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Comment author: Larks 16 August 2015 02:25:57PM 12 points [-]

I thought the biodeterminists guide was one of the most useful things I've ever read. I'd love it if Yvain would write the same for longevity, general fitness, IQ, etc.

Comment author: Fluttershy 16 August 2015 08:36:32PM 3 points [-]

I'd love there to be more work done on longevity, general fitness, and other practical applied rationality topics as well. The opportunity cost of having so many well written articles on social justice and the social sciences floating around is that LW users may spend more time thinking about those topics, to the partial exclusion of spending time thinking about applied rationality.

On longevity: see here.

Comment author: [deleted] 16 August 2015 08:46:17PM 2 points [-]

Romeo Stevens has a guide on general fitness here called "optimal exercise" I believe.

Comment author: 9eB1 16 August 2015 10:42:33PM 2 points [-]

That article is here

Comment author: tog 18 August 2015 05:12:20AM 1 point [-]

I asked for a good general guide to IQ (and in particular its objectivity and importance) on the LW FB group a while back. I got a bunch of answers, including these standouts:

http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/reingold/courses/intelligence/cache/1198gottfred.html

http://www.newscientist.com/data/doc/article/dn19554/instant_expert_13_-_intelligence.pdf

But there's still plenty of room for improvement on those so I'd be curious to hear others' suggestions.

Comment author: Pablo_Stafforini 18 August 2015 06:43:43PM *  1 point [-]

On IQ, I strongly recommend Ian Deary's Intelligence: A Short Introduction (link to shared file in my Google Drive).

Comment author: tog 18 August 2015 05:12:47AM 0 points [-]

And a friend requests an article comparing IQ and conscientiousness as a predictor for different things.

Comment author: casebash 16 August 2015 11:09:10PM *  0 points [-]

Added. That article is pretty comprehensive so deserves a place in the list.