mingyuan answers What are the top 1-10 posts /​ sequences /​ articles /​ etc. that you’ve found most useful for yourself for becoming “less wrong”?

[mingyuan]

Thinking only about posts that made me a better rationalist/​thinker/​person able to achieve things in the world:

• Eliezer:

  • Your Strength as a Rationalist (spoiler: it’s your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality)

  • Is That Your True Rejection?

  • Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences)

• Scott Alexander:

  • Generalizing From One Example

  • Meditations on Moloch

• Anna Salamon: The correct response to uncertainty is *not* half-speed

• Paul Graham: The Top Idea in Your Mind

• Nate Soares:

  • Enjoying the feeling of agency

  • Stop trying to try and try