List of Blogs

List of blogs from the diaspora and rationalist movement. Last large update: 2017-05-25

General Rationality and Philosophy

• An Algorithmic Lucidity Zack M Davis
• Compass Rose Ben Hoffman (Benquo)
• Don’t Worry About the Vase Zvi Moshowitz
• Entirely Useless
• Everything Studies John Nerst
• Grognor
• Input Junkie NancyLebovitz (Politics, personal live journal stuff)
• Julia Galef
• Map and Territory
• Melting Asphalt Kevin Simler
• Minds Aren't Magic Paul Crowley
• Nothing Is Mere RobbBB (value theory, meta-metaphysics)
• Put A Number On It Jacob Falkovich ''(Math, Pure Rationality, misc)
• Qualia Computing
• Slate Star Codex Scott Alexander (psychiatry, analysis of ideology, misc)
• The Rationalist Conspiracy Alyssa Vance
• Venam's Blog
• Caspar Oesterheld and Johannes Treutlein (mostly decision theory, but also other topics)
• TheWaywardAxolotl
• Expanding Rationality
• Zero Contradictions

Applied Rationality

• Agenty Duck Logan Strohl
• BearLamp Elo
• Becoming Eden Will & Divia Eden (self-help)
• Beeminder posts tagged "rationality" dreeves
• Ferocious Truth
• Jeff Kaufman Jeff Kaufman (Effective Altruism, Software, Owning a group house)
• MalcolmOcean (community, culture, and mental models)
• Meditation Stuff MarkL (meditation, phenomenology, ontology, epistemology, instrumental rationality)
• Meteuphoric Katja Grace (anthropics and human behavior)
• mindlevelup Owen Shen (self-improvement, cognitive psych, debiasing)
• Minding Our Way Nate Soares
• Particular Virtue (Software Engineering Perspective)
• Squirrel in Hell
• The Sideways View Paul Christiano
• Understanding and Mastering Our Brains to Do Cool Stuff alexvermeer

Research Analysis and Economics: (often political)

• Bayesian Investor Blog Peter McCluskey (economics, book reviews, nutrition, prediction markets, etc.)
• Aceso Under Glass Elizabeth (Science, Technology and Videogames)
• Anonymous Mugwump
• Entitled To An Opinion TGGP (social science, genetics, links)
• Eukaryote Writes Blog Georgia
• gwern.net Gwern (blog-ish website with lots of detailed statistical analyses of nootropics, anime, and population dynamics)
• Clear Language, Clear Mind Emil O. W. Kirkegaard (psychology, behavioral genetics, group differences, genomics, statistics etc.)
• Nintil Artir (Economic history, technology, philosophy, and how to git gud at thinking)
• niplav.site Niplav Long site, with forecasting research, AI alignment and some nootropics
• Otium
• Overcoming Bias Robin Hanson (legendary econblog, focuses on signaling and the future)
• Pseudoerasmuas
• Random Critical Analysis
• The Future Strategist Podcast James Miller
• Unenumerated

Altruism and Utilitarianism

• 80k hours
• Almost No One is Evil, Almost Everything is Broken (Very Philosophical and Poetic Take)
• Charity Navigator
• Effective Altruism Forum
• Essays on Reducing Suffering Brian Tomasik
• GiveDirectly
• Giving Gladly Julia Wise
• Giving What We Can
• The Give Well Blog
• The Life You Can Save
• The Open Philantropy Blog

Math and CS

• Annoying Precision Qiaochu_Yuan
• Benkuhn
• Chris Stucchio
• Eli Bendersky
• Thomas protokol2020 (exploring problems in science and technology and elsewhere)
• Setting Things Straight Silas Barta

Religion and Atheism

• DiaPente JQuinton (focus on early Christianity, rationality, and psychology of religion)
• The Merely Real Chana Messinger (skepticism and social justice)
• Unequally Yoked palladias (Catholic blog by recent convert from atheism)

AI Risk

• AI Control Paul Christiano
• Machine Intelligence Research Institute - MIRI

Fiction and Media Heavy Blogs

• Doof! Media moridinamael (books, movies, and television - podcasts and essays)
• Death is Bad
• kajsotala.fi Kaj Sotala (educational video games and other topics)
• Luke Muehlhauser
• Mokka mit Schlag Elliotte Rusty Harold (Science Fiction)
• Name and Nature Paul Wright (links on sci-fi, programming and politics)
• Unsong Scott Alexander ''(Serialized Fiction)
• Yngling Saga RolfAndreassen (logs from role-playing games)

Social Justice and Leftwing Politics

• Brute Reason Miri Mogilevsky ''(skepticism, feminism, social justice)
• Feminist Critics HughRistik (discussion of feminism, often negative)
• The Thing of Things Ozy Frantz
• The Whole Sky Julia: (stories about being a social worker in a prison and other topics)

Reaction, Anti-SJ and Rightwing Politics

• Small Truths
• Stares At The World Aurini (cultural collapse of modern society)
• Status 451

Rationalist Adjacent

• Aellagirl (nsfw)
• Econlog Bryan Caplan et all
• Marginal Revolution
• Noahpinion Noah Smith
• Ribbonfarm
• Shtetl-optimized
• WaitButWhy
• Pirate.London Cybercrime, Transhumanism, Geekery from Deku-shrub

Currently Inactive Blogs

• Bill McGrath Music Bill McGrath {01-2016}
• Effective Differentials Dale/Dias (Economics, Rationality, Effective Altruism) {10-2015}
• Kevin Reid's Blog kpreid (programming, often game development; miscellany) {03-2016~ 3 posts in 2015}
• lalaithion Random things, social justice, and science {07-2015}
• Ordinary Ideas Paul Christiano {11-2016~ one post in 2016}
• The Art and Science of Cognitive Engineering jimmy {04-2016~ 4 posts in 2015, 3 in 2015}
• The Cafes Elliotte Rusty Harold {02-2016~ Sparse since 2012}
• The Last Conformer Gilbert (Catholic blog, occasional well-informed criticisms of LessWrong) {08-2015}
• The Orphan Wilde OrphanWilde (libertarianism) {07-2015}

Gone But Not Forgotten

• Alexander Kruel XiXiDu (critiques of the LessWrong community)
• Am I There Yet? (self-improvement, science, and other varied topics) Michelle_Z
• By Way of Contradiction Coscott
• Clarisse Thorn Clarisse Thorn (kink, S&M)
• Common Sense Atheism Lukeprog
• Essays and Other Musings tuxedage
• Measure of Doubt, measureofdoubt on Youtube Julia Galef
• Rational Altruist Paul Christiano {11-2014}
• Reflective Disequilibrium Carl Shulman
• sarkology sark
• The Rational Superhero Yossarian (a "progress blog" so far focusing on productivity)
• The View From Hell Sister Y (suicide rights, negative utilitarianism)
• Yearly Cider lucidian (existentialism, epistemology, etc.)

See Also

• List of Lists (tag)
• Tumblr Masterlist
• Map of the rationalist community on Slate Star Codex
• List of communities
• List of Podcasts