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Highly Advanced Epistemology 101 For Beginners

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Eliezer Yudkowsky's bottom-up guide to epistemology. Includes practical applications and puzzling meditations.

Intro

  • The Useful Idea of Truth
  • Rationality: Appreciating Cognitive Algorithms
  • Minor Post - Skill: The Map is Not the Territory
  • Minor Post - Firewalling the Optimal from the Rational

Causality/Physics

  • The Fabric of Real Things
  • Causal Diagrams and Causal Models
  • Stuff That Makes Stuff Happen
  • Causal Reference
  • Causal Universes

Logic/Mathematics

  • Proofs, Implications, and Models
  • Logical Pinpointing
  • Standard and Nonstandard Numbers
  • Gödel's Completeness and Incompleteness Theorems
  • Second-Order Logic: The Controversy

Mixed Reference

  • Mixed Reference: The Great Reductionist Project
  • By Which It May Be Judged