No; you can vote on an arbitrary subset. For example, I left out one blog when I was voting on them and had to go back and vote on that one as well. And if you look at them, you’ll notice differing vote counts for where people decided to express an opinion: eg. right now protokol2020 has 17 total votes, but lucidian has 19 total votes.
Aretae isn’t me, I just suggested his blog a while back. He is, as far as I know, a member of the LessWrong community, although I believe a silent one here.
Poll for ranking popularity, using http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/List_of_Blogs :
alexvermeer: http://alexvermeer.com Understanding and Mastering Our Brains to Do Cool Stuff [pollid:476]
Briénne: http://enterthoughts.blogspot.com/ Entertaining Thoughts [pollid:477]
ciphergoth: http://mindsarentmagic.wordpress.com/ Minds Aren’t Magic (focus on cryonics) [pollid:478]
David_Gerard: http://rationalblogs.org/rationalwiki/ RationalWiki Blog (general skeptical interest) [pollid:479]
Eneasz: http://www.deathisbadblog.com/ Death Is Bad [pollid:480]
jimmy: http://cognitiveengineer.blogspot.ca/ The Art and Science of Cognitive Engineering (focus on hypnosis) [pollid:481]
JKaufman: http://www.jefftk.com/news/index Jeff Kaufman [pollid:482]
Julia: http://thewholesky.wordpress.com/ The Whole Sky (stories about being a social worker in a prison) [pollid:483]
Katja Grace: http://meteuphoric.wordpress.com/ Meteuphoric (focus on anthropics and human behavior) [pollid:484]
Michelle_Z: http://amithereyet31.blogspot.com/ Am I There Yet? (Self improvement, science, and other varied topics) [pollid:485]
NancyLebovitz: http://nancylebov.livejournal.com/ Input Junkie [pollid:486]
Aretae: http://aretae.blogspot.com/ Aretae [pollid:487]
Paul Christiano: http://rationalaltruist.com A Rational Altruist, [http://ordinaryideas.wordpress.com/ Ordinary Ideas] [pollid:488]
PaulWright: http://blog.noctua.org.uk/ GCU Dancer On The Midway (mostly links) [pollid:489]
sark: http://sarkology.wordpress.com/ sarkology [pollid:490]
Saint: http://sthomme.wordpress.com/ StHomme (Essays) [pollid:491]
tuxedage: https://tuxedage.wordpress.com/ Essays and Other Musings [pollid:492]
Will & Divia Eden: http://becomingeden.com/ Becoming Eden (focus on self-help) [pollid:493]
XiXiDu: http://kruel.co/ Alexander Kruel (focus on critiques of the Less Wrong community) [pollid:494]
Yvain: http://slatestarcodex.com Slate Star Codex (focus on psychiatry and structure of arguments) [pollid:495]
Yossarian: http://rationalsuperhero.wordpress.com/ The Rational Superhero (a “progress blog”—so far focusing on productivity) [pollid:496]
Julia: http://www.givinggladly.com/ Giving Gladly [pollid:497]
Peter_Hurford: http://www.everydayutilitarian.com/ Everyday Utilitarian [pollid:499]
TGGP: http://entitledtoanopinion.wordpress.com/ Entitled To An Opinion (social science, genetics, links) [pollid:500]
Alyssa Vance: http://rationalconspiracy.com/ The Rationalist Conspiracy [pollid:501]
Silas Barta: http://blog.tyrannyofthemouse.com/ Setting Things Straight [pollid:502]
Aurini: http://www.staresattheworld.com/ Stares At The World (reactionary thought, collapse of modern society) [pollid:503]
Clarisse Thorn: http://clarissethorn.com/blog/ Clarisse Thorn (kink, S&M) [pollid:504]
HughRistik: http://www.feministcritics.org/blog/ Feminist Critics (discussion of feminism, often negative) [pollid:505]
Konkvistador et al: http://www.moreright.net/ More Right (reactionary thought) [pollid:506]
OrphanWilde: http://orphanwilde.blogspot.com/ The Orphan Wilde (libertarianism) [pollid:507]
Chana Messinger: http://themerelyreal.wordpress.com/ The Merely Real (focus on skepticism and social justice) [pollid:509]
Chris_Hallquist: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/hallq/ The Uncredible Hallq (atheist blog with occasional focus on singularity) [pollid:510]
Gilbert: http://last-conformer.net/ The Last Conformer (Catholic blog, occasional well-informed criticisms of Less Wrong) [pollid:511]
muflax: http://daily.muflax.com/ Muflax Becomes A Saint (focus on Buddhism, early Christianity, eclectic mysticism) [pollid:512]
palladias: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/unequallyyoked/ Unequally Yoked (Catholic blog by recent convert from atheism) [pollid:513]
Qiaochu_Yuan: http://qchu.wordpress.com/ Annoying Precision [pollid:514]
Zack M Davis: http://zackmdavis.net/blog/ An Algorithmic Lucidity [pollid:515]
Elliotte Rusty Harold: http://cafe.elharo.com/ The Cafes [pollid:516]
Elliotte Rusty Harold: http://www.elharo.com/blog/ Mokka mit Schlag [pollid:517]
Bill McGrath: http://billmcgrathmusic.wordpress.com/ Bill McGrath Music [pollid:518]
Kaj Sotala: http://kajsotala.fi/ kajsotala.fi (educational video games, among other things) [pollid:519]
kpreid: http://kpreid.livejournal.com/ Kevin Reid’s Blog (programming, often game development; miscellany) [pollid:520]
RolfAndreassen: http://ynglingasaga.wordpress.com/ Yngling Saga (logs from role-playing games) [pollid:521]
Trevor Blake: http://ovo127.com/ OVO [pollid:522]
wallowinmaya: http://wallowinmaya.wordpress.com/ wallowinmaya (summaries of the Sequences, nihilism, etc.) [pollid:523]
pcm: http://www.bayesianinvestor.com/blog/ Peter McCluskey’s blog (book reviews, nutrition, prediction markets, etc.) [pollid:524]
protokol2020: http://protokol2020.wordpress.com/ protokol2020 (exploring problems in science and technology and elsewhere) [pollid:525]
lucidian: http://yearlycider.wordpress.com/ Yearly Cider (existentialism, epistemology, etc.) [pollid:526]
Ozy’s blog has been taken down.
I’ve removed Ozy, deleted the duplicate Christiano, and updated the wiki page accordingly.
Thanks!
:( Temporarily I hope.
Christiano is listed twice.
Confused about how this poll works. Do I need to have an opinion about every blog on this list to vote?
No; you can vote on an arbitrary subset. For example, I left out one blog when I was voting on them and had to go back and vote on that one as well. And if you look at them, you’ll notice differing vote counts for where people decided to express an opinion: eg. right now protokol2020 has 17 total votes, but lucidian has 19 total votes.
Aretae isn’t me, I just suggested his blog a while back. He is, as far as I know, a member of the LessWrong community, although I believe a silent one here.
Also, my blog isn’t exactly rationality-oriented.