Meaning and Magic

Tag: Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions

  • Sticky claims and surprise meters

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    I’ve been rereading the early posts of Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions, and will now, as an exercise for myself, try summarize my best understanding of the relevant concepts and how I relate to them using my own jargon: I will describe two natural clusters of mental representations “sticky claims” and “surprise meters” and their respective…

  • Less Wrong Sequences decks

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    I read Eliezer’s Sequences back when he was posting them to Overcoming Bias, and both enjoyed them and thought they were full of lots of good rules about how to think. Just as with communication advice, the hardest time for me to remember rationality advice has been when I most needed it. So far I’ve…