What are the sequences?
‘Sequences’ are interlingual means of description of any combination between words, syntax delimiters, and more. Their purpose is to determine the connection between words in a sentence (or, in technical jargon, create dependency trees in the sentences). They also serve to disambiguate and generate transfer rules when translating. Sequences are represented by a mini-language similar to regular expressions which describes grammar, style, ID numbers, or any other aspect of a word in a given context (‘word’ does not have to be white-space delimited). There is no need to know this language, as they are normally created by a GUI tool.
The sequences are the original corpus of posts written by Eliezer Yudkowsky on Overcoming Bias. They are a massive and extremely thorough introduction to methods of rationality, rationality-related-fields, and how to avoid common rationality-related mistakes. Most of the articles on Less Wrong, even those by people other than Eliezer, build on material presented in the sequences.
‘Sequences’ are interlingual means of description of any combination between words, syntax delimiters, and more. They are a rough equivalent of MTT’s “lexical functions”. Their purpose is to determine the connection between words in a sentence (or, in technical jargon, create dependency trees in the sentences). They also serve to disambiguate and generate transfer rules when translating. Sequences are represented by a mini-language similar to regular expressions which describes grammar, style, ID numbers, or any other aspect of a word in a given context (‘word’ does not have to be white-space delimited). There is no need to know this language, as they are normally created by a GUI tool.
