Rationality is the virtue of finding the truth and acting optimally in pursuit of your goals

Resources

• Rationality: from AI to Zombies, Eliezer Yudkowsky
• Scout Mindset, Julia Galef
• lesswrong.com
• Think Again, Adam Grant
• Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
• astralcodexten.substack.com, Scott Alexander

Rational fiction

Fiction where the characters display rationality, and or their behaiviour and thinking is inspired by our understanding of human minds.

Examples I read and enjoyed:

• Mother of Learning, nobody103
• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
• Worth the Candle