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Scott Alexander, a famous blogger with about 100 000 subscribers, once said: > "Whenever I see a new person who blogs every day, it's very rare that that never goes anywhere or they don't get good. That's like my best leading indicator for who's going to be a good blogger."...

According to recent surveys, the average age of LessWrong readers is 30±10 years, and about 15% of readers have one or more children. That means that although most readers are childless, there are enough parents here to have a discussion about parenting. There are various topics that parents can be...

Halfhaven is a virtual blogger camp, an online alternative to Inkhaven Residency. The rules are simple: * every day post max 1 article with min 500 words (or equivalent effort) * try to get 30 by the end of November (but there are no hard lines) The invitation links keep...

If you are a blogger, or an aspiring blogger, and want to improve your skills, you can spend a month in Inkhaven Residency (homepage, Less Wrong post) and keep writing and publishing every day during November 2025. At the end, you will be a great writer! (At least, that is...

I got this crazy idea; I wonder if anyone could try it. Let's make an online encyclopedia, similar to Wikipedia, with one difference: all articles would be edited by AIs. Why? (I mean, other than "because it's possible and sounds kinda cool".) First, because it's possible. If an AI can...

I keep wondering why is there so much learned helplessness about "teaching to the test". It is often used as an example of Goodharting (e.g. here), and the implied conclusion seems to be... that it is wrong to try testing students systematically, because it is known that it inevitably causes...

There was a book written half a century ago in Soviet Union, where a group of three kids travel to the land of arithmetic, meet anthropomorphic numbers, and learn a few mathematical concepts in a way appropriate for kids about 10 years old... And I thought: "What a pity this...