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Everything to do with the effects of advanced artificial intelligence on the world, especially ensuring the outcomes are good.
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See also Forecasting & Predictions which contains AI-related forecasts.
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
Models of the Mind / Agents
Techniques & Skills
Failure Modes
Communication / Argument
Other
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.
Meta (see also #Rationality)
See #Rationality and #World-Optimization for content on scholarship, learning, and research.
Changing the world so that it’s better. Figuring what “better” is.
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
All content which offers practical, actionable advice on how to achieve goals and generally succeed.
See Rationality for content on memory and learning (pertains to cognitive algorithms).
For posts that are about individuals and groups who participate on LessWrong or are part of our broader community. This includes projects and practices.
Good tags that don’t fit under the core tags.
Content Type
All content that concerns the LessWrong website or online community.
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