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Rationality-focused community blog

For the concept of choosing the least undesirable of available options, see [lesser evil](/source/Lesser_evil).

LessWrong Type of site Internet forum, blog Available in English Created by Eliezer Yudkowsky URL LessWrong.com Registration Optional, but is required for contributing content Launched February 1, 2009; 17 years ago (2009-02-01) Current status Active Written in JavaScript, CSS (powered by React and GraphQL)

**LessWrong** (also written **Less Wrong**) is a community [blog](/source/Blog) and [forum](/source/Internet_forum) focused on discussion of [cognitive biases](/source/Cognitive_bias), [philosophy](/source/Philosophy), [psychology](/source/Psychology), [economics](/source/Economics), [rationality](/source/Rationality), and [artificial intelligence](/source/Artificial_intelligence), among other topics.[1][2] It is associated with the [rationalist community](/source/Rationalist_community).

## Purpose

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 of LessWrong 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 of [Bayes' theorem](/source/Bayes'_theorem) as a decision-making tool.[2] There is also a focus on psychological barriers that prevent good decision-making, including [fear conditioning](/source/Fear_conditioning) and [cognitive biases](/source/List_of_cognitive_biases), that have been studied by the psychologist [Daniel Kahneman](/source/Daniel_Kahneman).[6]

LessWrong is also concerned with [transhumanism](/source/Transhumanism), [existential threats](/source/Existential_risk), and the [singularity](/source/Technological_singularity).[7] *[The New York Observer](/source/The_New_York_Observer)* noted that "[LessWrong] is fixated on a branch of [futurism](/source/Futures_studies) that would seem more at home in a 3D multiplex than a graduate seminar ... Branding themselves as 'rationalists,' as the Less Wrong crew has done, makes it a lot harder to dismiss them as a '[doomsday cult](/source/Doomsday_cult)'."[7]

## History

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](/source/Eliezer_Yudkowsky) at [Stanford University](/source/Stanford_University) in 2006

LessWrong developed from Overcoming Bias, an earlier group blog focused on human rationality, which began in November 2006, with artificial intelligence researcher [Eliezer Yudkowsky](/source/Eliezer_Yudkowsky) and economist [Robin Hanson](/source/Robin_Hanson) as the principal contributors. In February 2009, Yudkowsky's posts were used as the seed material to create the community blog LessWrong, and Overcoming Bias became Hanson's personal blog.[8] In 2013, a significant portion of the [rationalist community](/source/Rationalist_community) shifted focus to Scott Alexander's [Slate Star Codex](/source/Slate_Star_Codex).[4]

### Artificial intelligence

Discussions of AI within LessWrong include [AI alignment](/source/AI_alignment), [AI safety](/source/AI_safety),[9] and [machine consciousness](/source/Artificial_consciousness).[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: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 book *The AI Does Not Hate You*, written by former [BuzzFeed](/source/BuzzFeed) science correspondent Tom Chivers.[11][12][13]

### Effective altruism

LessWrong played a significant role in the development of the [effective altruism](/source/Effective_altruism) (EA) movement,[14] and the two communities are closely intertwined.[15]: 227 In a survey of LessWrong 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 through LessWrong,[15] though that number had fallen to 8.2% by 2020.[16]

### Roko's basilisk

Main article: [Roko's basilisk](/source/Roko's_basilisk)

In July 2010, LessWrong contributor Roko posted a [thought experiment](/source/Thought_experiment) to the site in which an otherwise [benevolent future AI system](/source/Friendly_artificial_intelligence) 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 such [blackmail](/source/Blackmail).[17][18][7]

### Neoreaction

After LessWrong split from Overcoming Bias, it attracted some individuals affiliated with [neoreaction](/source/Neoreaction) with discussions of [eugenics](/source/Eugenics) and [evolutionary psychology](/source/Evolutionary_psychology).[19] However, Yudkowsky has strongly rejected neoreaction.[20][21] Additionally, in a survey among LessWrong users in 2016, only 28 out of 3060 respondents (0.92%) identified as "neoreactionary".[22]

Ana Teixeira Pinto, writing for the journal *[Third Text](/source/Third_Text)* in 2019, describes Roko's Basilisk and the ethno-nationalist blog "More Right", founded by a LessWrong participant, as phenomena related to a "new configuration of fascist ideology taking shape under the aegis of, and working in tandem with, neoliberal governance".[23]

## User base

According to the Community Survey 2023, conducted among 558 users of the forum, the user base consists of 75% [cis](/source/Cisgender) [males](/source/Male) and 9.6% cis [females](/source/Female), with the rest describing themselves as [trans](/source/Transgender) or [non-binary](/source/Non-binary_gender). Users are in most cases between 20 and 35 years old. Almost half of the users are from the [United States](/source/United_States) and most of the remainder are from [Western Europe](/source/Western_Europe) or [Canada](/source/Canada). The ethnic makeup was 78.9% [non-Hispanic White](/source/Non-Hispanic_whites), 4.9% [East Asian](/source/East_Asian_people), 4.2% [South Asian](/source/South_Asians), 3.6% [white Hispanic](/source/White_Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans), 2.6% [Middle Eastern](/source/Middle_Eastern_people), 0.7% [Black](/source/Black_people) and 5.1% others. LessWrong users are highly educated (with the majority having at least a [Bachelor's degree](/source/Bachelor's_degree)) and work primarily in [IT](/source/Information_technology), [engineering](/source/Engineering) or other [STEM fields](/source/STEM_fields). A majority of 67% describe themselves as [atheists](/source/Atheism) and only 3.7% as convinced [theists](/source/Theism). In terms of political orientation, the most frequently mentioned answers were [liberal](/source/Liberalism) (32.3%), [libertarian](/source/Libertarianism) (25.2%) and [social democratic](/source/Social_democracy) (22.3%).[24]

### Notable users

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.[25] [Scott Alexander](/source/Slate_Star_Codex) became one of the site's most popular writers before starting his own blog, Slate Star Codex, contributing discussions on AI safety and rationality.[25]

Further notable users on LessWrong include [Paul Christiano](/source/Paul_Christiano_(researcher)), [Wei Dai](/source/Wei_Dai) and [Zvi Mowshowitz](/source/Zvi_Mowshowitz). A selection of posts by these and other contributors, selected through a community review process,[26] were published as parts of the essay collections "A Map That Reflects the Territory"[27] and "The Engines of Cognition".[28][26][29]

Ziz LaSota, who was the leader of the [Zizians](/source/Zizians) (an offshoot of the rationalist community), was a LessWrong user. The group was eventually banned from LessWrong and associated meetups and conferences due to an alleged pattern of aggressive behavior.[30]

## See also

- [Internet portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Internet)

- [Center for Applied Rationality](/source/Center_for_Applied_Rationality), a rationalist nonprofit organization based in [Berkeley, California](/source/Berkeley%2C_California)

- [TESCREAL](/source/TESCREAL)

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1. **[^](#cite_ref-16)** Moss, David (20 May 2021). ["EA Survey 2020: How People Get Involved in EA"](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/tzFcqGmCA6ePeD5wm/ea-survey-2020-how-people-get-involved-in-ea). *Effective Altruism Forum*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20210728202421/https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/tzFcqGmCA6ePeD5wm/ea-survey-2020-how-people-get-involved-in-ea) from the original on 28 July 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.

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1. **[^](#cite_ref-19)** Keep, Elmo (22 June 2016). ["The Strange and Conflicting World Views of Silicon Valley Billionaire Peter Thiel"](http://fusion.net/story/312592/peter-thiel-transhumanist/). *Fusion*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20170213070610/http://fusion.net/story/312592/peter-thiel-transhumanist/) from the original on 13 February 2017. Retrieved 5 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.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-20)** Riggio, Adam (23 September 2016). ["The Violence of Pure Reason: Neoreaction: A Basilisk"](https://social-epistemology.com/2016/09/23/the-violence-of-pure-reason-neoreaction-a-basilisk-adam-riggio/). *Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective*. **5** (9): 34–41. [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [2471-9560](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/2471-9560). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20161005194701/https://social-epistemology.com/2016/09/23/the-violence-of-pure-reason-neoreaction-a-basilisk-adam-riggio/) from the original on 5 October 2016. Retrieved 5 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.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-21)** Eliezer Yudkowsky (8 April 2016). ["Untitled"](https://yudkowsky.tumblr.com/post/142497361345/this-isnt-going-to-work-but-for-the-record-and). *Optimize Literally Everything (blog)*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20190526100513/https://yudkowsky.tumblr.com/post/142497361345/this-isnt-going-to-work-but-for-the-record-and) from the original on 26 May 2019. Retrieved 7 October 2016.

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1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Miller2017_25-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Miller2017_25-1) Miller, 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](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-3-662-54033-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/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.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Gasarch2022_26-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Gasarch2022_26-1) Gasarch, William (2022). "Review of "A Map that Reflects the Territory: Essays by the LessWrong Community"". *ACM SIGACT News*. **53** (1): 13–24. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1145/3532737.3532741](https://doi.org/10.1145%2F3532737.3532741). 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.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Lagerros2020_27-0)** Lagerros, J.; Pace, B.; LessWrong.com (2020). [*A Map That Reflects the Territory: Essays by the LessWrong Community*](https://books.google.com/books?id=czALzgEACAAJ). Center for Applied Rationality. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781736128503](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781736128503).

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