Other Useful Sites LWers Read

Nick Szabo's blog and homepage.

• http://jonathan.graehl.org/ is a LWer
• on econlog.econlib.org Bryan Caplan's posts are great (mostly ignore the others)
• Gelman's blog can be useful http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/mlm/
• Katja Grace's blog is good http://meteuphoric.wordpress.com
• http://modeledbehavior.com/ can be quite insightful, though he posts a lot of current analysis.

http://www.bulletproofexec.com/

I just watched the video that this person posted under the 'Top Upgrades' page. Some of the stuff that he mentions I've seen before -- seeing multiple sources mention it and say that it works increases my p-estimate that it would work for me. Some other stuff I've never heard about and is setting off my woo-alarms, such as when he's talking about DNA and quotes Deepak Chopra. I would really appreciate it if someone who was more familiar with life-hacking stuff in general would take a look at the video and help me sort out what kinds of things are likely to be helpful and which (if any) are places where the presenter caught a virulent meme.

I like economics blog http://www.marginalrevolution.com

Related: "What are the best news sources to read for *insightful* discussions?".

I used freelancer.com to get some linguistic data collection done at work. With the recession in the US at the moment, the market rate for someone with a BA to do tempwork from home seems to be about $5usd per hour. Tasks can be for as little as $30, and you can expect to be able to talk to the person and instruct them one-on-one. The rate for developing country labour is $2/h or less, but these have a high management cost as it's more difficult to find reliable people.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is like a more vulgar and direct version of XKCD. I've found both of them informative on moral and philosophical problems.

• Nick Bostrom's parliamentary model of ethical decision making: article
• Gamification of human incentive structures: article
• Creating duplicates of a person: article
• Evil vs. Good: article
• Causality: article
• Shutting up and doing the impossible: (or not)

The Last Psychiatrist

Michael Anissimov's blog: Accelerating Future

Nick Bostrom's website

Megan McArdle is often interesting on current economics http://www.theatlantic.com/megan-mcardle

Tom Griffith's Bayesian reading list.

• Instructables -- I've found a few projects to be of use.
• Although it's a pay site, Safari Books is extremely useful to anyone interested in that sort of thing. Very roughly: Netflix for tech-related ebooks.

http://blog.lifehacker.com/ Somewhat variable, but at its best is a good source for instrumental rationality. It contains a mix of computing, household and psychological advice, generally in a succint and easily absorbed format.

Ben Hyde posts seldom but has an impressive insight-per-post ratio.

I'm quite fond of this for quick statistics for my Economics course; http://www.tradingeconomics.com/ Although the CIA World Factbook; https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ is my favourite if I have to supply a reference without checking back to government or private statistic sources.

What about interesting RSS feeds? Anyone that uses Google Reader for RSS will have a 'shared items' feed that other people can subscribe to. I'm guessing that LW readers would tend to have an interesting 'shared items' feed if they use that feature?

For example, mine is http://www.google.com/reader/shared/wilka.hudson - although most of the stuff I share that would interesting to LW readers actually comes from LW, so maybe it's not such a good idea after all.

I recommend TVTropes. ;)

Also, David Brin's blog.

slickdeals.net im drawing a blank for now on the rest :(

edit: i guess spending money on things is a natural dis-utility on LW. How can you dislike Usenet and also dislike the cheap way to legally find technology sales and support software company's is mind boggling to me unless you all use your time with little to no time doing more than browsing the web on computers.

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