MinibearRex

Today's post, Final Words was originally published on 27 April 2009. A summary (taken from the LW wiki): > The conclusion of the Beisutsukai series. Discuss the post here (rather than in the comments to the original post). This post is part of the Rerunning the Sequences series, where we'll...

Today's post, Practical Advice Backed By Deep Theories was originally published on 25 April 2009. A summary (taken from the LW wiki): > Practical advice is genuinely much, much more useful when it's backed up by concrete experimental results, causal models that are actually true, or valid math that is...

Today's post, Go Forth and Create the Art! was originally published on 23 April 2009. A summary (taken from the LW wiki): > I've developed primarily the art of epistemic rationality, in particular, the arts required for advanced cognitive reductionism... arts like distinguishing fake explanations from real ones and avoiding...

Today's post, Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism was originally published on 21 April 2009. A summary (taken from the LW wiki): > Good online communities die primarily by refusing to defend themselves, and so it has been since the days of Eternal September. Anyone acculturated by academia knows that censorship...

Today's post, The Sin of Underconfidence was originally published on 20 April 2009. A summary (taken from the LW wiki): > When subjects know about a bias or are warned about a bias, overcorrection is not unheard of as an experimental result. That's what makes a lot of cognitive subtasks...

Today's post, My Way was originally published on 17 April 2009. A summary (taken from the LW wiki): > I sometimes think of myself as being like the protagonist in a classic SF labyrinth story, wandering further and further into some alien artifact, trying to radio back a description of...

Today's post, Of Gender and Rationality was originally published on 16 April 2009. A summary (taken from the LW wiki): > Analysis of the gender imbalance that appears in "rationalist" communities, suggesting nine possible causes of the effect, and possible corresponding solutions. Discuss the post here (rather than in the...