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Jan 26, 2023 11:34 AM

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Book YT

Sequences Highlights — LessWrong

"The Sequences" is a series of essays by Eliezer Yudkowsky. They describe how to avoid the typical failure modes of human reason and instead think in ways that more reliably lead to true and accurate beliefs. These essays are the foundational texts of LessWrong. To provide a quick and accessible introduction to The Sequences, we have selected 50 of the best essays that capture some of the seminal ideas. Estimated read time of 8 hours. Art by Dall-E 2

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Rationality: A-Z — LessWrong

Rationality: A-Z (or "The Sequences") is a series of blog posts by Eliezer Yudkowsky on human rationality and irrationality in cognitive science. It is an edited and reorganized version of posts published to Less Wrong and Overcoming Bias between 2006 and 2009. This collection serves as a long-form introduction to formative ideas behind Less Wrong, the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, the Center for Applied Rationality, and substantial parts of the effective altruist community. Each book also comes with an introduction by Rob Bensinger and a supplemental essay by Yudkowsky. The first two books, Map and Territory and How to Actually Change Your Mind, are available on Amazon (printed and e-book version). The entire collection is available as an e-book and audiobook. A number of alternative reading orders for the essays can be found here, and a compilation of all of Eliezer's blogposts up to 2010 can be found here.

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Recs

Rob Basinger Sequences

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Rob Basinger Sequences

~~1. Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences) - https://www.lesswrong.com/.../7gRSERQ.../p/a7n8GdKiAZRX86T5A~~

~~2. How Much Evidence Does It Take? - https://www.lesswrong.com/.../zpCiuR4.../p/nj8JKFoLSMEmD3RGp~~

~~3. Tsuyoku Naritai! - https://www.lesswrong.com/.../FrqfoG3.../p/DoLQN5ryZ9XkZjq5h~~

~~4. How to Convince Me That 2 + 2 = 3 - https://www.lesswrong.com/.../FrqfoG3.../p/6FmqiAgS8h4EJm86s~~

~~5. Hug the Query - https://www.lesswrong.com/.../3ELrPer.../p/2jp98zdLo898qExrr~~

~~6. The Bottom Line - https://www.lesswrong.com/.../GSqFqc6.../p/34XxbRFe54FycoCDw~~

~~7. Motivated Stopping and Motivated Continuation - https://www.lesswrong.com/.../GSqFqc6.../p/L32LHWzy9FzSDazEg~~

~~8. Taboo Your Words - https://www.lesswrong.com/.../SGB7Y5W.../p/WBdvyyHLdxZSAMmoz~~

9. The Second Law of Thermodynamics, and Engines of Cognition - https://www.lesswrong.com/.../oFePMp9.../p/QkX2bAkwG2EpGvNug

10. My Kind of Reflection - https://www.lesswrong.com/.../9bvAELW.../p/TynBiYt6zg42StRbb

Norman Permuters

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Human guide to words sequence

https://www.lesswrong.com/s/SGB7Y5WERh4skwtnb

The Parable of the Dagger

The Parable of Hemlock

Words as Hidden Inferences

Extensions and Intensions

Similarity Clusters

Typicality and Asymmetrical Similarity

The Cluster Structure of Thingspace

Disguised Queries

Neural Categories

How An Algorithm Feels From Inside

Disputing Definitions

Feel the Meaning

The Argument from Common Usage

Empty Labels

Taboo Your Words

Replace the Symbol with the Substance

Fallacies of Compression

Categorizing Has Consequences

Sneaking in Connotations

Arguing "By Definition"

Where to Draw the Boundary?

Entropy, and Short Codes

Mutual Information, and Density in Thingspace

Superexponential Conceptspace, and Simple Words

Conditional Independence, and Naive Bayes

Words as Mental Paintbrush Handles

Variable Question Fallacies

37 Ways That Words Can Be Wrong

How An Algorithm Feels From Inside - LessWrong

"If a tree falls in the forest, and no one hears it, does it make a sound?" I remember seeing an actual argument get started on this subject—a fully naive argument that went nowhere near Berkeleyan…

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