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
Everything Studies John Nerst
Input Junkie NancyLebovitz (Politics, personal live journal stuff)
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)
Slate Star Codex Scott Alexander (psychiatry, analysis of ideology, misc)
The Rationalist Conspiracy Alyssa Vance
Caspar Oesterheld and Johannes Treutlein (mostly decision theory, but also other topics)
Applied Rationality
Agenty Duck Logan Strohl
BearLamp Elo
Becoming Eden Will & Divia Eden (self-help)
Beeminder posts tagged “rationality” dreeves
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)
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)
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
Overcoming Bias Robin Hanson (legendary econblog, focuses on signaling and the future)
The Future Strategist Podcast James Miller
Altruism and Utilitarianism
Almost No One is Evil, Almost Everything is Broken (Very Philosophical and Poetic Take)
Essays on Reducing Suffering Brian Tomasik
Giving Gladly Julia Wise
Math and CS
Annoying Precision Qiaochu_Yuan
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)
kajsotala.fi Kaj Sotala (educational video games and other topics)
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
Stares At The World Aurini (cultural collapse of modern society)
Rationalist Adjacent
Econlog Bryan Caplan et all
Noahpinion Noah Smith
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.)
From the old discussion page:
Talk:List of Blogs
Description of Deluk917′s update of the page on April 25th 2017
Dead Link
David_Gerard: RationalWiki Blog (general skeptical interest)
nerfhammer: Planet Rationalist (aggregator)
Saint: StHomme (Essays) Note: content on blog has since been removed. (checked 2014-09-02)
Michael Anissimov: More Right (reactionary thought, political commentary)
muflax: Muflax Becomes A Saint (Buddhism, early Christianity, eclectic mysticism) Note: site has since been removed (“buried”). (checked 2014-09-02)
steven0461: Black Belt Bayesian Note: site has since been removed. (checked 2014-09-02)
Removed for Editorial Reasons
Gleb_Tsipursky: Intentional Insights (rationality and effective altruism popularization) - Should we really link to Gleb?
Arun Bharatula: University of Melbourne Science Communication blog (psychological skills, philanthropy, research agendas and expert assessment) - Moved twice. The site is no longer public (you need to request access)
Trevor Blake: OVO—I didn’t find any writing.
m_k: A solver in search of problems (general rationality, translations of rationality materials into Polish) - The site seems to have been repurposed into a site about ‘Pixyll’ a CS framework.