Who are your favourite rationalist bloggers?

post by casebash · 2015-04-12T13:58:35.525Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 24 comments

I want to check out more rationalist bloggers.

Please list no more than one per answer. That way I can see from the upvotes/downvotes which ones are the most popular (and hopefully which ones are most worth checking out).

I know that popularity isn't a perfect signal, but hopefully it is a better signal here than on the rest of the Internet.

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comment by Unknowns · 2015-04-12T14:03:10.629Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Scott Alexander.

Replies from: closeness, gwillen, casebash
↑ comment by closeness · 2015-04-12T19:04:11.174Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

How one person can write so much, of such quality, with such consistency is beyond me.

Replies from: shminux, IlyaShpitser
↑ comment by shminux · 2015-04-12T20:31:46.014Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

He says he can't help it.

↑ comment by IlyaShpitser · 2015-04-12T22:30:32.745Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

What do Isaac Newton and Scott Alexander have in common?

Replies from: Viliam, None
↑ comment by Viliam · 2015-04-13T12:25:20.692Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

The desire to publish on Slate Star Codex.

Unfortunately for Isaac Newton, he died before internet was invented, so we will never know what he would have blogged about.

↑ comment by [deleted] · 2015-04-13T08:07:44.978Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

IQ? Asperger?

↑ comment by gwillen · 2015-04-12T17:12:06.986Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Just in case some people might not know where to find him: http://slatestarcodex.com/ (Remember to give parent comment your upvotes, not me, if you want to vote for him.)

↑ comment by casebash · 2015-04-14T12:41:25.060Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Currently Scott Alexander has 41 votes and everyone else has a total of 28. That's pretty impressive.

comment by Dias · 2015-04-12T23:40:21.900Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Gwern

comment by danielmamay (MayDaniel) · 2015-04-12T19:55:00.980Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

The Unit of Caring is a wonderful rationalist Tumblr.

comment by Dias · 2015-04-12T23:37:12.469Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Marginal Revolution

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↑ comment by philh · 2015-04-13T09:01:03.314Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

FWIW, I unsubbed from MR shortly after subscribing. It kind of felt like reading through someone else's RSS feed, with small amounts of commentary which often assumed more economic literacy than I actually have.

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↑ comment by Dias · 2015-04-13T22:54:56.957Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I think of it as outsourcing my RSS feed.

Obviously YMMV; I work in investment.

comment by Dias · 2015-04-12T23:34:11.685Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Katja Grace's Meteuphoric

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↑ comment by sixes_and_sevens · 2015-04-13T09:28:47.171Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I suggest browsing the opinions page for mentally delicious tab explosions.

comment by ilzolende · 2015-04-12T16:55:28.522Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Also, Kevin Simler's Melting Asphalt is great and has lots of insightful essays about things. Warning: Still doesn't have archives, you're going to need to go through the meta posts to read old things.

comment by ilzolende · 2015-04-12T16:53:06.071Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I like Eneasz Brodski's Death is Bad. Not as moralizing as the title sounds, has lots of fun book reviews.

comment by Adam Zerner (adamzerner) · 2015-04-12T15:29:51.298Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I wouldn't quite call him a rationalist blogger, but I love reading Tim Urban of Wait But Why.

comment by John_Maxwell (John_Maxwell_IV) · 2015-07-12T08:48:26.153Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Andrew Gelman wrote Less Wrong's favorite textbook on advanced Bayesian statistics. His blog is here. Some good stuff like a recent post on why the hot hand actually exists which I still don't completely understand.

I wonder if anyone has made any effort to systematically catalogue academics who blog?