agency

pchvykovJul 25, 2022, 4:17 PM
12 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

Ac­cep­tance and Com­mit­ment Ther­apy (ACT) 101

Evie CottrellSep 25, 2022, 7:25 AM
7 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] Is a PhD nec­es­sary to con­tribute mean­ingfully to a field?

TrudosKudosSep 27, 2022, 9:27 PM
4 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Feelings

Eris DiscordiaOct 13, 2022, 5:48 PM
9 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

[Heb­bian Nat­u­ral Ab­strac­tions] Introduction

Nov 21, 2022, 8:34 PM
34 points
3 comments4 min readLW link
(www.snellessen.com)

Take part in our gi­ant study of cog­ni­tive abil­ities and get a cus­tomized re­port of your strengths and weak­nesses!

spencergNov 25, 2022, 4:28 PM
8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.guidedtrack.com)

[Heb­bian Nat­u­ral Ab­strac­tions] Math­e­mat­i­cal Foundations

Dec 25, 2022, 8:58 PM
15 points
2 comments6 min readLW link
(www.snellessen.com)

Scal­ing laws vs in­di­vi­d­ual differences

berenJan 10, 2023, 1:22 PM
45 points
21 comments7 min readLW link

Cri­tique of some re­cent philos­o­phy of LLMs’ minds

Roman LeventovJan 20, 2023, 12:53 PM
52 points
8 comments20 min readLW link

In defense of the MBTI

ZZZZZZFeb 6, 2023, 9:08 PM
−14 points
22 comments4 min readLW link

A multi-dis­ci­plinary view on AI safety research

Roman LeventovFeb 8, 2023, 4:50 PM
46 points
4 comments26 min readLW link

[Paper] Tra­jec­to­ries through se­man­tic spaces in schizophre­nia and the re­la­tion­ship to rip­ple bursts

bvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvDec 15, 2023, 1:37 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.pnas.org)

“Which chains-of-thought was that faster than?”

EmrikMay 22, 2024, 8:21 AM
37 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Time Fuse in Head

Martin RychlitzkiDec 25, 2023, 9:46 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ap­ply to the 2024 PIBBSS Sum­mer Re­search Fellowship

Jan 12, 2024, 4:06 AM
39 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Quan­tum Dar­winism, so­cial con­structs, and the sci­en­tific method

pchvykovFeb 7, 2024, 7:04 AM
6 points
12 comments9 min readLW link

Causal­ity is Everywhere

silentbobFeb 13, 2024, 1:44 PM
26 points
12 comments8 min readLW link

The role of philo­soph­i­cal think­ing in un­der­stand­ing large lan­guage mod­els: Cal­ibrat­ing and clos­ing the gap be­tween first-per­son ex­pe­rience and un­der­ly­ing mechanisms

Bill BenzonFeb 23, 2024, 12:19 PM
4 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Per­ma­nent prop­er­ties of things are a self-fulfilling prophecy

YanLyutnevFeb 19, 2025, 12:08 AM
4 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Towards a New On­tol­ogy of Intelligence

TaraJun 4, 2024, 8:19 AM
1 point
0 comments3 min readLW link
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