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What (standalone) LessWrong posts would you recommend to most EA community members?

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2022·EA Forum·forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/qtDZHBx6LpAR7ejDD/what-...

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Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸

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This EA Forum thread aggregates community-recommended LessWrong posts, making it a useful starting point for those seeking rationalist perspectives relevant to AI safety, existential risk, and effective altruism decision-making.

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A community discussion thread on the EA Forum where members share and recommend standout LessWrong posts valuable for effective altruists. The thread serves as a curated reading list bridging rationalist and EA intellectual communities, highlighting foundational thinking on decision-making, epistemics, and existential risk.

Key Points

  • •Crowdsourced recommendations from EA community members identifying high-value LessWrong content
  • •Bridges the rationalist (LessWrong) and effective altruism communities by surfacing shared intellectual resources
  • •Likely highlights posts on epistemics, cognitive biases, decision theory, and existential risk relevant to EA priorities
  • •Functions as a curated entry point for EAs less familiar with the LessWrong canon
  • •Reflects community consensus on which rationalist ideas are most practically useful for EA work

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# What (standalone) LessWrong posts would you recommend to most EA community members?
By Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸
Published: 2022-02-09
**Edit 11 Feb 2022:** Jeremy made a post about starting a [low-commitment LW Article club](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/K9JP6T6u6ujHiGFFD/low-commitment-less-wrong-book-eg-article-club) where he'd be linkposting articles on a weekly basis from this list for people to engage with! 

Context / Motivation: 

*   I am interested in thinking a lot recently about how we could share ideas from the rationalist community to EA and related subcommunities (perhaps communicating the same ideas in different ways).
*   I've been diving into LessWrong recently and remembered why I hadn't for a while - it's **really overwhelming.** Even with the sequences and curation, it's a lot of content, and it's not always obvious to me which posts I'd find most valuable.
*   I think it's better to read fewer posts in more depth to properly understand them.
*   I think it's likely that some posts or ideas will be much more relevant to EAs than others, but I'm not sure which ones

My ask:

*   I'd be interested in recommendations for standlone posts ([e.g. All debates are bravery debates](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/XsMTxdQ6fprAQMoKi/p/PQ3nutgxfTgvq69Xt)), specific concepts (e.g. schelling fence or doublecrux) , or specific sequences ([e.g.](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/hBFDRZCPLcrRDubgm))
*   If you have time, I'd love to know why it's valuable to you
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