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Rationality A-Z (discussion & meta)
History of Rationality
Prioritization
Bucket Errors
Value of Rationality
General Semantics
Criticisms of The Rationalist Movement
Cognitive Fusion
65 posts
History
19
Motivated Cognition and the Multiverse of Truth
Q Home
28d
12
653
Rationalism before the Sequences
Eric Raymond
1y
80
106
A summary of every "Highlights from the Sequences" post
Akash
5mo
7
158
The Rationalists of the 1950s (and before) also called themselves “Rationalists”
Owain_Evans
1y
28
88
Lives of the Cambridge polymath geniuses
Owain_Evans
10mo
40
297
Is Rationalist Self-Improvement Real?
Jacob Falkovich
3y
74
4
Is German rationality more memetically derived from the west or former east?
Trevor1
29d
5
79
Your Prioritization is Underspecified
romeostevensit
2y
12
206
"Flinching away from truth” is often about *protecting* the epistemology
AnnaSalamon
6y
56
64
Criticism of some popular LW articles
AllAmericanBreakfast
2y
19
49
Fusion and Equivocation in Korzybski's General Semantics
abramdemski
1y
14
258
Eliezer's Sequences and Mainstream Academia
lukeprog
10y
157
104
Rationality: Abridged
Quaerendo
4y
25
81
New edition of "Rationality: From AI to Zombies"
Rob Bensinger
4y
25
246
12 interesting things I learned studying the discovery of nature's laws
Ben Pace
10mo
40
97
Fiber arts, mysterious dodecahedrons, and waiting on “Eureka!”
eukaryote
4mo
9
280
An Observation of Vavilov Day
Elizabeth
11mo
42
87
Reinventing the wheel
jasoncrawford
6mo
13
24
From technocracy to the counterculture
jasoncrawford
2mo
1
91
Clem's Memo
abstractapplic
8mo
8
267
A tale from Communist China
Wei_Dai
2y
65
115
The bonds of family and community: Poverty and cruelty among Russian peasants in the late 19th century
jasoncrawford
1y
34
83
Why do we need a NEW philosophy of progress?
jasoncrawford
10mo
26
68
Conspiracy-proof archeology
Malmesbury
9mo
10
95
Where did the 5 micron number come from? Nowhere good. [Wired.com]
Elizabeth
1y
6
193
Discontinuous progress in history: an update
KatjaGrace
2y
25
67
100 Years Of Existential Risk
jdp
1y
12
113
Book review: WEIRDest People
PeterMcCluskey
2y
54