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Law-Thinking

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Applied to Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception by Zack_M_Davis 2y ago

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Applied to Book Review: Working With Contracts by Alexei 3y ago

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Applied to Where to Draw the Boundaries? by Zack_M_Davis 3y ago

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Applied to Lawful Creativity by Raemon 3y ago

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Applied to How would we check if "Mathematicians are generally more Law Abiding?" by Raemon 3y ago

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Applied to My Bayesian Enlightenment by Kaj_Sotala 3y ago

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Applied to What does it mean to apply decision theory? by abramdemski 3y ago

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Applied to Realism about rationality by Kaj_Sotala 3y ago

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Applied to What is Bayesianism? by Kaj_Sotala 3y ago

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Applied to Searching for Bayes-Structure by Kaj_Sotala 3y ago

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Applied to Perpetual Motion Beliefs by Kaj_Sotala 3y ago

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Applied to The Second Law of Thermodynamics, and Engines of Cognition by Kaj_Sotala 3y ago

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Applied to Outside the Laboratory by Kaj_Sotala 3y ago

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Applied to Is Reality Ugly? by Kaj_Sotala 3y ago

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Applied to Universal Law by Kaj_Sotala 3y ago

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Applied to Universal Fire by Kaj_Sotala 3y ago

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Applied to Beautiful Probability by Kaj_Sotala 3y ago

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Applied to An Intuitive Explanation of Solomonoff Induction by Kaj_Sotala 3y ago

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Applied to Toolbox-thinking and Law-thinking by Kaj_Sotala 3y ago

Kaj_Sotala v1.2.0Jul 29th 2020 (+232) 2

The relationship between laws and approximations resembles that of between physics and engineering. Physics specify the laws by which the world works, while engineering tries to find practical solutions as constrained by those laws.