Rationality materials

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If you're new to Less Wrong, a good place to start is with the Sequences. The Core Sequences are the ones that focus on the fundamentals of rationality.

The Sequence index lists sequence posts in logical order. There is also a dependency tree of all of Eliezer Yudkowsky's posts from November 2006 to December 2008, and a couple of "abridged" versions of the Sequences: 1, 2.

Here is a sampling of various sequence posts:

Core Sequences

Map and Territory


Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions


A Human's Guide to Words

How To Actually Change Your Mind


Reductionism

Other Sequences

Positivism, Self Deception, and Neuroscience


Decision Theory of Newcomblike Problems


The Science of Winning at Life


Metaethics sequence


Priming and Implicit Association


Fun theory

Living Luminously


Challenging the Difficult


Decision Analysis


Rationality and Philosophy


The Craft and the Community


Quantum Physics


Here are some "standalone" posts that are worth reading:

Heuristics and biases


Epistemology


Identity and signalling


Scholarship and learning


Moral philosophy


Statistics

Charity


Belief calibration


Decision theory


Akrasia, motivation, and self-improvement


Existential risk and risks from artificial intelligence


If you're interested in starting a Less Wrong meetup, How to Run a Successful Less Wrong Meetup is a guide for meetup organizers (pdf here).