Anyone want to give odds on whether/when content from LW will start showing up as more authoritative than wikipedia when searching for standard terms like "cognitive bias"?
How does one site show up as more authoritative than another? Isn't it simply a matter of how much trust the broader community puts into the source?
I did discover recently, to some amusement, that Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is the second top result for a google search on "rationality," and Eliezer's own site is the eighth.
Common Sense Atheism has recently had a string of fantastic introductory LessWrong related material. First easing its audience into the singularity, then summarising the sequences, yesterday affirming that Death is a Problem to be Solved, and finally today by presenting An Intuitive Explanation of Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Intuitive Explanation of Bayes’ Theorem.
From the article:
It may be interesting if you want to do a review of Bayes' Theorem from a different perspective, or offer some introductory material for others. From a wider viewpoint, it's great to see a popular blog joining our cause for raising the sanity waterline.