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His­tory of Rationality

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A post is relevant to the history of rationality if it discusses past events pertaining to LessWrong, an associated site, or if the past events are heavily focused on rationality/​rationalists.

Whither OB?

Eliezer Yudkowsky17 Nov 2008 19:38 UTC
9 points
53 comments2 min readLW link

...And Say No More Of It

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Feb 2009 0:15 UTC
41 points
25 comments5 min readLW link

The End (of Se­quences)

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Apr 2009 21:07 UTC
45 points
36 comments5 min readLW link

SL4 META: list clo­sure 2 month followup

gwern10 May 2011 15:46 UTC
26 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

[HPMoR Pod­cast] A Mu­si­cal Help Request

Eneasz20 May 2011 16:18 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

A His­tory of Bayes’ Theorem

lukeprog29 Aug 2011 7:04 UTC
75 points
91 comments15 min readLW link

AI Risk and Op­por­tu­nity: Hu­man­ity’s Efforts So Far

lukeprog21 Mar 2012 2:49 UTC
56 points
49 comments23 min readLW link

Seek­ing a “Seek­ing Whence ‘Seek Whence’” Sequence

Will_Newsome25 Jun 2012 11:10 UTC
39 points
33 comments3 min readLW link

A brief his­tory of eth­i­cally con­cerned scientists

Kaj_Sotala9 Feb 2013 5:50 UTC
103 points
143 comments14 min readLW link

The Ra­tion­al­ity Wars

Stefan_Schubert27 Feb 2014 17:08 UTC
30 points
43 comments3 min readLW link

His­tory of the Devel­op­ment of Log­i­cal Induction

Scott Garrabrant29 Aug 2018 3:15 UTC
100 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

His­tory of LessWrong: Some Data Graphics

Said Achmiz16 Nov 2018 7:07 UTC
65 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

A Brief His­tory of LessWrong

Ruby1 Jun 2019 0:43 UTC
37 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Jan Bloch’s Im­pos­si­ble War

Slimepriestess17 Feb 2020 16:14 UTC
107 points
30 comments5 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

Time Binders

Slimepriestess24 Feb 2020 9:55 UTC
24 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

Gods! Robots! Aliens! Zom­bies!

Slimepriestess16 Mar 2020 18:08 UTC
11 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

Timeline of AI safety

riceissa7 Feb 2021 22:29 UTC
73 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(timelines.issarice.com)

Ra­tion­al­ism be­fore the Sequences

Eric Raymond30 Mar 2021 14:04 UTC
581 points
81 comments11 min readLW link2 reviews

Truth + Rea­son = The True Reli­gion?

David Gross17 Sep 2021 22:14 UTC
34 points
2 comments19 min readLW link

100 Years Of Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

jdp27 Sep 2021 0:31 UTC
79 points
12 comments33 min readLW link
(www.wrestlinggnon.com)

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

Owain_Evans28 Nov 2021 20:17 UTC
187 points
30 comments3 min readLW link1 review

Lives of the Cam­bridge poly­math geniuses

Owain_Evans25 Jan 2022 4:45 UTC
107 points
40 comments3 min readLW link

A Dou­ble-Fea­ture on The Extropians

Maxwell Tabarrok3 Jun 2023 18:27 UTC
58 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

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

Kaj_Sotala21 Mar 2024 22:14 UTC
148 points
24 comments1 min readLW link
(arstechnica.com)

Daniel Kah­ne­man has died

DanielFilan27 Mar 2024 15:59 UTC
183 points
11 comments1 min readLW link
(www.washingtonpost.com)