LESSWRONGBuilding Blocks
LW

Building Blocks

Nov 26, 2022 by adamShimi

This sequence is part of the work done at Conjecture.

This sequence is a small experiment: short posts that we'll improve over time, aiming to capture common explanations from our internal conversations at Conjecture and important building blocks of our thinking.

58The First Filter
adamShimi, Gabriel Alfour
7mo
5
43Biases are engines of cognition
remember, Gabriel Alfour
7mo
7
32Tradeoffs in complexity, abstraction, and generality
remember, Gabriel Alfour
6mo
0
36Psychological Disorders and Problems
adamShimi, Gabriel Alfour
6mo
5
34Mental acceptance and reflection
remember, Gabriel Alfour
6mo
1
24Reification bias
adamShimi, Gabriel Alfour
5mo
6
28Group-level Consequences of Psychological Problems
adamShimi, Gabriel Alfour
5mo
3
54Assigning Praise and Blame: Decoupling Epistemology and Decision Theory
adamShimi, Gabriel Alfour
5mo
5
32Human decision processes are not well factored
remember, Gabriel Alfour
4mo
3