Who are your favourite rationalist bloggers?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/x29QQomqexEyiXRk6/who-are-your-favourite-rationalist-bloggers

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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Scott Alexander.

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

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    2015-04-12T20:31

He says he can’t help it.

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What do Isaac Newton and Scott Alexander have in common?

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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.

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IQ? Asperger?

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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.)

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

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Gwern

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The Unit of Caring is a wonderful rationalist Tumblr.

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Marginal Revolution

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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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I think of it as outsourcing my RSS feed.

Obviously YMMV; I work in investment.

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Katja Grace’s Meteuphoric

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

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/x29QQomqexEyiXRk6/who-are-your-favourite-rationalist-bloggers?commentId=ijB6WYetepaboZ8hK

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.

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

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Carl Shulman

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

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/x29QQomqexEyiXRk6/who-are-your-favourite-rationalist-bloggers?commentId=mrpFQHcwixMFmbpMi

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?

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Divia (and Will?) ’s blog on parenting

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/x29QQomqexEyiXRk6/who-are-your-favourite-rationalist-bloggers?commentId=Ar99t5HTWS3qFKfk2

Gwern’s google plus: https://​​plus.google.com/​​103530621949492999968/​​posts

RSS: http://​​gplus-to-rss6.appspot.com/​​rss/​​103530621949492999968

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Effective Differentials

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Preemptive Whitespace