A sequence is a series of multiple posts on Less Wrong on the same topic, to coherently and fully explore a particular thesis. See the Library page for a list of LessWrong sequences in their modern form.
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Rationality: From AI to Zombies is an ebook collecting six books worth of essays on the science and philosophy of human rationality. It's one of the best places to start for people who want to better understand topics that crop up on Less Wrong, such as cognitive bias, the map-territory distinction, meta-ethics, and existential risk.
Castify makes certain content of Less Wrong available as a podcast for a small fee (they're recorded by a professional voice actor). Currently they offer:
Promoted Posts:
Major Sequences:
Minor Sequences:
Essay:
The ebook can be downloaded on a "pay-what-you-want" basis from intelligence.org. There is also an audiobook version of the book available from Castify. Its six books in turn break down into twenty-six sections:
Rationality: From AI to Zombies is an ebook collecting six books worth of essays on the science and philosophy of human rationality. It's one of the best places to start for people who want to better understand topics that crop up on Less Wrong, such as cognitive bias, the map-territory distinction, meta-ethics, and existential risk.
The six books are:
The ebook can be downloaded on a "pay-what-you-want" basis from intelligence.org. There is also an audiobook version of the book available from Castify. Its six books in turn break down into twenty-six sections:
Reading throughThe original sequences were written by Eliezer Yudkowsky with the goal of creating a book on rationality. MIRI has since collated and edited the sequences into Rationality: From AI to Zombies. If you are new to Less Wrong, this book is the most systematic waybest place to approachstart.
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Rationality: From AI to Zombies is an ebook collecting six books worth of essays on the science and philosophy of human rationality. It's one of the best places to start for people who want to better understand topics that crop up on Less Wrong
archives., such as cognitive bias, the map-territory distinction, meta-ethics, and existential risk. The six books are:
The ebook can be downloaded on a "pay-what-you-want" basis from intelligence.org. Its six books in turn break down into twenty-six sections:
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If you don't read the sequences on rational belief.
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The most important method that Less Wrong can offer you is
Long sequences that have been completed A guide to noticing motivated reasoning and organized into a guide.overcoming confirmation bias.
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How to see throughThe Machine in the many disguisesGhost. Essays on the general topic of answers or beliefs or statements, that don't answer or say or mean anything.minds, goals, and concepts.
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A series. Essays on the use and abuse of words; why you often can't define a word any way you like; how human brains seem to process definitions. First introduces the Mind Projection Fallacyscience and the conceptphysical world.
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The following collections of essays come from the original sequences, an algorithm feels from inside, which makes it a basic intro to key elementsearlier version of much of the LW zeitgeist.material from Rationality: From AI to Zombies:
: A mega-sequence scattered over almost alldiscussion of Less Wrong on the ultra-high-level penultimate techniqueprohibitions you may want to follow even when you've thought of rationality: actually updating on the evidence.
Organized into eight subsequences.
The second core sequence of Less Wrong. Howa clever reason to take reality apart into pieces... and live in that universe, where we have always lived, without feeling disappointed about the fact that complicated things are made of simpler things.
A non-mysterious introduction to quantum mechanics, intended to be accessible to anyone who can grok algebra and complex numbers. Cleaning up the old confusion about QM is used to introduce basic issues in rationality (such as the technical version of Occam's Razor), epistemology, reductionism, naturalism, and philosophy of science. Not dispensable reading, even though the exact reasons for the digression are hard to explain in advance of reading.
What words like "right" and "should" mean; how to integrate moral concepts into a naturalistic universe.
The dependencies on this sequence may not be fully organized, and: A longer version of "Value Theory", discussing the post list does not have summaries. Yudkowsky considers this oneapparent "arbitrariness" of his less successful attempts at explanation.
: A concretediscussion of the complexity of human value, and what the universe might look like if everything were much, much better. Fun theory is the optimistic, far-future-oriented part of transhuman values.value theory, asking: How much fun is there in the universe; will we ever run out of fun; are we having fun yet; could we be having more fun. Partfun?
Other collections from the same time period (2006-2009) include:
Yudkowsky has also written a more recent sequence:
Sequences of essays by Scott Alexander include:
Sequences by Luke Muehlhauser:
By Anna Salamon:
By Alicorn:
And by Kaj Sotala:
Benito's Guide aims to systematically fill the reader in on the most important ideas discussed on LessWrong (not just in the sequences). It also begins with a series of videos, which are a friendly introduction, and useful if you enjoy talks and interviews.
Thinking and Deciding by Jonathan Baron and Good and Real by Gary Drescher have been mentioned as books that overlap significantly with the sequences. More about how the sequences fit in with work done by others.
Castify makes certain content of Less Wrong available as a podcast for a small fee (they're recorded by a professional voice actor). Currently they offer:
Promoted Posts:
Major Sequences:
The final sequence of Eliezer Yudkowsky'A Human's two-year-long string of daily postsGuide to Less Wrong, on improving the art of rationality and building communities of rationalists.
Smaller collections of posts. Usually parts of major sequences which depend on some-but-not-all of the points introduced.
A collection of introductory posts dealing with the fundamentals of rationality: the difference between the map and the territory, Bayes's Theorem and the nature of evidence, why anyone should care about truth, minds as reflective cognitive engines...
Some notes on the incredibly difficult feat of actually getting your brain to think about something (a key step in actually changing your mind). Whenever someone exhorts you to "think outside the box", they usually, for your convenience, point out exactly where "outside the box" is located. Isn't it funny how nonconformists all dress the same...
Subsequence of (3h 40m)
Some of the various ways that politics damages our sanity - including, of course, making it harder to change our mindsReductionism on political issues.(5h 20m)
Minor Sequences:
Subsequence of
Affective death spirals are positive feedback loop caused by the halo effect: Positive characteristics perceptually correlate, so the more nice things we say about X, the more additional nice things we're likely to believe about X.Essay:
Cultishness is an empirical attractor in human groups: roughly an affective death spiral; plus peer pressure and outcasting behavior; plus (often) defensiveness around something believed to be un-improvable.
Yet another subsequence of
If dragons were common, and you could look at one in the zoo - but zebras were a rare legendary creature that had finally been decided to be mythical - then there's a certain sort of person who would ignore dragons, who would never bother to look at dragons, and chase after rumors of zebras. The grass is always greener on the other side of reality.
Which is rather setting ourselves up for eternal disappointment, eh? If we cannot take joy in the merely real, our lives shall be empty indeed.
Subsequence of Reductionism.
On the putative "possibility" of beings who are just like us in every sense, but not conscious - that is, lacking inner subjective experience.
Subsequence of Reductionism.
Learning the very basic math of evolutionary biology costs relatively little if you understand algebra, but gives you a surprisingly different perspective from what you'll find Eliezer's introductory essay (40 minutes, also included in strictly nonmathematical texts.
How to do things that are difficult or "impossible".
How Yudkowsky made epic errors of reasoning as a teenage "rationalist"Map and recovered from them starting at around age 23, the period that he refers to as his Bayesian Enlightenment.Territory)
The originalReading through sequences were written by Eliezer Yudkowsky with the goal of creating a book on rationality. MIRI has since collated and edited the sequences into Rationality: From AI to Zombies. If you are new to Less Wrong, this book is the best placemost systematic way to start.
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Rationality: From AI to Zombies is an ebook collecting six books worth of essays onapproach the science and philosophy of human rationality. It's one of the best places to start for people who want to better understand topics that crop up on Less Wrong, such as cognitive bias, the map-territory distinction, meta-ethics, and existential risk. The six books are: archives.
The ebook can be downloaded on a "pay-what-you-want" basis from intelligence.org. Its six books in turn break down into twenty-six sections:
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If you don't read the sequences on Mysterious Answers to the Bayesian concept of rational belief.
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Long sequences that have been completed and organized into a guide.
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A mega-sequence scattered over almost all of Less Wrong on the ultra-high-level penultimate technique of rationality: actually updating on the evidence.
Organized into eight subsequences.
The second core sequence of Less Wrong. How to take reality apart into pieces... and live in that universe, where we have always lived, without feeling disappointed about the Merely Real
A non-mysterious introduction to quantum mechanics, intended to be accessible to anyone who can grok algebra and Many Worlds
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The following collections of essays come from the original sequences, an earliertechnical version of muchOccam's Razor), epistemology, reductionism, naturalism, and philosophy of science. Not dispensable reading, even though the material from Rationality: From AIexact reasons for the digression are hard to Zombies:
What words like "right" and "should" mean; how to integrate moral concepts into a naturalistic universe.
The dependencies on this sequence may not be fully organized, and the post list does not have summaries. Yudkowsky considers this one of "Value Theory", discussing the apparent "arbitrariness" of human morality.
A discussionconcrete theory of the complexity of human value, and what the universe might look like if everything were much, much better. Fun theory is the optimistic, far-future-oriented part of value theory, asking:transhuman values. How much fun is there in the universe; will we ever run out of fun; are we having fun yet; could we be having more fun?
The final sequence of physics for our conceptsEliezer Yudkowsky's two-year-long string of personal identitydaily posts to Less Wrong, on improving the art of rationality and time.
OtherSmaller collections fromof posts. Usually parts of major sequences which depend on some-but-not-all of the same time period (2006-2009) include:points introduced.
A blog conversationcollection of introductory posts dealing with the fundamentals of rationality: the difference between Eliezer Yudkowskythe map and Robin Hansonthe territory, Bayes's Theorem and the nature of evidence, why anyone should care about truth, minds as reflective cognitive engines...
Some notes on the topicincredibly difficult feat of actually getting your brain to think about something (a key step in intelligence explosion actually changing your mind and). Whenever someone exhorts you to "think outside the box", they usually, for your convenience, point out exactly where "outside the box" is located. Isn't it funny how concerned we should be about superintelligent AI.
Yudkowsky has also written a more recent sequence:
Sequences of essays by Scott Alexander include:
Sequences by Luke Muehlhauser:
By Anna Salamon:
By Alicorn:
And by Kaj Sotala:
Benito's Guide aims to systematically fill the reader in on the most important ideas discussed on LessWrong (not just in the sequences). It also begins with a series of videos, which are a friendly introduction, and useful if you enjoy talks and interviews.
Thinking and Deciding by Jonathan Baron and Good and Real by Gary Drescher have been mentioned as books that overlap significantly with the sequences. More about how the sequences fit in with work done by others.
Castify makes certain content of Less Wrong available as a podcast for a small fee (they're recorded by a professional voice actor). Currently they offer:
Promoted Posts:
Major Sequences:
Some of the various ways that politics damages our sanity - including, of course, making it harder to change our minds on political issues.
Subsequence of How to Actually Change Your Mind.
Affective death spirals are positive feedback loop caused by the halo effect: Positive characteristics perceptually correlate, so the more nice things we say about X, the more additional nice things we're likely to believe about X.
Cultishness is an empirical attractor in human groups: roughly an affective death spiral; plus peer pressure and outcasting behavior; plus (often) defensiveness around something believed to be un-improvable.
Yet another subsequence of How to Actually Change Your Mind.
If dragons were common, and you could look at one in the zoo - but zebras were a rare legendary creature that had finally been decided to be mythical - then there's a certain sort of person who would ignore dragons, who would never bother to look at dragons, and chase after rumors of zebras. The grass is always greener on the other side of reality.
Which is rather setting ourselves up for eternal disappointment, eh? If we cannot take joy in the merely real, our lives shall be empty indeed.
Subsequence of Reductionism (5h 20m)
Minor Sequences:On the putative "possibility" of beings who are just like us in every sense, but not conscious - that is, lacking inner subjective experience.
Subsequence of Map and Territory Reductionism (1h 30 min)
Essay:
Learning the very basic math of evolutionary biology costs relatively little if you understand algebra, but gives you a surprisingly different perspective from what you'll find in strictly nonmathematical texts.
How to do things that are difficult or "impossible".
How Yudkowsky made epic errors of reasoning as a teenage "rationalist" and Territory)
Rationality: From AI to Zombies is an ebook collecting six books worth of essays on the science and philosophy of human rationality. It's one of the best places to start for people who want to better understand topics that crop up on Less Wrong, such as cognitive bias, the map-territory distinction, meta-ethics, and existential risk. The six books are:
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Later sequences that were written people other than Eliezer Yudkowsky.Sequences of essays by Scott Alexander include:
: Priming may be described as the capability of any random stimulus to commandeer your thinking and judgement for the next several minutes. Scared? Don't be. There exist ways to defend yourself against these kinds of intrusions, and there are even methods to harness them into useful testing mechanisms.
Sequences by YvainLuke Muehlhauser
By Anna Salamon:
. Decisions need to be modeled with some structure in order to be scrutinized and systematically improved; simply "intuiting" the answers to decision problems by ad-hoc methods is not conducive to thorough analysis. For this, we formulate decision theories. This sequence, themed with an analysis of Newcomb's problem, is a consolidated summary and context for the many decision theory discussions found on LessWrong at the time of writing.
By Alicorn:
. Luminosity, as used here, is self-awareness. A luminous mental state is one that you have and know that you have. It could be an emotion, a belief or alief, a disposition, a quale, a memory - anything that might happen or be stored in your brain. What's going on in your head?
And by lukeprogKaj Sotala
This sequence summarizes scientifically-backed advice for "winning" at everyday life: in one's productivity, in one's relationships, in one's emotions, etc. Each post concludes with footnotes and a long list of references from the academic literature.:
This sequence explains how intuitions are used in mainstream philosophy and what the science of intuitions suggests about how intuitions should be used in philosophy.
This sequence explains and defends a naturalistic approach to metaethics.
. A sequence summarizing the content of Keith Stanovich's book What Intelligence Tests Miss.
A. An unfinished sequence summarizing the content of Robert Kurzban's book Why Everyone (Else) is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind (this sequence hasn't been finished).
Two abridged indexes of Eliezer's sequences are XiXiDu's guide, or Academian's guide targeted at people who already have a science background.
The Sequences have been converted to eReader compatible formats by several projects.
The original sequences were written by Eliezer Yudkowsky with the goal of creating a book on rationality. MIRI has since collated and edited the sequences into Rationality: From AI to Zombies. If you are new to Less Wrong, this book is the best place to start.star
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Rationality: From AI to Zombies is an ebook collecting six books worth of essays on the science and philosophy of human rationality. It's one of the best places to start for people who want to better understand topics that crop up on Less Wrong, such as cognitive bias, the map-territory distinction, meta-ethics, and existential risk. The six books are:
The ebook can be downloaded on a "pay-what-you-want" basis from intelligence.org. Its six books in turn break down into twenty-six sections:
Read rational belief.
The most important technique that Less Wrong can offer you is
Long sequences that have been completed A guide to noticing motivated reasoning and organized into a guide.
How to see throughThe Machine in the many disguisesGhost. Essays on the general topic of answers or beliefs or statements that remove curiosity without alleviating confusion.
Sequence guide: 37 Ways That Words Can Be Wrong
List of posts: A Human's Guide to Words
A series. Essays on the use and abuse of words; why you can't define a word any way you like; how human brains seem to process definitions. First introduces the Mind projection fallacyscience and the conceptphysical world.
The following collections of essays come from the original sequences, an algorithm feels from inside, which makes it a basic intro to key elementsearlier version of much of the LW zeitgeist.material from Rationality: From AI to Zombies:
: A mega-sequence scattered over almost alldiscussion of Less Wrong on the ultra-high-level penultimate techniqueprohibitions you may want to follow even when you've thought of rationality: actually updating on evidence.
Organized into eight subsequences.
Howa clever reason to take reality apart into pieces... and live in that universe, where we have always lived, without feeling disappointed about the fact that complicated things are made of simpler things.
A non-mysterious introduction to quantum mechanics, intended to be accessible to anyone who can grok algebra and complex numbers. Cleaning up the old confusion about QM is used to introduce basic issues in rationality (such as the technical version of Occam's Razor), epistemology, reductionism, naturalism, and philosophy of science. Not dispensable reading, even though the exact reasons for the digression are hard to explain in advance of reading.
What words like "right" and "should" mean; how to integrate moral concepts into a naturalistic universe.
The dependencies on this sequence may not be fully organized, and: A longer version of "Value Theory", discussing the post list does not have summaries. Yudkowsky considers this oneapparent "arbitrariness" of his less successful attempts at explanation.
: A concretediscussion of the complexity of human value, and what the universe might look like if everything were much, much better. Fun theory is the optimistic, far-future-oriented part of transhuman values.value theory, asking: How much fun is there in the universe; will we ever run out of fun; are we having fun yet; could we be having more fun. Partfun?
Other collections from the same time period (2006-2009) include:
The final sequence of Eliezer Yudkowsky's two-year-long string of daily posts to Less Wrong, on improving the art of rationality and building communities of rationalists.Yudkowsky has also written a more recent sequence:
A bottom-up guide to epistemology, beginning Eliezer's first sequence of posts after a three year gap. The sequence includes. These essays include a discussion of truth, formal logic, causality, and re-explains Eliezer's metaethics.
Smaller collections of posts. Usually parts of major sequences which depend on some-but-not-all of the points introduced.
A collection of introductory posts dealing with the fundamentals of rationality: the difference between the map and the territory, Bayes's Theorem and the nature of evidence, why anyone should care about truth, minds as reflective cognitive engines...
Some notes on the incredibly difficult feat of actually getting your brainare a good way for more ambitious readers to think about something (a key step in actually changing your mind). Whenever someone exhorts youquickly get up to "think outside the box", they usually, for your convenience, point out exactly where "outside the box" is located. Isn't it funny how nonconformists all dress the same...
Subsequence of How to Actually Change Your Mind.
Some of the various ways that politics damages our sanity - including, of course, making it harder to change our minds on political issues.
Subsequence of How to Actually Change Your Mind.
Affective death spirals are positive feedback loops caused by the halo effect: Positive characteristics perceptually correlate, so the more nice things we say about X, the more additional nice things we're likely to believe about X.
Cultishness is an empirical attractor in human groups: roughly an affective death spiral; plus peer pressure and outcasting behavior; plus (often) defensiveness around something believed to be un-improvable.
Yet another subsequence of How to Actually Change Your Mind.
Ethical injunctions are rules not to do something even when you believe it's the right thing to do. This is to protect you from your own cleverness (especially taking bad black swan bets), and the Corrupted hardware you're running on.
Related to the Metaethics sequence.
If dragons were common, and you could look at one in the zoo - but zebras were a rare legendary creature that had finally been decided to be mythical - then there's a certain sort of person who would ignore dragons, who would never bother to look at dragons, and chase after rumors of zebras. The grass is always greener on the other side of reality.
Which is rather setting ourselves up for eternal disappointment, eh? If we cannot take joy in the merely real, our lives shall be empty indeed.
Subsequence of Reductionism.
On the putative "possibility" of beings who are just like us in every sense, but not conscious - that is, lacking inner subjective experience.
Subsequence of Reductionism.
Learning the very basic math of evolutionary biology costs relatively little if you understand algebra, but gives you a surprisingly different perspective from what you'll find in strictly nonmathematical texts.
How to do things that are difficult or "impossible".
How Yudkowsky made epic errors of reasoning as a teenage "rationalist" and recovered from them starting at around age 23, the period that he refers to as his Bayesian Enlightenment.
Later sequences that were written people other than Eliezer Yudkowsky.
Priming may be described as the capability of any random stimulus to commandeer your thinking and judgement for the next several minutes. Scared? Don't be. There exist ways to defend yourself against these kinds of intrusions, and there are even methods to harness them into useful testing mechanisms.
Decisions need to be modeled with some structure in order to be scrutinized and systematically improved; simply "intuiting" the answers to decision problems by ad-hoc methods is not conducive to thorough analysis. For this, we formulate decision theories. This sequence, themed with an analysis of Newcomb's problem, is a consolidated summary and context for the many decision theory discussions found on LessWrong at the time of writing.
Luminosity, as used here, is self-awareness. A luminous mental state is one that you have and know that you have. It could be an emotion, a belief or alief, a disposition, a quale, a memory - anything that might happen or be stored in your brain. What's going on in your head?
This sequence summarizes scientifically-backed advice for "winning" at everyday life: in one's productivity, in one's relationships, in one's emotions, etc. Each post concludes with footnotes and a long list of references from the academic literature.
This sequence explains how intuitions are used in mainstream philosophy and what the science of intuitions suggests about how intuitions should be used in philosophy.
This sequence explains and defends a naturalistic approach to metaethics.
A sequence summarizing the content of Keith Stanovich's book What Intelligence Tests Miss.
A sequence summarizing the content of Robert Kurzban's book Why Everyone (Else) is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind (this sequence hasn't been finished).
Two abridged indexes of Eliezer's sequences are XiXiDu's guide, or Academian's guide targeted at people who already have a science background.
Benito's Guide aims to systematically fill the reader in on the most important ideas discussed on LessWrong (not just in the sequences). It also begins with a series of videos, which are a friendly introduction, and useful if you enjoy talks and interviews.
Thinking and Deciding by Jonathan Baron and Good and Real by Gary Drescher have been mentioned as books that overlap significantly with the sequences. More about how the sequences fit in with work done by others.
The Sequences have been converted to eReader compatible formats by several projects.
Castify makes certain content of Less Wrong available as a podcast for a small fee (they're recorded by a professional voice actor). Currently they offer:
Promoted Posts:
Major Sequences:
Minor Sequences:
Essay:
A bottom-up guide to epistemology, beginning Eliezer's first sequence of posts after a three year gap. The sequence includes practical applicationsa discussion of truth, formal logic, causality, and puzzling meditations. The whole series of posts is not online yet, although it has finished being written.re-explains Eliezer's metaethics.
From the old discussion page:
Talk:Sequences
The Sequences page is probably the most important page on the Wiki. As such, speed of user experience is more important than a vague urge for abstract symmetry or consistency. Where the original sequence guides are blog posts, we want users - especially new users - to visit those original sequence guides immediately. We don't want to send them to a Wiki page that forwards to the sequence guide and force them to click twice or read the same content over again. User interface studies show that requiring one more click results in a significant drop-off in participation, and this is very debilitating when it comes to the Sequences page. We want the user to click and see something interesting and attractive as fast as possible.
Hence I'm rolling back various edits that increase the number of user clicks. I designed the page the way it is for a reason. --Eliezer Yudkowsky 18:43, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
Eliezer, that's causing problems. See the issue I've just moved from #215:
--Matt 04:04, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
As I've said on the tracker, it's not really so:
There is a wiki page for quantum physics sequence, it's just not linked from the main sequences page, because the post that is linked has abstracts, while the wiki page doesn't (and probably shouldn't, since it'll be just a copy-paste of what's already available). Here it is: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/The_Quantum_Physics_Sequence
The same goes for fun theory sequence: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/The_Fun_Theory_Sequence
--Vladimir Nesov 08:26, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
Wording
"Map and Territory contains some of the most important introductory posts and essays.
"If you don't read the sequences on Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions and Reductionism, nothing else on Less Wrong will make much sense."
This has bugged me somewhat since I first came here. "Map and Territory is 'introductory', suggesting that I'm best off reading it first, but at the same time it won't make much sense without MAMQ, but I should read it first for some reason anyway?". --Document 04:22, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
Alternative formats
It wasn't til I'd already added links under each section heading that I noticed the "Alternative Formats" section at the bottom and discovered OneWhoFrogs's apparently more complete collection; sorry about that. I'd try to clean things up, but I'm up late and I'm hoping it's still closer to ideal accessibility than before than before. (Edit: another thing that should be done is making links to summary posts more prominent, and possibly linking this.) --Document 08:18, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
I'm reverting all your edits, as they seem to be redundant (correct me if there's some material not included in the last section, I haven't actually checked; in that case, it should be added to the last section), and distort structure of the page (by interrupting the text that describes the sequences). --Vladimir Nesov 13:58, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
Chronological Format
http://yudkowsky.net/rational/overcoming-bias notes that the posts may make more sense in chronological format, and for me, it seems like http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~andwhay/postlist.html offers a better starting point than the "map and territory" sequence (ie, just a bit more exciting to start reading). So, I suggest that this be mentioned as an alternative in the wiki page, possibly in the introduction after the bit about "the most systematic way..."
Communication sequence
Work in progress: User:Chriswaterguy #A communication sequence.
I don't know whether it should eventually be linked here, but it's possibly of interest to people besides myself. --Chriswaterguy (talk) 11:44, 8 December 2014 (AEDT)