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.]

You're probably correct in your first point, I should introspect on why my first instinct was to manage their experience myself. I am concerned that a randomly selected article might put them off for the reasons I mentioned above.

Your second suggestion is likely to be extremely effective from the sounds of it. I wouldn't worry about the dark arts elements, if we are finding areas they are interested in already, and they are already rationalist-ish they will likely agree with the main points anyway, and be impressed by the overall structure.

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