LessWrong

As of JuneJuly 2022, LessWrong and Lightcone Infrastructure have received over $2.3 million in funding from the Survival and Flourishing Fund,^[12][13][14] $2 million from the Future Fund,^[15] and $760,000 from Open Philanthropy.^[16]

As of June 2022, LessWrong and Lightcone Infrastructure have received over $2.3 million in funding from the Survival and Flourishing Fund,^[12][13][14] $2 million from the Future Fund,^[15] and $760,000 from Open Philanthropy.^[15]16]

1. ^{^}

   Hanson, Robin (2009) About, Overcoming Bias.

2. ^{^}

   Alexander, Scott (2014) Five years and one week of Less Wrong, Slate Star Codex, March 13.

3. ^{^}

   Bloom, Ruben (2019) A brief history of LessWrong, LessWrong, May 31.

4. ^{^}

   Yudkowsky, Eliezer (2015) Rationality: From AI to Zombies, Berkeley: Machine Intelligence Research Institute.

5. ^{^}

   Alexander, Scott (2017) Comment on 'A history of the rationality community?', Reddit, August 15.

6. ^{^}

   Bloom, Ruben (2019) Data analysis of LW: activity levels + age distribution of user accounts, LessWrong, May 14.

7. ^{^}

   Vaniver (2017) LW 2.0 open beta live, LessWrong, September 20.

8. ^{^}

   Bloom, Ruben et al. (2019) Welcome to LessWrong!, LessWrong, June 14.

9. ^{^}

   Yudkowsky, Eliezer (2017) Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck, Berkeley: Machine Intelligence Research Institute.

10. ^{^}

    "the conclusion that the LW community recovered from its previous decline holds" (Sempere, Nuño (2021) Shallow evaluations of longtermist organizations, Effective Altruism Forum, June 24)

11. ^{^}

    Habryka, Oliver (2021) The LessWrong Team is now Lightcone Infrastructure, come work with us!, LessWrong, September 30.

12. ^{^}

    Survival and Flourishing Fund (2019) SFF-2020-H1 S-process recommendations announcement, Survival and Flourishing Fund. 

13. ^{^}

    Survival and Flourishing Fund (2020) SFF-2021-H1 S-process recommendations announcement, Survival and Flourishing Fund. 

14. ^{^}

    Survival and Flourishing Fund (2020) SFF-2021-H2 S-process recommendations announcement, Survival and Flourishing Fund.

15. ^{^}

    Future Fund (2022) Our grants and investments: LessWrong, Future Fund.

16. ^{^}

    Open Philanthropy (2022) Grants database: LessWrong, Open Philanthropy.

As of June 2022, LessWrong and Lightcone Infrastructure have received over $2.3 million in funding from the Survival and Flourishing Fund.Fund,^[12][13][14] and $760,000 from Open Philanthropy.^[15]

1. ^{^}

   Hanson, Robin (2009) About, Overcoming Bias.

2. ^{^}

   Alexander, Scott (2014) Five years and one week of Less Wrong, Slate Star Codex, March 13.

3. ^{^}

   Bloom, Ruben (2019) A brief history of LessWrong, LessWrong, May 31.

4. ^{^}

   Yudkowsky, Eliezer (2015) Rationality: From AI to Zombies, Berkeley: Machine Intelligence Research Institute.

5. ^{^}

   Alexander, Scott (2017) Comment on 'A history of the rationality community?', Reddit, August 15.

6. ^{^}

   Bloom, Ruben (2019) Data analysis of LW: activity levels + age distribution of user accounts, LessWrong, May 14.

7. ^{^}

   Vaniver (2017) LW 2.0 open beta live, LessWrong, September 20.

8. ^{^}

   Bloom, Ruben et al. (2019) Welcome to LessWrong!, LessWrong, June 14.

9. ^{^}

   Yudkowsky, Eliezer (2017) Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck, Berkeley: Machine Intelligence Research Institute.

10. ^{^}

    "the conclusion that the LW community recovered from its previous decline holds" (Sempere, Nuño (2021) Shallow evaluations of longtermist organizations, Effective Altruism Forum, June 24)

11. ^{^}

    Habryka, Oliver (2021) The LessWrong Team is now Lightcone Infrastructure, come work with us!, LessWrong, September 30.

12. ^{^}

    Survival and Flourishing Fund (2019) SFF-2020-H1 S-process recommendations announcement, Survival and Flourishing Fund. 

13. ^{^}

    Survival and Flourishing Fund (2020) SFF-2021-H1 S-process recommendations announcement, Survival and Flourishing Fund. 

14. ^{^}

    Survival and Flourishing Fund (2020) SFF-2021-H2 S-process recommendations announcement, Survival and Flourishing Fund.

15. ^{^}

    Open Philanthropy (2022) Grants database: LessWrong, Open Philanthropy.

As of June 2022, LessWrong hasand Lightcone Infrastructure have received nearly $1.5over $2.3 million in funding from the Survival and Flourishing Fund.^[12][13][14]

1. ^{^}

   Hanson, Robin (2009) About, Overcoming Bias.

2. ^{^}

   Alexander, Scott (2014) Five years and one week of Less Wrong, Slate Star Codex, March 13.

3. ^{^}

   Bloom, Ruben (2019) A brief history of LessWrong, LessWrong, May 31.

4. ^{^}

   Yudkowsky, Eliezer (2015) Rationality: From AI to Zombies, Berkeley: Machine Intelligence Research Institute.

5. ^{^}

   Alexander, Scott (2017) Comment on 'A history of the rationality community?', Reddit, August 15.

6. ^{^}

   Bloom, Ruben (2019) Data analysis of LW: activity levels + age distribution of user accounts, LessWrong, May 14.

7. ^{^}

   Vaniver (2017) LW 2.0 open beta live, LessWrong, September 20.

8. ^{^}

   Bloom, Ruben et al. (2019) Welcome to LessWrong!, LessWrong, June 14.

9. ^{^}

   Yudkowsky, Eliezer (2017) Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck, Berkeley: Machine Intelligence Research Institute.

10. ^{^}

    "the conclusion that the LW community recovered from its previous decline holds" (Sempere, Nuño (2021) Shallow evaluations of longtermist organizations, Effective Altruism Forum, June 24)

11. ^{^}

    Habryka, Oliver (2021) The LessWrong Team is now Lightcone Infrastructure, come work with us!, LessWrong, September 30.

12. ^{^}

    Survival and Flourishing Fund (2019) SFF-2020-H1 S-process recommendations announcement, Survival and Flourishing Fund. 

13. ^{^}

    Survival and Flourishing Fund (2020) SFF-2021-H1 S-process recommendations announcement, Survival and Flourishing Fund. 

14. ^{^}

    Survival and Flourishing Fund (2020) SFF-2021-H2 S-process recommendations announcement, Survival and Flourishing Fund.

As of June 2022, LessWrong has received overnearly $1.5 million in funding from the Survival and Flourishing Fund.^[12][13]

In November 2006, the group blog Overcoming Bias was launched, with Robin Hanson and Eliezer Yudkowsky as its primary authors.^[1] In early March 2009, Yudkowsky founded LessWrong, repurposing his contributions to Overcoming Bias as the seed content for this "community blog devoted to refining the art of human rationality."^[2][3] This material was organized as a number of "sequences", or thematic collections of posts to be read in a specific order, later published in book form.^[4] Shortly thereafter, Scott Alexander joined as a regular contributor.

Funding

As of June 2022, LessWrong has received over $1.5 million in funding from the Survival and Flourishing Fund.^[12][13]

1. ^{^}

   Hanson, Robin (2009) About, Overcoming Bias.

2. ^{^}

   Alexander, Scott (2014) Five years and one week of Less Wrong, Slate Star Codex, March 13.

3. ^{^}

   Bloom, Ruben (2019) A brief history of LessWrong, LessWrong, May 31.

4. ^{^}

   Yudkowsky, Eliezer (2015) Rationality: From AI to Zombies, Berkeley: Machine Intelligence Research Institute.

5. ^{^}

   Alexander, Scott (2017) Comment on 'A history of the rationality community?', Reddit, August 15.

6. ^{^}

   Bloom, Ruben (2019) Data analysis of LW: activity levels + age distribution of user accounts, LessWrong, May 14.

7. ^{^}

   Vaniver (2017) LW 2.0 open beta live, LessWrong, September 20.

8. ^{^}

   Bloom, Ruben et al. (2019) Welcome to LessWrong!, LessWrong, June 14.

9. ^{^}

   Yudkowsky, Eliezer (2017) Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck, Berkeley: Machine Intelligence Research Institute.

10. ^{^}

    "the conclusion that the LW community recovered from its previous decline holds" (Sempere, Nuño (2021) Shallow evaluations of longtermist organizations, Effective Altruism Forum, June 24)

11. ^{^}

    Habryka, Oliver (2021) The LessWrong Team is now Lightcone Infrastructure, come work with us!, LessWrong, September 30.

12. ^{^}

    Survival and Flourishing Fund (2019) SFF-2020-H1 S-process recommendations announcement, Survival and Flourishing Fund. 

13. ^{^}

    Survival and Flourishing Fund (2020) SFF-2021-H1 S-process recommendations announcement, Survival and Flourishing Fund. 

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