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Who are your favourite rationalist bloggers?

4 Post author: casebash 12 April 2015 01:58PM

I want to check out more rationalist bloggers.

Please list no more than one per answer. That way I can see from the upvotes/downvotes which ones are the most popular (and hopefully which ones are most worth checking out).

I know that popularity isn't a perfect signal, but hopefully it is a better signal here than on the rest of the Internet.

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Comment author: adamzerner 12 April 2015 03:29:51PM 3 points [-]

I wouldn't quite call him a rationalist blogger, but I love reading Tim Urban of Wait But Why.

Comment author: Unknowns 12 April 2015 02:03:10PM 51 points [-]

Scott Alexander.

Comment author: closeness 12 April 2015 07:04:11PM 11 points [-]

How one person can write so much, of such quality, with such consistency is beyond me.

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 12 April 2015 10:30:32PM 3 points [-]

What do Isaac Newton and Scott Alexander have in common?

Comment author: Viliam 13 April 2015 12:25:20PM 3 points [-]

The desire to publish on Slate Star Codex.

Unfortunately for Isaac Newton, he died before internet was invented, so we will never know what he would have blogged about.

Comment author: [deleted] 13 April 2015 08:07:44AM -1 points [-]

IQ? Asperger?

Comment author: shminux 12 April 2015 08:31:46PM 15 points [-]

He says he can't help it.

Comment author: gwillen 12 April 2015 05:12:06PM * 8 points [-]

Just in case some people might not know where to find him: http://slatestarcodex.com/ (Remember to give parent comment your upvotes, not me, if you want to vote for him.)

Comment author: casebash 14 April 2015 12:41:25PM 0 points [-]

Currently Scott Alexander has 41 votes and everyone else has a total of 28. That's pretty impressive.

Comment author: Dias 12 April 2015 11:40:21PM 15 points [-]

Gwern

Comment author: Dias 12 April 2015 11:37:47PM 1 point [-]

Divia (and Will?) 's blog on parenting

Comment author: Dias 12 April 2015 11:37:12PM 8 points [-]

Marginal Revolution

Comment author: philh 13 April 2015 09:01:03AM 1 point [-]

FWIW, I unsubbed from MR shortly after subscribing. It kind of felt like reading through someone else's RSS feed, with small amounts of commentary which often assumed more economic literacy than I actually have.

Comment author: Dias 13 April 2015 10:54:56PM 2 points [-]

I think of it as outsourcing my RSS feed.

Obviously YMMV; I work in investment.

Comment author: Dias 12 April 2015 11:35:49PM 2 points [-]

Carl Shulman

Comment author: Dias 12 April 2015 11:34:11PM 5 points [-]

Katja Grace's Meteuphoric

Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 13 April 2015 09:28:47AM 0 points [-]

I suggest browsing the opinions page for mentally delicious tab explosions.

Comment author: MayDaniel 12 April 2015 07:55:00PM 10 points [-]

The Unit of Caring is a wonderful rationalist Tumblr.

Comment author: ilzolende 12 April 2015 04:55:28PM 5 points [-]

Also, Kevin Simler's Melting Asphalt is great and has lots of insightful essays about things. Warning: Still doesn't have archives, you're going to need to go through the meta posts to read old things.

Comment author: ilzolende 12 April 2015 04:53:06PM 4 points [-]

I like Eneasz Brodski's Death is Bad. Not as moralizing as the title sounds, has lots of fun book reviews.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 12 July 2015 08:48:26AM * 0 points [-]

Andrew Gelman wrote Less Wrong's favorite textbook on advanced Bayesian statistics. His blog is here. Some good stuff like a recent post on why the hot hand actually exists which I still don't completely understand.

I wonder if anyone has made any effort to systematically catalogue academics who blog?