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The original sequences were a series of essays written by Eliezer Yudkowsky between 2006 and 2009 on the blogs Overcoming Bias and Less Wrong. About half of these essays were organized into a number of thematically linked "sequences" of blog posts--hence the name.

In 2015, these sequences were edited into an ebook, Rationality: From AI to Zombies. The ebook leaves out some of the original posts, as well as adding some essays that were written by Yudkowsky during the same time but never previously collected into a named sequence. This page will serve to collect the older, deprecated sequences.

Bolded essays are more important than other posts in the sequence, while shrunk essays are relatively unimportant. Some essays are also indented to indicate that they are tangents or self-contained elaborations upon a previous essay.

Map and Territory

  1. The Simple Truth @yudkowsky.net
  2. What Do We Mean By "Rationality"?
  3. An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes's Theorem @yudkowsky.net
  4. Why truth? And...
  5. What is Evidence?
  6. How Much Evidence Does It Take?
  7. How to Convince Me That 2 + 2 = 3
  8. Occam's Razor
  9. The Lens That Sees Its Flaws

Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions

  1. Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences)
  2. Belief in Belief
  3. Bayesian Judo
  4. Professing and Cheering
  5. Belief as Attire
  6. Focus Your Uncertainty
  7. The Virtue of Narrowness
  8. Your Strength As A Rationalist
  9. Absence of Evidence is Evidence of Absence
  10. Conservation of Expected Evidence
  11. Hindsight Bias
  12. Hindsight Devalues Science
  13. Fake Explanations
  14. Guessing the Teacher's Password
  15. Science as Attire
  16. Fake Causality
  17. Semantic Stopsigns
  18. Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
  19. The Futility of Emergence
  20. Say Not "Complexity"
  21. Positive Bias: Look Into the Dark
  22. My Wild and Reckless Youth
  23. Failing to Learn from History
  24. Making History Available
  25. Explain/Worship/Ignore?
  26. "Science" as Curiosity-Stopper
  27. Applause Lights
  28. Truly Part of You
  29. Chaotic Inversion

How to Actually Change Your Mind

Politics is the Mind-Killer

  1. '''A Fable of Science and Politics
  2. '''Politics is the Mind-Killer
  3. '''Policy Debates Should Not Appear One-Sided
  4. '''The Scales of Justice, the Notebook of Rationality
  5. Correspondence Bias
  6. Are Your Enemies Innately Evil?
  7. The Robbers Cave Experiment
  8. '''Reversed Stupidity is Not Intelligence

    '''Argument Screens Off Authority

    '''Hug the Query

  9. Rationality and the English Language
  10. The Litany Against Gurus

    Politics and Awful Art

  11. False Laughter
  12. Human Evil and Muddled Thinking