Until LessWrong 2.0 comes out, this is how I’ve been staying in touch with the Rationalist Diaspora. It took about an hour to set up and I can now see almost everything in the one place.
I’ve been using an RSS reader (I use feedly) to collate RSS feeds from these lists,
This system is unsatisfying in a number of ways the two most obvious to me being 1) I don’t know of any way to integrate the Rationalists on Facebook into this system and 2) Upvotes from places that use them like LW or r/rational aren’t displayed. Nevertheless it is still much simpler for me to be notified of new material. If anyone has suggestions on improvements or wants to share how they follow the Diaspora that’d be most welcome.
You could probably dig up more by looking through the blogrolls of the blogs you’ve already identified. For example, Scott Aaronson considers himself part of the rationalist blogosphere and is listed on the SlateStarCodex sidebar.
Many of these update infrequently, making it bothersome to check all of them. I’ll bet it wouldn’t be very hard to create a single site that lets you see what’s new across the entire diaspora (including LW) by combining all these RSS feeds in to something like http://lesswrong.com/r/all/recentposts/ Could be a fun webdev project. Register a domain for it and put it on your resume.
Somewhere I got the impression that … Sarah Perry of Ribbonfarm were LWers at some point.
She was/is. Her (now dead) blog, The View From Hell, is on the lesswrong wiki list of blogs. She has another blog, at https://theviewfromhellyes.wordpress.com which updates, albeit at a glacial pace.
If you just wanted blogs (i.e. no twitter+tumblr) the following are blogs I personally like that post frequently in rough order of how useful/insightful I have found them,
Until LessWrong 2.0 comes out, this is how I’ve been staying in touch with the Rationalist Diaspora. It took about an hour to set up and I can now see almost everything in the one place.
I’ve been using an RSS reader (I use feedly) to collate RSS feeds from these lists,
Rationist Blogs,
https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/List_of_Blogs
https://www.reddit.com/r/RationalistDiaspora/
Effective Altruist Blogs,
http://www.stafforini.com/blog/effective-altruism-blogs/
Rationalist Tumblers,
http://yxoque.tumblr.com/RationalistMasterlist
And using this twitter to RSS tool for these LessWrong Twitters,
http://lesswrong.com/lw/d92/less_wrong_on_twitter/
This system is unsatisfying in a number of ways the two most obvious to me being 1) I don’t know of any way to integrate the Rationalists on Facebook into this system and 2) Upvotes from places that use them like LW or r/rational aren’t displayed. Nevertheless it is still much simpler for me to be notified of new material. If anyone has suggestions on improvements or wants to share how they follow the Diaspora that’d be most welcome.
Trying to think of what’s not on this list:
The EA forum sometimes has insightful posts, mostly EA news
Givewell and Open Philanthropy Project blogs
http://nickbostrom.com
/r/slatestarcodex, /r/LessWrong, /r/HPMoR, /r/smartgiving, /r/effectivealtruism, /r/rational
Thing of Things (Ozy’s blog)
Topher’s blog URL is now http://topherhallquist.wordpress.com
http://thefutureprimaeval.net is a group blog by a few ex-LWers I believe
You could probably dig up more by looking through the blogrolls of the blogs you’ve already identified. For example, Scott Aaronson considers himself part of the rationalist blogosphere and is listed on the SlateStarCodex sidebar.
Andrew Critch’s blog is great
PredictionBook, Omnilibrium
Of course there are lots of Facebook groups (especially EA-related Facebook groups) and Facebook personalities, notably Eliezer
Somewhere I got the impression that HBD Chick and Sarah Perry of Ribbonfarm were LWers at some point. There’s also the “post-rationalist” community which includes sites like Melting Asphalt.
Scott’s community map
Many of these update infrequently, making it bothersome to check all of them. I’ll bet it wouldn’t be very hard to create a single site that lets you see what’s new across the entire diaspora (including LW) by combining all these RSS feeds in to something like http://lesswrong.com/r/all/recentposts/ Could be a fun webdev project. Register a domain for it and put it on your resume.
She was/is. Her (now dead) blog, The View From Hell, is on the lesswrong wiki list of blogs. She has another blog, at https://theviewfromhellyes.wordpress.com which updates, albeit at a glacial pace.
This seems very useful. Thank you for posting it.
Out of all of the blogs, which ones do you prioritize in reading first? It seems like there are far too many to always read all of them.
If you just wanted blogs (i.e. no twitter+tumblr) the following are blogs I personally like that post frequently in rough order of how useful/insightful I have found them,
mindingourway.com
slatestarcodex.com
srconstantin.wordpress.com
thingofthings.wordpress.com
malcolmocean.com
agentyduck.blogspot.com
https://blog.jaibot.com/
lukemuehlhauser.com
meteuphoric.wordpress.com
There are a few that are very infrequent but very good when they do post,
relentlessdawn.wordpress.com
http://www.theunforgivingminute.co/
https://alexvermeer.com/blog/
I think most update pretty infrequently, which makes RSS a good solution.