Category:Concepts

A

• Absolute certainty
• Adaptation executors
• Adversarial process
• Affect heuristic
• Akrasia
• Alief
• Altruism
• Amount of evidence
• Anthropomorphism
• Anti-epistemology
• Antiprediction
• Applause light
• Artificial general intelligence

B

• Bayesian
• Bayesian decision theory
• Bayesian probability
• Beisutsukai
• Belief
• Belief as attire
• Belief in belief
• Belief update
• Bias
• Bite the bullet
• Black swan

C

• Cached thought
• Causal Decision Theory
• Causality
• Chronophone
• Church-Turing thesis
• Cognitive style
• Coherent Aggregated Volition
• Coherent Blended Volition
• Coherent Extrapolated Volition
• Color politics
• Common knowledge
• Compartmentalization
• Conceptual metaphor
• Configuration space
• Connotation
• Control theory
• Corrupted hardware
• Costs of rationality
• Counterfactual mugging
• Cryonics
• Curiosity

D

• Dark arts
• Death
• Decision theory
• Disagreement
• Doubt

E

• Egalitarianism
• Egan's law
• Emotion
• Empathic inference

E cont.

• Emulation argument for human-level AI
• Epistemic luck
• Error of crowds
• Ethical injunction
• Evidence
• Evidence of absence
• Evidential Decision Theory
• Evolution
• Evolutionary argument for human-level AI
• Evolutionary psychology
• Existential risk
• Expected utility
• Expected value
• Extensibility argument for greater-than-human intelligence

F

• False dilemma
• Forecast
• Friendly artificial intelligence
• Fully general counterargument
• Future
• Fuzzies

G

• Game theory
• Great Filter
• Groupthink

H

• Halo effect
• Hedonism
• Heuristic
• Heuristics and biases
• How an algorithm feels
• Human universal
• Hypocrisy

I

• Impossibility
• Impossible world
• Improper belief
• Inferential distance
• Information cascade
• Intellectual roles

L

• Least convenient possible world
• Likelihood ratio
• Log odds
• Logical rudeness
• Luminosity

M

• Magic
• Magical categories
• Map and territory
• Meme lineage
• Mental models
• Mind design space
• Mind-killer
• Modesty
• Modesty argument
• Moral uncertainty

N

• Near/far thinking
• Nonapples
• Not technically a lie

O

• Occam's razor
• Odds ratio
• Offense
• Omega
• Oops
• Outside view
• Overcoming Bias

P

• Paperclip maximizer
• Paranoid debating
• Pascal's mugging
• Philosophical zombie
• Phlogiston
• Possibility
• Possible world
• Prediction
• Prediction market
• Priming
• Priors
• Prisoner's dilemma
• Probability theory

R

• Rational evidence
• Rationality
• Rationality as martial art
• Rationalization
• Reductionism
• Reflective decision theory
• Religion

S

• Science
• Scoring rule
• Semantic stopsign
• Signaling
• Sound argument
• Statistical bias
• Status
• Superstimulus
• Surprise
• Sympathetic magic

T

• Technical explanation
• Third option
• Tolerance
• Traditional rationality
• Trivial inconvenience
• Truth
• Tsuyoku naritai

U

• Ugh field
• Unfriendly artificial intelligence
• Universal law
• Unsupervised universe
• Utility
• Utility function

V

• Valid argument

W

• Wanting and liking
• Wisdom of the crowd