The Craft and The Com­mu­nity (Se­quence)

The final sequence of Eliezer Yudkowsky’s two-year-long string of daily posts to Less Wrong, on improving the art of rationality and building communities of rationalists.

A guide to this sequence is available at The Craft and the Community.

Blog Posts

• Raising the Sanity Waterline

• A Sense That More Is Possible

• Epistemic Viciousness

• Schools Proliferating Without Evidence

• 3 Levels of Rationality Verification

• Why Our Kind Can’t Cooperate

• Tolerate Tolerance

• You’re Calling Who A Cult Leader?

• On Things That Are Awesome

• Your Price For Joining

• Can Humanism Match Religion’s Output?

• Church vs. Taskforce

• Rationality: Common Interest of Many Causes

• Helpless Individuals

• Money: The Unit of Caring

• Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately

• Selecting Rationalist Groups

• Incremental Progress and the Valley

• Whining-Based Communities

• Mandatory Secret Identities

• Beware of Other-Optimizing

• Akrasia and Shangri-La

• Collective Apathy and the Internet

• Bayesians vs. Barbarians

• Of Gender and Rationality

• My Way

• The Sin of Underconfidence

• Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism

• Practical Advice Backed By Deep Theories

• Less Meta

• Go Forth and Create the Art!

See Also

• Group rationality