# The Sequences Highlights on YouTube

This post consists of the [Sequences Highlights](https://www.lesswrong.com/highlights) compiled to a [zoomer-readable format](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Bfq6ncLfYdtCb6sat/i-converted-book-i-of-the-sequences-into-a-zoomer-readable), i.e., video. If you'd prefer to watch these videos on YouTube proper rather than on this post, use [this YouTube playlist](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqq--zwCCN3mU9ECQSufrDn7zzTeCGg4k). 

These videos may or may not suit your mind well; as far as I can tell, there's substantial individual variance with respect to how much mental friction they take to parse. I'd guess that you're more likely to extract value from these videos if:

*   You find audiobooks/podcasts tolerable
*   You were born after 1997
*   You have a low executive function budget due to ADHD, depression, or just being Extremely Online**™**

* * *

Thinking Better on Purpose
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### The Lens That Sees Its Flaws

### What Do We Mean By "Rationality"?

### Humans are not automatically strategic

### Use the Try Harder, Luke

### Your Strength as a Rationalist

### The Meditation on Curiosity

### The Importance of Saying "Oops"

### The Martial Art of Rationality

### Twelve Virtues of Rationality

Pitfalls of Human Cognition
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### The Bottom Line

### Rationalization

### You Can Face Reality

### Is That Your True Rejection?

### Avoiding Your Belief's Real Weak Points

### Belief as Attire

### Cached Thoughts

### The Fallacy of Gray

### Lonely Dissent

### Positive Bias: Look Into the Dark

### Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People

### Politics is the Mind-Killer

The Laws Governing Belief
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### Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences)

### What is Evidence?

### Scientific Evidence, Legal Evidence, Rational Evidence

### How Much Evidence Does It Take?

### Absence of Evidence Is Evidence of Absence

### Conservation of Expected Evidence

### Argument Screens Off Authority

### An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes's Theorem

### The Second Law of Thermodynamics, and Engines of Cognition

### Toolbox-thinking and Law-thinking

### Local Validity as a Key to Sanity and Civilization

Science Isn't Enough
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### When Science Can't Help

### Faster Than Science

### Science Doesn't Trust Your Rationality

### No Safe Defense, Not Even Science

Connecting Words to Reality
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### Taboo Your Words

### Dissolving the Question

### Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease

### Hug the Query

### Say Not "Complexity"

### Mind Projection Fallacy

### How An Algorithm Feels From Inside

### Expecting Short Inferential Distances

### Illusion of Transparency: Why No One Understands You

Why We Fight
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### Something to Protect

### The Gift We Give To Tomorrow

### On Caring

### Tsuyoku Naritai! (I Want To Become Stronger)

### A Sense That More Is Possible

Appendix
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1.  I do expect many (most?) people to get a superior understanding of the Sequences Highlights by reading them directly, instead of watching these videos. The perfect should not be the enemy of the good, though, as I also expect these videos to have much higher user-retention rates than the raw Highlights.
2.  If you've already read the content, these videos could act as a low-effort means to refresh the relevant thought-patterns, making them more mentally available.
3.  Kudos to [trevor](https://www.lesswrong.com/users/trevor-one) for suggesting both the background video and the idea of converting the Highlights.