LessWrong
- HQ / base
- Berkeley
- Founded
- 2009
- Money
- —
- Status
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Eliezer Yudkowsky's community blog ('refining the art of human rationality'); the Sequences, HPMOR, and the intellectual substrate of AI doom discourse. Rebuilt as LessWrong 2.0 (2017) by Lightcone. The Alignment Forum is its research-facing sibling. TIME/TESCREAL critics treat it as the ideological engine room of the whole network.
Connections
- Eliezer Yudkowskyfounded (2009)
- Robin HansonOvercoming Bias precursor
- Gwern Branwencanonical contributor
- Scott Alexander / Astral Codex TenSSC grew from LW diaspora
- Zvi Mowshowitzcore writer
- Lightcone Infrastructureoperates
- Ben Paceco-runs; Nonlinear exposé
- Idea lineage: Extropians → LessWrong → EA → AI safetygenealogy node
- Neoreaction & dissident-right adjacencycomment-sphere adjacency (contested)
- Zizianssplinter from community
- AISafety.info / Rob Milespedagogy layer
- Emmett Shear / Softmaxdoom-sympathetic public statements