I thought the biodeterminists guide was one of the most useful things I’ve ever read. I’d love it if Yvain would write the same for longevity, general fitness, IQ, etc.
I’d love there to be more work done on longevity, general fitness, and other practical applied rationality topics as well. The opportunity cost of having so many well written articles on social justice and the social sciences floating around is that LW users may spend more time thinking about those topics, to the partial exclusion of spending time thinking about applied rationality.
I asked for a good general guide to IQ (and in particular its objectivity and importance) on the LW FB group a while back. I got a bunch of answers, including these standouts:
I thought the biodeterminists guide was one of the most useful things I’ve ever read. I’d love it if Yvain would write the same for longevity, general fitness, IQ, etc.
I’d love there to be more work done on longevity, general fitness, and other practical applied rationality topics as well. The opportunity cost of having so many well written articles on social justice and the social sciences floating around is that LW users may spend more time thinking about those topics, to the partial exclusion of spending time thinking about applied rationality.
On longevity: see here.
Romeo Stevens has a guide on general fitness here called “optimal exercise” I believe.
That article is here
I asked for a good general guide to IQ (and in particular its objectivity and importance) on the LW FB group a while back. I got a bunch of answers, including these standouts:
http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/reingold/courses/intelligence/cache/1198gottfred.html
http://www.newscientist.com/data/doc/article/dn19554/instant_expert_13_-_intelligence.pdf
But there’s still plenty of room for improvement on those so I’d be curious to hear others’ suggestions.
On IQ, I strongly recommend Ian Deary’s Intelligence: A Short Introduction (link to shared file in my Google Drive).
And a friend requests an article comparing IQ and conscientiousness as a predictor for different things.
Added. That article is pretty comprehensive so deserves a place in the list.