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Recommended Rationalist Resources
I thought Recommended Rationalist Reading was very useful and interesting. Now we have voting and threading it seems a good time to comprehensively gather opinions on online material.
Please suggest high-quality links related to or useful for improving rationality. It could be a blog, a forum, a great essay, a reference site, an e-book, anything clickable. Anyone interested can then check out what looks promising and report back.
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There seems to be confusion... The post's for online material, not physical books. We already have Recommended Rationalist Reading, but as that hasn't got threading and voting, if people think it's a good idea I (or someone else) can do a seperate post for books [metaedit] ...not happening, is against blog guidelines. [/metaedit]
Looks like we're getting lots of suggestions, so please don't forget to vote on them so busier readers have an idea which ones are worth more investigating!
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Comments (19)
Critical Thinking Mini Lessons
At the Skeptic's Dictionary, I also recommend the parent site.
MIT Open Courseware
Great (somewhat incomplete) resource for learning science in general.
Charlie Munger gave a very accessible talk on rationality at Harvard Law School in the 90s: http://www.vinvesting.com/docs/munger/human_misjudgement.html
It seems to have good explanations, but without context or a point-by-point introduction, it's not for the beginner.
Argh. I wish I'd caught this earlier. Okay, this would make for some nice consolidated reading but all these comments should be submitted separately to Less Wrong once your karma is high enough. They won't be promoted unless they're really good, they'll just be voted up and down as links, a la Reddit. Except that unlike Reddit you should include at least a line or two of description of what we expect to find there.
Also, book reviews should be, you know, real book reviews, as posts 'n stuff.
And they still can. But with this we get the opinions of those without a posting voice, and those who wouldn't want to devote a whole post to it but are happy to comment.
That and I thought it would be worthwhile to compare and contrast high-quality rationality resources being side-by-side.
So for clarification, this post shouldn't exist, and instead anyone who wants to mention a rationalist resource should post it as an article? Is that right?
That's the idea. Just remember that the article might not be promoted.
Quick online reviews because we can easily just go check it out for ourselves. Books require more resources to obtain so the description should be in-depth.
in the same vein: how about a post on rationalist games (such as the calibration quizzes mentioned recently). More specifically: most games reward the player for a rational appraisal of the actions available to him, but which games give feedback other than win/lose on how rational you were?
Nazgul: games like the ones on http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/ , which often come with discussions of contradictions or difficulties with the positions you take and links to further discussion?
(They're simple games, but I like'em anyway.)
Paul Graham's essays have been linked to on Overcoming Bias every now and then.
As some particular examples, What You Can't Say and Lies We Tell Kids are both recommended rationalist reading.
Jonathan Baron
At least partially available online.
You can find the full PDF version (seems to be complete) via gigapedia.
Here, actually: http://ifile.it/23ulwa7/0521592712.rar rar pwd: gigle.ws
Although we already have Recommended Rationalist Reading, that hasn't got threading and voting, so yeah, let's have a post for books if people think it's a good idea (I vote yes!)
If so I'd suggest everyone limits it to, say, their top 5 book choices, to keep quality up & avoid people pasting 20 books in to game the comment karma!
[edit] ...not happening, by order of the management :( [/edit]
Bayesian network learning by compiling to weighted MAX-SAT
This is not an introduction to bayesian networks; it is working code, which I find educational.
Bad Science
Just in case he's too modest...
Black Belt Bayesian