People here generally reading a big part of the sequences is important for participating in debate. I see large influence on the thinking of people on LessWrong from non-sequence and indeed non-LW writing such as Paul Grahams writing on Keeping your identity small or What you can’t say. Why don’t we include these in the promotion of material aspiring rationalists should ideally read?
Now consider building such a list. Don’t include entire books. While a required reading list might complement the sequences nicely especially when Eliezer finally gets around to writing his rationality book that is I think a different worthy goal. Pick material that is broken up into digestible chunks available online (blog posts, sites, ect.), much as the original sequences where. Don’t feel constrained by keeping the sequences on a single subject, there are plenty of great LW posts that get less attention than they deserve because they aren’t included in a sequence, let us not repeat the mistake with non-LW material.
If you had to come up with one or several Sequences consisting of material that isn’t on LessWrong what would you include?
Feel free to create miscellaneous lists as long as they are not off topic for LW.
People here generally reading a big part of the sequences is important for participating in debate. I see large influence on the thinking of people on LessWrong from non-sequence and indeed non-LW writing such as Paul Grahams writing on Keeping your identity small or What you can’t say. Why don’t we include these in the promotion of material aspiring rationalists should ideally read?
Now consider building such a list. Don’t include entire books. While a required reading list might complement the sequences nicely especially when Eliezer finally gets around to writing his rationality book that is I think a different worthy goal. Pick material that is broken up into digestible chunks available online (blog posts, sites, ect.), much as the original sequences where. Don’t feel constrained by keeping the sequences on a single subject, there are plenty of great LW posts that get less attention than they deserve because they aren’t included in a sequence, let us not repeat the mistake with non-LW material.
If you had to come up with one or several Sequences consisting of material that isn’t on LessWrong what would you include?
Feel free to create miscellaneous lists as long as they are not off topic for LW.
I’m pretty sure that one could extract a full sequence from Patrick McKenzie’s blog.