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Suggestions for Rationality Blogs in the Sidebar

11 Post author: LucasSloan 25 June 2013 02:36AM

I'm spending the summer working to update lesswrong, and one of the changes we're looking to implement is changing the "New on Overcoming Bias" part of the sidebar to a more general "New on Rationality Blogs".  What blogs would you like to see represented?

Comments (31)

Comment author: CronoDAS 25 June 2013 02:59:11AM *  26 points [-]
Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 25 June 2013 08:15:39AM 8 points [-]

You Are Not So Smart is specifically about cognitive biases.

Comment author: gwern 25 June 2013 03:52:22AM *  16 points [-]

Poll for ranking popularity, using http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/List_of_Blogs :

Submitting...

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 27 June 2013 12:16:31AM *  2 points [-]

Confused about how this poll works. Do I need to have an opinion about every blog on this list to vote?

Comment author: gwern 27 June 2013 01:16:13AM 4 points [-]

No; you can vote on an arbitrary subset. For example, I left out one blog when I was voting on them and had to go back and vote on that one as well. And if you look at them, you'll notice differing vote counts for where people decided to express an opinion: eg. right now protokol2020 has 17 total votes, but lucidian has 19 total votes.

Comment author: ModusPonies 25 June 2013 03:19:30PM 2 points [-]

Ozy's blog has been taken down.

Comment author: gwern 25 June 2013 05:15:25PM *  6 points [-]

I've removed Ozy, deleted the duplicate Christiano, and updated the wiki page accordingly.

Comment author: ModusPonies 25 June 2013 07:29:52PM 1 point [-]

Thanks!

Comment author: FiftyTwo 26 June 2013 12:47:47AM 2 points [-]

:( Temporarily I hope.

Comment author: lukeprog 25 June 2013 05:16:48AM 2 points [-]

Christiano is listed twice.

Comment author: OrphanWilde 27 June 2013 03:35:26PM 1 point [-]

Aretae isn't me, I just suggested his blog a while back. He is, as far as I know, a member of the LessWrong community, although I believe a silent one here.

Also, my blog isn't exactly rationality-oriented.

Comment author: elharo 25 June 2013 11:16:12AM 5 points [-]

Perhaps instead of a semi-fixed selection of blogs there could instead be a some sort of Reddit/Hacker News like way for users/editors to submit and vote on particular articles. That way we'd be able to pick up an occasional good post from a blog full of pet photos, or drop irrelevant ones from mostly good blogs. More work, but more useful.

Comment author: gwern 25 June 2013 11:31:20PM 1 point [-]

http://www.reddit.com/r/lesswrong/ already exists but has never seen much uptake.

Comment author: tut 25 June 2013 11:22:31AM *  4 points [-]
Comment author: Pablo_Stafforini 25 June 2013 11:53:39AM *  8 points [-]

My personal suggestions would be:

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 25 June 2013 07:43:11AM 3 points [-]

What's going to be the procedure for adding blogs to this feed going forward? I'm not the only one who'd be more inclined to have a blog if I was guaranteed this level of exposure, am I?

Comment author: LucasSloan 25 June 2013 09:54:02AM 1 point [-]

Eventually, each user will be able to specify which blogs to construct the feed from in their preferences.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 26 June 2013 04:34:24AM *  2 points [-]

Hm, that seems like overkill. If I wanted to manage a feed of blogs, I'd use an RSS reader. And there will always be a default set of blogs shown to non-logged-in users and users who haven't modified their preferences (though, maybe this could be aggregated somehow based on the users who did modify their preferences?)

Have you thought about soliciting Less Wrong users for feature ideas for you to implement, by the way? Think I've got a list of features I was considering implementing myself somewhere on my hard drive... I'd expect some features to be 10x or more as valuable as others, so figuring out which features to work on seems like a good use of time.

Comment author: LucasSloan 26 June 2013 05:58:33AM 1 point [-]

If you want to suggest a feature, put it here.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 30 June 2013 07:01:31PM 0 points [-]

(Suggested an idea.)

How would you feel about a thread devoted to brainstorming feature ideas?

Comment author: [deleted] 25 June 2013 03:44:20AM *  6 points [-]

blogs by lwers is a good place to start.

Slate Star Codex
The View From Hell
Rationalist Conspiracy
...

Comment author: peter_hurford 25 June 2013 03:51:14AM *  1 point [-]

Yeah, I'd like to see a feed of all blogs by lwers that are still active.

Disclosure of conflict of interest: One of those blogs is mine.

Comment author: lucidian 28 June 2013 11:11:17AM *  2 points [-]

Do people here read Ribbonfarm?

Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 27 June 2013 01:41:53PM *  2 points [-]

Found this pretty good http://www.meltingasphalt.com/ HT Kaj.

Comment author: sp4233 27 June 2013 08:52:04PM *  1 point [-]

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Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 28 June 2013 02:16:00AM 0 points [-]

deleted wha?

Comment author: JQuinton 25 June 2013 08:28:45PM 2 points [-]

I recommend the blog Maximum Entropy

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 27 June 2013 12:54:35AM 1 point [-]

More Right.

I'd add unenumerated, but it hasn't been updated in nearly a year.

Comment author: CronoDAS 25 June 2013 03:11:30AM 0 points [-]

I could suggest David Brin but he does talk about politics a lot.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 29 June 2013 07:04:35AM 0 points [-]

Eric Raymound's Armed and Dangerous.