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Maybe it would be nice if some people wrote a few "tutorial"-like or basic lesson-kind of posts aimed at people who are new to the whole "rationalist" thing, covering for example basic concepts in probability theory and statistics, decision theory, cognitive bias etc., thereby making LW more accessible to newcomers who want to get on the train but might have never been exposed to these topics before. These posts could be sorted under a special tag that could be linked to in the "About" section.
I've been putting some of my notes on learning and independent study together into sort of mini-essays (and a couple not so mini) on my blog http://williambswift.blogspot.com/ . Some of the things I've written about so far are:
Knowing Lots of Facts
Why Learning
Optimism - Dangers and Benefits
Assorted Comments on Tools
Plateaus in Learning
Learning Journal and Record
Depth of Knowledge
Stages of Study
Commitment
The Value of Mistakes: Mistakes and Learning
Getting Things Right by Avoiding Mistakes
The most recent post Knowing Lots of Facts actually grew out of a comment I posted here on LW. I haven't posted any of these essays here because they seem rather peripheral to the actual content of LW, though some of them directly address the title theme of getting things Less Wrong.
PS - I intended to make a simple single space list, but it either ran them all together or required me to double-space the list. What can I do about it?
Try http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#list
Billswift, I like your blog. Of course we are all very busy, but is there any chance we could chat about autodidacticism? My inferior google-fu can't find contact info for you; my email address is zackmdavis {-at-} yahoo daht kahm.
Your email encryption attempt is no match for the regex my spambot was already using:
\w+[^\w](@|at)[^\w](yahoo|gmail|...)