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And... http://lesswrong.com/lw/go/why_truth_and/ +I Map and Territory Predictably Wrong 4 ... What's a Bias, Again? http://lesswrong.com/lw/gp/whats_a_bias_again/ +I Map and Territory Predictably Wrong 5 Availability http://lesswrong.com/lw/j5/availability/ +I Map and Territory Predictably Wrong 6 Burdensome Details http://lesswrong.com/lw/jk/burdensome_details/ +I Map and Territory Predictably Wrong 7 Planning Fallacy http://lesswrong.com/lw/jg/planning_fallacy/ +I Map and Territory Predictably Wrong 8 Illusion of Transparency: Why No One Understands You http://lesswrong.com/lw/ke/illusion_of_transparency_why_no_one_understands/ +I Map and Territory Predictably Wrong 9 Expecting Short Inferential Distances http://lesswrong.com/lw/kg/expecting_short_inferential_distances/ +I Map and Territory Predictably Wrong 10 The Lens that Sees its Flaws http://lesswrong.com/lw/jm/the_lens_that_sees_its_flaws/ +I Map and Territory Fake Beliefs 11 Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences) http://lesswrong.com/lw/i3/making_beliefs_pay_rent_in_anticipated_experiences/ +I Map and Territory Fake Beliefs 12 A Fable of Science and Politics http://lesswrong.com/lw/gt/a_fable_of_science_and_politics/ +I Map and Territory Fake Beliefs 13 Belief in Belief http://lesswrong.com/lw/i4/belief_in_belief/ +I Map and Territory Fake Beliefs 14 Bayesian Judo http://lesswrong.com/lw/i5/bayesian_judo/ +I Map and Territory Fake Beliefs 15 Professing and Cheering http://lesswrong.com/lw/i6/professing_and_cheering/ +I Map and Territory Fake Beliefs 16 Applause Lights http://lesswrong.com/lw/jb/applause_lights/ +I Map and Territory Fake Beliefs 17 Belief as Attire http://lesswrong.com/lw/i7/belief_as_attire/ +I Map and Territory Fake Beliefs 18 Pretending to be Wise http://lesswrong.com/lw/yp/pretending_to_be_wise/ +I Map and Territory Fake Beliefs 19 Religion's Claim to be Non-Disprovable http://lesswrong.com/lw/i8/religions_claim_to_be_nondisprovable/ +I Map and Territory Noticing Confusion 20 What is Evidence? http://lesswrong.com/lw/jl/what_is_evidence/ +I Map and Territory Noticing Confusion 21 Scientific Evidence, Legal Evidence, Rational Evidence http://lesswrong.com/lw/in/scientific_evidence_legal_evidence_rational/ +I Map and Territory Noticing Confusion 22 How Much Evidence Does It Take? http://lesswrong.com/lw/jn/how_much_evidence_does_it_take/ +I Map and Territory Noticing Confusion 23 Occam's Razor http://lesswrong.com/lw/jp/occams_razor/ +I Map and Territory Noticing Confusion 24 Einstein's Arrogance http://lesswrong.com/lw/jo/einsteins_arrogance/ +I Map and Territory Noticing Confusion 25 Focus Your Uncertainty http://lesswrong.com/lw/ia/focus_your_uncertainty/ +I Map and Territory Noticing Confusion 26 The Virtue of Narrowness http://lesswrong.com/lw/ic/the_virtue_of_narrowness/ +I Map and Territory Noticing Confusion 27 Your Strength as a Rationalist http://lesswrong.com/lw/if/your_strength_as_a_rationalist/ +I Map and Territory Noticing Confusion 28 Absence of Evidence is Evidence of Absence http://lesswrong.com/lw/ih/absence_of_evidence_is_evidence_of_absence/ +I Map and Territory Noticing Confusion 29 Conservation of Expected Evidence http://lesswrong.com/lw/ii/conservation_of_expected_evidence/ +I Map and Territory Noticing Confusion 30 Hindsight Devalues Science http://lesswrong.com/lw/im/hindsight_devalues_science/ +I Map and Territory Mysterious Answers 31 Fake Explanations http://lesswrong.com/lw/ip/fake_explanations/ +I Map and Territory Mysterious Answers 32 Guessing the Teacher's Password http://lesswrong.com/lw/iq/guessing_the_teachers_password/ +I Map and Territory Mysterious Answers 33 Science as Attire http://lesswrong.com/lw/ir/science_as_attire/ +I Map and Territory Mysterious Answers 34 Fake Causality http://lesswrong.com/lw/is/fake_causality/ +I Map and Territory Mysterious Answers 35 Semantic Stopsigns http://lesswrong.com/lw/it/semantic_stopsigns/ +I Map and Territory Mysterious Answers 36 Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions http://lesswrong.com/lw/iu/mysterious_answers_to_mysterious_questions/ +I Map and Territory Mysterious Answers 37 The Futility of Emergence http://lesswrong.com/lw/iv/the_futility_of_emergence/ +I Map and Territory Mysterious Answers 38 Say Not "Complexity" http://lesswrong.com/lw/ix/say_not_complexity/ +I Map and Territory Mysterious Answers 39 Positive Bias: Look into the Dark http://lesswrong.com/lw/iw/positive_bias_look_into_the_dark/ +I Map and Territory Mysterious Answers 40 My Wild and Reckless Youth http://lesswrong.com/lw/iy/my_wild_and_reckless_youth/ +I Map and Territory Mysterious Answers 41 Failing to Learn from History http://lesswrong.com/lw/iz/failing_to_learn_from_history/ +I Map and Territory Mysterious Answers 42 Making History Available http://lesswrong.com/lw/j0/making_history_available/ +I Map and Territory Mysterious Answers 43 Explain/Worship/Ignore? http://lesswrong.com/lw/j2/explainworshipignore/ +I Map and Territory Mysterious Answers 44 "Science" as Curiosity-Stopper http://lesswrong.com/lw/j3/science_as_curiositystopper/ +I Map and Territory Mysterious Answers 45 Truly Part of You http://lesswrong.com/lw/la/truly_part_of_you/ + Interlude The Simple Truth http://yudkowsky.net/rational/the-simple-truth/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Politics is the Mind-Killer 46 Politics is the Mind-Killer http://lesswrong.com/lw/gw/politics_is_the_mindkiller/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Politics is the Mind-Killer 47 Policy Debates Should Not Appear One-Sided http://lesswrong.com/lw/gz/policy_debates_should_not_appear_onesided/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Politics is the Mind-Killer 48 The Scales of Justice, the Notebook of Rationality http://lesswrong.com/lw/h1/the_scales_of_justice_the_notebook_of_rationality/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Politics is the Mind-Killer 49 Correspondence Bias http://lesswrong.com/lw/hz/correspondence_bias/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Politics is the Mind-Killer 50 Are Your Enemies Innately Evil? http://lesswrong.com/lw/i0/are_your_enemies_innately_evil/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Politics is the Mind-Killer 51 Reversed Stupidity is Not Intelligence http://lesswrong.com/lw/lw/reversed_stupidity_is_not_intelligence/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Politics is the Mind-Killer 52 Argument Screens Off Authority http://lesswrong.com/lw/lx/argument_screens_off_authority/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Politics is the Mind-Killer 53 Hug the Query http://lesswrong.com/lw/ly/hug_the_query/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Politics is the Mind-Killer 54 Rationality and the English Language http://lesswrong.com/lw/jc/rationality_and_the_english_language/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Politics is the Mind-Killer 55 Human Evil and Muddled Thinking http://lesswrong.com/lw/jd/human_evil_and_muddled_thinking/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 56 The Affect Heuristic http://lesswrong.com/lw/lg/the_affect_heuristic/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 57 Evaluability (And Cheap Holiday Shopping) http://lesswrong.com/lw/lh/evaluability_and_cheap_holiday_shopping/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 58 Unbounded Scales, Huge Jury Awards, & Futurism http://lesswrong.com/lw/li/unbounded_scales_huge_jury_awards_futurism/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 59 The Halo Effect http://lesswrong.com/lw/lj/the_halo_effect/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 60 Superhero Bias http://lesswrong.com/lw/lk/superhero_bias/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 61 Mere Messiahs http://lesswrong.com/lw/ll/mere_messiahs/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 62 Affective Death Spirals http://lesswrong.com/lw/lm/affective_death_spirals/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 63 Resist the Happy Death Spiral http://lesswrong.com/lw/ln/resist_the_happy_death_spiral/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 64 Uncritical Supercriticality http://lesswrong.com/lw/lo/uncritical_supercriticality/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 65 Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs http://lesswrong.com/lw/lr/evaporative_cooling_of_group_beliefs/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 66 When None Dare Urge Restraint http://lesswrong.com/lw/ls/when_none_dare_urge_restraint/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 67 The Robbers Cave Experiment http://lesswrong.com/lw/lt/the_robbers_cave_experiment/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 68 Every Cause Wants to be a Cult http://lesswrong.com/lw/lv/every_cause_wants_to_be_a_cult/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 69 Guardians of the Truth http://lesswrong.com/lw/lz/guardians_of_the_truth/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 70 Guardians of the Gene Pool http://lesswrong.com/lw/m0/guardians_of_the_gene_pool/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 71 Guardians of Ayn Rand http://lesswrong.com/lw/m1/guardians_of_ayn_rand/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 72 Two Cult Koans http://lesswrong.com/lw/m4/two_cult_koans/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 73 Asch's Conformity Experiment http://lesswrong.com/lw/m9/aschs_conformity_experiment/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 74 On Expressing Your Concerns http://lesswrong.com/lw/ma/on_expressing_your_concerns/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 75 Lonely Dissent http://lesswrong.com/lw/mb/lonely_dissent/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 76 Cultish Countercultishness http://lesswrong.com/lw/md/cultish_countercultishness/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Seeing with Fresh Eyes 77 Anchoring and Adjustment http://lesswrong.com/lw/j7/anchoring_and_adjustment/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Seeing with Fresh Eyes 78 Priming and Contamination http://lesswrong.com/lw/k3/priming_and_contamination/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Seeing with Fresh Eyes 79 Do We Believe Everything We're Told? http://lesswrong.com/lw/k4/do_we_believe_everything_were_told/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Seeing with Fresh Eyes 80 Cached Thoughts http://lesswrong.com/lw/k5/cached_thoughts/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Seeing with Fresh Eyes 81 The "Outside the Box" Box http://lesswrong.com/lw/k6/the_outside_the_box_box/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Seeing with Fresh Eyes 82 Original Seeing http://lesswrong.com/lw/k7/original_seeing/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Seeing with Fresh Eyes 83 Stranger Than History http://lesswrong.com/lw/j1/stranger_than_history/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Seeing with Fresh Eyes 84 The Logical Fallacy of Generalization from Fictional Evidence http://lesswrong.com/lw/k9/the_logical_fallacy_of_generalization_from/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Seeing with Fresh Eyes 85 How to Seem (and Be) Deep http://lesswrong.com/lw/k8/how_to_seem_and_be_deep/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Seeing with Fresh Eyes 86 We Change Our Minds Less Often Than We Think http://lesswrong.com/lw/jx/we_change_our_minds_less_often_than_we_think/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Seeing with Fresh Eyes 87 Hold Off On Proposing Solutions http://lesswrong.com/lw/ka/hold_off_on_proposing_solutions/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Seeing with Fresh Eyes 88 The Genetic Fallacy http://lesswrong.com/lw/s3/the_genetic_fallacy/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Rationalization 89 Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People http://lesswrong.com/lw/he/knowing_about_biases_can_hurt_people/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Rationalization 90 Update Yourself Incrementally http://lesswrong.com/lw/ij/update_yourself_incrementally/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Rationalization 91 One Argument Against An Army http://lesswrong.com/lw/ik/one_argument_against_an_army/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Rationalization 92 The Bottom Line http://lesswrong.com/lw/js/the_bottom_line/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Rationalization 93 What Evidence Filtered Evidence? http://lesswrong.com/lw/jt/what_evidence_filtered_evidence/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Rationalization 94 Rationalization http://lesswrong.com/lw/ju/rationalization/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Rationalization 95 A Rational Argument http://lesswrong.com/lw/jw/a_rational_argument/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Rationalization 96 Avoiding Your Belief's Real Weak Points http://lesswrong.com/lw/jy/avoiding_your_beliefs_real_weak_points/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Rationalization 97 Motivated Stopping and Motivated Continuation http://lesswrong.com/lw/km/motivated_stopping_and_motivated_continuation/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Rationalization 98 Fake Justification http://lesswrong.com/lw/kq/fake_justification/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Rationalization 99 Is That Your True Rejection? http://lesswrong.com/lw/wj/is_that_your_true_rejection/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Rationalization 100 Entangled Truths, Contagious Lies http://lesswrong.com/lw/uw/entangled_truths_contagious_lies/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Rationalization 101 Of Lies and Black Swan Blowups http://lesswrong.com/lw/9a/of_lies_and_black_swan_blowups/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Rationalization 102 Dark Side Epistemology http://lesswrong.com/lw/uy/dark_side_epistemology/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Doublethink 103 Singlethink http://lesswrong.com/lw/k0/singlethink/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Doublethink 104 Doublethink: Choosing to be Biased http://lesswrong.com/lw/je/doublethink_choosing_to_be_biased/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Doublethink 105 No, Really, I've Deceived Myself http://lesswrong.com/lw/r/no_really_ive_deceived_myself/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Doublethink 106 Belief in Self-Deception http://lesswrong.com/lw/s/belief_in_selfdeception/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Doublethink 107 Moore's Paradox http://lesswrong.com/lw/1f/moores_paradox/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Doublethink 108 Don't Believe You'll Self-Deceive http://lesswrong.com/lw/1o/dont_believe_youll_selfdeceive/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Overly Convenient Excuses 109 The Proper Use of Humility http://lesswrong.com/lw/gq/the_proper_use_of_humility/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Overly Convenient Excuses 110 The Third Alternative http://lesswrong.com/lw/hu/the_third_alternative/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Overly Convenient Excuses 111 But There's Still A Chance, Right? http://lesswrong.com/lw/ml/but_theres_still_a_chance_right/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Overly Convenient Excuses 112 The Fallacy of Gray http://lesswrong.com/lw/mm/the_fallacy_of_gray/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Overly Convenient Excuses 113 Absolute Authority http://lesswrong.com/lw/mn/absolute_authority/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Overly Convenient Excuses 114 How to Convince Me That 2 + 2 = 3 http://lesswrong.com/lw/jr/how_to_convince_me_that_2_2_3/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Overly Convenient Excuses 115 Infinite Certainty http://lesswrong.com/lw/mo/infinite_certainty/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Overly Convenient Excuses 116 0 And 1 Are Not Probabilities http://lesswrong.com/lw/mp/0_and_1_are_not_probabilities/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Letting Go 117 The Importance of Saying "Oops" http://lesswrong.com/lw/i9/the_importance_of_saying_oops/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Letting Go 118 The Crackpot Offer http://lesswrong.com/lw/j8/the_crackpot_offer/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Letting Go 119 Just Lose Hope Already http://lesswrong.com/lw/gx/just_lose_hope_already/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Letting Go 120 The Proper Use of Doubt http://lesswrong.com/lw/ib/the_proper_use_of_doubt/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Letting Go 121 You Can Face Reality http://lesswrong.com/lw/id/you_can_face_reality/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Letting Go 122 The Meditation on Curiosity http://lesswrong.com/lw/jz/the_meditation_on_curiosity/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Letting Go 123 No One Can Exempt You From Rationality's Laws http://lesswrong.com/lw/k1/no_one_can_exempt_you_from_rationalitys_laws/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Letting Go 124 Leave a Line of Retreat http://lesswrong.com/lw/o4/leave_a_line_of_retreat/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Letting Go 125 Crisis of Faith http://lesswrong.com/lw/ur/crisis_of_faith/ +II How to Actually Change Your Mind Letting Go 126 The Ritual http://lesswrong.com/lw/us/the_ritual/ + Interlude The Power of Intelligence http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/power/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms The Simple Math of Evolution 127 An Alien God http://lesswrong.com/lw/kr/an_alien_god/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms The Simple Math of Evolution 128 The Wonder of Evolution http://lesswrong.com/lw/ks/the_wonder_of_evolution/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms The Simple Math of Evolution 129 Evolutions are Stupid (but Work Anyway) http://lesswrong.com/lw/kt/evolutions_are_stupid_but_work_anyway/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms The Simple Math of Evolution 130 No Evolutions for Corporations or Nanodevices http://lesswrong.com/lw/l6/no_evolutions_for_corporations_or_nanodevices/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms The Simple Math of Evolution 131 Evolving to Extinction http://lesswrong.com/lw/l5/evolving_to_extinction/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms The Simple Math of Evolution 132 The Tragedy of Group Selectionism http://lesswrong.com/lw/kw/the_tragedy_of_group_selectionism/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms The Simple Math of Evolution 133 Fake Optimization Criteria http://lesswrong.com/lw/kz/fake_optimization_criteria/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms The Simple Math of Evolution 134 Adaptation-Executers, not Fitness-Maximizers http://lesswrong.com/lw/l0/adaptationexecuters_not_fitnessmaximizers/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms The Simple Math of Evolution 135 Evolutionary Psychology http://lesswrong.com/lw/l1/evolutionary_psychology/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms The Simple Math of Evolution 136 Superstimuli and the Collapse of Western Civilization http://lesswrong.com/lw/h3/superstimuli_and_the_collapse_of_western/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms The Simple Math of Evolution 137 Thou Art Godshatter http://lesswrong.com/lw/l3/thou_art_godshatter/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms Desires that Destroy Themselves 138 Humans in Funny Suits http://lesswrong.com/lw/so/humans_in_funny_suits/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms Desires that Destroy Themselves 139 Belief in Intelligence http://lesswrong.com/lw/v8/belief_in_intelligence/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms Desires that Destroy Themselves 140 Optimization and the Intelligence Explosion http://lesswrong.com/lw/rk/optimization_and_the_singularity/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms Desires that Destroy Themselves 141 Ghosts in the Machine http://lesswrong.com/lw/rf/ghosts_in_the_machine/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms Desires that Destroy Themselves 142 Artificial Addition http://lesswrong.com/lw/l9/artificial_addition/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms Desires that Destroy Themselves 143 Terminal Values and Instrumental Values http://lesswrong.com/lw/l4/terminal_values_and_instrumental_values/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms Desires that Destroy Themselves 144 Leaky Generalizations http://lesswrong.com/lw/lc/leaky_generalizations/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms Desires that Destroy Themselves 145 The Hidden Complexity of Wishes http://lesswrong.com/lw/ld/the_hidden_complexity_of_wishes/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms Desires that Destroy Themselves 146 Anthropomorphic Optimism http://lesswrong.com/lw/st/anthropomorphic_optimism/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms Desires that Destroy Themselves 147 Lost Purposes http://lesswrong.com/lw/le/lost_purposes/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 148 The Parable of the Dagger http://lesswrong.com/lw/ne/the_parable_of_the_dagger/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 149 The Parable of Hemlock http://lesswrong.com/lw/nf/the_parable_of_hemlock/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 150 Words as Hidden Inferences http://lesswrong.com/lw/ng/words_as_hidden_inferences/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 151 Extensions and Intentions http://lesswrong.com/lw/nh/extensions_and_intensions/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 152 Similarity Clusters http://lesswrong.com/lw/nj/similarity_clusters/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 153 Typicality and Asymmetrcal Similarity http://lesswrong.com/lw/nk/typicality_and_asymmetrical_similarity/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 154 The Cluster of Thingspace http://lesswrong.com/lw/nl/the_cluster_structure_of_thingspace/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 155 Disguised Queries http://lesswrong.com/lw/nm/disguised_queries/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 156 Neural Categories http://lesswrong.com/lw/nn/neural_categories/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 157 Now an Algorithm Feels from Inside http://lesswrong.com/lw/no/how_an_algorithm_feels_from_inside/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 158 Disputing Definitions http://lesswrong.com/lw/np/disputing_definitions/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 159 Feel the Meaning http://lesswrong.com/lw/nq/feel_the_meaning/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 160 The Argument from Common Usage http://lesswrong.com/lw/nr/the_argument_from_common_usage/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 161 Empty Labels http://lesswrong.com/lw/ns/empty_labels/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 162 Taboo Your Words http://lesswrong.com/lw/nu/taboo_your_words/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 163 Replace the Symbol with the Substance http://lesswrong.com/lw/nv/replace_the_symbol_with_the_substance/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 164 Fallacies of Comprehenssion http://lesswrong.com/lw/nw/fallacies_of_compression/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 165 Categorizing Has Consequences http://lesswrong.com/lw/nx/categorizing_has_consequences/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 166 Sneaking in Connotations http://lesswrong.com/lw/ny/sneaking_in_connotations/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 167 Arguing by Definition http://lesswrong.com/lw/nz/arguing_by_definition/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 168 Where to Draw the Boundary http://lesswrong.com/lw/o0/where_to_draw_the_boundary/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 169 Entropy and Short Codes http://lesswrong.com/lw/o1/entropy_and_short_codes/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 170 Mutual Information and Density in Thingspace http://lesswrong.com/lw/o2/mutual_information_and_density_in_thingspace/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 171 Superexponential Conceptspace and Simple Words http://lesswrong.com/lw/o3/superexponential_conceptspace_and_simple_words/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 172 Conditional Independence and Naive Bayes http://lesswrong.com/lw/o8/conditional_independence_and_naive_bayes/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 173 Words as Mental Paintbrush Handles http://lesswrong.com/lw/o9/words_as_mental_paintbrush_handles/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 174 Variable Question Fallacies http://lesswrong.com/lw/oc/variable_question_fallacies/ +III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 175 37 Ways that Words Can Be Wrong http://lesswrong.com/lw/od/37_ways_that_words_can_be_wrong/ + Interlude An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes' Theorem http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes/ +IV Mere Rationality Lawful Truth 176 Universal Fire http://lesswrong.com/lw/hq/universal_fire/ +IV Mere Rationality Lawful Truth 177 Universal Law http://lesswrong.com/lw/hr/universal_law/ +IV Mere Rationality Lawful Truth 178 Is Reality Ugly? http://lesswrong.com/lw/ms/is_reality_ugly/ +IV Mere Rationality Lawful Truth 179 Beautiful Probability http://lesswrong.com/lw/mt/beautiful_probability/ +IV Mere Rationality Lawful Truth 180 Outside the Laboratory http://lesswrong.com/lw/gv/outside_the_laboratory/ +IV Mere Rationality Lawful Truth 181 Lawful Creativity http://lesswrong.com/lw/vm/lawful_creativity/ +IV Mere Rationality Lawful Truth 182 The Second Law of Thermodynamics, and Engines of Cognition http://lesswrong.com/lw/o5/the_second_law_of_thermodynamics_and_engines_of/ +IV Mere Rationality Lawful Truth 183 Perpetual Motion Beliefs http://lesswrong.com/lw/o6/perpetual_motion_beliefs/ +IV Mere Rationality Lawful Truth 184 Searching for Bayes-Structure http://lesswrong.com/lw/o7/searching_for_bayesstructure/ +IV Mere Rationality Reductionism 101 185 Dissolving the Question http://lesswrong.com/lw/of/dissolving_the_question/ +IV Mere Rationality Reductionism 101 186 Wrong Questions http://lesswrong.com/lw/og/wrong_questions/ +IV Mere Rationality Reductionism 101 187 Righting a Wrong Question http://lesswrong.com/lw/oh/righting_a_wrong_question/ +IV Mere Rationality Reductionism 101 188 Mind Projection Fallacy http://lesswrong.com/lw/oi/mind_projection_fallacy/ +IV Mere Rationality Reductionism 101 189 Probability is in the Mind http://lesswrong.com/lw/oj/probability_is_in_the_mind/ +IV Mere Rationality Reductionism 101 190 The Quotation is not the Referent http://lesswrong.com/lw/ok/the_quotation_is_not_the_referent/ +IV Mere Rationality Reductionism 101 191 Qualitatively Confused http://lesswrong.com/lw/om/qualitatively_confused/ +IV Mere Rationality Reductionism 101 192 Chaotic Inversion http://lesswrong.com/lw/wb/chaotic_inversion/ +IV Mere Rationality Reductionism 101 193 Think Like Reality http://lesswrong.com/lw/hs/think_like_reality/ +IV Mere Rationality Reductionism 101 194 Reductionism http://lesswrong.com/lw/on/reductionism/ +IV Mere Rationality Reductionism 101 195 Explaining vs. Explaining Away http://lesswrong.com/lw/oo/explaining_vs_explaining_away/ +IV Mere Rationality Reductionism 101 196 Fake Reductionism http://lesswrong.com/lw/op/fake_reductionism/ +IV Mere Rationality Reductionism 101 197 Savanna Poets http://lesswrong.com/lw/oq/savanna_poets/ +IV Mere Rationality Joy in the Merely Real 198 Joy in the Merely Real http://lesswrong.com/lw/or/joy_in_the_merely_real/ +IV Mere Rationality Joy in the Merely Real 199 Joy in Discovery http://lesswrong.com/lw/os/joy_in_discovery/ +IV Mere Rationality Joy in the Merely Real 200 Bind Yourself to Reality http://lesswrong.com/lw/ot/bind_yourself_to_reality/ +IV Mere Rationality Joy in the Merely Real 201 If You Demand Magic, Magic Won't Help http://lesswrong.com/lw/ou/if_you_demand_magic_magic_wont_help/ +IV Mere Rationality Joy in the Merely Real 202 Mundane Magic http://lesswrong.com/lw/ve/mundane_magic/ +IV Mere Rationality Joy in the Merely Real 203 The Beauty of Settled Science http://lesswrong.com/lw/ow/the_beauty_of_settled_science/ +IV Mere Rationality Joy in the Merely Real 204 Amazing Breakthrough Day: April 1st http://lesswrong.com/lw/ox/amazing_breakthrough_day_april_1st/ +IV Mere Rationality Joy in the Merely Real 205 Is Humanism a Religion-Substitute? http://lesswrong.com/lw/oy/is_humanism_a_religionsubstitute/ +IV Mere Rationality Joy in the Merely Real 206 Scarcity http://lesswrong.com/lw/oz/scarcity/ +IV Mere Rationality Joy in the Merely Real 207 The Sacred Mundane http://lesswrong.com/lw/57/the_sacred_mundane/ +IV Mere Rationality Joy in the Merely Real 208 To Spread Science, Keep It Secret http://lesswrong.com/lw/p0/to_spread_science_keep_it_secret/ +IV Mere Rationality Joy in the Merely Real 209 Initiation Ceremony http://lesswrong.com/lw/p1/initiation_ceremony/ +IV Mere Rationality Physicalism 101 210 Hand vs. Fingers http://lesswrong.com/lw/p2/hand_vs_fingers/ +IV Mere Rationality Physicalism 101 211 Angry Atoms http://lesswrong.com/lw/p3/angry_atoms/ +IV Mere Rationality Physicalism 101 212 Heat vs. Motion http://lesswrong.com/lw/p4/heat_vs_motion/ +IV Mere Rationality Physicalism 101 213 Brain Breakthrough! It's Made of Neurons! http://lesswrong.com/lw/p5/brain_breakthrough_its_made_of_neurons/ +IV Mere Rationality Physicalism 101 214 When Anthropomorphism Became Stupid http://lesswrong.com/lw/t5/when_anthropomorphism_became_stupid/ +IV Mere Rationality Physicalism 101 215 A Priori http://lesswrong.com/lw/k2/a_priori/ +IV Mere Rationality Physicalism 101 216 Reductive Reference http://lesswrong.com/lw/p6/reductive_reference/ +IV Mere Rationality Physicalism 101 217 Zombies! Zombies? http://lesswrong.com/lw/p7/zombies_zombies/ +IV Mere Rationality Physicalism 101 218 Zombie Responses http://lesswrong.com/lw/p8/zombie_responses/ +IV Mere Rationality Physicalism 101 219 The Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle http://lesswrong.com/lw/p9/the_generalized_antizombie_principle/ +IV Mere Rationality Physicalism 101 220 GAZP vs. GLUT http://lesswrong.com/lw/pa/gazp_vs_glut/ +IV Mere Rationality Physicalism 101 221 Belief in the Implied Invisible http://lesswrong.com/lw/pb/belief_in_the_implied_invisible/ +IV Mere Rationality Physicalism 101 222 Zombies: The Movie http://lesswrong.com/lw/pn/zombies_the_movie/ +IV Mere Rationality Physicalism 101 223 Excluding the Supernatural http://lesswrong.com/lw/tv/excluding_the_supernatural/ +IV Mere Rationality Physicalism 101 224 Psychic Powers http://lesswrong.com/lw/tw/psychic_powers/ +IV Mere Rationality Quantum Physics and Many Worlds 225 Quantum Explanations http://lesswrong.com/lw/pc/quantum_explanations/ +IV Mere Rationality Quantum Physics and Many Worlds 226 Configurations and Amplitudes http://lesswrong.com/lw/pd/configurations_and_amplitude/ +IV Mere Rationality Quantum Physics and Many Worlds 227 Joint Configurations http://lesswrong.com/lw/pe/joint_configurations/ +IV Mere Rationality Quantum Physics and Many Worlds 228 Distinct Configurations http://lesswrong.com/lw/pf/distinct_configurations/ +IV Mere Rationality Quantum Physics and Many Worlds 229 Where Philosophy Meets Science http://lesswrong.com/lw/pg/where_philosophy_meets_science/ +IV Mere Rationality Quantum Physics and Many Worlds 230 Which Basis is More Fundamental? http://lesswrong.com/lw/pr/which_basis_is_more_fundamental/ +IV Mere Rationality Quantum Physics and Many Worlds 231 Decoherence is Simple http://lesswrong.com/lw/q3/decoherence_is_simple/ +IV Mere Rationality Quantum Physics and Many Worlds 232 Decoherence is Falsifiable and Testable http://lesswrong.com/lw/q4/decoherence_is_falsifiable_and_testable/ +IV Mere Rationality Quantum Physics and Many Worlds 233 Quantum Nonrealism http://lesswrong.com/lw/q5/quantum_nonrealism/ +IV Mere Rationality Quantum Physics and Many Worlds 234 Collapse Postulates http://lesswrong.com/lw/q6/collapse_postulates/ +IV Mere Rationality Quantum Physics and Many Worlds 235 Privileging the Hypothesis http://lesswrong.com/lw/19m/privileging_the_hypothesis/ +IV Mere Rationality Quantum Physics and Many Worlds 236 If Many-Worlds Had Come First http://lesswrong.com/lw/q7/if_manyworlds_had_come_first/ +IV Mere Rationality Quantum Physics and Many Worlds 237 Many Words, One Best Guess http://lesswrong.com/lw/q8/many_worlds_one_best_guess/ +IV Mere Rationality Quantum Physics and Many Worlds 238 Living in Many Worlds http://lesswrong.com/lw/qz/living_in_many_worlds/ +IV Mere Rationality Quantum Physics and Many Worlds 239 Thou Art Physics http://lesswrong.com/lw/r0/thou_art_physics/ +IV Mere Rationality Rationality and Science 240 The Failures of Eld Science http://lesswrong.com/lw/q9/the_failures_of_eld_science/ +IV Mere Rationality Rationality and Science 241 The Dilemma: Science or Bayes? http://lesswrong.com/lw/qa/the_dilemma_science_or_bayes/ +IV Mere Rationality Rationality and Science 242 Science Doesn't Trust Your Rationality http://lesswrong.com/lw/qb/science_doesnt_trust_your_rationality/ +IV Mere Rationality Rationality and Science 243 When Science Can't Help http://lesswrong.com/lw/qc/when_science_cant_help/ +IV Mere Rationality Rationality and Science 244 Science Isn't Strict Enough http://lesswrong.com/lw/qd/science_isnt_strict_enough/ +IV Mere Rationality Rationality and Science 245 Do Scientists Already Know This Stuff? http://lesswrong.com/lw/qe/do_scientists_already_know_this_stuff/ +IV Mere Rationality Rationality and Science 246 No Safe Defense, Not Even Science http://lesswrong.com/lw/qf/no_safe_defense_not_even_science/ +IV Mere Rationality Rationality and Science 247 Changing the Definition of Science http://lesswrong.com/lw/qg/changing_the_definition_of_science/ +IV Mere Rationality Rationality and Science 248 Faster Than Science http://lesswrong.com/lw/qi/faster_than_science/ +IV Mere Rationality Rationality and Science 249 Einstein's Speed http://lesswrong.com/lw/qj/einsteins_speed/ +IV Mere Rationality Rationality and Science 250 That Alien Message http://lesswrong.com/lw/qk/that_alien_message/ +IV Mere Rationality Rationality and Science 251 My Childhood Role Model http://lesswrong.com/lw/ql/my_childhood_role_model/ +IV Mere Rationality Rationality and Science 252 Einstiein's Superpowers http://lesswrong.com/lw/qs/einsteins_superpowers/ +IV Mere Rationality Rationality and Science 253 Class Project http://lesswrong.com/lw/qt/class_project/ +IV Mere Rationality Rationality and Science 254 Why Quantum? http://lesswrong.com/lw/qy/why_quantum/ + Interlude The Twelve Virtues of Rationality http://yudkowsky.net/rational/virtues/ +V Mere Goodness Fake Preferences 255 Not for the Sake of Happiness (Alone) http://lesswrong.com/lw/lb/not_for_the_sake_of_happiness_alone/ +V Mere Goodness Fake Preferences 256 Fake Selfishness http://lesswrong.com/lw/kx/fake_selfishness/ +V Mere Goodness Fake Preferences 257 Fake Morality http://lesswrong.com/lw/ky/fake_morality/ +V Mere Goodness Fake Preferences 258 Fake Utility Functions http://lesswrong.com/lw/lq/fake_utility_functions/ +V Mere Goodness Fake Preferences 259 Detached Lever Fallacy http://lesswrong.com/lw/sp/detached_lever_fallacy/ +V Mere Goodness Fake Preferences 260 Dreams of AI Design http://lesswrong.com/lw/tf/dreams_of_ai_design/ +V Mere Goodness Fake Preferences 261 Magical Categories http://lesswrong.com/lw/td/magical_categories/ +V Mere Goodness Fake Preferences 262 The True Prisoner's Dilemma http://lesswrong.com/lw/tn/the_true_prisoners_dilemma/ +V Mere Goodness Fake Preferences 263 The Design Space of Minds-in-General http://lesswrong.com/lw/rm/the_design_space_of_mindsingeneral/ +V Mere Goodness Value Theory 264 Where Recursive Justification Hits Bottom http://lesswrong.com/lw/s0/where_recursive_justification_hits_bottom/ +V Mere Goodness Value Theory 265 My Kind of Reflection http://lesswrong.com/lw/s2/my_kind_of_reflection/ +V Mere Goodness Value Theory 266 No Universally Compelling Arguments http://lesswrong.com/lw/rn/no_universally_compelling_arguments/ +V Mere Goodness Value Theory 267 Created Already in Motion http://lesswrong.com/lw/rs/created_already_in_motion/ +V Mere Goodness Value Theory 268 Sorting Pebbles into Correct Heaps http://lesswrong.com/lw/sy/sorting_pebbles_into_correct_heaps/ +V Mere Goodness Value Theory 269 2-Place and 1-Place Words http://lesswrong.com/lw/ro/2place_and_1place_words/ +V Mere Goodness Value Theory 270 What Would You Do Without Morality? http://lesswrong.com/lw/rq/what_would_you_do_without_morality/ +V Mere Goodness Value Theory 271 Changing Your Metaethics http://lesswrong.com/lw/sk/changing_your_metaethics/ +V Mere Goodness Value Theory 272 Could Anything be Right? http://lesswrong.com/lw/sb/could_anything_be_right/ +V Mere Goodness Value Theory 273 Morality as Fixed Computation http://lesswrong.com/lw/sw/morality_as_fixed_computation/ +V Mere Goodness Value Theory 274 Sympathetic Minds http://lesswrong.com/lw/xs/sympathetic_minds/ +V Mere Goodness Value Theory 275 High Challenge http://lesswrong.com/lw/ww/high_challenge/ +V Mere Goodness Value Theory 276 Serious Stories http://lesswrong.com/lw/xi/serious_stories/ +V Mere Goodness Value Theory 277 Value is Fragile http://lesswrong.com/lw/y3/value_is_fragile/ +V Mere Goodness Value Theory 278 The Gift We Give to Tomorrow http://lesswrong.com/lw/sa/the_gift_we_give_to_tomorrow/ +V Mere Goodness Quantified Humanism 279 Scope Insensitivity http://lesswrong.com/lw/hw/scope_insensitivity/ +V Mere Goodness Quantified Humanism 280 One Life Against the World http://lesswrong.com/lw/hx/one_life_against_the_world/ +V Mere Goodness Quantified Humanism 281 The Allais Paradox http://lesswrong.com/lw/my/the_allais_paradox/ +V Mere Goodness Quantified Humanism 282 Zut Allais! http://lesswrong.com/lw/mz/zut_allais/ +V Mere Goodness Quantified Humanism 283 Feeling Moral +V Mere Goodness Quantified Humanism 284 The "Intuitions" Behind "Utilitarianism" http://lesswrong.com/lw/n9/the_intuitions_behind_utilitarianism/ +V Mere Goodness Quantified Humanism 285 Something to Protect http://lesswrong.com/lw/nb/something_to_protect/ +V Mere Goodness Quantified Humanism 286 When (Not) To Use Probabilities http://lesswrong.com/lw/sg/when_not_to_use_probabilities/ +V Mere Goodness Quantified Humanism 287 Newcomb's Problem and the Regret of Rationality http://lesswrong.com/lw/nc/newcombs_problem_and_regret_of_rationality/ + Interlude A Technical Explanation of Technical Explanation http://yudkowsky.net/rational/technical/ +VI A New Art Yudkowsky's Coming of Age 288 My Childhood Death Spiral http://lesswrong.com/lw/ty/my_childhood_death_spiral/ +VI A New Art Yudkowsky's Coming of Age 289 My Best and Worst Mistake http://lesswrong.com/lw/tz/my_best_and_worst_mistake/ +VI A New Art Yudkowsky's Coming of Age 290 Raised in Technophilia http://lesswrong.com/lw/u0/raised_in_technophilia/ +VI A New Art Yudkowsky's Coming of Age 291 A Prodigy of Refutation http://lesswrong.com/lw/u1/a_prodigy_of_refutation/ +VI A New Art Yudkowsky's Coming of Age 292 The Sheer Folly of Callow Youth http://lesswrong.com/lw/u2/the_sheer_folly_of_callow_youth/ +VI A New Art Yudkowsky's Coming of Age 293 That Tiny Note of Discord http://lesswrong.com/lw/u7/that_tiny_note_of_discord/ +VI A New Art Yudkowsky's Coming of Age 294 Fighting a Rearguard Action Against the Truth http://lesswrong.com/lw/u8/fighting_a_rearguard_action_against_the_truth/ +VI A New Art Yudkowsky's Coming of Age 295 My Naturalistic Awakening http://lesswrong.com/lw/u9/my_naturalistic_awakening/ +VI A New Art Yudkowsky's Coming of Age 296 The Level Above Mine http://lesswrong.com/lw/ua/the_level_above_mine/ +VI A New Art Yudkowsky's Coming of Age 297 Competent Elites http://lesswrong.com/lw/ub/competent_elites/ +VI A New Art Yudkowsky's Coming of Age 298 Above-Average AI Scientists http://lesswrong.com/lw/uc/aboveaverage_ai_scientists/ +VI A New Art Yudkowsky's Coming of Age 299 The Magnitude of His Own Folly http://lesswrong.com/lw/ue/the_magnitude_of_his_own_folly/ +VI A New Art Yudkowsky's Coming of Age 300 Beyond the Reach of God http://lesswrong.com/lw/uk/beyond_the_reach_of_god/ +VI A New Art Yudkowsky's Coming of Age 301 My Bayesian Enlightenment http://lesswrong.com/lw/ul/my_bayesian_enlightenment/ +VI A New Art Challenging the Difficult 302 Tsuyoku Naritai! (I Want To Become Stronger) http://lesswrong.com/lw/h8/tsuyoku_naritai_i_want_to_become_stronger/ +VI A New Art Challenging the Difficult 303 Tsuyoku vs. the Egalitarian Instinct http://lesswrong.com/lw/h9/tsuyoku_vs_the_egalitarian_instinct/ +VI A New Art Challenging the Difficult 304 Lotteries: A Waste of Hope http://lesswrong.com/lw/hl/lotteries_a_waste_of_hope/ +VI A New Art Challenging the Difficult 305 New Improved Lottery http://lesswrong.com/lw/hm/new_improved_lottery/ +VI A New Art Challenging the Difficult 306 Your Rationality is My Business http://lesswrong.com/lw/hn/your_rationality_is_my_business/ +VI A New Art Challenging the Difficult 307 Trying to Try http://lesswrong.com/lw/uh/trying_to_try/ +VI A New Art Challenging the Difficult 308 Use the Try Harder, Luke http://lesswrong.com/lw/ui/use_the_try_harder_luke/ +VI A New Art Challenging the Difficult 309 On Doing the Impossible http://lesswrong.com/lw/un/on_doing_the_impossible/ +VI A New Art Challenging the Difficult 310 Make an Extraordinary Effort http://lesswrong.com/lw/uo/make_an_extraordinary_effort/ +VI A New Art Challenging the Difficult 311 Shut Up and Do the Impossible! http://lesswrong.com/lw/up/shut_up_and_do_the_impossible/ +VI A New Art Challenging the Difficult 312 Final Words http://lesswrong.com/lw/cl/final_words/ +VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 313 Raising the Sanity Waterline http://lesswrong.com/lw/1e/raising_the_sanity_waterline/ +VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 314 A Sense that More is Possible http://lesswrong.com/lw/2c/a_sense_that_more_is_possible/ +VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 315 Epistemic Viciousness http://lesswrong.com/lw/2i/epistemic_viciousness/ +VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 316 Schools Proliferating Without Evidence http://lesswrong.com/lw/2j/schools_proliferating_without_evidence/ +VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 317 3 Levels of Rationality Verification http://lesswrong.com/lw/2s/3_levels_of_rationality_verification/ +VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 318 Why Our Kind Can't Cooperate http://lesswrong.com/lw/3h/why_our_kind_cant_cooperate/ +VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 319 Tolerate Tolerance http://lesswrong.com/lw/42/tolerate_tolerance/ +VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 320 You're Calling Who a Cult Leader? http://lesswrong.com/lw/4d/youre_calling_who_a_cult_leader/ +VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 321 Your Price for Joining http://lesswrong.com/lw/5j/your_price_for_joining/ +VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 322 Can Humanism Match Religion's Output? http://lesswrong.com/lw/5t/can_humanism_match_religions_output/ +VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 323 Church vs. Taskforce http://lesswrong.com/lw/5v/church_vs_taskforce/ +VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 324 Rationality: Common Interest of Many Causes http://lesswrong.com/lw/66/rationality_common_interest_of_many_causes/ +VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 325 Helpless Individuals http://lesswrong.com/lw/64/helpless_individuals/ +VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 326 Money: The Unit of Caring http://lesswrong.com/lw/65/money_the_unit_of_caring/ +VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 327 Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately http://lesswrong.com/lw/6z/purchase_fuzzies_and_utilons_separately/ +VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 328 Selecting Rationalist Groups http://lesswrong.com/lw/77/selecting_rationalist_groups/ +VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 329 Incremental Progress and the Valley http://lesswrong.com/lw/7k/incremental_progress_and_the_valley/ +VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 330 Whining-based Communities http://lesswrong.com/lw/8t/whiningbased_communities/ +VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 331 Beware of Other-optimizing http://lesswrong.com/lw/9v/beware_of_otheroptimizing/ +VI A New Art The Craft and the Community 332 Bystander Apathy http://lesswrong.com/lw/9j/bystander_apathy/ +VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 333 Collective Apathy and the Internet http://lesswrong.com/lw/9m/collective_apathy_and_the_internet/ +VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 334 Bayesians vs. Barbarians http://lesswrong.com/lw/5f/bayesians_vs_barbarians/ +VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 335 Of Gender and Rationality http://lesswrong.com/lw/ap/of_gender_and_rationality/ +VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 336 My Way http://lesswrong.com/lw/bd/my_way/ +VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 337 The Sin of Underconfidence http://lesswrong.com/lw/c3/the_sin_of_underconfidence/ +VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 338 Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism http://lesswrong.com/lw/c1/wellkept_gardens_die_by_pacifism/ +VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 339 Practical Advice Backed by Deep Theories http://lesswrong.com/lw/d4/practical_advice_backed_by_deep_theories/ +VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 340 Go Forth and Create the Art http://lesswrong.com/lw/c4/go_forth_and_create_the_art/ diff --git a/book.html b/book.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9c3b294 --- /dev/null +++ b/book.html @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ + + + + + + The Sequences + + +
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-
- - diff --git a/lesswrong_book.py b/lesswrong_book.py index 2d048c9..9174197 100755 --- a/lesswrong_book.py +++ b/lesswrong_book.py @@ -25,10 +25,6 @@ - BeautifulSoup v4 (easy_install BeautifulSoup4) - lxml (easy_install lxml) -Optional libraries: - - - smartypants (for “smart quote” support; easy_install smartypants) - See ParseArgs() or --help for options. """ @@ -89,14 +85,18 @@ import argparse import atexit +import bs4 import calendar +import csv import errno import HTMLParser import httplib +import jinja2 import json import logging -import re +import lxml import os +import re import shutil import subprocess import sys @@ -109,32 +109,10 @@ from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET from xml.sax import saxutils -import bs4 # Required; easy_install BeautifulSoup4 - -try: - from smartypants import smartyPants # Optional; easy_install smartypants -except ImportError: - smartyPants = lambda text, attr="1": text - try: - import lxml # Strongly advised; easy_install lxml + from smartypants import smartypants # Optional; easy_install smartypants except ImportError: - print >>sys.stderr, ( - "WARNING: you don't have lxml installed, which is quasi-required. If it's" - "\n" - "impossible for you to install it, manually edit the script to remove the" - "\n" - "sys.exit(2) statement in the source. Read the associated caveats.") - # CAVEATS: HTMLParser is mostly untested. During early development, I noticed - # some problems with HTMLParser which made me switched to lxml. One of this - # problem (handling of unclosed
tags) resulted in missing lines in the - # resulting PDF. I try to workaround that particular issue in the code below - # if HTMLParser is used, but there may be others. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. - sys.exit(2) - HTML_PARSER = "html.parser" -else: - HTML_PARSER = "lxml" - + smartypants = lambda text, attr="1": text class Error(Exception): "Base exception for this module." @@ -175,16 +153,13 @@ def Run(self): head = doc.html.head body = doc.html.body - # CSS files. - css_kwargs = {"rel": "stylesheet", - "type": "text/css"} - for style_kwargs in [dict(href=self.args.css_html), dict(href=self.args.css_pdf, media="print")]: - style_kwargs.update(css_kwargs) + style_kwargs.update({"rel": "stylesheet", "type": "text/css"}) head.append(doc.new_tag("link", **style_kwargs)) # The sequences. + for seq in self.seqs: body.append(self.SequenceToHtml(seq)) @@ -198,12 +173,9 @@ def Run(self): html_file = self.args.save_html shutil.copy(tmp.name, html_file) else: - html_file = os.path.relpath(tmp.name) # Make Prince warnings less verbose - # by not including the full path. + html_file = tmp.name - # PDF out. - subprocess.call([self.args.prince, "--javascript", - html_file, self.args.output]) + subprocess.call([self.args.prince, html_file, self.args.output]) @staticmethod def ParseArgs(): @@ -222,7 +194,7 @@ def ParseArgs(): --sequence-file PATH And an option exists to use an alternative HTML skeleton file instead of -'lesswrong-seq_skel.html': +'cover.html': --html-skel PATH @@ -253,13 +225,17 @@ def ParseArgs(): help="keep the intermediate HTML in the specified location") parser.add_argument( - "--html-skel", metavar="PATH", default="lesswrong-seq_skel.html", - help="HTML skeleton to use (default: 'lesswrong-seq_skel.html')") + "--html-skel", metavar="PATH", default="cover.html", + help="HTML skeleton to use (default: 'cover.html')") parser.add_argument( "--sequence-file", metavar="PATH", default="sequences.json", help="path of the 'sequences.json' file (default: 'sequences.json')") + parser.add_argument( + "--toc", metavar="PATH", default="TOC.tsv", + help="path of the 'TOC.tsv' file (default: 'TOC.tsv')") + parser.add_argument( "-s", "--css-pdf", metavar="PATH", default="lw-pdf-screen.css", help=("path to the CSS file to use in the PDF (by PrinceXML) " @@ -311,6 +287,9 @@ def ParseConfigs(self): self.seqs = json.load(sf) self.url_ids = {} + with open(self.args.toc) as toc: + self.toc = csv.reader(toc, delimiter=' ') + def _DoSequenceIds(seq_obj): for url in seq_obj["articles"]: noproto_url = re.sub(r"^https?://|/$", "", url, re.IGNORECASE) @@ -377,6 +356,7 @@ def _DownloadUrl(self, url, path): else: logging.info("will re-download %s, it was modified", url) + print(url) data = urllib2.urlopen(url).read() with open(path, "w") as f: f.write(data) @@ -415,20 +395,19 @@ def SequenceToHtml(self, seq_obj): return seq def _CreateSeqDiv(self, seq_obj, kind): + env = jinja2.Environment(loader=jinja2.FileSystemLoader(os.getcwd())) + #template = env.get_template(kind) + soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup("") seq = soup.new_tag("div") seq["class"] = kind seq_h = soup.new_tag("h2") - seq_h.string = smartyPants(seq_obj["title"]) + seq_h.string = smartypants(seq_obj["title"]) seq.append(seq_h) if "description" in seq_obj: - # XXX "html.parser" is used here because lxml adds around - # the element. Figure out how to achieve what we need here in a proper - # manner. - desc_soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(smartyPants(seq_obj["description"]), - "html.parser") + desc_soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(smartypants(seq_obj["description"]), "html.parser") seq_desc = soup.new_tag("div") seq_desc["class"] = CssClass.DESCRIPTION for elem in desc_soup.children: @@ -448,17 +427,17 @@ def _AddArticles(self, seq, seq_obj): if parser_type == "lw-xml": item = ET.fromstring(contents).find("./channel/item") - title = smartyPants(item.find("title").text) + title = smartypants(item.find("title").text) html_contents = item.find("description").text elif parser_type == "lw-html": - big_soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(contents, HTML_PARSER) + big_soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(contents, "lxml") title = re.sub(r" - Less Wrong$", "", big_soup.title.string.strip()) html_contents = str( big_soup.select('div[itemprop="description"] > div')[0]) elif parser_type == "yudkowsky.net": - big_soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(contents, HTML_PARSER) + big_soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(contents, "lxml") h1 = big_soup.find("h1") div = big_soup.new_tag("div") title = h1.string @@ -476,16 +455,8 @@ def _AddArticles(self, seq, seq_obj): else: raise Error("unknown special parser %r" % parser_type) - if HTML_PARSER == "html.parser": - # There is a problem with HTMLParser's handling of unclosed
tags: - # they will be closed with
, but not immediately after the opening - # tag; the heuristic it uses makes it close the tag after a certain - # amount of text, which makes Prince ignore it. Fix it the dirty way: - html_contents = re.sub("
", "
", html_contents, - flags=re.IGNORECASE) - try: - soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(smartyPants(html_contents), HTML_PARSER) + soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(smartypants(html_contents), "lxml") except HTMLParser.HTMLParseError, e: print ">>> Failed source:" print html_contents diff --git a/section.html b/section.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9c3b294 --- /dev/null +++ b/section.html @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ + + + + + + The Sequences + + +
+

The Sequences

+
Eliezer Yudkowsky
+
+ + diff --git a/sequences.json b/sequences.json index dcfa7e7..4c44485 100644 --- a/sequences.json +++ b/sequences.json @@ -1,87 +1,79 @@ [ { "title": "Map and Territory", - "description": "

A collection of posts dealing with the fundamentals of rationality: the difference between the map and the territory, Bayes's Theorem and the nature of evidence, why anyone should care about truth, and minds as reflective cognitive engines.

", - "articles": [ - "http://yudkowsky.net/rational/the-simple-truth", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/31/what_do_we_mean_by_rationality/", - "http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/go/why_truth_and/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jl/what_is_evidence/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jn/how_much_evidence_does_it_take/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jr/how_to_convince_me_that_2_2_3/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jp/occams_razor/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jm/the_lens_that_sees_its_flaws/" + "subsequences": [ + { + "title": "Predictably Wrong", + "description": "

A collection of posts dealing with the fundamentals of rationality: the difference between the map and the territory, Bayes's Theorem and the nature of evidence, why anyone should care about truth, and minds as reflective cognitive engines.

", + "articles": [ + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/31/what_do_we_mean_by_rationality/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/hp/feeling_rational/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/go/why_truth_and/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/gp/whats_a_bias_again/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/j5/availability/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jk/burdensome_details/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jg/planning_fallacy/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ke/illusion_of_transparency_why_no_one_understands/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/kg/expecting_short_inferential_distances/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jm/the_lens_that_sees_its_flaws/" + ] + }, + { + "title": "Fake Beliefs", + "articles":[ + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/i3/making_beliefs_pay_rent_in_anticipated_experiences/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/gt/a_fable_of_science_and_politics/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/i4/belief_in_belief/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/i5/bayesian_judo/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/i6/professing_and_cheering/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jb/applause_lights/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/i7/belief_as_attire/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/yp/pretending_to_be_wise/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/i8/religions_claim_to_be_nondisprovable/" + ] + }, + { + "title": "Noticing Confusion", + "articles": [ + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jl/what_is_evidence/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/in/scientific_evidence_legal_evidence_rational/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jn/how_much_evidence_does_it_take/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jp/occams_razor/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jo/einsteins_arrogance/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ia/focus_your_uncertainty/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ic/the_virtue_of_narrowness/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/if/your_strength_as_a_rationalist/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ih/absence_of_evidence_is_evidence_of_absence/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ii/conservation_of_expected_evidence/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/im/hindsight_devalues_science/" + ] + }, + { + "title": "Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions", + "description": "

A sequence on how to see through the disguises of answers or beliefs or statements, that don't answer or say or mean anything.

", + "articles": [ + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ip/fake_explanations/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/iq/guessing_the_teachers_password/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ir/science_as_attire/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/is/fake_causality/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/it/semantic_stopsigns/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/iu/mysterious_answers_to_mysterious_questions/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/iv/the_futility_of_emergence/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ix/say_not_complexity/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/iw/positive_bias_look_into_the_dark/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/iy/my_wild_and_reckless_youth/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/iz/failing_to_learn_from_history/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/j0/making_history_available/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/j2/explainworshipignore/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/j3/science_as_curiositystopper/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/la/truly_part_of_you/" + ] + } ] }, { - "title": "Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions", - "description": "

A sequence on how to see through the disguises of answers or beliefs or statements, that don't answer or say or mean anything.

", - "articles": [ - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/i3/making_beliefs_pay_rent_in_anticipated_experiences/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/i4/belief_in_belief/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/i5/bayesian_judo/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/i6/professing_and_cheering/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/i7/belief_as_attire/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ia/focus_your_uncertainty/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ic/the_virtue_of_narrowness/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/if/your_strength_as_a_rationalist/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ih/absence_of_evidence_is_evidence_of_absence/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ii/conservation_of_expected_evidence/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/il/hindsight_bias/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/im/hindsight_devalues_science/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ip/fake_explanations/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/iq/guessing_the_teachers_password/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ir/science_as_attire/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/is/fake_causality/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/it/semantic_stopsigns/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/iu/mysterious_answers_to_mysterious_questions/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/iv/the_futility_of_emergence/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ix/say_not_complexity/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/iw/positive_bias_look_into_the_dark/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/iy/my_wild_and_reckless_youth/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/iz/failing_to_learn_from_history/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/j0/making_history_available/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/j2/explainworshipignore/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/j3/science_as_curiositystopper/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jb/applause_lights/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/la/truly_part_of_you/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/wb/chaotic_inversion/" - ] - }, - { - "title": "A Human's Guide to Words", - "description": "

A series on the use and abuse of words; why you often can't define a word any way you like; how human brains seem to process definitions. First introduces the Mind projection fallacy and the concept of how an algorithm feels from inside, which makes it a basic intro to key elements of the LW zeitgeist.

", - "articles": [ - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ne/the_parable_of_the_dagger/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nf/the_parable_of_hemlock/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ng/words_as_hidden_inferences/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nh/extensions_and_intensions/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nj/similarity_clusters/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nk/typicality_and_asymmetrical_similarity/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nl/the_cluster_structure_of_thingspace/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nm/disguised_queries/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nn/neural_categories/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/no/how_an_algorithm_feels_from_inside/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/np/disputing_definitions/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nq/feel_the_meaning/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nr/the_argument_from_common_usage/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ns/empty_labels/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nu/taboo_your_words/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nv/replace_the_symbol_with_the_substance/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nw/fallacies_of_compression/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nx/categorizing_has_consequences/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ny/sneaking_in_connotations/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nz/arguing_by_definition/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/o0/where_to_draw_the_boundary/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/o1/entropy_and_short_codes/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/o2/mutual_information_and_density_in_thingspace/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/o3/superexponential_conceptspace_and_simple_words/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/o8/conditional_independence_and_naive_bayes/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/o9/words_as_mental_paintbrush_handles/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/oc/variable_question_fallacies/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/od/37_ways_that_words_can_be_wrong/" - ] + "title": "Interlude", + "articles": ["http://yudkowsky.net/rational/the-simple-truth"] }, { "title": "How To Actually Change Your Mind", @@ -89,29 +81,24 @@ "subsequences": [ { "title": "Politics is the Mind-Killer", - "description": "

A sequence on the various ways that politics damages our sanity — including, of course, making it harder to change our minds on political issues.

", - "articles": [ - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/gt/a_fable_of_science_and_politics/", + "description": "

A sequence on the various ways that politics damages our sanity — including, of course, making it harder to change our minds on political issues.

", + "articles": [ "http://lesswrong.com/lw/gw/politics_is_the_mindkiller/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/gz/policy_debates_should_not_appear_onesided/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/h1/the_scales_of_justice_the_notebook_of_rationality/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/hz/correspondence_bias/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/i0/are_your_enemies_innately_evil/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lt/the_robbers_cave_experiment/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lw/reversed_stupidity_is_not_intelligence/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lx/argument_screens_off_authority/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ly/hug_the_query/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jc/rationality_and_the_english_language/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/m2/the_litany_against_gurus/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/m3/politics_and_awful_art/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/m5/false_laughter/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jd/human_evil_and_muddled_thinking/" - ] + ] }, { "title": "Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor", - "description": "

A subsequence of How to Actually Change Your Mind on two of the huger obstacles, the affective death spiral and the cultishness attractor.

\n

Affective death spirals are positive feedback loop caused by the halo effect: Positive characteristics perceptually correlate, so the more nice things we say about X, the more additional nice things we're likely to believe about X.

\n

Cultishness is an empirical attractor in human groups, roughly an affective death spiral, plus peer pressure and outcasting behavior, plus (quite often) defensiveness around something believed to have been perfected.

", - "articles": [ + "description": "

A sequence on two of the huger obstacles, the affective death spiral and the cultishness attractor.

\n

Affective death spirals are positive feedback loop caused by the halo effect: Positive characteristics perceptually correlate, so the more nice things we say about X, the more additional nice things we're likely to believe about X.

\n

Cultishness is an empirical attractor in human groups, roughly an affective death spiral, plus peer pressure and outcasting behavior, plus (quite often) defensiveness around something believed to have been perfected.

", + "articles": [ "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lg/the_affect_heuristic/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lh/evaluability_and_cheap_holiday_shopping/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/li/unbounded_scales_huge_jury_awards_futurism/", @@ -128,47 +115,34 @@ "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lz/guardians_of_the_truth/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/m0/guardians_of_the_gene_pool/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/m1/guardians_of_ayn_rand/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/m2/the_litany_against_gurus/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/m4/two_cult_koans/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/m9/aschs_conformity_experiment/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ma/on_expressing_your_concerns/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/mb/lonely_dissent/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/md/cultish_countercultishness/" - ] + ] }, { "title": "Seeing with Fresh Eyes", - "description": "

A sequence on the incredibly difficult feat of getting your brain to actually think about something, instead of instantly stopping on the first thought that comes to mind.

\n

This is sometimes referred to as \"thinking outside the box\" by people who, for your convenience, will go on to helpfully point out exactly where \"outside the box\" is located. The Less Wrong version is called \"thinking outside the 'Outside the Box' box\". Isn't it funny how nonconformists all dress the same...

", - "articles": [ + "description": "

A sequence on the incredibly difficult feat of getting your brain to actually think about something, instead of instantly stopping on the first thought that comes to mind.

\n

This is sometimes referred to as \"thinking outside the box\" by people who, for your convenience, will go on to helpfully point out exactly where \"outside the box\" is located. The Less Wrong version is called \"thinking outside the 'Outside the Box' box\". Isn't it funny how nonconformists all dress the same...

", + "articles": [ "http://lesswrong.com/lw/j7/anchoring_and_adjustment/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/k3/priming_and_contamination/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/k4/do_we_believe_everything_were_told/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/k5/cached_thoughts/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/k6/the_outside_the_box_box/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/k7/original_seeing/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/j1/stranger_than_history/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/k9/the_logical_fallacy_of_generalization_from/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/k8/how_to_seem_and_be_deep/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jx/we_change_our_minds_less_often_than_we_think/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ka/hold_off_on_proposing_solutions/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/m9/aschs_conformity_experiment/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ma/on_expressing_your_concerns/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/mb/lonely_dissent/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/s3/the_genetic_fallacy/" - ] - }, - { - "title": "Noticing Confusion", - "description": "

(Heavy overlap with Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions.)

", - "articles": [ - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/if/your_strength_as_a_rationalist/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ih/absence_of_evidence_is_evidence_of_absence/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/il/hindsight_bias/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/im/hindsight_devalues_science/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/iw/positive_bias_look_into_the_dark/" - ] + ] }, { "title": "Against Rationalization", - "articles": [ + "articles": [ "http://lesswrong.com/lw/he/knowing_about_biases_can_hurt_people/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ij/update_yourself_incrementally/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ik/one_argument_against_an_army/", @@ -178,60 +152,92 @@ "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jw/a_rational_argument/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jy/avoiding_your_beliefs_real_weak_points/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/km/motivated_stopping_and_motivated_continuation/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ko/a_case_study_of_motivated_continuation/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/kq/fake_justification/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/kz/fake_optimization_criteria/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/wj/is_that_your_true_rejection/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/uw/entangled_truths_contagious_lies/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/9a/of_lies_and_black_swan_blowups/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/uy/dark_side_epistemology/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/57/the_sacred_mundane/" - ] + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/uy/dark_side_epistemology/" + ] }, { "title": "Against Doublethink", - "articles": [ + "articles": [ "http://lesswrong.com/lw/k0/singlethink/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/je/doublethink_choosing_to_be_biased/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/r/no_really_ive_deceived_myself/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/s/belief_in_selfdeception/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/1f/moores_paradox/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/1o/dont_believe_youll_selfdeceive/" - ] + ] }, { "title": "Overly Convenient Excuses", - "articles": [ + "articles": [ "http://lesswrong.com/lw/gq/the_proper_use_of_humility/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/hu/the_third_alternative/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/19m/privileging_the_hypothesis/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ml/but_theres_still_a_chance_right/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/mm/the_fallacy_of_gray/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/mn/absolute_authority/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jr/how_to_convince_me_that_2_2_3/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/mo/infinite_certainty/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/mp/0_and_1_are_not_probabilities/" - ] + ] }, { "title": "Letting Go", - "articles": [ - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/hp/feeling_rational/", + "articles": [ "http://lesswrong.com/lw/i9/the_importance_of_saying_oops/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/j8/the_crackpot_offer/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/gx/just_lose_hope_already/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ib/the_proper_use_of_doubt/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/id/you_can_face_reality/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jz/the_meditation_on_curiosity/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nb/something_to_protect/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/k1/no_one_can_exempt_you_from_rationalitys_laws/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/o4/leave_a_line_of_retreat/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ur/crisis_of_faith/", "http://lesswrong.com/lw/us/the_ritual/" - ] + ] } ] }, + { + "title":"The Power of Intelligence", + "articles":["http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/power"] + }, + { + "title": "A Human's Guide to Words", + "description": "

A series on the use and abuse of words; why you often can't define a word any way you like; how human brains seem to process definitions. First introduces the Mind projection fallacy and the concept of how an algorithm feels from inside, which makes it a basic intro to key elements of the LW zeitgeist.

", + "articles": [ + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ne/the_parable_of_the_dagger/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nf/the_parable_of_hemlock/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ng/words_as_hidden_inferences/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nh/extensions_and_intensions/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nj/similarity_clusters/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nk/typicality_and_asymmetrical_similarity/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nl/the_cluster_structure_of_thingspace/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nm/disguised_queries/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nn/neural_categories/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/no/how_an_algorithm_feels_from_inside/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/np/disputing_definitions/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nq/feel_the_meaning/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nr/the_argument_from_common_usage/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ns/empty_labels/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nu/taboo_your_words/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nv/replace_the_symbol_with_the_substance/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nw/fallacies_of_compression/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nx/categorizing_has_consequences/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ny/sneaking_in_connotations/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nz/arguing_by_definition/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/o0/where_to_draw_the_boundary/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/o1/entropy_and_short_codes/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/o2/mutual_information_and_density_in_thingspace/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/o3/superexponential_conceptspace_and_simple_words/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/o8/conditional_independence_and_naive_bayes/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/o9/words_as_mental_paintbrush_handles/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/oc/variable_question_fallacies/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/od/37_ways_that_words_can_be_wrong/" + ] + }, { "title": "Reductionism", "description": "

How to take reality apart into pieces... and live in that universe, where we have always lived, without feeling disappointed about the fact that complicated things are made of simpler things.

", diff --git a/workarounds.json b/workarounds.json index 36aa856..ef3df5d 100644 --- a/workarounds.json +++ b/workarounds.json @@ -11,6 +11,12 @@ "parser": "yudkowsky.net" } ], + "http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/power": [ + { "type": "no-xml-download" }, + { "type": "special-parser", + "parser": "yudkowsky.net" + } + ], "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lw/reversed_stupidity_is_not_intelligence/": [ { "type": "special-parser", "parser": "lw-html", From fcf202d972666c0c625656c7059e10e15bf418eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tony Boyles Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:15:14 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 3/5] Brought the sequences.json file into line with the upcoming official e-book --- sequences.json | 832 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ workarounds.json | 12 + 2 files changed, 534 insertions(+), 310 deletions(-) diff --git a/sequences.json b/sequences.json index 4c44485..17f2d6f 100644 --- a/sequences.json +++ b/sequences.json @@ -1,327 +1,539 @@ [ - { - "title": "Map and Territory", - "subsequences": [ - { - "title": "Predictably Wrong", - "description": "

A collection of posts dealing with the fundamentals of rationality: the difference between the map and the territory, Bayes's Theorem and the nature of evidence, why anyone should care about truth, and minds as reflective cognitive engines.

", - "articles": [ - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/31/what_do_we_mean_by_rationality/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/hp/feeling_rational/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/go/why_truth_and/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/gp/whats_a_bias_again/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/j5/availability/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jk/burdensome_details/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jg/planning_fallacy/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ke/illusion_of_transparency_why_no_one_understands/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/kg/expecting_short_inferential_distances/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jm/the_lens_that_sees_its_flaws/" - ] - }, - { - "title": "Fake Beliefs", - "articles":[ - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/i3/making_beliefs_pay_rent_in_anticipated_experiences/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/gt/a_fable_of_science_and_politics/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/i4/belief_in_belief/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/i5/bayesian_judo/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/i6/professing_and_cheering/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jb/applause_lights/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/i7/belief_as_attire/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/yp/pretending_to_be_wise/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/i8/religions_claim_to_be_nondisprovable/" + { + "title": "Map and Territory", + "subsequences": [ + { + "title": "Predictably Wrong", + "description": "

A collection of posts dealing with the fundamentals of rationality: the difference between the map and the territory, Bayes's Theorem and the nature of evidence, why anyone should care about truth, and minds as reflective cognitive engines.

", + "articles": [ + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/31/what_do_we_mean_by_rationality/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/hp/feeling_rational/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/go/why_truth_and/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/gp/whats_a_bias_again/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/j5/availability/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jk/burdensome_details/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jg/planning_fallacy/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ke/illusion_of_transparency_why_no_one_understands/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/kg/expecting_short_inferential_distances/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jm/the_lens_that_sees_its_flaws/" + ] + }, + { + "title": "Fake Beliefs", + "articles": [ + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/i3/making_beliefs_pay_rent_in_anticipated_experiences/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/gt/a_fable_of_science_and_politics/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/i4/belief_in_belief/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/i5/bayesian_judo/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/i6/professing_and_cheering/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jb/applause_lights/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/i7/belief_as_attire/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/yp/pretending_to_be_wise/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/i8/religions_claim_to_be_nondisprovable/" + ] + }, + { + "title": "Noticing Confusion", + "articles": [ + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jl/what_is_evidence/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/in/scientific_evidence_legal_evidence_rational/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jn/how_much_evidence_does_it_take/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jp/occams_razor/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jo/einsteins_arrogance/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ia/focus_your_uncertainty/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ic/the_virtue_of_narrowness/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/if/your_strength_as_a_rationalist/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ih/absence_of_evidence_is_evidence_of_absence/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ii/conservation_of_expected_evidence/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/im/hindsight_devalues_science/" + ] + }, + { + "title": "Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions", + "description": "

A sequence on how to see through the disguises of answers or beliefs or statements, that don't answer or say or mean anything.

", + "articles": [ + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ip/fake_explanations/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/iq/guessing_the_teachers_password/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ir/science_as_attire/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/is/fake_causality/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/it/semantic_stopsigns/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/iu/mysterious_answers_to_mysterious_questions/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/iv/the_futility_of_emergence/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ix/say_not_complexity/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/iw/positive_bias_look_into_the_dark/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/iy/my_wild_and_reckless_youth/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/iz/failing_to_learn_from_history/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/j0/making_history_available/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/j2/explainworshipignore/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/j3/science_as_curiositystopper/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/la/truly_part_of_you/" + ] + } ] - }, - { - "title": "Noticing Confusion", + }, + { + "title": "Interlude", "articles": [ - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jl/what_is_evidence/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/in/scientific_evidence_legal_evidence_rational/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jn/how_much_evidence_does_it_take/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jp/occams_razor/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jo/einsteins_arrogance/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ia/focus_your_uncertainty/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ic/the_virtue_of_narrowness/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/if/your_strength_as_a_rationalist/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ih/absence_of_evidence_is_evidence_of_absence/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ii/conservation_of_expected_evidence/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/im/hindsight_devalues_science/" + "http://yudkowsky.net/rational/the-simple-truth" ] - }, - { - "title": "Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions", - "description": "

A sequence on how to see through the disguises of answers or beliefs or statements, that don't answer or say or mean anything.

", - "articles": [ - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ip/fake_explanations/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/iq/guessing_the_teachers_password/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ir/science_as_attire/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/is/fake_causality/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/it/semantic_stopsigns/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/iu/mysterious_answers_to_mysterious_questions/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/iv/the_futility_of_emergence/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ix/say_not_complexity/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/iw/positive_bias_look_into_the_dark/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/iy/my_wild_and_reckless_youth/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/iz/failing_to_learn_from_history/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/j0/making_history_available/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/j2/explainworshipignore/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/j3/science_as_curiositystopper/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/la/truly_part_of_you/" + }, + { + "title": "How To Actually Change Your Mind", + "description": "

A sequence on the ultra-high-level penultimate technique of rationality: actually updating on evidence.

\n

(Organized into eight subsequences.)

", + "subsequences": [ + { + "title": "Politics is the Mind-Killer", + "description": "

A sequence on the various ways that politics damages our sanity — including, of course, making it harder to change our minds on political issues.

", + "articles": [ + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/gw/politics_is_the_mindkiller/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/gz/policy_debates_should_not_appear_onesided/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/h1/the_scales_of_justice_the_notebook_of_rationality/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/hz/correspondence_bias/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/i0/are_your_enemies_innately_evil/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lw/reversed_stupidity_is_not_intelligence/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lx/argument_screens_off_authority/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ly/hug_the_query/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jc/rationality_and_the_english_language/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jd/human_evil_and_muddled_thinking/" + ] + }, + { + "title": "Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor", + "description": "

A sequence on two of the huger obstacles, the affective death spiral and the cultishness attractor.

\n

Affective death spirals are positive feedback loop caused by the halo effect: Positive characteristics perceptually correlate, so the more nice things we say about X, the more additional nice things we're likely to believe about X.

\n

Cultishness is an empirical attractor in human groups, roughly an affective death spiral, plus peer pressure and outcasting behavior, plus (quite often) defensiveness around something believed to have been perfected.

", + "articles": [ + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lg/the_affect_heuristic/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lh/evaluability_and_cheap_holiday_shopping/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/li/unbounded_scales_huge_jury_awards_futurism/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lj/the_halo_effect/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lk/superhero_bias/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ll/mere_messiahs/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lm/affective_death_spirals/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ln/resist_the_happy_death_spiral/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lo/uncritical_supercriticality/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lr/evaporative_cooling_of_group_beliefs/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ls/when_none_dare_urge_restraint/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lt/the_robbers_cave_experiment/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lv/every_cause_wants_to_be_a_cult/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lz/guardians_of_the_truth/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/m0/guardians_of_the_gene_pool/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/m1/guardians_of_ayn_rand/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/m4/two_cult_koans/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/m9/aschs_conformity_experiment/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ma/on_expressing_your_concerns/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/mb/lonely_dissent/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/md/cultish_countercultishness/" + ] + }, + { + "title": "Seeing with Fresh Eyes", + "description": "

A sequence on the incredibly difficult feat of getting your brain to actually think about something, instead of instantly stopping on the first thought that comes to mind.

\n

This is sometimes referred to as \"thinking outside the box\" by people who, for your convenience, will go on to helpfully point out exactly where \"outside the box\" is located. The Less Wrong version is called \"thinking outside the 'Outside the Box' box\". Isn't it funny how nonconformists all dress the same...

", + "articles": [ + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/j7/anchoring_and_adjustment/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/k3/priming_and_contamination/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/k4/do_we_believe_everything_were_told/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/k5/cached_thoughts/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/k6/the_outside_the_box_box/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/k7/original_seeing/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/j1/stranger_than_history/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/k9/the_logical_fallacy_of_generalization_from/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/k8/how_to_seem_and_be_deep/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jx/we_change_our_minds_less_often_than_we_think/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ka/hold_off_on_proposing_solutions/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/s3/the_genetic_fallacy/" + ] + }, + { + "title": "Against Rationalization", + "articles": [ + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/he/knowing_about_biases_can_hurt_people/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ij/update_yourself_incrementally/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ik/one_argument_against_an_army/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/js/the_bottom_line/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jt/what_evidence_filtered_evidence/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ju/rationalization/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jw/a_rational_argument/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jy/avoiding_your_beliefs_real_weak_points/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/km/motivated_stopping_and_motivated_continuation/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/kq/fake_justification/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/wj/is_that_your_true_rejection/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/uw/entangled_truths_contagious_lies/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/9a/of_lies_and_black_swan_blowups/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/uy/dark_side_epistemology/" + ] + }, + { + "title": "Against Doublethink", + "articles": [ + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/k0/singlethink/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/je/doublethink_choosing_to_be_biased/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/r/no_really_ive_deceived_myself/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/s/belief_in_selfdeception/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/1f/moores_paradox/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/1o/dont_believe_youll_selfdeceive/" + ] + }, + { + "title": "Overly Convenient Excuses", + "articles": [ + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/gq/the_proper_use_of_humility/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/hu/the_third_alternative/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ml/but_theres_still_a_chance_right/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/mm/the_fallacy_of_gray/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/mn/absolute_authority/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jr/how_to_convince_me_that_2_2_3/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/mo/infinite_certainty/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/mp/0_and_1_are_not_probabilities/" + ] + }, + { + "title": "Letting Go", + "articles": [ + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/i9/the_importance_of_saying_oops/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/j8/the_crackpot_offer/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/gx/just_lose_hope_already/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ib/the_proper_use_of_doubt/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/id/you_can_face_reality/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jz/the_meditation_on_curiosity/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/k1/no_one_can_exempt_you_from_rationalitys_laws/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/o4/leave_a_line_of_retreat/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ur/crisis_of_faith/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/us/the_ritual/" + ] + } ] - } - ] - }, - { - "title": "Interlude", - "articles": ["http://yudkowsky.net/rational/the-simple-truth"] - }, - { - "title": "How To Actually Change Your Mind", - "description": "

A sequence on the ultra-high-level penultimate technique of rationality: actually updating on evidence.

\n

(Organized into eight subsequences.)

", - "subsequences": [ - { - "title": "Politics is the Mind-Killer", - "description": "

A sequence on the various ways that politics damages our sanity — including, of course, making it harder to change our minds on political issues.

", + }, + { + "title": "The Power of Intelligence", "articles": [ - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/gw/politics_is_the_mindkiller/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/gz/policy_debates_should_not_appear_onesided/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/h1/the_scales_of_justice_the_notebook_of_rationality/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/hz/correspondence_bias/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/i0/are_your_enemies_innately_evil/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lw/reversed_stupidity_is_not_intelligence/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lx/argument_screens_off_authority/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ly/hug_the_query/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jc/rationality_and_the_english_language/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jd/human_evil_and_muddled_thinking/" + "http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/power" ] - }, - { - "title": "Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor", - "description": "

A sequence on two of the huger obstacles, the affective death spiral and the cultishness attractor.

\n

Affective death spirals are positive feedback loop caused by the halo effect: Positive characteristics perceptually correlate, so the more nice things we say about X, the more additional nice things we're likely to believe about X.

\n

Cultishness is an empirical attractor in human groups, roughly an affective death spiral, plus peer pressure and outcasting behavior, plus (quite often) defensiveness around something believed to have been perfected.

", - "articles": [ - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lg/the_affect_heuristic/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lh/evaluability_and_cheap_holiday_shopping/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/li/unbounded_scales_huge_jury_awards_futurism/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lj/the_halo_effect/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lk/superhero_bias/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ll/mere_messiahs/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lm/affective_death_spirals/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ln/resist_the_happy_death_spiral/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lo/uncritical_supercriticality/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lr/evaporative_cooling_of_group_beliefs/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ls/when_none_dare_urge_restraint/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lt/the_robbers_cave_experiment/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lv/every_cause_wants_to_be_a_cult/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lz/guardians_of_the_truth/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/m0/guardians_of_the_gene_pool/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/m1/guardians_of_ayn_rand/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/m4/two_cult_koans/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/m9/aschs_conformity_experiment/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ma/on_expressing_your_concerns/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/mb/lonely_dissent/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/md/cultish_countercultishness/" + }, + { + "title": "Ghosts of Algorithms", + "subsequences": [ + { + "title": "The Simple Math of Evolution", + "articles": [ + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/kr/an_alien_god/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ks/the_wonder_of_evolution/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/kt/evolutions_are_stupid_but_work_anyway/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/l6/no_evolutions_for_corporations_or_nanodevices/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/l5/evolving_to_extinction/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/kw/the_tragedy_of_group_selectionism/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/kz/fake_optimization_criteria/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/l0/adaptationexecuters_not_fitnessmaximizers/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/l1/evolutionary_psychology/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/h3/superstimuli_and_the_collapse_of_western/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/l3/thou_art_godshatter/" + ] + }, + { + "title": "Desires that Destroy Themselves", + "articles": [ + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/so/humans_in_funny_suits/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/v8/belief_in_intelligence/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/rk/optimization_and_the_singularity/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/rf/ghosts_in_the_machine/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/l9/artificial_addition/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/l4/terminal_values_and_instrumental_values/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lc/leaky_generalizations/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ld/the_hidden_complexity_of_wishes/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/st/anthropomorphic_optimism/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/le/lost_purposes/" + ] + }, + { + "title": "A Human's Guide to Words", + "description": "

A series on the use and abuse of words; why you often can't define a word any way you like; how human brains seem to process definitions. First introduces the Mind projection fallacy and the concept of how an algorithm feels from inside, which makes it a basic intro to key elements of the LW zeitgeist.

", + "articles": [ + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ne/the_parable_of_the_dagger/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nf/the_parable_of_hemlock/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ng/words_as_hidden_inferences/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nh/extensions_and_intensions/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nj/similarity_clusters/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nk/typicality_and_asymmetrical_similarity/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nl/the_cluster_structure_of_thingspace/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nm/disguised_queries/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nn/neural_categories/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/no/how_an_algorithm_feels_from_inside/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/np/disputing_definitions/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nq/feel_the_meaning/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nr/the_argument_from_common_usage/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ns/empty_labels/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nu/taboo_your_words/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nv/replace_the_symbol_with_the_substance/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nw/fallacies_of_compression/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nx/categorizing_has_consequences/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ny/sneaking_in_connotations/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nz/arguing_by_definition/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/o0/where_to_draw_the_boundary/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/o1/entropy_and_short_codes/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/o2/mutual_information_and_density_in_thingspace/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/o3/superexponential_conceptspace_and_simple_words/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/o8/conditional_independence_and_naive_bayes/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/o9/words_as_mental_paintbrush_handles/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/oc/variable_question_fallacies/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/od/37_ways_that_words_can_be_wrong/" + ] + } ] - }, - { - "title": "Seeing with Fresh Eyes", - "description": "

A sequence on the incredibly difficult feat of getting your brain to actually think about something, instead of instantly stopping on the first thought that comes to mind.

\n

This is sometimes referred to as \"thinking outside the box\" by people who, for your convenience, will go on to helpfully point out exactly where \"outside the box\" is located. The Less Wrong version is called \"thinking outside the 'Outside the Box' box\". Isn't it funny how nonconformists all dress the same...

", + }, + { + "title": "Interlude: An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes' Theorem", "articles": [ - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/j7/anchoring_and_adjustment/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/k3/priming_and_contamination/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/k4/do_we_believe_everything_were_told/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/k5/cached_thoughts/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/k6/the_outside_the_box_box/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/k7/original_seeing/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/j1/stranger_than_history/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/k9/the_logical_fallacy_of_generalization_from/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/k8/how_to_seem_and_be_deep/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jx/we_change_our_minds_less_often_than_we_think/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ka/hold_off_on_proposing_solutions/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/s3/the_genetic_fallacy/" + "http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes" ] - }, - { - "title": "Against Rationalization", - "articles": [ - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/he/knowing_about_biases_can_hurt_people/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ij/update_yourself_incrementally/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ik/one_argument_against_an_army/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/js/the_bottom_line/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jt/what_evidence_filtered_evidence/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ju/rationalization/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jw/a_rational_argument/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jy/avoiding_your_beliefs_real_weak_points/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/km/motivated_stopping_and_motivated_continuation/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/kq/fake_justification/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/wj/is_that_your_true_rejection/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/uw/entangled_truths_contagious_lies/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/9a/of_lies_and_black_swan_blowups/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/uy/dark_side_epistemology/" + }, + { + "title": "Mere Rationality", + "subsequences": [ + { + "title": "Lawful Truth", + "articles": [ + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/hq/universal_fire/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/hr/universal_law/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ms/is_reality_ugly/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/mt/beautiful_probability/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/gv/outside_the_laboratory/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/vm/lawful_creativity/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/o5/the_second_law_of_thermodynamics_and_engines_of/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/o6/perpetual_motion_beliefs/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/o7/searching_for_bayesstructure/" + ] + }, + { + "title": "Reductionism 101", + "description": "

How to take reality apart into pieces... and live in that universe, where we have always lived, without feeling disappointed about the fact that complicated things are made of simpler things.

", + "articles": [ + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/of/dissolving_the_question/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/og/wrong_questions/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/oh/righting_a_wrong_question/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/oi/mind_projection_fallacy/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/oj/probability_is_in_the_mind/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ok/the_quotation_is_not_the_referent/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/om/qualitatively_confused/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/wb/chaotic_inversion/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/hs/think_like_reality/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/on/reductionism/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/oo/explaining_vs_explaining_away/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/op/fake_reductionism/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/oq/savanna_poets/" + ] + }, + { + "title": "Joy in the Merely Real", + "articles": [ + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/or/joy_in_the_merely_real/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/os/joy_in_discovery/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ot/bind_yourself_to_reality/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ou/if_you_demand_magic_magic_wont_help/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ve/mundane_magic/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ow/the_beauty_of_settled_science/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ox/amazing_breakthrough_day_april_1st/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/oy/is_humanism_a_religionsubstitute/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/oz/scarcity/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/57/the_sacred_mundane/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/p0/to_spread_science_keep_it_secret/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/p1/initiation_ceremony/" + ] + }, + { + "title": "Physicalism 101", + "articles": [ + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/p2/hand_vs_fingers/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/p3/angry_atoms/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/p4/heat_vs_motion/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/p5/brain_breakthrough_its_made_of_neurons/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/t5/when_anthropomorphism_became_stupid/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/k2/a_priori/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/p6/reductive_reference/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/p7/zombies_zombies/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/p8/zombie_responses/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/p9/the_generalized_antizombie_principle/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/pa/gazp_vs_glut/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/pb/belief_in_the_implied_invisible/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/pn/zombies_the_movie/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/tv/excluding_the_supernatural/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/tw/psychic_powers/" + ] + }, + { + "title": "Quantum Physics and Many Worlds", + "articles": [ + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/pc/quantum_explanations/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/pd/configurations_and_amplitude/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/pe/joint_configurations/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/pf/distinct_configurations/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/pg/where_philosophy_meets_science/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/pr/which_basis_is_more_fundamental/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/q3/decoherence_is_simple/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/q4/decoherence_is_falsifiable_and_testable/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/q5/quantum_nonrealism/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/q6/collapse_postulates/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/19m/privileging_the_hypothesis/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/q7/if_manyworlds_had_come_first/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/q8/many_worlds_one_best_guess/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/qz/living_in_many_worlds/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/r0/thou_art_physics/" + ] + }, + { + "title": "Rationality and Science", + "articles": [ + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/q9/the_failures_of_eld_science/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/qa/the_dilemma_science_or_bayes/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/qb/science_doesnt_trust_your_rationality/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/qc/when_science_cant_help/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/qd/science_isnt_strict_enough/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/qe/do_scientists_already_know_this_stuff/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/qf/no_safe_defense_not_even_science/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/qg/changing_the_definition_of_science/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/qi/faster_than_science/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/qj/einsteins_speed/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/qk/that_alien_message/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ql/my_childhood_role_model/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/qs/einsteins_superpowers/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/qt/class_project/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/qy/why_quantum/" + ] + } ] - }, - { - "title": "Against Doublethink", + }, + { + "title": "Interlude: The Twelve Virtues of Rationality", "articles": [ - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/k0/singlethink/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/je/doublethink_choosing_to_be_biased/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/r/no_really_ive_deceived_myself/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/s/belief_in_selfdeception/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/1f/moores_paradox/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/1o/dont_believe_youll_selfdeceive/" + "http://yudkowsky.net/rational/virtues" ] - }, - { - "title": "Overly Convenient Excuses", - "articles": [ - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/gq/the_proper_use_of_humility/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/hu/the_third_alternative/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ml/but_theres_still_a_chance_right/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/mm/the_fallacy_of_gray/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/mn/absolute_authority/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jr/how_to_convince_me_that_2_2_3/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/mo/infinite_certainty/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/mp/0_and_1_are_not_probabilities/" + }, + { + "title": "Mere Goodness", + "subsequences": [ + { + "title": "Fake Preferences", + "articles": [ + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lb/not_for_the_sake_of_happiness_alone/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/kx/fake_selfishness/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ky/fake_morality/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/lq/fake_utility_functions/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/sp/detached_lever_fallacy/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/tf/dreams_of_ai_design/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/td/magical_categories/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/tn/the_true_prisoners_dilemma/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/rm/the_design_space_of_mindsingeneral/" + ] + }, + { + "title": "Value Theory", + "articles": [ + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/s0/where_recursive_justification_hits_bottom/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/s2/my_kind_of_reflection/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/rn/no_universally_compelling_arguments/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/rs/created_already_in_motion/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/sy/sorting_pebbles_into_correct_heaps/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ro/2place_and_1place_words/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/rq/what_would_you_do_without_morality/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/sk/changing_your_metaethics/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/sb/could_anything_be_right/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/sw/morality_as_fixed_computation/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/xs/sympathetic_minds/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ww/high_challenge/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/xi/serious_stories/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/y3/value_is_fragile/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/sa/the_gift_we_give_to_tomorrow/" + ] + }, + { + "title": "Quantified Humanism", + "articles": [ + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/hw/scope_insensitivity/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/hx/one_life_against_the_world/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/my/the_allais_paradox/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/mz/zut_allais/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/n9/the_intuitions_behind_utilitarianism/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nb/something_to_protect/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/sg/when_not_to_use_probabilities/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nc/newcombs_problem_and_regret_of_rationality/" + ] + } ] - }, - { - "title": "Letting Go", + }, + { + "title": "Interlude: A Technical Explanation of Technical Explanation", "articles": [ - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/i9/the_importance_of_saying_oops/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/j8/the_crackpot_offer/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/gx/just_lose_hope_already/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ib/the_proper_use_of_doubt/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/id/you_can_face_reality/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/jz/the_meditation_on_curiosity/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/k1/no_one_can_exempt_you_from_rationalitys_laws/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/o4/leave_a_line_of_retreat/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ur/crisis_of_faith/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/us/the_ritual/" + "http://yudkowsky.net/rational/technical" + ] + }, + { + "title": "A New Art", + "subsequences": [ + { + "title": "Yudkowsky's Coming of Age", + "articles": [ + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ty/my_childhood_death_spiral/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/tz/my_best_and_worst_mistake/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/u0/raised_in_technophilia/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/u1/a_prodigy_of_refutation/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/u2/the_sheer_folly_of_callow_youth/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/u7/that_tiny_note_of_discord/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/u8/fighting_a_rearguard_action_against_the_truth/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/u9/my_naturalistic_awakening/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ua/the_level_above_mine/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ub/competent_elites/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/uc/aboveaverage_ai_scientists/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ue/the_magnitude_of_his_own_folly/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/uk/beyond_the_reach_of_god/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ul/my_bayesian_enlightenment/" + ] + }, + { + "title": "Challenging the Difficult", + "articles": [ + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/h8/tsuyoku_naritai_i_want_to_become_stronger/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/h9/tsuyoku_vs_the_egalitarian_instinct/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/hl/lotteries_a_waste_of_hope/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/hm/new_improved_lottery/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/hn/your_rationality_is_my_business/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/uh/trying_to_try/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ui/use_the_try_harder_luke/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/un/on_doing_the_impossible/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/uo/make_an_extraordinary_effort/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/up/shut_up_and_do_the_impossible/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/cl/final_words/" + ] + }, + { + "title": "The Craft and the Community", + "articles": [ + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/1e/raising_the_sanity_waterline/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/2c/a_sense_that_more_is_possible/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/2i/epistemic_viciousness/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/2j/schools_proliferating_without_evidence/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/2s/3_levels_of_rationality_verification/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/3h/why_our_kind_cant_cooperate/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/42/tolerate_tolerance/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/4d/youre_calling_who_a_cult_leader/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/5j/your_price_for_joining/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/5t/can_humanism_match_religions_output/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/5v/church_vs_taskforce/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/66/rationality_common_interest_of_many_causes/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/64/helpless_individuals/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/65/money_the_unit_of_caring/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/6z/purchase_fuzzies_and_utilons_separately/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/77/selecting_rationalist_groups/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/7k/incremental_progress_and_the_valley/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/8t/whiningbased_communities/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/9v/beware_of_otheroptimizing/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/9j/bystander_apathy/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/9m/collective_apathy_and_the_internet/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/5f/bayesians_vs_barbarians/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ap/of_gender_and_rationality/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/bd/my_way/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/c3/the_sin_of_underconfidence/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/c1/wellkept_gardens_die_by_pacifism/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/d4/practical_advice_backed_by_deep_theories/", + "http://lesswrong.com/lw/c4/go_forth_and_create_the_art/" + ] + } ] - } - ] - }, - { - "title":"The Power of Intelligence", - "articles":["http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/power"] - }, - { - "title": "A Human's Guide to Words", - "description": "

A series on the use and abuse of words; why you often can't define a word any way you like; how human brains seem to process definitions. First introduces the Mind projection fallacy and the concept of how an algorithm feels from inside, which makes it a basic intro to key elements of the LW zeitgeist.

", - "articles": [ - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ne/the_parable_of_the_dagger/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nf/the_parable_of_hemlock/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ng/words_as_hidden_inferences/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nh/extensions_and_intensions/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nj/similarity_clusters/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nk/typicality_and_asymmetrical_similarity/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nl/the_cluster_structure_of_thingspace/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nm/disguised_queries/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nn/neural_categories/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/no/how_an_algorithm_feels_from_inside/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/np/disputing_definitions/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nq/feel_the_meaning/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nr/the_argument_from_common_usage/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ns/empty_labels/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nu/taboo_your_words/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nv/replace_the_symbol_with_the_substance/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nw/fallacies_of_compression/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nx/categorizing_has_consequences/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ny/sneaking_in_connotations/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/nz/arguing_by_definition/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/o0/where_to_draw_the_boundary/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/o1/entropy_and_short_codes/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/o2/mutual_information_and_density_in_thingspace/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/o3/superexponential_conceptspace_and_simple_words/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/o8/conditional_independence_and_naive_bayes/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/o9/words_as_mental_paintbrush_handles/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/oc/variable_question_fallacies/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/od/37_ways_that_words_can_be_wrong/" - ] - }, - { - "title": "Reductionism", - "description": "

How to take reality apart into pieces... and live in that universe, where we have always lived, without feeling disappointed about the fact that complicated things are made of simpler things.

", - "articles": [ - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/of/dissolving_the_question/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/og/wrong_questions/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/oh/righting_a_wrong_question/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/oi/mind_projection_fallacy/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/oj/probability_is_in_the_mind/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ok/the_quotation_is_not_the_referent/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/om/qualitatively_confused/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/on/reductionism/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/oo/explaining_vs_explaining_away/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/op/fake_reductionism/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/oq/savanna_poets/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/or/joy_in_the_merely_real/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/os/joy_in_discovery/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ot/bind_yourself_to_reality/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ou/if_you_demand_magic_magic_wont_help/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ve/mundane_magic/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ow/the_beauty_of_settled_science/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/ox/amazing_breakthrough_day_april_1st/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/oy/is_humanism_a_religionsubstitute/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/oz/scarcity/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/p0/to_spread_science_keep_it_secret/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/p1/initiation_ceremony/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/uf/awww_a_zebra/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/p2/hand_vs_fingers/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/p3/angry_atoms/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/p4/heat_vs_motion/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/p5/brain_breakthrough_its_made_of_neurons/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/p6/reductive_reference/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/p7/zombies_zombies/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/p8/zombie_responses/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/p9/the_generalized_antizombie_principle/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/pa/gazp_vs_glut/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/pb/belief_in_the_implied_invisible/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/pn/zombies_the_movie/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/tv/excluding_the_supernatural/", - "http://lesswrong.com/lw/tw/psychic_powers/" - ] - }, - { - "title": "The Metaethics Sequence", - "description": "

What words like \"right\" and \"should\" mean; how to integrate moral concepts into a naturalistic universe.

\n

(The dependencies on this sequence may not be fully organized, and the post list does not have summaries. Yudkowsky considers this one of his less successful attempts at explanation.)

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Have proof-of-concept, contentless epub written. --- .gitignore | 1 + TOC.tsv | 346 ---------------------------------------------- book.html | 14 -- cover.html | 14 -- lesswrong_book.py | 148 +++++++------------- section.html | 14 -- 6 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 484 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 TOC.tsv delete mode 100644 book.html delete mode 100644 cover.html delete mode 100644 section.html diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index 9bf94ae..76245ce 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -1,2 +1,3 @@ /html_cache /lesswrong-seq.pdf +*.epub \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/TOC.tsv b/TOC.tsv deleted file mode 100644 index 4989626..0000000 --- a/TOC.tsv +++ /dev/null @@ -1,346 +0,0 @@ -Book Num Book Name Sequence Chapter Title Source URL -I Map and Territory Predictably Wrong 1 What Do I Mean By "Rationality"? http://lesswrong.com/lw/31/what_do_we_mean_by_rationality/ -I Map and Territory Predictably Wrong 2 Feeling Rational http://lesswrong.com/lw/hp/feeling_rational/ -I Map and Territory Predictably Wrong 3 Why Truth? And... http://lesswrong.com/lw/go/why_truth_and/ -I Map and Territory Predictably Wrong 4 ... What's a Bias, Again? http://lesswrong.com/lw/gp/whats_a_bias_again/ -I Map and Territory Predictably Wrong 5 Availability http://lesswrong.com/lw/j5/availability/ -I Map and Territory Predictably Wrong 6 Burdensome Details http://lesswrong.com/lw/jk/burdensome_details/ -I Map and Territory Predictably Wrong 7 Planning Fallacy http://lesswrong.com/lw/jg/planning_fallacy/ -I Map and Territory Predictably Wrong 8 Illusion of Transparency: Why No One Understands You http://lesswrong.com/lw/ke/illusion_of_transparency_why_no_one_understands/ -I Map and Territory Predictably Wrong 9 Expecting Short Inferential Distances http://lesswrong.com/lw/kg/expecting_short_inferential_distances/ -I Map and Territory Predictably Wrong 10 The Lens that Sees its Flaws http://lesswrong.com/lw/jm/the_lens_that_sees_its_flaws/ -I Map and Territory Fake Beliefs 11 Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences) http://lesswrong.com/lw/i3/making_beliefs_pay_rent_in_anticipated_experiences/ -I Map and Territory Fake Beliefs 12 A Fable of Science and Politics http://lesswrong.com/lw/gt/a_fable_of_science_and_politics/ -I Map and Territory Fake Beliefs 13 Belief in Belief http://lesswrong.com/lw/i4/belief_in_belief/ -I Map and Territory Fake Beliefs 14 Bayesian Judo http://lesswrong.com/lw/i5/bayesian_judo/ -I Map and Territory Fake Beliefs 15 Professing and Cheering http://lesswrong.com/lw/i6/professing_and_cheering/ -I Map and Territory Fake Beliefs 16 Applause Lights http://lesswrong.com/lw/jb/applause_lights/ -I Map and Territory Fake Beliefs 17 Belief as Attire http://lesswrong.com/lw/i7/belief_as_attire/ -I Map and Territory Fake Beliefs 18 Pretending to be Wise http://lesswrong.com/lw/yp/pretending_to_be_wise/ -I Map and Territory Fake Beliefs 19 Religion's Claim to be Non-Disprovable http://lesswrong.com/lw/i8/religions_claim_to_be_nondisprovable/ -I Map and Territory Noticing Confusion 20 What is Evidence? http://lesswrong.com/lw/jl/what_is_evidence/ -I Map and Territory Noticing Confusion 21 Scientific Evidence, Legal Evidence, Rational Evidence http://lesswrong.com/lw/in/scientific_evidence_legal_evidence_rational/ -I Map and Territory Noticing Confusion 22 How Much Evidence Does It Take? http://lesswrong.com/lw/jn/how_much_evidence_does_it_take/ -I Map and Territory Noticing Confusion 23 Occam's Razor http://lesswrong.com/lw/jp/occams_razor/ -I Map and Territory Noticing Confusion 24 Einstein's Arrogance http://lesswrong.com/lw/jo/einsteins_arrogance/ -I Map and Territory Noticing Confusion 25 Focus Your Uncertainty http://lesswrong.com/lw/ia/focus_your_uncertainty/ -I Map and Territory Noticing Confusion 26 The Virtue of Narrowness http://lesswrong.com/lw/ic/the_virtue_of_narrowness/ -I Map and Territory Noticing Confusion 27 Your Strength as a Rationalist http://lesswrong.com/lw/if/your_strength_as_a_rationalist/ -I Map and Territory Noticing Confusion 28 Absence of Evidence is Evidence of Absence http://lesswrong.com/lw/ih/absence_of_evidence_is_evidence_of_absence/ -I Map and Territory Noticing Confusion 29 Conservation of Expected Evidence http://lesswrong.com/lw/ii/conservation_of_expected_evidence/ -I Map and Territory Noticing Confusion 30 Hindsight Devalues Science http://lesswrong.com/lw/im/hindsight_devalues_science/ -I Map and Territory Mysterious Answers 31 Fake Explanations http://lesswrong.com/lw/ip/fake_explanations/ -I Map and Territory Mysterious Answers 32 Guessing the Teacher's Password http://lesswrong.com/lw/iq/guessing_the_teachers_password/ -I Map and Territory Mysterious Answers 33 Science as Attire http://lesswrong.com/lw/ir/science_as_attire/ -I Map and Territory Mysterious Answers 34 Fake Causality http://lesswrong.com/lw/is/fake_causality/ -I Map and Territory Mysterious Answers 35 Semantic Stopsigns http://lesswrong.com/lw/it/semantic_stopsigns/ -I Map and Territory Mysterious Answers 36 Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions http://lesswrong.com/lw/iu/mysterious_answers_to_mysterious_questions/ -I Map and Territory Mysterious Answers 37 The Futility of Emergence http://lesswrong.com/lw/iv/the_futility_of_emergence/ -I Map and Territory Mysterious Answers 38 Say Not "Complexity" http://lesswrong.com/lw/ix/say_not_complexity/ -I Map and Territory Mysterious Answers 39 Positive Bias: Look into the Dark http://lesswrong.com/lw/iw/positive_bias_look_into_the_dark/ -I Map and Territory Mysterious Answers 40 My Wild and Reckless Youth http://lesswrong.com/lw/iy/my_wild_and_reckless_youth/ -I Map and Territory Mysterious Answers 41 Failing to Learn from History http://lesswrong.com/lw/iz/failing_to_learn_from_history/ -I Map and Territory Mysterious Answers 42 Making History Available http://lesswrong.com/lw/j0/making_history_available/ -I Map and Territory Mysterious Answers 43 Explain/Worship/Ignore? http://lesswrong.com/lw/j2/explainworshipignore/ -I Map and Territory Mysterious Answers 44 "Science" as Curiosity-Stopper http://lesswrong.com/lw/j3/science_as_curiositystopper/ -I Map and Territory Mysterious Answers 45 Truly Part of You http://lesswrong.com/lw/la/truly_part_of_you/ - Interlude The Simple Truth http://yudkowsky.net/rational/the-simple-truth/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Politics is the Mind-Killer 46 Politics is the Mind-Killer http://lesswrong.com/lw/gw/politics_is_the_mindkiller/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Politics is the Mind-Killer 47 Policy Debates Should Not Appear One-Sided http://lesswrong.com/lw/gz/policy_debates_should_not_appear_onesided/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Politics is the Mind-Killer 48 The Scales of Justice, the Notebook of Rationality http://lesswrong.com/lw/h1/the_scales_of_justice_the_notebook_of_rationality/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Politics is the Mind-Killer 49 Correspondence Bias http://lesswrong.com/lw/hz/correspondence_bias/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Politics is the Mind-Killer 50 Are Your Enemies Innately Evil? http://lesswrong.com/lw/i0/are_your_enemies_innately_evil/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Politics is the Mind-Killer 51 Reversed Stupidity is Not Intelligence http://lesswrong.com/lw/lw/reversed_stupidity_is_not_intelligence/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Politics is the Mind-Killer 52 Argument Screens Off Authority http://lesswrong.com/lw/lx/argument_screens_off_authority/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Politics is the Mind-Killer 53 Hug the Query http://lesswrong.com/lw/ly/hug_the_query/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Politics is the Mind-Killer 54 Rationality and the English Language http://lesswrong.com/lw/jc/rationality_and_the_english_language/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Politics is the Mind-Killer 55 Human Evil and Muddled Thinking http://lesswrong.com/lw/jd/human_evil_and_muddled_thinking/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 56 The Affect Heuristic http://lesswrong.com/lw/lg/the_affect_heuristic/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 57 Evaluability (And Cheap Holiday Shopping) http://lesswrong.com/lw/lh/evaluability_and_cheap_holiday_shopping/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 58 Unbounded Scales, Huge Jury Awards, & Futurism http://lesswrong.com/lw/li/unbounded_scales_huge_jury_awards_futurism/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 59 The Halo Effect http://lesswrong.com/lw/lj/the_halo_effect/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 60 Superhero Bias http://lesswrong.com/lw/lk/superhero_bias/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 61 Mere Messiahs http://lesswrong.com/lw/ll/mere_messiahs/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 62 Affective Death Spirals http://lesswrong.com/lw/lm/affective_death_spirals/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 63 Resist the Happy Death Spiral http://lesswrong.com/lw/ln/resist_the_happy_death_spiral/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 64 Uncritical Supercriticality http://lesswrong.com/lw/lo/uncritical_supercriticality/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 65 Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs http://lesswrong.com/lw/lr/evaporative_cooling_of_group_beliefs/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 66 When None Dare Urge Restraint http://lesswrong.com/lw/ls/when_none_dare_urge_restraint/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 67 The Robbers Cave Experiment http://lesswrong.com/lw/lt/the_robbers_cave_experiment/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 68 Every Cause Wants to be a Cult http://lesswrong.com/lw/lv/every_cause_wants_to_be_a_cult/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 69 Guardians of the Truth http://lesswrong.com/lw/lz/guardians_of_the_truth/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 70 Guardians of the Gene Pool http://lesswrong.com/lw/m0/guardians_of_the_gene_pool/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 71 Guardians of Ayn Rand http://lesswrong.com/lw/m1/guardians_of_ayn_rand/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 72 Two Cult Koans http://lesswrong.com/lw/m4/two_cult_koans/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 73 Asch's Conformity Experiment http://lesswrong.com/lw/m9/aschs_conformity_experiment/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 74 On Expressing Your Concerns http://lesswrong.com/lw/ma/on_expressing_your_concerns/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 75 Lonely Dissent http://lesswrong.com/lw/mb/lonely_dissent/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor 76 Cultish Countercultishness http://lesswrong.com/lw/md/cultish_countercultishness/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Seeing with Fresh Eyes 77 Anchoring and Adjustment http://lesswrong.com/lw/j7/anchoring_and_adjustment/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Seeing with Fresh Eyes 78 Priming and Contamination http://lesswrong.com/lw/k3/priming_and_contamination/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Seeing with Fresh Eyes 79 Do We Believe Everything We're Told? http://lesswrong.com/lw/k4/do_we_believe_everything_were_told/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Seeing with Fresh Eyes 80 Cached Thoughts http://lesswrong.com/lw/k5/cached_thoughts/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Seeing with Fresh Eyes 81 The "Outside the Box" Box http://lesswrong.com/lw/k6/the_outside_the_box_box/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Seeing with Fresh Eyes 82 Original Seeing http://lesswrong.com/lw/k7/original_seeing/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Seeing with Fresh Eyes 83 Stranger Than History http://lesswrong.com/lw/j1/stranger_than_history/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Seeing with Fresh Eyes 84 The Logical Fallacy of Generalization from Fictional Evidence http://lesswrong.com/lw/k9/the_logical_fallacy_of_generalization_from/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Seeing with Fresh Eyes 85 How to Seem (and Be) Deep http://lesswrong.com/lw/k8/how_to_seem_and_be_deep/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Seeing with Fresh Eyes 86 We Change Our Minds Less Often Than We Think http://lesswrong.com/lw/jx/we_change_our_minds_less_often_than_we_think/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Seeing with Fresh Eyes 87 Hold Off On Proposing Solutions http://lesswrong.com/lw/ka/hold_off_on_proposing_solutions/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Seeing with Fresh Eyes 88 The Genetic Fallacy http://lesswrong.com/lw/s3/the_genetic_fallacy/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Rationalization 89 Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People http://lesswrong.com/lw/he/knowing_about_biases_can_hurt_people/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Rationalization 90 Update Yourself Incrementally http://lesswrong.com/lw/ij/update_yourself_incrementally/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Rationalization 91 One Argument Against An Army http://lesswrong.com/lw/ik/one_argument_against_an_army/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Rationalization 92 The Bottom Line http://lesswrong.com/lw/js/the_bottom_line/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Rationalization 93 What Evidence Filtered Evidence? http://lesswrong.com/lw/jt/what_evidence_filtered_evidence/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Rationalization 94 Rationalization http://lesswrong.com/lw/ju/rationalization/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Rationalization 95 A Rational Argument http://lesswrong.com/lw/jw/a_rational_argument/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Rationalization 96 Avoiding Your Belief's Real Weak Points http://lesswrong.com/lw/jy/avoiding_your_beliefs_real_weak_points/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Rationalization 97 Motivated Stopping and Motivated Continuation http://lesswrong.com/lw/km/motivated_stopping_and_motivated_continuation/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Rationalization 98 Fake Justification http://lesswrong.com/lw/kq/fake_justification/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Rationalization 99 Is That Your True Rejection? http://lesswrong.com/lw/wj/is_that_your_true_rejection/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Rationalization 100 Entangled Truths, Contagious Lies http://lesswrong.com/lw/uw/entangled_truths_contagious_lies/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Rationalization 101 Of Lies and Black Swan Blowups http://lesswrong.com/lw/9a/of_lies_and_black_swan_blowups/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Rationalization 102 Dark Side Epistemology http://lesswrong.com/lw/uy/dark_side_epistemology/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Doublethink 103 Singlethink http://lesswrong.com/lw/k0/singlethink/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Doublethink 104 Doublethink: Choosing to be Biased http://lesswrong.com/lw/je/doublethink_choosing_to_be_biased/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Doublethink 105 No, Really, I've Deceived Myself http://lesswrong.com/lw/r/no_really_ive_deceived_myself/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Doublethink 106 Belief in Self-Deception http://lesswrong.com/lw/s/belief_in_selfdeception/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Doublethink 107 Moore's Paradox http://lesswrong.com/lw/1f/moores_paradox/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Against Doublethink 108 Don't Believe You'll Self-Deceive http://lesswrong.com/lw/1o/dont_believe_youll_selfdeceive/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Overly Convenient Excuses 109 The Proper Use of Humility http://lesswrong.com/lw/gq/the_proper_use_of_humility/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Overly Convenient Excuses 110 The Third Alternative http://lesswrong.com/lw/hu/the_third_alternative/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Overly Convenient Excuses 111 But There's Still A Chance, Right? http://lesswrong.com/lw/ml/but_theres_still_a_chance_right/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Overly Convenient Excuses 112 The Fallacy of Gray http://lesswrong.com/lw/mm/the_fallacy_of_gray/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Overly Convenient Excuses 113 Absolute Authority http://lesswrong.com/lw/mn/absolute_authority/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Overly Convenient Excuses 114 How to Convince Me That 2 + 2 = 3 http://lesswrong.com/lw/jr/how_to_convince_me_that_2_2_3/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Overly Convenient Excuses 115 Infinite Certainty http://lesswrong.com/lw/mo/infinite_certainty/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Overly Convenient Excuses 116 0 And 1 Are Not Probabilities http://lesswrong.com/lw/mp/0_and_1_are_not_probabilities/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Letting Go 117 The Importance of Saying "Oops" http://lesswrong.com/lw/i9/the_importance_of_saying_oops/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Letting Go 118 The Crackpot Offer http://lesswrong.com/lw/j8/the_crackpot_offer/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Letting Go 119 Just Lose Hope Already http://lesswrong.com/lw/gx/just_lose_hope_already/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Letting Go 120 The Proper Use of Doubt http://lesswrong.com/lw/ib/the_proper_use_of_doubt/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Letting Go 121 You Can Face Reality http://lesswrong.com/lw/id/you_can_face_reality/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Letting Go 122 The Meditation on Curiosity http://lesswrong.com/lw/jz/the_meditation_on_curiosity/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Letting Go 123 No One Can Exempt You From Rationality's Laws http://lesswrong.com/lw/k1/no_one_can_exempt_you_from_rationalitys_laws/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Letting Go 124 Leave a Line of Retreat http://lesswrong.com/lw/o4/leave_a_line_of_retreat/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Letting Go 125 Crisis of Faith http://lesswrong.com/lw/ur/crisis_of_faith/ -II How to Actually Change Your Mind Letting Go 126 The Ritual http://lesswrong.com/lw/us/the_ritual/ - Interlude The Power of Intelligence http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/power/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms The Simple Math of Evolution 127 An Alien God http://lesswrong.com/lw/kr/an_alien_god/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms The Simple Math of Evolution 128 The Wonder of Evolution http://lesswrong.com/lw/ks/the_wonder_of_evolution/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms The Simple Math of Evolution 129 Evolutions are Stupid (but Work Anyway) http://lesswrong.com/lw/kt/evolutions_are_stupid_but_work_anyway/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms The Simple Math of Evolution 130 No Evolutions for Corporations or Nanodevices http://lesswrong.com/lw/l6/no_evolutions_for_corporations_or_nanodevices/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms The Simple Math of Evolution 131 Evolving to Extinction http://lesswrong.com/lw/l5/evolving_to_extinction/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms The Simple Math of Evolution 132 The Tragedy of Group Selectionism http://lesswrong.com/lw/kw/the_tragedy_of_group_selectionism/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms The Simple Math of Evolution 133 Fake Optimization Criteria http://lesswrong.com/lw/kz/fake_optimization_criteria/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms The Simple Math of Evolution 134 Adaptation-Executers, not Fitness-Maximizers http://lesswrong.com/lw/l0/adaptationexecuters_not_fitnessmaximizers/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms The Simple Math of Evolution 135 Evolutionary Psychology http://lesswrong.com/lw/l1/evolutionary_psychology/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms The Simple Math of Evolution 136 Superstimuli and the Collapse of Western Civilization http://lesswrong.com/lw/h3/superstimuli_and_the_collapse_of_western/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms The Simple Math of Evolution 137 Thou Art Godshatter http://lesswrong.com/lw/l3/thou_art_godshatter/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms Desires that Destroy Themselves 138 Humans in Funny Suits http://lesswrong.com/lw/so/humans_in_funny_suits/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms Desires that Destroy Themselves 139 Belief in Intelligence http://lesswrong.com/lw/v8/belief_in_intelligence/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms Desires that Destroy Themselves 140 Optimization and the Intelligence Explosion http://lesswrong.com/lw/rk/optimization_and_the_singularity/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms Desires that Destroy Themselves 141 Ghosts in the Machine http://lesswrong.com/lw/rf/ghosts_in_the_machine/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms Desires that Destroy Themselves 142 Artificial Addition http://lesswrong.com/lw/l9/artificial_addition/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms Desires that Destroy Themselves 143 Terminal Values and Instrumental Values http://lesswrong.com/lw/l4/terminal_values_and_instrumental_values/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms Desires that Destroy Themselves 144 Leaky Generalizations http://lesswrong.com/lw/lc/leaky_generalizations/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms Desires that Destroy Themselves 145 The Hidden Complexity of Wishes http://lesswrong.com/lw/ld/the_hidden_complexity_of_wishes/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms Desires that Destroy Themselves 146 Anthropomorphic Optimism http://lesswrong.com/lw/st/anthropomorphic_optimism/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms Desires that Destroy Themselves 147 Lost Purposes http://lesswrong.com/lw/le/lost_purposes/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 148 The Parable of the Dagger http://lesswrong.com/lw/ne/the_parable_of_the_dagger/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 149 The Parable of Hemlock http://lesswrong.com/lw/nf/the_parable_of_hemlock/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 150 Words as Hidden Inferences http://lesswrong.com/lw/ng/words_as_hidden_inferences/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 151 Extensions and Intentions http://lesswrong.com/lw/nh/extensions_and_intensions/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 152 Similarity Clusters http://lesswrong.com/lw/nj/similarity_clusters/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 153 Typicality and Asymmetrcal Similarity http://lesswrong.com/lw/nk/typicality_and_asymmetrical_similarity/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 154 The Cluster of Thingspace http://lesswrong.com/lw/nl/the_cluster_structure_of_thingspace/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 155 Disguised Queries http://lesswrong.com/lw/nm/disguised_queries/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 156 Neural Categories http://lesswrong.com/lw/nn/neural_categories/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 157 Now an Algorithm Feels from Inside http://lesswrong.com/lw/no/how_an_algorithm_feels_from_inside/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 158 Disputing Definitions http://lesswrong.com/lw/np/disputing_definitions/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 159 Feel the Meaning http://lesswrong.com/lw/nq/feel_the_meaning/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 160 The Argument from Common Usage http://lesswrong.com/lw/nr/the_argument_from_common_usage/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 161 Empty Labels http://lesswrong.com/lw/ns/empty_labels/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 162 Taboo Your Words http://lesswrong.com/lw/nu/taboo_your_words/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 163 Replace the Symbol with the Substance http://lesswrong.com/lw/nv/replace_the_symbol_with_the_substance/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 164 Fallacies of Comprehenssion http://lesswrong.com/lw/nw/fallacies_of_compression/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 165 Categorizing Has Consequences http://lesswrong.com/lw/nx/categorizing_has_consequences/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 166 Sneaking in Connotations http://lesswrong.com/lw/ny/sneaking_in_connotations/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 167 Arguing by Definition http://lesswrong.com/lw/nz/arguing_by_definition/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 168 Where to Draw the Boundary http://lesswrong.com/lw/o0/where_to_draw_the_boundary/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 169 Entropy and Short Codes http://lesswrong.com/lw/o1/entropy_and_short_codes/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 170 Mutual Information and Density in Thingspace http://lesswrong.com/lw/o2/mutual_information_and_density_in_thingspace/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 171 Superexponential Conceptspace and Simple Words http://lesswrong.com/lw/o3/superexponential_conceptspace_and_simple_words/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 172 Conditional Independence and Naive Bayes http://lesswrong.com/lw/o8/conditional_independence_and_naive_bayes/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 173 Words as Mental Paintbrush Handles http://lesswrong.com/lw/o9/words_as_mental_paintbrush_handles/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 174 Variable Question Fallacies http://lesswrong.com/lw/oc/variable_question_fallacies/ -III Ghosts of Algorithms A Human's Guide to Words 175 37 Ways that Words Can Be Wrong http://lesswrong.com/lw/od/37_ways_that_words_can_be_wrong/ - Interlude An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes' Theorem http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes/ -IV Mere Rationality Lawful Truth 176 Universal Fire http://lesswrong.com/lw/hq/universal_fire/ -IV Mere Rationality Lawful Truth 177 Universal Law http://lesswrong.com/lw/hr/universal_law/ -IV Mere Rationality Lawful Truth 178 Is Reality Ugly? http://lesswrong.com/lw/ms/is_reality_ugly/ -IV Mere Rationality Lawful Truth 179 Beautiful Probability http://lesswrong.com/lw/mt/beautiful_probability/ -IV Mere Rationality Lawful Truth 180 Outside the Laboratory http://lesswrong.com/lw/gv/outside_the_laboratory/ -IV Mere Rationality Lawful Truth 181 Lawful Creativity http://lesswrong.com/lw/vm/lawful_creativity/ -IV Mere Rationality Lawful Truth 182 The Second Law of Thermodynamics, and Engines of Cognition http://lesswrong.com/lw/o5/the_second_law_of_thermodynamics_and_engines_of/ -IV Mere Rationality Lawful Truth 183 Perpetual Motion Beliefs http://lesswrong.com/lw/o6/perpetual_motion_beliefs/ -IV Mere Rationality Lawful Truth 184 Searching for Bayes-Structure http://lesswrong.com/lw/o7/searching_for_bayesstructure/ -IV Mere Rationality Reductionism 101 185 Dissolving the Question http://lesswrong.com/lw/of/dissolving_the_question/ -IV Mere Rationality Reductionism 101 186 Wrong Questions http://lesswrong.com/lw/og/wrong_questions/ -IV Mere Rationality Reductionism 101 187 Righting a Wrong Question http://lesswrong.com/lw/oh/righting_a_wrong_question/ -IV Mere Rationality Reductionism 101 188 Mind Projection Fallacy http://lesswrong.com/lw/oi/mind_projection_fallacy/ -IV Mere Rationality Reductionism 101 189 Probability is in the Mind http://lesswrong.com/lw/oj/probability_is_in_the_mind/ -IV Mere Rationality Reductionism 101 190 The Quotation is not the Referent http://lesswrong.com/lw/ok/the_quotation_is_not_the_referent/ -IV Mere Rationality Reductionism 101 191 Qualitatively Confused http://lesswrong.com/lw/om/qualitatively_confused/ -IV Mere Rationality Reductionism 101 192 Chaotic Inversion http://lesswrong.com/lw/wb/chaotic_inversion/ -IV Mere Rationality Reductionism 101 193 Think Like Reality http://lesswrong.com/lw/hs/think_like_reality/ -IV Mere Rationality Reductionism 101 194 Reductionism http://lesswrong.com/lw/on/reductionism/ -IV Mere Rationality Reductionism 101 195 Explaining vs. Explaining Away http://lesswrong.com/lw/oo/explaining_vs_explaining_away/ -IV Mere Rationality Reductionism 101 196 Fake Reductionism http://lesswrong.com/lw/op/fake_reductionism/ -IV Mere Rationality Reductionism 101 197 Savanna Poets http://lesswrong.com/lw/oq/savanna_poets/ -IV Mere Rationality Joy in the Merely Real 198 Joy in the Merely Real http://lesswrong.com/lw/or/joy_in_the_merely_real/ -IV Mere Rationality Joy in the Merely Real 199 Joy in Discovery http://lesswrong.com/lw/os/joy_in_discovery/ -IV Mere Rationality Joy in the Merely Real 200 Bind Yourself to Reality http://lesswrong.com/lw/ot/bind_yourself_to_reality/ -IV Mere Rationality Joy in the Merely Real 201 If You Demand Magic, Magic Won't Help http://lesswrong.com/lw/ou/if_you_demand_magic_magic_wont_help/ -IV Mere Rationality Joy in the Merely Real 202 Mundane Magic http://lesswrong.com/lw/ve/mundane_magic/ -IV Mere Rationality Joy in the Merely Real 203 The Beauty of Settled Science http://lesswrong.com/lw/ow/the_beauty_of_settled_science/ -IV Mere Rationality Joy in the Merely Real 204 Amazing Breakthrough Day: April 1st http://lesswrong.com/lw/ox/amazing_breakthrough_day_april_1st/ -IV Mere Rationality Joy in the Merely Real 205 Is Humanism a Religion-Substitute? http://lesswrong.com/lw/oy/is_humanism_a_religionsubstitute/ -IV Mere Rationality Joy in the Merely Real 206 Scarcity http://lesswrong.com/lw/oz/scarcity/ -IV Mere Rationality Joy in the Merely Real 207 The Sacred Mundane http://lesswrong.com/lw/57/the_sacred_mundane/ -IV Mere Rationality Joy in the Merely Real 208 To Spread Science, Keep It Secret http://lesswrong.com/lw/p0/to_spread_science_keep_it_secret/ -IV Mere Rationality Joy in the Merely Real 209 Initiation Ceremony http://lesswrong.com/lw/p1/initiation_ceremony/ -IV Mere Rationality Physicalism 101 210 Hand vs. Fingers http://lesswrong.com/lw/p2/hand_vs_fingers/ -IV Mere Rationality Physicalism 101 211 Angry Atoms http://lesswrong.com/lw/p3/angry_atoms/ -IV Mere Rationality Physicalism 101 212 Heat vs. Motion http://lesswrong.com/lw/p4/heat_vs_motion/ -IV Mere Rationality Physicalism 101 213 Brain Breakthrough! It's Made of Neurons! http://lesswrong.com/lw/p5/brain_breakthrough_its_made_of_neurons/ -IV Mere Rationality Physicalism 101 214 When Anthropomorphism Became Stupid http://lesswrong.com/lw/t5/when_anthropomorphism_became_stupid/ -IV Mere Rationality Physicalism 101 215 A Priori http://lesswrong.com/lw/k2/a_priori/ -IV Mere Rationality Physicalism 101 216 Reductive Reference http://lesswrong.com/lw/p6/reductive_reference/ -IV Mere Rationality Physicalism 101 217 Zombies! Zombies? http://lesswrong.com/lw/p7/zombies_zombies/ -IV Mere Rationality Physicalism 101 218 Zombie Responses http://lesswrong.com/lw/p8/zombie_responses/ -IV Mere Rationality Physicalism 101 219 The Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle http://lesswrong.com/lw/p9/the_generalized_antizombie_principle/ -IV Mere Rationality Physicalism 101 220 GAZP vs. GLUT http://lesswrong.com/lw/pa/gazp_vs_glut/ -IV Mere Rationality Physicalism 101 221 Belief in the Implied Invisible http://lesswrong.com/lw/pb/belief_in_the_implied_invisible/ -IV Mere Rationality Physicalism 101 222 Zombies: The Movie http://lesswrong.com/lw/pn/zombies_the_movie/ -IV Mere Rationality Physicalism 101 223 Excluding the Supernatural http://lesswrong.com/lw/tv/excluding_the_supernatural/ -IV Mere Rationality Physicalism 101 224 Psychic Powers http://lesswrong.com/lw/tw/psychic_powers/ -IV Mere Rationality Quantum Physics and Many Worlds 225 Quantum Explanations http://lesswrong.com/lw/pc/quantum_explanations/ -IV Mere Rationality Quantum Physics and Many Worlds 226 Configurations and Amplitudes http://lesswrong.com/lw/pd/configurations_and_amplitude/ -IV Mere Rationality Quantum Physics and Many Worlds 227 Joint Configurations http://lesswrong.com/lw/pe/joint_configurations/ -IV Mere Rationality Quantum Physics and Many Worlds 228 Distinct Configurations http://lesswrong.com/lw/pf/distinct_configurations/ -IV Mere Rationality Quantum Physics and Many Worlds 229 Where Philosophy Meets Science http://lesswrong.com/lw/pg/where_philosophy_meets_science/ -IV Mere Rationality Quantum Physics and Many Worlds 230 Which Basis is More Fundamental? http://lesswrong.com/lw/pr/which_basis_is_more_fundamental/ -IV Mere Rationality Quantum Physics and Many Worlds 231 Decoherence is Simple http://lesswrong.com/lw/q3/decoherence_is_simple/ -IV Mere Rationality Quantum Physics and Many Worlds 232 Decoherence is Falsifiable and Testable http://lesswrong.com/lw/q4/decoherence_is_falsifiable_and_testable/ -IV Mere Rationality Quantum Physics and Many Worlds 233 Quantum Nonrealism http://lesswrong.com/lw/q5/quantum_nonrealism/ -IV Mere Rationality Quantum Physics and Many Worlds 234 Collapse Postulates http://lesswrong.com/lw/q6/collapse_postulates/ -IV Mere Rationality Quantum Physics and Many Worlds 235 Privileging the Hypothesis http://lesswrong.com/lw/19m/privileging_the_hypothesis/ -IV Mere Rationality Quantum Physics and Many Worlds 236 If Many-Worlds Had Come First http://lesswrong.com/lw/q7/if_manyworlds_had_come_first/ -IV Mere Rationality Quantum Physics and Many Worlds 237 Many Words, One Best Guess http://lesswrong.com/lw/q8/many_worlds_one_best_guess/ -IV Mere Rationality Quantum Physics and Many Worlds 238 Living in Many Worlds http://lesswrong.com/lw/qz/living_in_many_worlds/ -IV Mere Rationality Quantum Physics and Many Worlds 239 Thou Art Physics http://lesswrong.com/lw/r0/thou_art_physics/ -IV Mere Rationality Rationality and Science 240 The Failures of Eld Science http://lesswrong.com/lw/q9/the_failures_of_eld_science/ -IV Mere Rationality Rationality and Science 241 The Dilemma: Science or Bayes? http://lesswrong.com/lw/qa/the_dilemma_science_or_bayes/ -IV Mere Rationality Rationality and Science 242 Science Doesn't Trust Your Rationality http://lesswrong.com/lw/qb/science_doesnt_trust_your_rationality/ -IV Mere Rationality Rationality and Science 243 When Science Can't Help http://lesswrong.com/lw/qc/when_science_cant_help/ -IV Mere Rationality Rationality and Science 244 Science Isn't Strict Enough http://lesswrong.com/lw/qd/science_isnt_strict_enough/ -IV Mere Rationality Rationality and Science 245 Do Scientists Already Know This Stuff? http://lesswrong.com/lw/qe/do_scientists_already_know_this_stuff/ -IV Mere Rationality Rationality and Science 246 No Safe Defense, Not Even Science http://lesswrong.com/lw/qf/no_safe_defense_not_even_science/ -IV Mere Rationality Rationality and Science 247 Changing the Definition of Science http://lesswrong.com/lw/qg/changing_the_definition_of_science/ -IV Mere Rationality Rationality and Science 248 Faster Than Science http://lesswrong.com/lw/qi/faster_than_science/ -IV Mere Rationality Rationality and Science 249 Einstein's Speed http://lesswrong.com/lw/qj/einsteins_speed/ -IV Mere Rationality Rationality and Science 250 That Alien Message http://lesswrong.com/lw/qk/that_alien_message/ -IV Mere Rationality Rationality and Science 251 My Childhood Role Model http://lesswrong.com/lw/ql/my_childhood_role_model/ -IV Mere Rationality Rationality and Science 252 Einstiein's Superpowers http://lesswrong.com/lw/qs/einsteins_superpowers/ -IV Mere Rationality Rationality and Science 253 Class Project http://lesswrong.com/lw/qt/class_project/ -IV Mere Rationality Rationality and Science 254 Why Quantum? http://lesswrong.com/lw/qy/why_quantum/ - Interlude The Twelve Virtues of Rationality http://yudkowsky.net/rational/virtues/ -V Mere Goodness Fake Preferences 255 Not for the Sake of Happiness (Alone) http://lesswrong.com/lw/lb/not_for_the_sake_of_happiness_alone/ -V Mere Goodness Fake Preferences 256 Fake Selfishness http://lesswrong.com/lw/kx/fake_selfishness/ -V Mere Goodness Fake Preferences 257 Fake Morality http://lesswrong.com/lw/ky/fake_morality/ -V Mere Goodness Fake Preferences 258 Fake Utility Functions http://lesswrong.com/lw/lq/fake_utility_functions/ -V Mere Goodness Fake Preferences 259 Detached Lever Fallacy http://lesswrong.com/lw/sp/detached_lever_fallacy/ -V Mere Goodness Fake Preferences 260 Dreams of AI Design http://lesswrong.com/lw/tf/dreams_of_ai_design/ -V Mere Goodness Fake Preferences 261 Magical Categories http://lesswrong.com/lw/td/magical_categories/ -V Mere Goodness Fake Preferences 262 The True Prisoner's Dilemma http://lesswrong.com/lw/tn/the_true_prisoners_dilemma/ -V Mere Goodness Fake Preferences 263 The Design Space of Minds-in-General http://lesswrong.com/lw/rm/the_design_space_of_mindsingeneral/ -V Mere Goodness Value Theory 264 Where Recursive Justification Hits Bottom http://lesswrong.com/lw/s0/where_recursive_justification_hits_bottom/ -V Mere Goodness Value Theory 265 My Kind of Reflection http://lesswrong.com/lw/s2/my_kind_of_reflection/ -V Mere Goodness Value Theory 266 No Universally Compelling Arguments http://lesswrong.com/lw/rn/no_universally_compelling_arguments/ -V Mere Goodness Value Theory 267 Created Already in Motion http://lesswrong.com/lw/rs/created_already_in_motion/ -V Mere Goodness Value Theory 268 Sorting Pebbles into Correct Heaps http://lesswrong.com/lw/sy/sorting_pebbles_into_correct_heaps/ -V Mere Goodness Value Theory 269 2-Place and 1-Place Words http://lesswrong.com/lw/ro/2place_and_1place_words/ -V Mere Goodness Value Theory 270 What Would You Do Without Morality? http://lesswrong.com/lw/rq/what_would_you_do_without_morality/ -V Mere Goodness Value Theory 271 Changing Your Metaethics http://lesswrong.com/lw/sk/changing_your_metaethics/ -V Mere Goodness Value Theory 272 Could Anything be Right? http://lesswrong.com/lw/sb/could_anything_be_right/ -V Mere Goodness Value Theory 273 Morality as Fixed Computation http://lesswrong.com/lw/sw/morality_as_fixed_computation/ -V Mere Goodness Value Theory 274 Sympathetic Minds http://lesswrong.com/lw/xs/sympathetic_minds/ -V Mere Goodness Value Theory 275 High Challenge http://lesswrong.com/lw/ww/high_challenge/ -V Mere Goodness Value Theory 276 Serious Stories http://lesswrong.com/lw/xi/serious_stories/ -V Mere Goodness Value Theory 277 Value is Fragile http://lesswrong.com/lw/y3/value_is_fragile/ -V Mere Goodness Value Theory 278 The Gift We Give to Tomorrow http://lesswrong.com/lw/sa/the_gift_we_give_to_tomorrow/ -V Mere Goodness Quantified Humanism 279 Scope Insensitivity http://lesswrong.com/lw/hw/scope_insensitivity/ -V Mere Goodness Quantified Humanism 280 One Life Against the World http://lesswrong.com/lw/hx/one_life_against_the_world/ -V Mere Goodness Quantified Humanism 281 The Allais Paradox http://lesswrong.com/lw/my/the_allais_paradox/ -V Mere Goodness Quantified Humanism 282 Zut Allais! http://lesswrong.com/lw/mz/zut_allais/ -V Mere Goodness Quantified Humanism 283 Feeling Moral -V Mere Goodness Quantified Humanism 284 The "Intuitions" Behind "Utilitarianism" http://lesswrong.com/lw/n9/the_intuitions_behind_utilitarianism/ -V Mere Goodness Quantified Humanism 285 Something to Protect http://lesswrong.com/lw/nb/something_to_protect/ -V Mere Goodness Quantified Humanism 286 When (Not) To Use Probabilities http://lesswrong.com/lw/sg/when_not_to_use_probabilities/ -V Mere Goodness Quantified Humanism 287 Newcomb's Problem and the Regret of Rationality http://lesswrong.com/lw/nc/newcombs_problem_and_regret_of_rationality/ - Interlude A Technical Explanation of Technical Explanation http://yudkowsky.net/rational/technical/ -VI A New Art Yudkowsky's Coming of Age 288 My Childhood Death Spiral http://lesswrong.com/lw/ty/my_childhood_death_spiral/ -VI A New Art Yudkowsky's Coming of Age 289 My Best and Worst Mistake http://lesswrong.com/lw/tz/my_best_and_worst_mistake/ -VI A New Art Yudkowsky's Coming of Age 290 Raised in Technophilia http://lesswrong.com/lw/u0/raised_in_technophilia/ -VI A New Art Yudkowsky's Coming of Age 291 A Prodigy of Refutation http://lesswrong.com/lw/u1/a_prodigy_of_refutation/ -VI A New Art Yudkowsky's Coming of Age 292 The Sheer Folly of Callow Youth http://lesswrong.com/lw/u2/the_sheer_folly_of_callow_youth/ -VI A New Art Yudkowsky's Coming of Age 293 That Tiny Note of Discord http://lesswrong.com/lw/u7/that_tiny_note_of_discord/ -VI A New Art Yudkowsky's Coming of Age 294 Fighting a Rearguard Action Against the Truth http://lesswrong.com/lw/u8/fighting_a_rearguard_action_against_the_truth/ -VI A New Art Yudkowsky's Coming of Age 295 My Naturalistic Awakening http://lesswrong.com/lw/u9/my_naturalistic_awakening/ -VI A New Art Yudkowsky's Coming of Age 296 The Level Above Mine http://lesswrong.com/lw/ua/the_level_above_mine/ -VI A New Art Yudkowsky's Coming of Age 297 Competent Elites http://lesswrong.com/lw/ub/competent_elites/ -VI A New Art Yudkowsky's Coming of Age 298 Above-Average AI Scientists http://lesswrong.com/lw/uc/aboveaverage_ai_scientists/ -VI A New Art Yudkowsky's Coming of Age 299 The Magnitude of His Own Folly http://lesswrong.com/lw/ue/the_magnitude_of_his_own_folly/ -VI A New Art Yudkowsky's Coming of Age 300 Beyond the Reach of God http://lesswrong.com/lw/uk/beyond_the_reach_of_god/ -VI A New Art Yudkowsky's Coming of Age 301 My Bayesian Enlightenment http://lesswrong.com/lw/ul/my_bayesian_enlightenment/ -VI A New Art Challenging the Difficult 302 Tsuyoku Naritai! (I Want To Become Stronger) http://lesswrong.com/lw/h8/tsuyoku_naritai_i_want_to_become_stronger/ -VI A New Art Challenging the Difficult 303 Tsuyoku vs. the Egalitarian Instinct http://lesswrong.com/lw/h9/tsuyoku_vs_the_egalitarian_instinct/ -VI A New Art Challenging the Difficult 304 Lotteries: A Waste of Hope http://lesswrong.com/lw/hl/lotteries_a_waste_of_hope/ -VI A New Art Challenging the Difficult 305 New Improved Lottery http://lesswrong.com/lw/hm/new_improved_lottery/ -VI A New Art Challenging the Difficult 306 Your Rationality is My Business http://lesswrong.com/lw/hn/your_rationality_is_my_business/ -VI A New Art Challenging the Difficult 307 Trying to Try http://lesswrong.com/lw/uh/trying_to_try/ -VI A New Art Challenging the Difficult 308 Use the Try Harder, Luke http://lesswrong.com/lw/ui/use_the_try_harder_luke/ -VI A New Art Challenging the Difficult 309 On Doing the Impossible http://lesswrong.com/lw/un/on_doing_the_impossible/ -VI A New Art Challenging the Difficult 310 Make an Extraordinary Effort http://lesswrong.com/lw/uo/make_an_extraordinary_effort/ -VI A New Art Challenging the Difficult 311 Shut Up and Do the Impossible! http://lesswrong.com/lw/up/shut_up_and_do_the_impossible/ -VI A New Art Challenging the Difficult 312 Final Words http://lesswrong.com/lw/cl/final_words/ -VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 313 Raising the Sanity Waterline http://lesswrong.com/lw/1e/raising_the_sanity_waterline/ -VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 314 A Sense that More is Possible http://lesswrong.com/lw/2c/a_sense_that_more_is_possible/ -VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 315 Epistemic Viciousness http://lesswrong.com/lw/2i/epistemic_viciousness/ -VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 316 Schools Proliferating Without Evidence http://lesswrong.com/lw/2j/schools_proliferating_without_evidence/ -VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 317 3 Levels of Rationality Verification http://lesswrong.com/lw/2s/3_levels_of_rationality_verification/ -VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 318 Why Our Kind Can't Cooperate http://lesswrong.com/lw/3h/why_our_kind_cant_cooperate/ -VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 319 Tolerate Tolerance http://lesswrong.com/lw/42/tolerate_tolerance/ -VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 320 You're Calling Who a Cult Leader? http://lesswrong.com/lw/4d/youre_calling_who_a_cult_leader/ -VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 321 Your Price for Joining http://lesswrong.com/lw/5j/your_price_for_joining/ -VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 322 Can Humanism Match Religion's Output? http://lesswrong.com/lw/5t/can_humanism_match_religions_output/ -VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 323 Church vs. Taskforce http://lesswrong.com/lw/5v/church_vs_taskforce/ -VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 324 Rationality: Common Interest of Many Causes http://lesswrong.com/lw/66/rationality_common_interest_of_many_causes/ -VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 325 Helpless Individuals http://lesswrong.com/lw/64/helpless_individuals/ -VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 326 Money: The Unit of Caring http://lesswrong.com/lw/65/money_the_unit_of_caring/ -VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 327 Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately http://lesswrong.com/lw/6z/purchase_fuzzies_and_utilons_separately/ -VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 328 Selecting Rationalist Groups http://lesswrong.com/lw/77/selecting_rationalist_groups/ -VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 329 Incremental Progress and the Valley http://lesswrong.com/lw/7k/incremental_progress_and_the_valley/ -VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 330 Whining-based Communities http://lesswrong.com/lw/8t/whiningbased_communities/ -VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 331 Beware of Other-optimizing http://lesswrong.com/lw/9v/beware_of_otheroptimizing/ -VI A New Art The Craft and the Community 332 Bystander Apathy http://lesswrong.com/lw/9j/bystander_apathy/ -VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 333 Collective Apathy and the Internet http://lesswrong.com/lw/9m/collective_apathy_and_the_internet/ -VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 334 Bayesians vs. Barbarians http://lesswrong.com/lw/5f/bayesians_vs_barbarians/ -VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 335 Of Gender and Rationality http://lesswrong.com/lw/ap/of_gender_and_rationality/ -VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 336 My Way http://lesswrong.com/lw/bd/my_way/ -VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 337 The Sin of Underconfidence http://lesswrong.com/lw/c3/the_sin_of_underconfidence/ -VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 338 Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism http://lesswrong.com/lw/c1/wellkept_gardens_die_by_pacifism/ -VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 339 Practical Advice Backed by Deep Theories http://lesswrong.com/lw/d4/practical_advice_backed_by_deep_theories/ -VI A New Art The Craft and The Community 340 Go Forth and Create the Art http://lesswrong.com/lw/c4/go_forth_and_create_the_art/ diff --git a/book.html b/book.html deleted file mode 100644 index 9c3b294..0000000 --- a/book.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,14 +0,0 @@ - - - - - - The Sequences - - -
-

The Sequences

-
Eliezer Yudkowsky
-
- - diff --git a/cover.html b/cover.html deleted file mode 100644 index e3faeb7..0000000 --- a/cover.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,14 +0,0 @@ - - - - - - The Sequences - - -
-

The Sequences

-
Eliezer Yudkowsky
-
- - diff --git a/lesswrong_book.py b/lesswrong_book.py index 9174197..ee87a48 100755 --- a/lesswrong_book.py +++ b/lesswrong_book.py @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ #! /usr/bin/python ## Hey, Python: encoding: utf-8 # +# Copyright (c) 2014-2015 Tony Boyles (AABoyles@gmail.com) # Copyright (c) 2012-2013 Dato Simó (dato@net.com.org.es) # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it @@ -16,70 +17,21 @@ # with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., # 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. -"""Generate a PDF document out of Less Wrong sequences (using PrinceXML). +"""Generate an ebook from the Less Wrong sequences. Software requirements: - - Python (tested only with 2.7) - - PrinceXML (http://princexml.com) - BeautifulSoup v4 (easy_install BeautifulSoup4) - lxml (easy_install lxml) - -See ParseArgs() or --help for options. """ -# TODO [important]: get the PDF output reviewed / get feedback on any glaring -# mistakes or omissions. - # TODO [important]: download images. -# TODO: get rid of multiple elements (they produce innocuous -# warnings from PrinceXML). - -# TODO: the following articles appear in more than one sequence; if that's -# correct, their ids need to be different (at the moment Prince complains); if -# it's not correct or desired, apply the suitable fix. -# -# /lw/lt/the_robbers_cave_experiment: -# /lw/m2/the_litany_against_gurus: -# #1: Politics is the Mind-Killer -# #2: Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor -# -# /lw/m9/aschs_conformity_experiment: -# #1: Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor -# #2: Seeing with Fresh Eyes -# -# /lw/if/your_strength_as_a_rationalist: -# /lw/ih/absence_of_evidence_is_evidence_of_absence: -# /lw/il/hindsight_bias: -# /lw/im/hindsight_devalues_science: -# /lw/iw/positive_bias_look_into_the_dark: -# #1: Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions -# #2: Noticing Confusion -# -# /lw/jr/how_to_convince_me_that_2_2_3: -# #1: Map and Territory -# #2: Overly Convenient Excuses -# -# /lw/s3/the_genetic_fallacy: -# #1: Seeing with Fresh Eyes -# #2: The Methaetics Sequence - # TODO [maybe]: add a Table of Contents. # TODO [maybe]: differentiate somehow between "important" vs. "skippable" # articles (bold and italics in the sequence pages in the wiki, respectively). -# TODO [maybe]: indicate sequence prerequisites somewhere? - -# TODO: handle the sequence for A Human's Guide to Words somehow. It's the last -# article; perhaps put it _before_ the first article proper, if I can manage -# links to work ok. (N.B.: Other sequences like The Fun Theory and The Craft and -# the Community also have similar guides.) - -# TODO [maybe]: add missing sequences (Quantum Physics, Fun Theory, The Craft -# and The Community, Advance Epistemology 101). - # TODO [maybe]: add most referenced articles (not already part of the sequences) # in an appendix. (See 'referenced.txt'.) @@ -87,7 +39,7 @@ import atexit import bs4 import calendar -import csv +from ebooklib import epub import errno import HTMLParser import httplib @@ -105,19 +57,13 @@ import urllib import urllib2 import urlparse - +import uuid from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET from xml.sax import saxutils -try: - from smartypants import smartypants # Optional; easy_install smartypants -except ImportError: - smartypants = lambda text, attr="1": text - class Error(Exception): "Base exception for this module." - class CssClass(object): TITLE = "title" ARTICLE = "article" @@ -137,7 +83,8 @@ class LessWrongBook(object): def Run(self): self.args = self.ParseArgs() logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, - format="%(levelname)s: %(message)s", stream=sys.stdout) + format="%(levelname)s: %(message)s", + stream=sys.stdout) self.ParseConfigs() self.DownloadHtml() @@ -158,24 +105,61 @@ def Run(self): style_kwargs.update({"rel": "stylesheet", "type": "text/css"}) head.append(doc.new_tag("link", **style_kwargs)) - # The sequences. - for seq in self.seqs: body.append(self.SequenceToHtml(seq)) # HTML out. - with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(dir=".", prefix="lesswrong-seq_", - suffix=".html", delete=False) as tmp: + with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(dir=".", + prefix="lesswrong-seq_", + suffix=".html", + delete=False) as tmp: atexit.register(os.unlink, tmp.name) tmp.write(doc.encode("UTF-8")) if self.args.save_html: + html_file = self.args.save_html shutil.copy(tmp.name, html_file) else: html_file = tmp.name - subprocess.call([self.args.prince, html_file, self.args.output]) + #subprocess.call([self.args.prince, html_file, self.args.output]) + + self.book = epub.EpubBook() + + # set metadata + self.book.set_identifier(str(uuid.uuid4())) + self.book.set_title('The Sequences') + self.book.set_language('en') + self.book.add_author('Eliezer Yudkowsky') + + # create chapter + c1 = epub.EpubHtml(title='Intro', file_name='temp.html', lang='en') + + # add chapter + book.add_item(c1) + + # define Table Of Contents + book.toc = ( + epub.Link('temp.html', 'Introduction', 'intro'), + (epub.Section('Simple book'),(c1, )), + (epub.Section('Simple book'),(c1, ))) + + # add default NCX and Nav file + book.add_item(epub.EpubNcx()) + book.add_item(epub.EpubNav()) + + # define CSS style + nav_css = epub.EpubItem(uid="style_nav", file_name="style/nav.css", media_type="text/css", content=style) + + # add CSS file + book.add_item(nav_css) + + # basic spine + book.spine = ['nav', c1] + + # write to the file + epub.write_epub('test.epub', book, {}) @staticmethod def ParseArgs(): @@ -246,10 +230,6 @@ def ParseArgs(): help=("path to the default CSS of the generated HTML file " "(default: 'lw-html.css', currently empty)")) - parser.add_argument( - "--prince", metavar="PATH", default="prince", - help="path to the PrinceXML executable (default: 'prince')") - parser.add_argument( "--download-only", action="store_true", default=False, help="download articles into the HTML cache directory, do nothing more") @@ -263,9 +243,6 @@ def ParseArgs(): "--check-last-modified", action="store_true", help="check Last-Modified header when using items from the HTML cache") - # Some links to Overcoming Bias are permanent redirects to articles in Less - # Wrong; we want to use the Less Wrong ones because that allows to use them - # as internal cross-references, rather than external links. parser.add_argument( "--urlmap", metavar="PATH", default="urlmap.json", help="permanent redirects for URLs found in the articles") @@ -287,9 +264,6 @@ def ParseConfigs(self): self.seqs = json.load(sf) self.url_ids = {} - with open(self.args.toc) as toc: - self.toc = csv.reader(toc, delimiter=' ') - def _DoSequenceIds(seq_obj): for url in seq_obj["articles"]: noproto_url = re.sub(r"^https?://|/$", "", url, re.IGNORECASE) @@ -334,8 +308,6 @@ def _DownloadSequence(self, seq_obj, directory): def _DownloadUrl(self, url, path): if self._GetFix(url, "no-xml-download") is None: - # For LessWrong articles under /lw, we retrieve their XML version, because - # later on it's easier to extract the contents from that version. url = os.path.join(url, ".xml") try: @@ -356,7 +328,6 @@ def _DownloadUrl(self, url, path): else: logging.info("will re-download %s, it was modified", url) - print(url) data = urllib2.urlopen(url).read() with open(path, "w") as f: f.write(data) @@ -395,19 +366,16 @@ def SequenceToHtml(self, seq_obj): return seq def _CreateSeqDiv(self, seq_obj, kind): - env = jinja2.Environment(loader=jinja2.FileSystemLoader(os.getcwd())) - #template = env.get_template(kind) - soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup("") seq = soup.new_tag("div") seq["class"] = kind seq_h = soup.new_tag("h2") - seq_h.string = smartypants(seq_obj["title"]) + seq_h.string = seq_obj["title"] seq.append(seq_h) if "description" in seq_obj: - desc_soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(smartypants(seq_obj["description"]), "html.parser") + desc_soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(seq_obj["description"], "html.parser") seq_desc = soup.new_tag("div") seq_desc["class"] = CssClass.DESCRIPTION for elem in desc_soup.children: @@ -427,7 +395,7 @@ def _AddArticles(self, seq, seq_obj): if parser_type == "lw-xml": item = ET.fromstring(contents).find("./channel/item") - title = smartypants(item.find("title").text) + title = item.find("title").text html_contents = item.find("description").text elif parser_type == "lw-html": @@ -456,7 +424,7 @@ def _AddArticles(self, seq, seq_obj): raise Error("unknown special parser %r" % parser_type) try: - soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(smartypants(html_contents), "lxml") + soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(html_contents, "lxml") except HTMLParser.HTMLParseError, e: print ">>> Failed source:" print html_contents @@ -494,9 +462,6 @@ def _AddArticles(self, seq, seq_obj): def _MassageArticleText(self, article): soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup("") # For creating tags below. - # Mark with a class the "Part of the Foo sequence" and "Next post:" blurbs, - # so that the print CSS can avoid displaying them (they are not needed for - # the PDF version). for p in article.select('p[style^="text-align:"]'): if re.search(r"^(Part of.*sequence|(Next|Previous) post:|" r"\((end|start) of.*sequence)", p.text, re.IGNORECASE): @@ -510,14 +475,10 @@ def _MassageArticleText(self, article): pass else: if href.startswith("/lw/"): - # Use the full URL so as to be able to find it in self.url_ids later - # on, or have the external link work normally otherwise. href = a["href"] = "http://lesswrong.com" + href if re.search(r"^https?://lesswrong\.com/lw/[^/]+/[^/]+$", href): - # Canonicalize LW article URLs by appending a missing trailing slash. href += "/" if href in self.urlmap: - # Use the redirection so as to be able to find it in self.url_ids. href = a["href"] = self.urlmap[href] if href in self.url_ids: a["href"] = "#" + self.url_ids[href] @@ -530,9 +491,6 @@ def _MassageArticleText(self, article): footnote_link["href"] = a["href"] a.insert_after(footnote_link) - # Text in white are spoilers; mark them with a class for formatting in CSS. - # I cannot seem to get select('span[style="color: #ffffff"]') to work, so I - # check for the color with a regular expression. white_span_re = re.compile( r"^color:\s*(#(?:fff){1,2}|white)", re.IGNORECASE) @@ -549,7 +507,6 @@ def _MkdirP(directory): if e.errno != errno.EEXIST: raise - def _GetLastModifiedStamp(url): """Return a Unix timestamp for the Last-Modified header of a URL.""" parsed_url = urlparse.urlparse(url) @@ -567,6 +524,5 @@ def _GetLastModifiedStamp(url): time_tuple = time.strptime(time_str, "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z") return calendar.timegm(time_tuple) # XXX Asumes UTC. - if __name__ == '__main__': LessWrongBook().Run() diff --git a/section.html b/section.html deleted file mode 100644 index 9c3b294..0000000 --- a/section.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,14 +0,0 @@ - - - - - - The Sequences - - -
-

The Sequences

-
Eliezer Yudkowsky
-
- - From 7472fb603901e22010afd21d26c099e124afb980 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tony Boyles Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 09:25:46 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 5/5] Rolling backward, away from the EPub route. --- cover.html | 16 ++++++++++++++++ lesswrong_book.py | 41 ++--------------------------------------- 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-) create mode 100644 cover.html diff --git a/cover.html b/cover.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b6eddc0 --- /dev/null +++ b/cover.html @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ + + + + + + The Hard Part is Actually Changing Your Mind + + +
+

The Hard Part is Actually Changing Your Mind

+
Eliezer Yudkowsky
+
Generated by lesswrong_book.py. +
+
+ + diff --git a/lesswrong_book.py b/lesswrong_book.py index ee87a48..80a54f9 100755 --- a/lesswrong_book.py +++ b/lesswrong_book.py @@ -113,53 +113,16 @@ def Run(self): prefix="lesswrong-seq_", suffix=".html", delete=False) as tmp: - atexit.register(os.unlink, tmp.name) + #atexit.register(os.unlink, tmp.name) tmp.write(doc.encode("UTF-8")) if self.args.save_html: - html_file = self.args.save_html shutil.copy(tmp.name, html_file) else: html_file = tmp.name - #subprocess.call([self.args.prince, html_file, self.args.output]) - - self.book = epub.EpubBook() - - # set metadata - self.book.set_identifier(str(uuid.uuid4())) - self.book.set_title('The Sequences') - self.book.set_language('en') - self.book.add_author('Eliezer Yudkowsky') - - # create chapter - c1 = epub.EpubHtml(title='Intro', file_name='temp.html', lang='en') - - # add chapter - book.add_item(c1) - - # define Table Of Contents - book.toc = ( - epub.Link('temp.html', 'Introduction', 'intro'), - (epub.Section('Simple book'),(c1, )), - (epub.Section('Simple book'),(c1, ))) - - # add default NCX and Nav file - book.add_item(epub.EpubNcx()) - book.add_item(epub.EpubNav()) - - # define CSS style - nav_css = epub.EpubItem(uid="style_nav", file_name="style/nav.css", media_type="text/css", content=style) - - # add CSS file - book.add_item(nav_css) - - # basic spine - book.spine = ['nav', c1] - - # write to the file - epub.write_epub('test.epub', book, {}) + subprocess.call([self.args.prince, html_file, self.args.output]) @staticmethod def ParseArgs():