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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.

17The Parable of the Dagger
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2The Parable of Hemlock
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3Words as Hidden Inferences
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9Extensions and Intensions
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3Similarity Clusters
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2Typicality and Asymmetrical Similarity
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16The Cluster Structure of Thingspace
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7Disguised Queries
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4Neural Categories
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21How An Algorithm Feels From Inside
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6Disputing Definitions
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3Feel the Meaning
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2The Argument from Common Usage
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4Empty Labels
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15Taboo Your Words
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3Replace the Symbol with the Substance
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4Fallacies of Compression
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3Categorizing Has Consequences
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4Sneaking in Connotations
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4Arguing "By Definition"
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3Where to Draw the Boundary?
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8Entropy, and Short Codes
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2Mutual Information, and Density in Thingspace
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8Superexponential Conceptspace, and Simple Words
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5Conditional Independence, and Naive Bayes
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5Words as Mental Paintbrush Handles
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1Variable Question Fallacies
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2337 Ways That Words Can Be Wrong
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Interlude
5An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes's Theorem
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