Seeking rationality-related blogs

5 Post author: nerfhammer 11 September 2011 07:45PM

I am working on a rationality blog aggregator.

You can help by responding with some rationality-related blogs that you personally find valuable.

I'll announce here when I'm ready to release it publicly.

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Comment author: atucker 11 September 2011 07:49:43PM 3 points [-]

They're not all rationality related per se, but you might be interested in some of the ones listed here: http://lesswrong.com/lw/6ls/other_useful_sites_lwers_read/

Comment author: nerfhammer 11 September 2011 08:17:19PM 2 points [-]

Thanks there are some good ones there.

If it's not strictly related but likely of interest to the same people that are interested in rationality (e.g. credible self-improvement) then it's better if posts aren't that frequently. For instance, there's a lot of good stuff in hacker news but there's 100+ front-page posts per day and it would drown everything else out.

If the aggregator proves popular I could introduce a text-classification filter to try to only include relevant posts from sources with varied content, but I'm only willing to invest time in that if it turns out that people are responsive to the aggregator in its current simpler form.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 12 September 2011 02:09:34AM 1 point [-]

I didn't see Shane Legg's blog on your list.

Comment author: nerfhammer 12 September 2011 06:57:39AM 0 points [-]

Thanks, added.

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 11 September 2011 10:00:24PM *  1 point [-]

Silas' blog updates rarely, but is good.

And Andart.

Comment author: djcb 11 September 2011 10:16:48PM 0 points [-]

nerfhammer, what's on your list already?

Comment author: nerfhammer 12 September 2011 12:43:35AM *  9 points [-]
Comment author: djcb 12 September 2011 06:08:13PM 1 point [-]

And you still want more? :) Thanks anyway, it will take some time to check these.

Somewhere, there must be some optimum between reading blogs and actually doing something. A human who would filter out the pearls of wisdom would make things much more efficient.

Anyhow, good luck with... Planet Rationality?

Comment author: nerfhammer 13 September 2011 08:54:48PM 0 points [-]

I agree that some kind of filtering (human or machine) could provide additional value, but at this stage I want to see how well the most rudimentary version of the idea works for people before investing further.

Comment author: [deleted] 22 June 2012 03:19:16PM *  0 points [-]

Can you perhaps tell me which of these are by LessWrong posters? I'm making a list and checking it twice...

Comment author: TheThinker 13 September 2011 05:34:24PM 0 points [-]

nerfhammer, FYI: I am the proprietor of "The Thinker" at http://thethinkerblog.com. Normally I don't let other sites scrape my feeds but would be willing to make an exception for Planet Rationalist. Might be a good idea if you could take only the posts tagged "Critical Thinking" though, so you do not get (e.g.,) beer reviews and the like ;-).

Comment author: nerfhammer 13 September 2011 08:40:47PM 0 points [-]

Thanks a lot!

I will limit aggregation to the Critical Thinking category as you suggest.

Comment author: beriukay 11 September 2011 09:21:41PM 0 points [-]

NeurologicaBlog has some good stuff, though it also isn't strictly rationality.

Comment author: Eneasz 12 September 2011 09:27:18PM -2 points [-]

Definitely David Brin's blog

Not sure if they'd count as Rationality Blogs, but I'm a huge fan of The Last Psychiatrist, and to a lesser extend Science, Not Fiction

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