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AI

Everything to do with the effects of advanced artificial intelligence on the world, especially ensuring the outcomes are good.

• AI Boxing (Containment)
• Factored Cognition
• Mesa-Optimization
• Orthogonality Thesis
• Value Learning
• Utility Functions (also #Rationality)
• Instrumental Convergence
• GPT-2

Meta

• Research Agendas (not exclusively AI Alignment)

See also Forecasting & Predictions which contains AI-related forecasts.

Rationality

Thinking in ways that lead to true beliefs and optimal decisions. “Rationality” is used here specifically for content that relates to cognitive algorithms. 

Object-level stuff not directly about minds, e.g. practical advice, is clustered under World Modeling and Practical.

Formal / Theoretical

• Conservation of Expected Evidence
• Decision Theory
• Game Theory
• Solomonoff Induction
• Utility Functions
• Value of Information
• Robust Agents

Models of the Mind / Agents

• Perceptual Control Theory

Techniques & Skills

• Techniques
• Focusing
• Trigger Action Planning / Trigger Action Patterns
• Goal Factoring (also under #Practical)
• Hamming Questions
• Identity
• Betting
• Forecasting & Prediction (methodology)
• Forecasts (concrete predictions)
• Scholarship & Learning
• Replicability (see also #World Modeling)
• Dark Arts (also a Failure Mode)

Failure Modes

• Bucket Errors
• Compartmentalization
• Goodhart’s Law
• Heuristics and Biases
• Mind Projection Fallacy
• Rationalization
• Motivated Reasoning
• Confirmation Bias
• Sunk-Cost Fallacy
• Logical Fallacies
• Pica
• Pitfalls of Rationality

Communication / Argument

• Inferential Distance
• Information Cascades
• Steelmanning

Other

• Rationality Quotes

World Modeling

How the world is. Science. Math. Statistics. History. Biology. Sociology. Engineering. That kind of stuff.

Models that pertains to minds/thinking, how to improve the world or oneself, and AI are mostly excluded from this cluster. They can be found under the Rationality, World Optimization, and AI Alignment tags.

• Biology
• Causality
• Consciousness (also #Rationality)
• Economics
• Cost Disease
• History
• Machine Learning
• Probability & Statistics
• Programming
• Social Reality
• Fact Posts

Meta (see also #Rationality)

• Epistemic Review
• Replicability

See #Rationality and #World-Optimization for content on scholarship, learning, and research.

World Optimization

Changing the world so that it’s better. Figuring what “better” is.

• Aesthetics
• Ethics & Metaethics
• Moloch
• Moral Mazes
• Politics
• Signaling
• Social Reality
• Voting Theory

Since these models pertain directly to questions how to optimize the world, they are grouped primarily under World Optimization rather than World Modeling. Some posts will be dual-tagged.

Causes / Interventions / Domains

• Animal Welfare
• Coronavirus
• Prediction Markets

Practical

All content which offers practical, actionable advice on how to achieve goals and generally succeed.

• Virtues
• Practical Advice
• Cryonics
• Goal Factoring (also #Rationality)
• Meditation
• Pica
• Productivity
• Slack
• Scholarship & Learning (also #Rationality)
• Spaced Repetition
• Motivations
• Willpower
• Akrasia
• Financial Investing

See Rationality for content on memory and learning (pertains to cognitive algorithms).

Optimizing with Others

• Circling (has individual benefits too)
• Communication Cultures
• Game Theory
• Groupthink
• Information Hazards
• Meta-Honesty
• Ritual

Community

For posts that are about individuals and groups who participate on LessWrong or are part of our broader community. This includes projects and practices.

• Research Agendas
• Solstice Celebration
• Petrov Day
• Ritual

Other

Good tags that don’t fit under the core tags.

• Postmortems & Retrospectives
• Fiction
• Humor
• Eldritch Analogies
• Paradoxes

Content Type

• Book Reviews
• Interviews
• List of Links

Site Meta

All content that concerns the LessWrong website or online community.

• GreaterWrong Meta

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