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2Yoav Ravid

Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without recourse to conscious reasoning. Also relevant are Intuition Pumps, a thought experiment, a model, or anything else, that's structured to allow the thinker to use their intuition to develop an answer to a problem. 

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Posts tagged Intuition
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161Your intuitions are not magic
Kaj_Sotala
13y
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76Mark Eichenlaub: How to develop scientific intuition
Kaj_Sotala
5y
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55Building Intuitions On Non-Empirical Arguments In Science
Scott Alexander
4y
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42Argument, intuition, and recursion
paulfchristiano
5y
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18When Intuitions Are Useful
lukeprog
12y
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25The Art and Science of Intuition Pumping
adamShimi
1y
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19Losing the forest for the trees with grid drawings
Adam Zerner
3y
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86Sources of intuitions and data on AGIΩ
Scott Garrabrant
5y
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77The "Intuitions" Behind "Utilitarianism"
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
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60When (Not) To Use Probabilities
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
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59Thoughts on moral intuitions
Kaj_Sotala
11y
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57How the MtG Color Wheel Explains AI SafetyΩ
Scott Garrabrant
4y
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52Intuitions Aren't Shared That Way
lukeprog
11y
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52Zut Allais!
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
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46Pattern-botching: when you forget you understand
MalcolmOcean
8y
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