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The Laws Governing Belief

Jul 01, 2022 by Ruby

Part 3 of 6 from the Sequence Highlights.

While beliefs are subjective, that doesn't mean that one gets to choose their beliefs willy-nilly. There are laws that theoretically determine the correct belief given the evidence, and it's towards such beliefs that we should aspire.

512Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences)
Eliezer Yudkowsky
18y
268
200What is Evidence?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
18y
62
138Scientific Evidence, Legal Evidence, Rational Evidence
Eliezer Yudkowsky
18y
18
171How Much Evidence Does It Take?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
18y
33
176Absence of Evidence Is Evidence of Absence
Eliezer Yudkowsky
18y
119
293Conservation of Expected Evidence
Eliezer Yudkowsky
18y
82
132Argument Screens Off Authority
Eliezer Yudkowsky
18y
86
69An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes's Theorem
Eliezer Yudkowsky
22y
10
211The Second Law of Thermodynamics, and Engines of Cognition
Eliezer Yudkowsky
17y
76
179Toolbox-thinking and Law-thinking
Eliezer Yudkowsky
7y
49
226Local Validity as a Key to Sanity and Civilization
Eliezer Yudkowsky
7y
68