LessWrong 2.0

Aug 24, 2017

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by Eliezer_Yudkowsky

This sequence provides a last in-depth illustration of the dynamics of irrational belief, this time spotlighting the author’s own intellectual history.

My Childhood Death Spiral

Followup to: Affective Death Spirals, My Wild and Reckless Youth My parents always used to downplay the value of intelligence. And play

My Best and Worst Mistake

Followup to: My Childhood Death Spiral Yesterday I covered the young Eliezer's affective death spiral around something that he called "in

Raised in Technophilia

Followup to: My Best and Worst Mistake My father used to say that if the present system had been in place a hundred years ago, automobile

A Prodigy of Refutation

Followup to: My Childhood Death Spiral, Raised in Technophilia My Childhood Death Spiral described the core momentum carrying me into my

The Sheer Folly of Callow Youth

Followup to: My Childhood Death Spiral, My Best and Worst Mistake, A Prodigy of Refutation "There speaks the sheer folly of callow youth

That Tiny Note of Discord

Followup to: The Sheer Folly of Callow Youth When we last left Eliezer1997, he believed that any superintelligence would automatically do

Fighting a Rearguard Action Against the Truth

Followup to: That Tiny Note of Discord, The Importance of Saying "Oops" When we last left Eliezer2000, he was just beginning to investiga

My Naturalistic Awakening

Followup to: Fighting a Rearguard Action Against the Truth In yesterday's episode, Eliezer2001 is fighting a rearguard action against the

The Level Above Mine

Followup to: The Proper Use of Humility, Tsuyoku Naritai (At this point, I fear that I must recurse into a subsequence; but if all goes a

The Magnitude of His Own Folly

Followup to: My Naturalistic Awakening, Above-Average AI Scientists In the years before I met that would-be creator of Artificial General

Beyond the Reach of God

Followup to: The Magnitude of His Own Folly Today's post is a tad gloomier than usual, as I measure such things. It deals with a thought

My Bayesian Enlightenment

Followup to: The Magnitude of His Own Folly I remember (dimly, as human memories go) the first time I self-identified as a "Bayesian". S

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