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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.
196Mistakes with Conservation of Expected Evidence
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4y
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16Explanation vs Rationalization
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5y
11
17Timeless Modesty?
abramdemski
6y
2
39Co-Proofs
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5y
13
88Thinking About Filtered Evidence Is (Very!) HardΩ
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3y
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32
18Subtle Forms of Confirmation Bias
abramdemski
5y
4
58Gears Level & Policy Level
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5y
8
34Placing Yourself as an Instance of a Class
abramdemski
6y
5
28The Problematic Third Person Perspective
abramdemski
6y
3
12Confusions Concerning Pre-Rationality
abramdemski
5y
29
38What Does "Signalling" Mean?
abramdemski
3y
18
61Signalling & Simulacra Level 3
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3y
30
64Fusion and Equivocation in Korzybski's General Semantics
abramdemski
2y
14
52Implicature Conflation
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2y
5
44The Homunculus Problem
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2y
38
58Reflective BayesianismΩ
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2y
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27