Rationality
62 blogs on this topic
Fantastic Anachronismfantasticanachronism.com38 people
Boswell’s Life of Johnson
Fantastic Anachronism
Personal · last shared Aug 2025
97 peopleGödel, Escher, Bach: an in-depth explainer
AI Alignment Forum
Publication · last shared Jul 2026
Julia Galefjuliagalef.com19 people
Brief thoughts on the “Google memo”
Julia Galef
Personal · last shared Dec 2025
AI Ascendantaiascendant.substack.com15 people
Extropia's Children
AI Ascendant
Personal · last shared Aug 2025
Benjamin Ross Hoffmanbenjaminrosshoffman.com19 people
Wait vs. Interrupt Culture
Benjamin Ross Hoffman
Personal · last shared Sep 2022
Wei Daiweidai.com21 people
Black Holes as a cooling system for advanced civilisations?
Wei Dai
Personal · last shared Jan 2026
Luke Muehlhauserlukemuehlhauser.com23 people
Pre-Socratics: A Painless Introduction
Luke Muehlhauser
Personal · last shared Nov 2025
845 peopleHeuristics that almost always work
Astral Codex Ten
Personal · last shared Aug 2026
Common Sense Atheismcommonsenseatheism.com29 people
An Intuitive Explanation of Yudkowsky’s Explanation of Bayes’ Theorem
Common Sense Atheism
Personal · last shared Mar 2018
Jaiblog.jaibot.com69 people
The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics
Jai
Personal · last shared Mar 2023
153 peopleWhy are there so many rationalist cults?
Asterisk
Publication · last shared Jul 2026
120 peopleConvoy Crackdown – power to freeze bank accounts without trial or legal recourse
Zvi Mowshowitz
Personal · last shared Aug 2026
102 peopleAn unexpected victory: container stacking at the port of Los Angeles
Don't Worry About the Vase
Personal · last shared Apr 2025
189 peopleThere's No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence
MIRI
Company · last shared Mar 2025
2.4K peopleThe Best Textbooks on Every Subject
LessWrong
Publication · last shared Aug 2026
Crémieuxcremieux.xyz55 people
The rise and impending fall of the dental cavity
Crémieux
Personal · last shared Aug 2026
Everything Studieseverythingstudies.com17 people
The Nerd as the Norm
Everything Studies
Personal · last shared Jun 2026
Entropic Thoughtsentropicthoughts.com49 people
Transparent leadership beats servant leadership
Entropic Thoughts
Personal · last shared Jul 2026
Michael Anissimovacceleratingfuture.com27 people
Why Intelligent People Fail
Michael Anissimov
Personal · last shared Apr 2014
Bentham's Bulldogbenthams.substack.com16 people
The shrimp welfare project
Bentham's Bulldog
Personal · last shared Jul 2026
Spencer Greenbergspencergreenberg.com15 people
Problem-Solving Techniques That Work for All Types of Challenges (2017)
Spencer Greenberg
Personal · last shared Jun 2026
Robin Hansonhanson.gmu.edu46 people
Wild Ideas
Robin Hanson
Personal · last shared Oct 2014
EA Forumeffective-altruism.com20 people
Ineffective Entrepreneurship: Post-Mortem of Hippo
EA Forum
Publication · last shared Sep 2018
Nassim Talebmedium.com/incerto303 people
The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority (2016)
Nassim Taleb
Personal · last shared Sep 2025
Beren Millidgeberen.io18 people
The Scale of the Brain vs. Machine Learning (2022)
Beren Millidge
Personal · last shared Mar 2026
669 peopleMental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (113 Models Explained)
Farnam Street
Publication · last shared Jun 2026
Knowinglessknowingless.com36 people
Overly analytical guide to escorting
Knowingless
Personal · last shared Mar 2026
1.9K peopleI Am Deleting the Blog
Slate Star Codex
Personal · last shared Aug 2026
Cold Takescold-takes.com52 people
Does X cause Y? An in-depth evidence review (2021)
Cold Takes
Personal · last shared Apr 2025
Robin Hansonmason.gmu.edu/~rhanson62 people
The Great Filter – Are We Almost Past It? (1998)
Robin Hanson
Personal · last shared Mar 2026
240 peopleThe Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)
Nick Bostrom
Personal · last shared Mar 2026
Laurence Tennantlaurencetennant.com20 people
The Ad Hominem Fallacy Fallacy
Laurence Tennant
Personal · last shared Jul 2026
Put a Num on Itputanumonit.com41 people
Seeing the Smoke
Put a Num on It
Personal · last shared Jan 2025
Thing of Thingsthingofthings.wordpress.com32 people
On Stimming and Autistic Authenticity
Thing of Things
Personal · last shared Mar 2026
Ben Bondsplover.net/~bonds50 people
Logical Fallacies Are Usually Irrelevant or Cited Incorrectly
Ben Bonds
Personal · last shared Feb 2014
Jascha Sohl-Dicksteinsohl-dickstein.github.io23 people
Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022)
Jascha Sohl-Dickstein
Personal · last shared Jul 2026
NeuroLogica Blogtheness.com93 people
It took two days to develop Moderna’s vaccine
NeuroLogica Blog
Publication · last shared Apr 2026
214 peopleYou Need More Lumens
Meaningness
Personal · last shared Sep 2025
204 peopleHow to Think
Farnam Street
Personal · last shared Jan 2018
Meta-rationalitymetarationality.com29 people
Post-apocalyptic life in American health care
Meta-rationality
Personal · last shared Jun 2025
Skepchickskepchick.org30 people
GoDaddy Released My Personal Information to a Spammer Troll
Skepchick
Publication · last shared Feb 2026
Applied Divinity Studiesapplieddivinitystudies.com42 people
Beware the Casual Polymath
Applied Divinity Studies
Personal · last shared Apr 2024
Richard Carrierrichardcarrier.info20 people
AI Is Garbage and a Bubble
Richard Carrier
Personal · last shared Jan 2026
John Salvatierjohnsalvatier.org74 people
Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
John Salvatier
Personal · last shared Aug 2026
401 peopleThis AI Boom Will Also Bust
Overcoming Bias
Publication · last shared May 2025
Minding Our Waymindingourway.com29 people
Half-assing it with everything you've got
Minding Our Way
Personal · last shared Dec 2025
Scott Alexandersquid314.livejournal.com61 people
World War II was totally unrealistic
Scott Alexander
Personal · last shared Feb 2018
Steven Pinkerstevenpinker.com50 people
Tech Prophecy and the Underappreciated Causal Power of Ideas [Pinker 2019] [pdf]
Steven Pinker
Personal · last shared Oct 2025