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A Human's Guide to Words

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

239The Parable of the Dagger

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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98The Parable of Hemlock

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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19

102Words as Hidden Inferences

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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23

105Extensions and Intensions

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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71Similarity Clusters

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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5

62Typicality and Asymmetrical Similarity

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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69

163The Cluster Structure of Thingspace

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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32

192Disguised Queries

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66Neural Categories

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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17

310How An Algorithm Feels From Inside

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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125Disputing Definitions

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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66Feel the Meaning

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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12

68The Argument from Common Usage

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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23

56Empty Labels

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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7

311Taboo Your Words

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97Replace the Symbol with the Substance

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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17

106Fallacies of Compression

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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27

78Categorizing Has Consequences

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13

89Sneaking in Connotations

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90Arguing "By Definition"

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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89Where to Draw the Boundary?

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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90Entropy, and Short Codes

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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27

71Mutual Information, and Density in Thingspace

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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28

72Superexponential Conceptspace, and Simple Words

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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18

75Conditional Independence, and Naive Bayes

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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16

53Words as Mental Paintbrush Handles

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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52Variable Question Fallacies

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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37

25137 Ways That Words Can Be Wrong

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Interlude

74An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes's Theorem

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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10