nazgulnarsil comments on Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism - Less Wrong

104 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 April 2009 02:44AM

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Comment author: ciphergoth 21 April 2009 05:45:45AM 6 points [-]

I barely even know the terms you guys use. I have not read much of Overcoming Bias and if you gave me a test on key points of rationality I would probably limp through the guessable stuff and start failing once the questions got hard

We keep coming back to this: we very much need a "start here" document we can point people to, and say "please read this set of documents before posting".

In the mean time, here is a list of Eliezer's posts to Overcoming Bias.

Comment author: nazgulnarsil 21 April 2009 02:34:50PM 2 points [-]

What I would like to see is a book that goes through all of the major biases and gives examples of each as well as heuristics for calibrating yourself better.

Comment author: Jack 21 April 2009 02:44:54PM 2 points [-]

Do we even have a ready at hand list of the major biases? That would be a good wiki article.

Comment author: steven0461 21 April 2009 02:49:35PM 8 points [-]
Comment author: badger 21 April 2009 07:42:45PM 0 points [-]

Our wiki article on Bias references the Wikipedia and Psychology Wiki lists of biases, and provides an outline of most of the specific biases discussed on OB.