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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
395
Rationalism before the Sequences
Eric Raymond
1y
80
212
"Flinching away from truth” is often about *protecting* the epistemology
AnnaSalamon
6y
56
202
The Rationalists of the 1950s (and before) also called themselves “Rationalists”
Owain_Evans
1y
28
176
Extreme Rationality: It's Not That Great
Scott Alexander
13y
281
170
Eliezer's Sequences and Mainstream Academia
lukeprog
10y
157
155
Is Rationalist Self-Improvement Real?
Jacob Falkovich
3y
74
151
Rationality: From AI to Zombies
Rob Bensinger
7y
102
114
Lives of the Cambridge polymath geniuses
Owain_Evans
10mo
40
97
Reasons for being rational
Swimmer963
11y
183
91
How accurate is the quantum physics sequence?
Paul Crowley
10y
68
88
Self-Congratulatory Rationalism
ChrisHallquist
8y
395
85
A History of Bayes' Theorem
lukeprog
11y
91
83
New edition of "Rationality: From AI to Zombies"
Rob Bensinger
4y
25
79
Fusion and Equivocation in Korzybski's General Semantics
abramdemski
1y
14
246
12 interesting things I learned studying the discovery of nature's laws
Ben Pace
10mo
40
213
A tale from Communist China
Wei_Dai
2y
65
178
An Observation of Vavilov Day
Elizabeth
11mo
42
165
Discontinuous progress in history: an update
KatjaGrace
2y
25
150
Cortés, Pizarro, and Afonso as Precedents for Takeover
Daniel Kokotajlo
2y
75
142
Rule Thinkers In, Not Out
Scott Alexander
3y
62
133
A brief history of ethically concerned scientists
Kaj_Sotala
9y
150
121
Jan Bloch's Impossible War
Slimepriestess
2y
31
115
Fiber arts, mysterious dodecahedrons, and waiting on “Eureka!”
eukaryote
4mo
9
111
Why everything might have taken so long
KatjaGrace
4y
16
109
Turning air into bread
jasoncrawford
3y
12
107
The bonds of family and community: Poverty and cruelty among Russian peasants in the late 19th century
jasoncrawford
1y
34
103
Where did the 5 micron number come from? Nowhere good. [Wired.com]
Elizabeth
1y
6
101
Clem's Memo
abstractapplic
8mo
8