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Filtered Evidence, Filtered Arguments

Filtered Evidence, Filtered Arguments

Dec 07, 2018 by abramdemski

This is a collection of posts relating to central confusions I have, or have had, about:

  • Filtered evidence.
  • Conservation of expected evidence.
  • Outside view vs inside view.
  • Motivated cognition.
232Mistakes with Conservation of Expected Evidence
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6y
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16Explanation vs Rationalization
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8y
11
17Timeless Modesty?
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8y
2
41Co-Proofs
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7y
15
97Thinking About Filtered Evidence Is (Very!) Hard
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5y
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20Subtle Forms of Confirmation Bias
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8y
4
63Gears Level & Policy Level
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8y
8
36Placing Yourself as an Instance of a Class
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8y
5
28The Problematic Third Person Perspective
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8y
3
15Confusions Concerning Pre-Rationality
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7y
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38What Does "Signalling" Mean?
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5y
18
63Signalling & Simulacra
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5y
30
67Fusion and Equivocation in Korzybski's General Semantics
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5y
14
55Implicature Conflation
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4y
5
50The Homunculus Problem
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4y
38
62Reflective Bayesianism
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4y
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