LessWrong.com is a forum for the “Rationality community,” an informal network of bloggers who seek to call attention to biases and fallacies and apply reason more rigorously (sometimes to what may seem like extreme lengths).
Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/ is an anagram of “Scott Alexander,” the author of the tutorial recommended above and a prominent member of the “rationality community.” This deep and witty blog covers diverse topics in social science, medicine, events, and everyday life.
80,000 Hours, https://80000hours.org/, an allusion to the number of hours in your career, is a non-profit that provides research and advice on how you can best make a difference through your career.
SLATE STAR CODEX is almost an anagram of SCOTT ALEXANDER. I think I remember Scott saying it was meant to actually be an anagram and he goofed. Pinker says it’s an anagram.
(But I misremembered: it has an extra S as well as missing an N, so it’s pole-blindness rather than just N-blindness. Also, perhaps I’m also misremembering about the origins of the name; maybe Scott didn’t actually goof at all, but just decided to make do with an imperfect anagram.)
The syllabus also includes (either as required or optional reading) https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ujTE9FLWveYz9WTxZ/what-cost-for-irrationality , https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XTXWPQSEgoMkAupKt/an-intuitive-explanation-of-bayes-stheorem ,
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QxZs5Za4qXBegXCgu/introduction-to-game-theorysequence-guide , https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/24/conflict-vs-mistake/ , https://80000hours.org/key-ideas/ , and https://arbital.com/p/bayes_rule/?l=1zq ; its “other resources” sections also include the following mentions:
Nice to see that Steven Pinker has the same N-blindness as Scott himself :-).
What do you mean by n-blindness?
SLATE STAR CODEX is almost an anagram of SCOTT ALEXANDER. I think I remember Scott saying it was meant to actually be an anagram and he goofed. Pinker says it’s an anagram.
(But I misremembered: it has an extra S as well as missing an N, so it’s pole-blindness rather than just N-blindness. Also, perhaps I’m also misremembering about the origins of the name; maybe Scott didn’t actually goof at all, but just decided to make do with an imperfect anagram.)