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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
163The Useful Idea of Truth
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100Skill: The Map is Not the Territory
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89Rationality: Appreciating Cognitive Algorithms
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166Firewalling the Optimal from the Rational
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Physics and Causality
40The Fabric of Real Things
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138Causal Diagrams and Causal Models
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99Stuff That Makes Stuff Happen
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67Causal Reference
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119Causal Universes
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Mathematics and Logic
124Proofs, Implications, and Models
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119Logical Pinpointing
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77Standard and Nonstandard Numbers
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79Godel's Completeness and Incompleteness Theorems
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57Second-Order Logic: The Controversy
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Mixed Reference
60Mixed Reference: The Great Reductionist Project
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83By Which It May Be Judged
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