ScottL comments on Why Don't Rationalists Win? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 11 September 2015 08:22:45AM 13 points [-]

Huh, lemme do it.

Schelling fencebright-line rule

Semantic stopsignthought-terminating cliché

Anti-inductivenessreverse Tinkerbell effect

"0 and 1 are not probabilities"Cromwell's rule

Tapping out → agreeing to disagree (which sometimes confuses LWers when they take the latter literally (see last paragraph of linked comment))

ETA (edited to add) → PS (post scriptum)

That's off the top of my head, but I think I've seen more.

Comment author: ScottL 11 September 2015 12:39:36PM *  5 points [-]

Thanks for this. Let me know if you have any others and I will add them to this wiki page I created: Less Wrong Canon on Rationality. Here are some more that I already had.

  • Fallacy of gray → Continuum fallacy
  • Motivated skepticism → disconfirmation bias
  • Marginally zero-sum game → arms race
Comment author: Jiro 11 September 2015 03:48:14PM 7 points [-]