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Highly Advanced Epistemology 101 for Beginners

Jan 22, 2018 by Eliezer Yudkowsky

These essays include a discussion of truth, formal logic, causality, and metaethics, and are a good way for more ambitious readers to quickly get up to speed.

Introduction
201The Useful Idea of Truth
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119Skill: The Map is Not the Territory
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103Rationality: Appreciating Cognitive Algorithms
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175Firewalling the Optimal from the Rational
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Physics and Causality
43The Fabric of Real Things
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156Causal Diagrams and Causal Models
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103Stuff That Makes Stuff Happen
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68Causal Reference
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136Causal Universes
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Mathematics and Logic
131Proofs, Implications, and Models
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133Logical Pinpointing
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82Standard and Nonstandard Numbers
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80Godel's Completeness and Incompleteness Theorems
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68Second-Order Logic: The Controversy
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Mixed Reference
61Mixed Reference: The Great Reductionist Project
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97By Which It May Be Judged
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