Map and Territory, Yudkowsky

Map and Territory is the first set of posts in The Sequences by Eliezer Yudkowsky, here bundled into an ebook, available for free here.

The book is divided into 4 sections.

• Predictably Wrong:
  • Biases: An Introduction
  • Scope Insensitivity
  • The Martial Art of Rationality
  • Availability
  • What’s a Bias?
  • Burdensome Details
  • What Do We Mean By “Rationality”?
  • Planning Fallacy
  • Why Truth?
  • Feeling Rational
  • The Lens That Sees Its Flaws
• Fake Beliefs
  • Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences)
  • A Fable of Science and Politics
  • Belief in Belief
  • Religion’s Claim to be Non-Disprovable
  • Professing and Cheering
  • Belief as Attire
  • Pretending to be Wise
  • Applause Lights
• Noticing Confusion
  • Focus Your Uncertainty
  • What is Evidence?
  • Scientific Evidence, Legal Evidence, Rational Evidence
  • How Much Evidence Does It Take?
  • Einstein’s Arrogance
  • Occam’s Razor
  • Your Strength as a Rationalist
  • Absence of Evidence Is Evidence of Absence
  • Conservation of Expected Evidence
  • Hindsight Devalues Science
  • Illusion of Transparency: Why No One Understands You
  • Expecting Short Inferential Distances
• Mysterious Answers
  • Fake Explanations
  • Guessing the Teacher’s Password
  • Science as Attire
  • Fake Causality
  • Semantic Stopsigns
  • Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
  • The Futility of Emergence
  • Say Not “Complexity”
  • Positive Bias: Look Into the Dark
  • Lawful Uncertainty
  • My Wild and Reckless Youth
  • Failing to Learn from History
  • Making History Available
  • Explain/Worship/Ignore?
  • “Science” as Curiosity-Stopper
  • Truly Part Of You
• The Simple Truth