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Reading Less Wrong - the order in which I read LW, with very short summaries
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I have wanted to dive into Less Wrong for a long while, and now that I finally have some time I am taking the plunge. I am recording the order in which I read articles here with some notes.

  1. About Less Wrong - has a lot of links to articles that sample the flavour of the whole site
  2. Your Intuitions Are Not Magic - very high level, short post that draws parallels between intuition and statistical methods, and arguing that we should be critical of our intuitions (and statistical tools). Interesting, but not particularly enlightening or useful.
  3. The Cognitive Science of Rationality - very good introduction to how understanding cognitive science can help make us better thinkers. Includes a very brief introduction rationality, reasoning errors, and tools for avoiding bias.
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