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Highly Advanced Epistemology 101 for Beginners

Highly Advanced Epistemology 101 for Beginners

Jan 22, 2018 by Eliezer Yudkowsky

These essays include a discussion of truth, formal logic, causality, and metaethics, and are a good way for more ambitious readers to quickly get up to speed.

Introduction
17The Useful Idea of Truth
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8Skill: The Map is Not the Territory
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12Rationality: Appreciating Cognitive Algorithms
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16Firewalling the Optimal from the Rational
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Physics and Causality
6The Fabric of Real Things
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13Causal Diagrams and Causal Models
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10Stuff That Makes Stuff Happen
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13Causal Reference
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22Causal Universes
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Mathematics and Logic
12Proofs, Implications, and Models
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14Logical Pinpointing
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11Standard and Nonstandard Numbers
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12Godel's Completeness and Incompleteness Theorems
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11Second-Order Logic: The Controversy
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Mixed Reference
5Mixed Reference: The Great Reductionist Project
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14By Which It May Be Judged
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