Thinking in ways that lead to true beliefs and optimal decisions. “Rationality” is used here specifically for content that relates to cognitive algorithms.
Object-level stuff not directly about minds, e.g. practical advice, is clustered under World Modeling and Practical.
How the world is. Science. Math. Statistics. History. Biology. Sociology. Engineering. That kind of stuff.
Models that pertains to minds/thinking, how to improve the world or oneself, and AI are mostly excluded from this cluster. They can be found under the Rationality, World Optimization, and AI Alignment tags.
Since these models pertain directly to questions how to optimize the world, they are grouped primarily under World Optimization rather than World Modeling. Some posts will be dual-tagged.
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AI
Everything to do with the effects of advanced artificial intelligence on the world, especially ensuring the outcomes are good.
Meta
See also Forecasting & Predictions which contains AI-related forecasts.
Rationality
Thinking in ways that lead to true beliefs and optimal decisions. “Rationality” is used here specifically for content that relates to cognitive algorithms.
Object-level stuff not directly about minds, e.g. practical advice, is clustered under World Modeling and Practical.
Formal / Theoretical
Models of the Mind / Agents
Techniques & Skills
Failure Modes
Communication / Argument
Other
World Modeling
How the world is. Science. Math. Statistics. History. Biology. Sociology. Engineering. That kind of stuff.
Models that pertains to minds/thinking, how to improve the world or oneself, and AI are mostly excluded from this cluster. They can be found under the Rationality, World Optimization, and AI Alignment tags.
Meta (see also #Rationality)
See #Rationality and #World-Optimization for content on scholarship, learning, and research.
World Optimization
Changing the world so that it’s better. Figuring what “better” is.
Since these models pertain directly to questions how to optimize the world, they are grouped primarily under World Optimization rather than World Modeling. Some posts will be dual-tagged.
Causes / Interventions / Domains
Practical
All content which offers practical, actionable advice on how to achieve goals and generally succeed.
See Rationality for content on memory and learning (pertains to cognitive algorithms).
Optimizing with Others
Community
For posts that are about individuals and groups who participate on LessWrong or are part of our broader community. This includes projects and practices.
Other
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Site Meta
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