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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
653
Rationalism before the Sequences
Eric Raymond
1y
80
297
Is Rationalist Self-Improvement Real?
Jacob Falkovich
3y
74
286
Extreme Rationality: It's Not That Great
Scott Alexander
13y
281
258
Eliezer's Sequences and Mainstream Academia
lukeprog
10y
157
206
"Flinching away from truth” is often about *protecting* the epistemology
AnnaSalamon
6y
56
158
The Rationalists of the 1950s (and before) also called themselves “Rationalists”
Owain_Evans
1y
28
106
A summary of every "Highlights from the Sequences" post
Akash
5mo
7
104
Rationality: Abridged
Quaerendo
4y
25
93
Rationality: From AI to Zombies
Rob Bensinger
7y
102
88
Lives of the Cambridge polymath geniuses
Owain_Evans
10mo
40
81
New edition of "Rationality: From AI to Zombies"
Rob Bensinger
4y
25
79
Your Prioritization is Underspecified
romeostevensit
2y
12
64
Criticism of some popular LW articles
AllAmericanBreakfast
2y
19
63
A History of Bayes' Theorem
lukeprog
11y
91
280
An Observation of Vavilov Day
Elizabeth
11mo
42
267
A tale from Communist China
Wei_Dai
2y
65
246
12 interesting things I learned studying the discovery of nature's laws
Ben Pace
10mo
40
193
Discontinuous progress in history: an update
KatjaGrace
2y
25
190
Rule Thinkers In, Not Out
Scott Alexander
3y
62
140
Cortés, Pizarro, and Afonso as Precedents for Takeover
Daniel Kokotajlo
2y
75
115
The bonds of family and community: Poverty and cruelty among Russian peasants in the late 19th century
jasoncrawford
1y
34
113
Book review: WEIRDest People
PeterMcCluskey
2y
54
97
Fiber arts, mysterious dodecahedrons, and waiting on “Eureka!”
eukaryote
4mo
9
95
Where did the 5 micron number come from? Nowhere good. [Wired.com]
Elizabeth
1y
6
95
Why everything might have taken so long
KatjaGrace
4y
16
93
Failing to Learn from History
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
11
93
Turning air into bread
jasoncrawford
3y
12
93
Jan Bloch's Impossible War
Slimepriestess
2y
31