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A Human's Guide to Words
This sequence discusses the basic relationship between cognition and concept formation.
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The Parable of the Dagger
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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37
The Parable of Hemlock
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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50
Words as Hidden Inferences
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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22
36
Extensions and Intensions
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Similarity Clusters
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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25
Typicality and Asymmetrical Similarity
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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The Cluster Structure of Thingspace
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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24
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Disguised Queries
Eliezer Yudkowsky
11y
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30
Neural Categories
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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12
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How An Algorithm Feels From Inside
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Disputing Definitions
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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30
Feel the Meaning
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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10
33
The Argument from Common Usage
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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19
Empty Labels
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Taboo Your Words
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39
Replace the Symbol with the Substance
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42
Fallacies of Compression
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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37
Categorizing Has Consequences
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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13
42
Sneaking in Connotations
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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22
53
Arguing "By Definition"
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Where to Draw the Boundary?
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Entropy, and Short Codes
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Mutual Information, and Density in Thingspace
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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27
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Superexponential Conceptspace, and Simple Words
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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34
Conditional Independence, and Naive Bayes
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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16
25
Words as Mental Paintbrush Handles
Eliezer Yudkowsky
11y
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24
Variable Question Fallacies
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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34
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37 Ways That Words Can Be Wrong
Eliezer Yudkowsky
11y
78
Interlude
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An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes's Theorem
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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