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Rationality is pretty great. Just not quite as great as everyone here seems to think it is. -Yvain, "Extreme Rationality: It's Not That Gr

The title of this post isn't a typo—its purpose is to ask how we can effectively do fundraising and movement-building for the effective altr

Quite a few people complain about the atheist/skeptic/rationalist communities being self-congratulatory. I used to dismiss this as a sign of

In a recent discussion of steelmanning, I observed that few people around here seem interested in steelmanning young earth creationism. In t

Background: As can be seen from some of the comments on this post, many people in the LessWrong community take an extreme stance on lying. A

There's been some discussion of how to improve the structure of LessWrong at the site software level - for example adding subreddits or modi

There are some things money can't buy. They are the exceptions that prove the rule. For the pedants, to say something is an exception that

Background: On the most recent LessWrong readership survey, I assigned a probability of 0.30 on the cryonics question. I had previously be

Previously: Mainstream Nutrition Science on Obesity, Atkins Redux, Did the US Government Give Us Absurd Advice About Sugar?, What Causes Obe

Previously: Mainstream Nutrition Science on Obesity, Atkins Redux, Did the US Government Give Us Absurd Advice About Sugar? In this post,