List of blogs from the diaspora and rationalist movement. Last large update: 2017-05-25

General Rationality and Philosophy

• An Algorithmic Lucidity Zack M Davis

• Compass Rose Ben Hoffman (Benquo)

• Don’t Worry About the Vase Zvi Moshowitz

• Entirely Useless

• Everything Studies John Nerst

• Grognor

• Input Junkie NancyLebovitz (Politics, personal live journal stuff)

• Julia Galef

• Map and Territory

• Melting Asphalt Kevin Simler

• Minds Aren’t Magic Paul Crowley

• Nothing Is Mere RobbBB (value theory, meta-metaphysics)

• Put A Number On It Jacob Falkovich ″(Math, Pure Rationality, misc)

• Qualia Computing

• Slate Star Codex Scott Alexander (psychiatry, analysis of ideology, misc)

• The Rationalist Conspiracy Alyssa Vance

• Venam’s Blog

• Caspar Oesterheld and Johannes Treutlein (mostly decision theory, but also other topics)

• TheWaywardAxolotl

• Expanding Rationality

• Zero Contradictions

Applied Rationality

• Agenty Duck Logan Strohl

• BearLamp Elo

• Becoming Eden Will & Divia Eden (self-help)

• Beeminder posts tagged “rationality” dreeves

• Ferocious Truth

• Jeff Kaufman Jeff Kaufman (Effective Altruism, Software, Owning a group house)

• MalcolmOcean (community, culture, and mental models)

• Meditation Stuff MarkL (meditation, phenomenology, ontology, epistemology, instrumental rationality)

• Meteuphoric Katja Grace (anthropics and human behavior)

• mindlevelup Owen Shen (self-improvement, cognitive psych, debiasing)

• Minding Our Way Nate Soares

• Particular Virtue (Software Engineering Perspective)

• Squirrel in Hell

• The Sideways View Paul Christiano

• Understanding and Mastering Our Brains to Do Cool Stuff alexvermeer

Research Analysis and Economics: (often political)

• Bayesian Investor Blog Peter McCluskey (economics, book reviews, nutrition, prediction markets, etc.)

• Aceso Under Glass Elizabeth (Science, Technology and Videogames)

• Anonymous Mugwump

• Entitled To An Opinion TGGP (social science, genetics, links)

• Eukaryote Writes Blog Georgia

• gwern.net Gwern (blog-ish website with lots of detailed statistical analyses of nootropics, anime, and population dynamics)

• Clear Language, Clear Mind Emil O. W. Kirkegaard (psychology, behavioral genetics, group differences, genomics, statistics etc.)

• Nintil Artir (Economic history, technology, philosophy, and how to git gud at thinking)

• niplav.site Niplav Long site, with forecasting research, AI alignment and some nootropics

• Otium

• Overcoming Bias Robin Hanson (legendary econblog, focuses on signaling and the future)

• Pseudoerasmuas

• Random Critical Analysis

• The Future Strategist Podcast James Miller

• Unenumerated

Altruism and Utilitarianism

• 80k hours

• Almost No One is Evil, Almost Everything is Broken (Very Philosophical and Poetic Take)

• Charity Navigator

• Effective Altruism Forum

• Essays on Reducing Suffering Brian Tomasik

• GiveDirectly

• Giving Gladly Julia Wise

• Giving What We Can

• The Give Well Blog

• The Life You Can Save

• The Open Philantropy Blog

Math and CS

• Annoying Precision Qiaochu_Yuan

• Benkuhn

• Chris Stucchio

• Eli Bendersky

• Thomas protokol2020 (exploring problems in science and technology and elsewhere)

• Setting Things Straight Silas Barta

Religion and Atheism

• DiaPente JQuinton (focus on early Christianity, rationality, and psychology of religion)

• The Merely Real Chana Messinger (skepticism and social justice)

• Unequally Yoked palladias (Catholic blog by recent convert from atheism)

AI Risk

• AI Control Paul Christiano

• Machine Intelligence Research Institute—MIRI

Fiction and Media Heavy Blogs

• Doof! Media moridinamael (books, movies, and television—podcasts and essays)

• Death is Bad

• kajsotala.fi Kaj Sotala (educational video games and other topics)

• Luke Muehlhauser

• Mokka mit Schlag Elliotte Rusty Harold (Science Fiction)

• Name and Nature Paul Wright (links on sci-fi, programming and politics)

• Unsong Scott Alexander ″(Serialized Fiction)

• Yngling Saga RolfAndreassen (logs from role-playing games)

Social Justice and Leftwing Politics

• Brute Reason Miri Mogilevsky ″(skepticism, feminism, social justice)

• Feminist Critics HughRistik (discussion of feminism, often negative)

• The Thing of Things Ozy Frantz

• The Whole Sky Julia: (stories about being a social worker in a prison and other topics)

Reaction, Anti-SJ and Rightwing Politics

• Small Truths

• Stares At The World Aurini (cultural collapse of modern society)

• Status 451

Rationalist Adjacent

• Aellagirl (nsfw)

• Econlog Bryan Caplan et all

• Marginal Revolution

• Noahpinion Noah Smith

• Ribbonfarm

• Shtetl-optimized

• WaitButWhy

• Pirate.London Cybercrime, Transhumanism, Geekery from Deku-shrub

Currently Inactive Blogs

• Bill McGrath Music Bill McGrath {01-2016}

• Effective Differentials Dale/​Dias (Economics, Rationality, Effective Altruism) {10-2015}

• Kevin Reid’s Blog kpreid (programming, often game development; miscellany) {03-2016~ 3 posts in 2015}

• lalaithion Random things, social justice, and science {07-2015}

• Ordinary Ideas Paul Christiano {11-2016~ one post in 2016}

• The Art and Science of Cognitive Engineering jimmy {04-2016~ 4 posts in 2015, 3 in 2015}

• The Cafes Elliotte Rusty Harold {02-2016~ Sparse since 2012}

• The Last Conformer Gilbert (Catholic blog, occasional well-informed criticisms of LessWrong) {08-2015}

• The Orphan Wilde OrphanWilde (libertarianism) {07-2015}

Gone But Not Forgotten

• Alexander Kruel XiXiDu (critiques of the LessWrong community)

• Am I There Yet? (self-improvement, science, and other varied topics) Michelle_Z

• By Way of Contradiction Coscott

• Clarisse Thorn Clarisse Thorn (kink, S&M)

• Common Sense Atheism Lukeprog

• Essays and Other Musings tuxedage

• Measure of Doubt, measureofdoubt on Youtube Julia Galef

• Rational Altruist Paul Christiano {11-2014}

• Reflective Disequilibrium Carl Shulman

• sarkology sark

• The Rational Superhero Yossarian (a “progress blog” so far focusing on productivity)

• The View From Hell Sister Y (suicide rights, negative utilitarianism)

• Yearly Cider lucidian (existentialism, epistemology, etc.)

See Also

• List of Lists (tag)

• Tumblr Masterlist

• Map of the rationalist community on Slate Star Codex

• List of communities

• List of Podcasts