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A Human's Guide to Words

Aug 24, 2017 by Eliezer Yudkowsky

This sequence discusses the basic relationship between cognition and concept formation. 37 Ways That Words Can Be Wrong is a guide to the sequence.

233The Parable of the Dagger
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95The Parable of Hemlock
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99Words as Hidden Inferences
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103Extensions and Intensions
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68Similarity Clusters
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58Typicality and Asymmetrical Similarity
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157The Cluster Structure of Thingspace
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189Disguised Queries
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64Neural Categories
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304How An Algorithm Feels From Inside
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120Disputing Definitions
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62Feel the Meaning
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64The Argument from Common Usage
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54Empty Labels
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300Taboo Your Words
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95Replace the Symbol with the Substance
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103Fallacies of Compression
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76Categorizing Has Consequences
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86Sneaking in Connotations
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87Arguing "By Definition"
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86Where to Draw the Boundary?
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88Entropy, and Short Codes
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70Mutual Information, and Density in Thingspace
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69Superexponential Conceptspace, and Simple Words
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74Conditional Independence, and Naive Bayes
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50Words as Mental Paintbrush Handles
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49Variable Question Fallacies
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24137 Ways That Words Can Be Wrong
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Interlude
73An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes's Theorem
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