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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
524
Rationalism before the Sequences
Eric Raymond
1y
80
91
A summary of every "Highlights from the Sequences" post
Akash
5mo
7
180
The Rationalists of the 1950s (and before) also called themselves “Rationalists”
Owain_Evans
1y
28
8
Motivated Cognition and the Multiverse of Truth
Q Home
28d
12
101
Lives of the Cambridge polymath geniuses
Owain_Evans
10mo
40
226
Is Rationalist Self-Improvement Real?
Jacob Falkovich
3y
74
3
Is German rationality more memetically derived from the west or former east?
Trevor1
29d
5
64
Fusion and Equivocation in Korzybski's General Semantics
abramdemski
1y
14
76
Your Prioritization is Underspecified
romeostevensit
2y
12
209
"Flinching away from truth” is often about *protecting* the epistemology
AnnaSalamon
6y
56
70
Criticism of some popular LW articles
AllAmericanBreakfast
2y
19
59
Subscripting Typographic Convention For Citations/Dates/Sources/Evidentials: A Proposal
gwern
2y
15
82
New edition of "Rationality: From AI to Zombies"
Rob Bensinger
4y
25
214
Eliezer's Sequences and Mainstream Academia
lukeprog
10y
157
106
Fiber arts, mysterious dodecahedrons, and waiting on “Eureka!”
eukaryote
4mo
9
246
12 interesting things I learned studying the discovery of nature's laws
Ben Pace
10mo
40
229
An Observation of Vavilov Day
Elizabeth
11mo
42
28
From technocracy to the counterculture
jasoncrawford
2mo
1
78
Reinventing the wheel
jasoncrawford
6mo
13
96
Clem's Memo
abstractapplic
8mo
8
111
The bonds of family and community: Poverty and cruelty among Russian peasants in the late 19th century
jasoncrawford
1y
34
240
A tale from Communist China
Wei_Dai
2y
65
99
Where did the 5 micron number come from? Nowhere good. [Wired.com]
Elizabeth
1y
6
75
Why do we need a NEW philosophy of progress?
jasoncrawford
10mo
26
64
Conspiracy-proof archeology
Malmesbury
9mo
10
13
American invention from the “heroic age” to the system-building era
jasoncrawford
2mo
1
11
Abbots Bromley Horn Dance History
jefftk
2mo
0
179
Discontinuous progress in history: an update
KatjaGrace
2y
25