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Cul­tural knowledge

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Cultural knowledge (or metis) refers to knowledge that’s codified in traditions, norms, institutions and intuitions, without necessarily being fully understood or legible to people in those cultures.

Book Re­view: The Se­cret Of Our Success

Scott AlexanderJun 5, 2019, 6:50 AM
164 points
20 comments25 min readLW link2 reviews
(slatestarcodex.com)

Steel­man­ning Divination

VaniverJun 5, 2019, 10:53 PM
203 points
48 comments6 min readLW link2 reviews

Rea­son as memetic im­mune disorder

PhilGoetzSep 19, 2009, 9:05 PM
504 points
185 comments5 min readLW link

On the Loss and Preser­va­tion of Knowledge

Samo BurjaMar 8, 2018, 6:40 PM
71 points
21 comments10 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Epistemic Com­par­i­son: First Prin­ci­ples Land vs. Mime­sis Land

ozziegooenAug 21, 2020, 10:28 PM
33 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Take­off speeds, the chimps anal­ogy, and the Cul­tural In­tel­li­gence Hypothesis

NickGabsDec 2, 2022, 7:14 PM
16 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Rea­son isn’t magic

BenquoJun 18, 2019, 4:04 AM
160 points
19 comments2 min readLW link3 reviews
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Book re­view: The Geog­ra­phy of Thought

PeterMcCluskeyFeb 9, 2021, 6:47 PM
73 points
37 comments5 min readLW link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

Ch­ester­ton’s Fence vs The Onion in the Varnish

Joel BurgetMar 24, 2022, 9:20 PM
7 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Long Now, and Cul­ture vs Artifacts

RaemonFeb 3, 2020, 9:49 PM
26 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

In­cor­rect hy­pothe­ses point to cor­rect observations

Kaj_SotalaNov 20, 2018, 9:10 PM
168 points
40 comments4 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

The ethic of hand-wash­ing and com­mu­nity epistemic practice

Mar 5, 2009, 4:28 AM
61 points
48 comments3 min readLW link

The Mar­tial Art of Rationality

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 22, 2006, 8:00 PM
303 points
48 comments3 min readLW link

Ex­cerpts from Veyne’s “Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths?”

Rob BensingerNov 8, 2021, 8:23 PM
24 points
1 comment16 min readLW link

Fun­da­men­tal Uncer­tainty: Chap­ter 5 - How do we know what we know?

Gordon Seidoh WorleyDec 28, 2022, 1:28 AM
10 points
2 comments12 min readLW link

Mus­ings on Cu­mu­la­tive Cul­tural Evolu­tion and AI

caleboJul 7, 2019, 4:46 PM
19 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

The Hid­den Ori­gins of Ideas

cleonidMar 28, 2009, 2:27 AM
5 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Proverbs and Cached Judg­ments: the Rol­ling Stone

AnnoyanceApr 1, 2009, 3:40 PM
18 points
30 comments2 min readLW link

Cul­tural accumulation

KatjaGraceDec 6, 2020, 6:20 AM
93 points
53 comments3 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

Death Pos­i­tive Movement

lejuletreDec 11, 2020, 6:29 PM
23 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Good Ci­ti­zen­ship Is Out Of Date

Ben_LandauTaylorSep 10, 2018, 12:15 AM
44 points
6 comments4 min readLW link
(benlandautaylor.com)

Con­vict Con­di­tion­ing Book Review

BoraskoApr 9, 2021, 10:10 PM
40 points
11 comments11 min readLW link

“Arc­tic In­stincts? The uni­ver­sal prin­ci­ples of Arc­tic psy­cholog­i­cal adap­ta­tion and the ori­gins of East Asian psy­chol­ogy”—Call for Re­view­ers (Seeds of Science)

rogersbaconFeb 16, 2024, 3:02 PM
0 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Levels of Thought: from Points to Fields

HNXDec 2, 2024, 8:25 PM
4 points
2 comments23 min readLW link

The Fourth Arena 2: New be­ings in time

Bill BenzonJun 5, 2022, 1:30 PM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Changes in Reality

eapacheSep 7, 2020, 4:18 PM
5 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

On Ch­ester­ton’s Fence

trentbrickSep 10, 2020, 3:10 PM
21 points
3 comments10 min readLW link

Reli­gion as Goodhart

ShmiJul 8, 2019, 12:38 AM
21 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
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