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LessWrong

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LessWrong (also writtenLess Wrong) is a communityblog andforum focused on discussion ofcognitive biases,philosophy,psychology,economics,rationality, andartificial intelligence, among other topics.[1][2]

LessWrong
Type of site
Internet forum,blog
Available inEnglish
Created byEliezer Yudkowsky
URLLessWrong.com
RegistrationOptional, but is required for contributing content
LaunchedFebruary 1, 2009; 16 years ago (2009-02-01)
Current statusActive
Written inJavaScript,CSS (powered byReact andGraphQL)

Purpose

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LessWrong describes itself as an online forum and community aimed at improving human reasoning, rationality, and decision-making, with the goal of helping its users hold more accurate beliefs and achieve their personal objectives.[3] The best known posts ofLessWrong are "The Sequences", a series of essays which aim to describe how to avoid the typical failure modes of human reasoning with the goal of improving decision-making and the evaluation of evidence.[4][5] One suggestion is the use ofBayes' theorem as a decision-making tool.[2] There is also a focus on psychological barriers that prevent good decision-making, includingfear conditioning andcognitive biases that have been studied by the psychologistDaniel Kahneman.[6]LessWrong is also concerned with artificial intelligence,transhumanism,existential threats and thesingularity.[7]

History

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Eliezer Yudkowsky atStanford University in 2006

LessWrong developed fromOvercoming Bias, an earlier group blog focused on human rationality, which began in November 2006, with artificial intelligence researcherEliezer Yudkowsky and economistRobin Hanson as the principal contributors. In February 2009, Yudkowsky's posts were used as the seed material to create the community blogLessWrong, andOvercoming Bias became Hanson's personal blog.[8] In 2013, a significant portion of therationalist community shifted focus to Scott Alexander'sSlate Star Codex.[4]

Artificial intelligence

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Discussions of AI within LessWrong includeAI alignment,AI safety,[9] andmachine consciousness.[citation needed] Articles posted on LessWrong about AI have been cited in the news media.[9][10]LessWrong, and its surrounding movement work on AI are the subjects of the 2019 bookThe AI Does Not Hate You, written by formerBuzzFeed science correspondent Tom Chivers.[11][12][13]

Effective altruism

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LessWrong played a significant role in the development of theeffective altruism (EA) movement,[14] and the two communities are closely intertwined.[15]: 227  In a survey ofLessWrong users in 2016, 664 out of 3,060 respondents, or 21.7%, identified as "effective altruists". A separate survey of effective altruists in 2014 revealed that 31% of respondents had first heard of EA throughLessWrong,[15] though that number had fallen to 8.2% by 2020.[16]

Roko's basilisk

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Main article:Roko's basilisk

In July 2010,LessWrong contributor Roko posted athought experiment to the site in which an otherwisebenevolent future AI system tortures people who heard of the AI before it came into existence and failed to work tirelessly to bring it into existence, in order to incentivise said work. This idea came to be known as "Roko's basilisk", based on Roko's idea that merely hearing about the idea would give the hypothetical AI system an incentive to try suchblackmail.[17][18][7]

Neoreaction

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AfterLessWrong split fromOvercoming Bias, it attracted some individuals affiliated withneoreaction with discussions ofeugenics andevolutionary psychology.[19] However, Yudkowsky has strongly rejected neoreaction.[20][21] Additionally, in a survey amongLessWrong users in 2016, only 28 out of 3060 respondents (0.92%) identified as "neoreactionary".[22]

User base

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According to theCommunity Survey 2023, conducted among 558 users of the forum, the user base consists of 75%cismales and 9.6% cisfemales, with the rest describing themselves astrans ornon-binary. Users are in most cases between 20 and 35 years old. Almost half of the users are from theUnited States and most of the remainder are fromWestern Europe orCanada. The ethnic makeup was 78.9%non-Hispanic White, 4.9%East Asian, 4.2%South Asian, 3.6%white Hispanic, 2.6%Middle Eastern, 0.7%Black and 5.1% others. LessWrong users are highly educated (with the majority having at least aBachelor's degree) and work primarily inIT,engineering or otherSTEM fields. A majority of 67% describe themselves asatheists and only 3.7% as convincedtheists. In terms of political orientation, the most frequently mentioned answers wereliberal (32.3%),libertarian (25.2%) andsocial democratic (22.3%).[23]

Notable users

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LessWrong has been associated with several influential contributors. Founder Eliezer Yudkowsky established the platform to promote rationality and raise awareness about potential risks associated with artificial intelligence.[24]Scott Alexander became one of the site's most popular writers before starting his own blog, Slate Star Codex, contributing discussions on AI safety and rationality.[24]

Further notable users onLessWrong includePaul Christiano,Wei Dai andZvi Mowshowitz. A selection of posts by these and other contributors, selected through a community review process,[25] were published as parts of the essay collections "A Map That Reflects the Territory"[26] and "The Engines of Cognition".[27][25][28]

TheZizians formed within the community surroundingLessWrong, with many members, including founder Ziz LaSota, commenting frequently on the site. They were eventually banned fromLessWrong and associated meetups and conferences due to an alleged pattern of aggressive behavior.[29]

See also

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References

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  1. ^"Less Wrong FAQ". LessWrong.Archived from the original on 30 April 2019. Retrieved25 March 2014.
  2. ^abMiller, James (28 July 2011)."You Can Learn How To Become More Rational".Business Insider.Archived from the original on 10 August 2018. Retrieved25 March 2014.
  3. ^"Welcome to LessWrong!".LessWrong. 14 June 2019.
  4. ^abLewis-Kraus, Gideon (9 July 2020)."Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley's War Against the Media".The New Yorker.Archived from the original on 10 July 2020. Retrieved4 August 2020.
  5. ^"Sequences Highlights". LessWrong.Archived from the original on 6 July 2024. Retrieved12 July 2024.
  6. ^Burkeman, Oliver (9 March 2012)."This column will change your life: asked a tricky question? Answer an easier one".The Guardian.Archived from the original on 26 March 2014. Retrieved25 March 2014.
  7. ^abTiku, Nitasha (25 July 2012)."Faith, Hope, and Singularity: Entering the Matrix with New York's Futurist Set".Observer.Archived from the original on 12 April 2019. Retrieved12 April 2019.
  8. ^"Where did Less Wrong come from? (LessWrong FAQ)".Archived from the original on 30 April 2019. Retrieved25 March 2014.
  9. ^abChivers, Tom (22 November 2023)."What we've learned about the robot apocalypse from the OpenAI debacle".Semafor.Archived from the original on 3 March 2024. Retrieved14 July 2024.Since the late 1990s those worries have become more specific, and coalesced around Nick Bostrom's 2014 bookSuperintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies and Eliezer Yudkowsky's blog LessWrong.
  10. ^Newport, Cal (15 March 2024)."Can an A.I. Make Plans?".The New Yorker.ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved14 July 2024.
  11. ^Cowdrey, Katherine (21 September 2017)."W&N wins Buzzfeed science reporter's debut after auction".The Bookseller.Archived from the original on 27 November 2018. Retrieved21 September 2017.
  12. ^Chivers, Tom (2019).The AI Does Not Hate You. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.ISBN 978-1474608770.
  13. ^Marriott, James (31 May 2019)."The AI Does Not Hate You by Tom Chivers review — why the nerds are nervous".The Times.ISSN 0140-0460.Archived from the original on 23 April 2020. Retrieved3 May 2020.
  14. ^de Lazari-Radek, Katarzyna;Singer, Peter (27 September 2017).Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. p. 110.ISBN 9780198728795.
  15. ^abChivers, Tom (2019). "Chapter 38: The Effective Altruists".The AI Does Not Hate You. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.ISBN 978-1474608770.
  16. ^Moss, David (20 May 2021)."EA Survey 2020: How People Get Involved in EA".Effective Altruism Forum.Archived from the original on 28 July 2021. Retrieved28 July 2021.
  17. ^Love, Dylan (6 August 2014)."WARNING: Just Reading About This Thought Experiment Could Ruin Your Life".Business Insider.Archived from the original on 18 November 2018. Retrieved6 December 2014.
  18. ^Auerbach, David (17 July 2014)."The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment of All Time".Slate.Archived from the original on 25 October 2018. Retrieved18 July 2014.
  19. ^Keep, Elmo (22 June 2016)."The Strange and Conflicting World Views of Silicon Valley Billionaire Peter Thiel".Fusion.Archived from the original on 13 February 2017. Retrieved5 October 2016.Thanks to LessWrong's discussions of eugenics and evolutionary psychology, it has attracted some readers and commenters affiliated with the alt-right and neoreaction, that broad cohort of neofascist, white nationalist and misogynist trolls.
  20. ^Riggio, Adam (23 September 2016)."The Violence of Pure Reason: Neoreaction: A Basilisk".Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective.5 (9):34–41.ISSN 2471-9560.Archived from the original on 5 October 2016. Retrieved5 October 2016.Land and Yarvin are openly allies with the new reactionary movement, while Yudkowsky counts many reactionaries among his fanbase despite finding their racist politics disgusting.
  21. ^Eliezer Yudkowsky (8 April 2016)."Untitled".Optimize Literally Everything (blog).Archived from the original on 26 May 2019. Retrieved7 October 2016.
  22. ^Hermansson, Patrik; Lawrence, David; Mulhall, Joe; Murdoch, Simon (2020)."The Dark Enlightenment: Neoreaction and Silicon Valley".The International Alt-Right. Fascism for the 21st Century?. Abingdon-on-Thames, England, UK: Routledge.ISBN 9781138363861.Archived from the original on 13 June 2022. Retrieved2 October 2020.
  23. ^"2023 Survey Results".LessWrong. 16 February 2024.
  24. ^abMiller, J.D. (2017). "Reflections on the Singularity Journey". In Callaghan, V.; Miller, J.; Yampolskiy, R.; Armstrong, S. (eds.).The Technological Singularity. The Frontiers Collection. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 225–226.ISBN 978-3-662-54033-6.Yudkowsky helped create the Singularity Institute (now called the Machine Intelligence Research Institute) to help mankind achieve a friendly Singularity. (Disclosure: I have contributed to the Singularity Institute.) Yudkowsky then founded the community blog http://LessWrong.com, which seeks to promote the art of rationality, to raise the sanity waterline, and to in part convince people to make considered, rational charitable donations, some of which, Yudkowsky (correctly) hoped, would go to his organization.
  25. ^abGasarch, William (2022). "Review of "A Map that Reflects the Territory: Essays by the LessWrong Community"".ACM SIGACT News.53 (1):13–24.doi:10.1145/3532737.3532741.Users wrote reviews of the best posts of 2018, and voted on them using the quadratic voting system, popularized by Glen Weyl and Vitalik Buterin. From the 2000+ posts published that year, the Review narrowed down the 44 most interesting and valuable posts.
  26. ^Lagerros, J.; Pace, B.; LessWrong.com (2020).A Map That Reflects the Territory: Essays by the LessWrong Community. Center for Applied Rationality.ISBN 9781736128503.
  27. ^Pace, B.; LessWrong (2021).The Engines of Cognition: Essays by the LessWrong Community. Center for Applied Rationality.ISBN 9781736128510.
  28. ^Gasarch, William (2022). "Review of "The Engines of Cognition: Essays by the Less Wrong Community"".ACM SIGACT News.53 (3):6–16.doi:10.1145/3561066.3561064 (inactive 1 November 2024).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
  29. ^Ratliff, Evan (21 February 2025)."The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians".Wired.Archived from the original on 26 February 2025. Retrieved26 February 2025.Their collective exile from the rationalist community was virtually complete. They were banned from LessWrong.com, along with various CFAR meetups and conferences. An anonymous rationalist launched a site, Zizians.info, branding them "the Zizians" for the first time and warning that the group was a cult.
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