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8 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 01 March 2009 12:04PM

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Comment author: Z_M_Davis 01 March 2009 05:52:11PM *  6 points [-]

Clearly the earlier material is more important than the later. Include stuff like "The Bottom Line," "Update Yourself Incrementally," "Think Like Reality," "Conservation of Expected Evidence," "Avoiding Your Belief's Real Weak Points," the Fake Utility Functions sequence, &c. Also consider including the material between "But There's Still a Chance, Right?" through "0 and 1 are Not Probabilities," and "Mind Projection Fallacy" through "If You Demand Magic, Magic Won't Help." Ooh, and reprint the "Twelve Virtues"!

Don't mention quantum mechanics or the Singularity. Don't mention morality except for something along the lines of "Feeling Rational."

Comment author: rwallace 01 March 2009 11:05:08PM 1 point [-]

These are good suggestions, though if you are going to print "0 and 1 are Not Probabilities" (which makes a coherent argument even though I disagree with it), I would suggest also printing the post where you caution people against putting the label "probability estimate" on brown numbers.