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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
231
Extreme Rationality: It's Not That Great
Scott Alexander
13y
281
226
Is Rationalist Self-Improvement Real?
Jacob Falkovich
3y
74
214
Eliezer's Sequences and Mainstream Academia
lukeprog
10y
157
209
"Flinching away from truth” is often about *protecting* the epistemology
AnnaSalamon
6y
56
180
The Rationalists of the 1950s (and before) also called themselves “Rationalists”
Owain_Evans
1y
28
122
Rationality: From AI to Zombies
Rob Bensinger
7y
102
101
Lives of the Cambridge polymath geniuses
Owain_Evans
10mo
40
91
A summary of every "Highlights from the Sequences" post
Akash
5mo
7
91
Rationality: Abridged
Quaerendo
4y
25
82
New edition of "Rationality: From AI to Zombies"
Rob Bensinger
4y
25
78
Reasons for being rational
Swimmer963
11y
183
76
Your Prioritization is Underspecified
romeostevensit
2y
12
74
A History of Bayes' Theorem
lukeprog
11y
91
246
12 interesting things I learned studying the discovery of nature's laws
Ben Pace
10mo
40
240
A tale from Communist China
Wei_Dai
2y
65
229
An Observation of Vavilov Day
Elizabeth
11mo
42
179
Discontinuous progress in history: an update
KatjaGrace
2y
25
166
Rule Thinkers In, Not Out
Scott Alexander
3y
62
145
Cortés, Pizarro, and Afonso as Precedents for Takeover
Daniel Kokotajlo
2y
75
111
The bonds of family and community: Poverty and cruelty among Russian peasants in the late 19th century
jasoncrawford
1y
34
107
Jan Bloch's Impossible War
Slimepriestess
2y
31
106
Fiber arts, mysterious dodecahedrons, and waiting on “Eureka!”
eukaryote
4mo
9
103
A brief history of ethically concerned scientists
Kaj_Sotala
9y
150
103
Why everything might have taken so long
KatjaGrace
4y
16
101
Turning air into bread
jasoncrawford
3y
12
99
Where did the 5 micron number come from? Nowhere good. [Wired.com]
Elizabeth
1y
6
97
Book review: WEIRDest People
PeterMcCluskey
2y
54