Blogging daily from August 2007 to March 2009, Eliezer Yudkowsky essentially wrote a book on Overcoming Bias about rationality, value, quantum physics, decision theory, cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, and lots of other interesting and enlightening topics. Now that book is pretty much done, catalogued via Andrew Hay’s auto-generated post list and the accompanying dependency map, which is amusingly huge. Since everything is pretty much done, now is a good time to go back and explore select sequences, especially if you haven’t before.

The posts are very interconnected and if you start randomly with one’s it’s likely you’ll find it interesting or find easy links to another useful post. (I wish that more posts linked to posts that are dependent on them or follow them in the sequence.) The question, though, is: is there a unified list of the major sequences anywhere? I know there’s Hay’s graph, but the largest dependency cluster is more than one sequence. It has to be pulled apart and classified for getting readers started on sequences they find interesting more easily. I know that there are a few OB posts that list some of the main sequences — which were these again?

I’ll post them here as we put together links.

The Quantum Physics Sequence (66 posts)
April 9th, 2008 – June 10, 2008

Update: looking closely at the dependency graph, most everything is so tangled that it is very difficult to pick out specific sequences. I’m curious to see how this will work out if processed into book form.