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Principles

TagLast edit: Aug 5, 2020, 10:54 AM by Yoav Ravid

Principles are fundamental truths that serve as the foundations for behavior that gets you what you want out of life. They can be applied again and again in similar situations to help you achieve your goals.” ― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work.

Principles, Heuristics, and rules of thumb are generalizations that aim to produce an optimal outcome relative to their cheapness as decision rules.

Not using generalizations, Rules of thumb and Heuristics isn’t possible. precise decision rules such as Bayes Theorem are computationally intractable even to computers, and surely aren’t feasible for humans. the question become whether you have good and effective principles to guide you.

See also: Chesterton’s Fence, Conservation of Expected Evidence, Occam’s razor, Goodhart’s Law, More Dakka

Yes Re­quires the Pos­si­bil­ity of No

Scott GarrabrantMay 17, 2019, 10:39 PM
272 points
55 comments2 min readLW link2 reviews

Truth­seek­ing pro­cesses tend to be frame-invariant

Adele LopezMar 21, 2023, 6:17 AM
21 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Mak­ing Beliefs Pay Rent (in An­ti­ci­pated Ex­pe­riences)

Eliezer YudkowskyJul 28, 2007, 10:59 PM
487 points
267 comments4 min readLW link

Joey Savoie from Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship and His Prin­ci­ples—OpenPrin­ci­ples Speaker Session

ti_guoOct 10, 2022, 2:28 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Re­spect Ch­ester­ton-Schel­ling Fences

ShmiFeb 27, 2023, 12:09 AM
58 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Oc­cam’s Razor

Eliezer YudkowskySep 26, 2007, 6:36 AM
135 points
55 comments5 min readLW link

Be­ware of Other-Optimizing

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 10, 2009, 1:58 AM
188 points
119 comments5 min readLW link

Niche product design

Itay DreyfusJun 20, 2024, 6:34 AM
2 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(productidentity.co)

Be­ware The Man Of One Study

Scott AlexanderDec 12, 2014, 9:04 AM
65 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

Re­v­ersed Stu­pidity Is Not Intelligence

Eliezer YudkowskyDec 12, 2007, 10:14 PM
187 points
121 comments3 min readLW link

Don’t Re­vere The Bearer Of Good Info

CarlShulmanMar 21, 2009, 11:22 PM
126 points
72 comments3 min readLW link

Use­ful maxims

Paul CrowleyJul 11, 2012, 11:56 AM
38 points
111 comments1 min readLW link

Some peo­ple just won’t get it

Amir BolousJun 12, 2021, 3:10 PM
3 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Reflect­ing on build­ing my own tools from scratch and ‘in­vent­ing on prin­ci­ple’

Amir BolousJul 17, 2021, 6:43 PM
44 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

OpenPrin­ci­ples Boot­camp (Free) -- Reflect & Act on your Ra­tion­al­ity Prin­ci­ples.

ti_guoSep 8, 2022, 3:06 AM
6 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Be­ware Iso­lated De­mands For Rigor

Scott AlexanderSep 2, 2017, 7:50 PM
122 points
6 comments8 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)
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