Important
Meditations on Moloch: An explanation of co-ordination problems within our society
Weak Men are Superweapons (supplement - feminists will like this one less)
The Virtue of Silence - silence is a hard virtue
You Kant Dismiss Universalizability - Kant is about not proposing rules that would be self-defeating
The Spirit of the First Amendment
Red Plenty - Why communism failed
All in all, another brick in the motte - Motte-and-bailey doctrine
Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism
Burdens - society owes people an existence
Reactionary Philosophy in an Enormous, Planet-sized Nutshell
Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism - different countries based on different principles
Parable of the talents - nature vs. nurture
Nobody is perfect, Everything is Commensurable
The categories were made for man, not man for the categories - hairdryer incident
Toxoplasma of rage - why the most divisive issues will always spread
Towards a theory of drama, Further towards a theory of drama
All debates are bravery debates
I can tolerate anything except the outgroup - what tolerance really mean
Who by very slow decay - Euthanasia
Efficient Charity: Do Unto Others
Eight Short Studies on Excuses
Book review: Chronicles of wasted time
The biodeterminists guide to parenting
Social Justice General
Offense versus harm minimisation
Fearful Symmetry - Politicization, Micro-aggressions, Hyperviligance
In favor of niceness, community and civilisation - Importance of the social contract
Radicalizing the romanceless - Complaints about "Nice Guys"
Living by the sword - whales and cancer
Social justice for the highly-demanding of rigour
Meditations on Privilege 1 - India (Meditation 2 - follow up)
Meditation 3 - Creepiness
Meditation 5 - True love and creepiness
Meditation 8 on Superweapons and Bingo
I believe the correct term is "straw individual"
Five case studies on politicization
Social Justice Careful
Why I defend scoundrels part 2
Untitled - Arguments against nerds being privileged. How feminism makes some men afraid to talk to women.
Social Justice and Words, Words, Words - What privilege means vs. what feminists say it means
A Response to Apophemi on Triggers - Should the rationality community be a safe space?
Fetal Attraction: Abortion and the Principle of Charity
Arguments about Male Violence Prove too Much
I do not understand rape culture
Useful concepts
Introduction to Game Theory - main ones:
- Nash Equilibria and Schelling Points
- Bargaining and auctions
- Prisoner's dilemma includes discussion of limited crimes
Unspoken ground assumptions of discussion
Should you reverse any advice you hear?
Hope! Change! - how much change can we expect from our politicians
What universal human experiences are you missing without realizing it?
A Thrive-survive Theory of the Political Spectrum - included primarily for the section on how to get into a Republican mindset
Read History of Philosophy Backwards
Searching for One-Sided Tradeoffs
Schelling fences on slippery slopes
Purchase fuzzies and utilitons separately
Beware isolated demands for rigour
Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease
Confidence levels inside and outside an argument
Least convenient possible world
Giving and accepting apologies
Epistemic learned helplessness
Approving reinforces low-effort behaviors - wanting/liking/approving
A signaling theory of class x politics interaction
A parable on obsolete ideologies
The Courtier's Reply and the Myers Shuffle
Talking snakes: A cautionary tale
My id on defensiveness - Projective identification
Interesting
Bogus Pipeline, Bona Fide Piepline
The Zombie Preacher Of SomerSet
Apologia Pro Vita Sua - "drugs mysteriously find their own non-fungible money"
Money, money, everywhere, but not a cent to spend - that $5000 can be a crippling debt for some people
Social Psychology is a Flamethrower
An Iron Curtain has descended upon Psychopharmacology - Russian medicines being ignored
The Control Group is out of Control - parapsychology
Schitzophrenia and geomagnetic storms
And I show you how deep the Rabbit Hole Goes - story, purely for entertainment value
Five years and one week of less wrong - interesting for readers of Less Wrong only
Highlights from my notes from another psychiatry conference - Schitzophrenia
The apologist and the revolutionary - Anosognosia and neuro-science
One thing that I'd like to know before considering Rob Bensinger's suggestions is how strongly feminist he is (this doesn't count as an ad hominem, as that only applies when someone has given reasons and you ignore them in favour of who they are, not when they've stated an opinion with no reasons). Because a lot of those articles are rather highly critical of feminism and it wouldn't make much sense, for example, to ask a Christian whether you should read certain articles about atheism.
That said, maybe he just feels that these articles would turn people off - in which case - I probably should have done a better job of labelling than with my current system.
(For reasons of disclosure, my views on feminism are pretty close to Scott. I can appreciate that feminism has done lots of good in the past and that they make some good points, but I also don't like what the movement has become).
I'm much more interested in the articles that he would have included, then the ones that he excluded because I'm taking a completionist approach - the idea is that if you read through the list, you shouldn't miss anything important.
The other thing I did when compiling this list, which I wish I hadn't, was to include articles for a single strong section, without actually noting that this was the case. In particular, the useful concepts section contains many articles where I only want you to get a single concept out of the article. If someone already knows the concept, I guess you could skip them.
Actually, I definitely want to produce a revised version of the list that does a better job of breaking into sections based on why the articles were included so that people can decide for themselves which articles they want to read or not. It'll probably take me several months to get round to it, but I think that it could be valuable.
My list has a lot of added posts; I'll try to get a draft to link to in the next few weeks. I'd say there are different sets of introductory articles I'd recommend to people who I know to be feminists and people who I know to be anti-feminists, and the list I'm currently working on is one I'd feel comfortable giving to either group.
That means posts that take for granted at the outset that the reader thinks feminism is obviously terrible (e.g., Radicalizing the Romanceless, which quips that people who talk about Nice Guys are "blurring the already rath... (read more)