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A Human's Guide to Words

Aug 24, 2017 by Eliezer Yudkowsky

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

237The Parable of the Dagger
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98The Parable of Hemlock
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102Words as Hidden Inferences
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105Extensions and Intensions
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71Similarity Clusters
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60Typicality and Asymmetrical Similarity
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158The Cluster Structure of Thingspace
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191Disguised Queries
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65Neural Categories
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306How An Algorithm Feels From Inside
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121Disputing Definitions
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63Feel the Meaning
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65The Argument from Common Usage
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55Empty Labels
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306Taboo Your Words
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96Replace the Symbol with the Substance
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105Fallacies of Compression
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77Categorizing Has Consequences
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89Sneaking in Connotations
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89Arguing "By Definition"
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89Where to Draw the Boundary?
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90Entropy, and Short Codes
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71Mutual Information, and Density in Thingspace
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70Superexponential Conceptspace, and Simple Words
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75Conditional Independence, and Naive Bayes
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51Words as Mental Paintbrush Handles
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51Variable Question Fallacies
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24437 Ways That Words Can Be Wrong
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Interlude
74An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes's Theorem
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