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Who are your favourite rationalist bloggers?

by casebash
12th Apr 2015
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Who are your favourite rationalist bloggers?
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14closeness
23Shmi
5IlyaShpitser
6Viliam
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13gwillen
0casebash
22Dias
15danielmamay
10Dias
2philh
4Dias
8Dias
0sixes_and_sevens
8ilzolende
7ilzolende
4Dias
4Adam Zerner
1John_Maxwell
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[-]Unknowns10y730

Scott Alexander.

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[-]closeness10y140

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

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[-]Shmi10y230

He says he can't help it.

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[-]IlyaShpitser10y50

What do Isaac Newton and Scott Alexander have in common?

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[-]Viliam10y60

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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[-][anonymous]10y-20

IQ? Asperger?

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[-]gwillen10y130

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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[-]casebash10y00

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

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[-]Dias10y220

Gwern

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[-]danielmamay10y150

The Unit of Caring is a wonderful rationalist Tumblr.

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[-]Dias10y100

Marginal Revolution

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[-]philh10y20

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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[-]Dias10y40

I think of it as outsourcing my RSS feed.

Obviously YMMV; I work in investment.

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[-]Dias10y80

Katja Grace's Meteuphoric

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[-]sixes_and_sevens10y00

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

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[-]ilzolende10y80

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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[-]ilzolende10y70

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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[-]Dias10y40

Carl Shulman

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[-]Adam Zerner10y40

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

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[-]John_Maxwell10y10

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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[-]Dias10y10

Divia (and Will?) 's blog on parenting

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[-][anonymous]10y00

Gwern's google plus: https://plus.google.com/103530621949492999968/posts

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

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[-]Dias10y00

Effective Differentials

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[-]Dias10y00

Preemptive Whitespace

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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.