Best articles to link to when introducing someone to Less Wrong?

FiftyTwo

I've recently been trying to introduce some of my friends to less wrong. As a starting point I've linked them to HP:MOR and 'Three worlds collide' on the basis that they are both entertaining and accessible. But I'm not sure where to go next. Sending them to a main index page would likely be overwhelming, so could you suggest some sample articles to give them a general flavour of less wrong and envourage them to read more?

Qualities for such articles would probably include being:

accessible to an intelligent non-specialist, so not include too much jargon and dependences on other articles;
relatively short, so they can be absorbed at one sitting and aren't offputtingly long;
well written and readable, in such a way that gives a good impression of less wrong's competence to the skeptical;
and more optionally being on a particularly interesting subject matter.

What would you suggest?

[As I'm still a relative novice myself, apologies if a similar discussion has been had in the past and I haven't stumbled across it.]

Qualities for such articles would probably include being:

accessible to an intelligent non-specialist, so not include too much jargon and dependences on other articles;
relatively short, so they can be absorbed at one sitting and aren't offputtingly long;
well written and readable, in such a way that gives a good impression of less wrong's competence to the skeptical;
and more optionally being on a particularly interesting subject matter.

What would you suggest?

[As I'm still a relative novice myself, apologies if a similar discussion has been had in the past and I haven't stumbled across it.]

I agree. I do not link people to LW unless there is an LW article that strongly relates to the topic of discussion; but there is quite often a LW article that strongly relates to the topic of discussion. Earlier today, for instance, a friend complained on Facebook that the nation is obsessed with a murder trial and all but ignores several larger-scale tragedies both at home and abroad. I talked about scope insensitivity for a bit, and linked to the LW article on it.

Yeah, I recently noticed that myself - this Anthony trial or whatever. I was thinking to myself what LW article would be most insightful - perhaps the Bayes' theorem article showing that proving a faked robbery was equivalent to proving Amanda Knox & Sollecito guilty? - but didn't come up with anything solid.

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