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His­tory of Rationality

TagLast edit: Feb 9, 2021, 9:43 AM by Yoav Ravid

A post is relevant to the history of rationality if it discusses past events pertaining to the LW community or another topic related to rationality, or the post is of strong historical interest.

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Related Pages: History of Less Wrong, History

Historically relevant organizations, groups, and movements include:

The Ra­tion­al­ists of the 1950s (and be­fore) also called them­selves “Ra­tion­al­ists”

Owain_EvansNov 28, 2021, 8:17 PM
186 points
32 comments3 min readLW link1 review

Ra­tion­al­ism be­fore the Sequences

Eric RaymondMar 30, 2021, 2:04 PM
594 points
83 comments11 min readLW link2 reviews

Whither OB?

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 17, 2008, 7:38 PM
9 points
53 comments2 min readLW link

A His­tory of Bayes’ Theorem

lukeprogAug 29, 2011, 7:04 AM
76 points
91 comments15 min readLW link

Lives of the Cam­bridge poly­math geniuses

Owain_EvansJan 25, 2022, 4:45 AM
108 points
40 comments3 min readLW link

100 Years Of Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

jdpSep 27, 2021, 12:31 AM
81 points
12 comments33 min readLW link
(www.wrestlinggnon.com)

Daniel Kah­ne­man has died

DanielFilanMar 27, 2024, 3:59 PM
186 points
11 comments1 min readLW link
(www.washingtonpost.com)

Ver­nor Vinge, who coined the term “Tech­nolog­i­cal Sin­gu­lar­ity”, dies at 79

Kaj_SotalaMar 21, 2024, 10:14 PM
149 points
25 comments1 min readLW link
(arstechnica.com)

AI Risk and Op­por­tu­nity: Hu­man­ity’s Efforts So Far

lukeprogMar 21, 2012, 2:49 AM
56 points
49 comments23 min readLW link

The End (of Se­quences)

Eliezer YudkowskyApr 27, 2009, 9:07 PM
46 points
36 comments5 min readLW link

...And Say No More Of It

Eliezer YudkowskyFeb 9, 2009, 12:15 AM
43 points
25 comments5 min readLW link

Seek­ing a “Seek­ing Whence ‘Seek Whence’” Sequence

Will_NewsomeJun 25, 2012, 11:10 AM
39 points
33 comments3 min readLW link

Jan Bloch’s Im­pos­si­ble War

SlimepriestessFeb 17, 2020, 4:14 PM
112 points
30 comments5 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

Time Binders

SlimepriestessFeb 24, 2020, 9:55 AM
24 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

Gods! Robots! Aliens! Zom­bies!

SlimepriestessMar 16, 2020, 6:08 PM
11 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

Truth + Rea­son = The True Reli­gion?

David GrossSep 17, 2021, 10:14 PM
34 points
2 comments19 min readLW link

SL4 META: list clo­sure 2 month followup

gwernMay 10, 2011, 3:46 PM
26 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

Paradigm Shifts—change ev­ery­thing… ex­cept al­most everything

James Stephen BrownNov 23, 2024, 6:34 PM
2 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(nonzerosum.games)

A Brief His­tory of LessWrong

RubyJun 1, 2019, 12:43 AM
39 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

A brief his­tory of eth­i­cally con­cerned scientists

Kaj_SotalaFeb 9, 2013, 5:50 AM
104 points
143 comments14 min readLW link

A Dou­ble-Fea­ture on The Extropians

Maxwell TabarrokJun 3, 2023, 6:27 PM
59 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

His­tory of the Devel­op­ment of Log­i­cal Induction

Scott GarrabrantAug 29, 2018, 3:15 AM
103 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

The Ra­tion­al­ity Wars

Stefan_SchubertFeb 27, 2014, 5:08 PM
30 points
43 comments3 min readLW link

[HPMoR Pod­cast] A Mu­si­cal Help Request

EneaszMay 20, 2011, 4:18 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Timeline of AI safety

riceissaFeb 7, 2021, 10:29 PM
73 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(timelines.issarice.com)

His­tory of LessWrong: Some Data Graphics

Said AchmizNov 16, 2018, 7:07 AM
65 points
18 comments1 min readLW link