Rationalist Reading Recommendations

Comments primarily consist of users sharing links to rationalist websites like LessWrong and Slate Star Codex, Yudkowsky's essays, sci-fi novels such as Snow Crash, and other philosophical or futuristic writings.

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vimax • Mar 8, 2022 • View on HN

https://www.lesswrong.com/library

EvanAnderson • Jun 29, 2021 • View on HN

Let me leave this here for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash

kadushka • Feb 12, 2025 • View on HN

https://www.lesswrong.com/

proto_lambda • Jun 24, 2023 • View on HN

(this is in reference to the amazing novel/series by qntm: https://qntm.org/scp)

IgorPartola • Feb 14, 2023 • View on HN

Must have been reading too much about https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk

kubanczyk • Oct 26, 2020 • View on HN

How about https://yudkowsky.net/rational/the-simple-truth/

maxhedrome • May 9, 2019 • View on HN

I’ll just leave this here for whoever wants to read ithttps://www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/vetter/Other-stuff/The-Machi...

olalonde • Jul 6, 2012 • View on HN

http://www.lesswrong.com is probably what comes closer to what you are describing.

xeonmc • Apr 3, 2024 • View on HN

Read here: https://archive.org/details/interzone-magazine-242-2012-09-1...

marksbrown • Dec 2, 2021 • View on HN

Relevant : https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/