References & Resources for LessWrong
A list of references and resources for LW
Updated: 2011-05-24
- F = Free
- E = Easy (adequate for a low educational background)
- M = Memetic Hazard (controversial ideas or works of fiction)
Summary
Do not flinch, most of LessWrong can be read and understood by people with a previous level of education less than secondary school. (And Khan Academy followed by BetterExplained plus the help of Google and Wikipedia ought to be enough to let anyone read anything directed at the scientifically literate.) Most of these references aren't prerequisite, and only a small fraction are pertinent to any particular post on LessWrong. Do not be intimidated, just go ahead and start reading the Sequences if all this sounds too long. It's much easier to understand than this list makes it look like.
Nevertheless, as it says in the Twelve Virtues of Rationality, scholarship is a virtue, and in particular:
It is especially important to eat math and science which impinges upon rationality: Evolutionary psychology, heuristics and biases, social psychology, probability theory, decision theory.
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