I second the suggestions for chronological order. At first, I just clicked on the "sequences" link at the top right and read through the linked posts in the order that they were linked. There were many posts that are not linked there which it would have been useful for me to have read earlier.
In general, what you need to know in order to understand a post is covered in earlier sequence posts. If you use an order other than chronological, that's going to be a problem.
I am a relative new-comer to LW, and I have read ~half the articles in the core sequences, but I think I have not been optimizing for comprehension/retention while reading them. Could some more experienced members of the community give some recommendations on how best to read them \(both in terms of in which posts in which order and in terms of the actual reading process\)?
I will periodically edit this post to include some of the suggestions in order to provide the most benefit to future newcomers.
EDIT: Here are the most popular suggestions:
Order:
How to read them: