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This is basically another blog recommendations thread, right? OK, here are some decent rational-ish blogs outside the LW-sphere then. I'm too lazy to write out descriptions. Try one of these tricks to find top blog posts: reddit, Hacker News.
http://waitbutwhy.com/
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/
http://www.erasmatazz.com/
http://terrytao.wordpress.com/
My old physics professor: http://nebula.deanza.edu/~newton/HowtoStudyPhysics.htm
These Youtube stars coined the term "nerdfighter", which seems vaguely similar to being an effective altruist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerdfighteria
I read this bestselling book on quitting smoking earlier today and it was actually kinda CFAR-ish. (But that might just be because I see personal development stuff in terms of CFAR's ontology after having attended their workshops.)
As I understand it "nerdfighter" is just a name for a member of that specific fandom, and defining them by the fandom's charity work is mostly just the brothers being very grateful for having a fandom and especially one that does a lot of charity work (esp. when they mobilize them to do so).
I often think of them (more the brothers than the fandom which I don't interact much with) as being my-tribe, and exemplary members of such, but not as my-tribe as those in my specific niche of nerddom (i.e. the LW sphere), and sometimes annoyingly mainstream because of that.