Subject
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Rationality
Bookmarks
40 Useful Concepts You Should Know
Gurwinder's collection of 40 named cognitive and philosophical concepts — from Chesterton's Fence to the Dunning-Kruger effect — curated for practical use in reasoning and decision-making. A broadly useful reference for anyone building a personal mental model library.
CFAR Handbook 2021: Applied Rationality Curriculum
The CFAR Handbook is the curriculum guide from the Center for Applied Rationality — a workshop-based training program for systematic thinking, calibration, and overcoming cognitive biases. It operationalizes concepts from the LessWrong rationalist community into concrete exercises.
What Bayesianism Taught Me
A LessWrong post on what Bayesian reasoning changed about the author's thinking — not the mechanics of Bayes' theorem but the epistemic habits it instills. Treating beliefs as probability distributions rather than binary true/false is the core insight.