1,714
edits
Changes
→Full timeline
|-
| 2008 || {{dts|November}}–December || || The AI-Foom debate between Robin Hanson and Eliezer Yudkowsky takes place. The blog posts from the debate would later be turned into an ebook by MIRI.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/The_Hanson-Yudkowsky_AI-Foom_Debate |title=The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate |website=Lesswrongwiki |accessdate=July 1, 2017 |publisher=[[wikipedia:LessWrong|LessWrong]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://lesswrong.com/lw/cbs/thoughts_on_the_singularity_institute_si/6k1b |title=Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI) - Less Wrong |accessdate=July 15, 2017 |quote=Nonetheless, it already has a warm place in my heart next to the debate with Robin Hanson as the second attempt to mount informed criticism of SIAI. |publisher=[[wikipedia:LessWrong|LessWrong]]}}</ref>
|-
| 2008 || {{dts|November 17}} || || http://web.archive.org/web/20090123165853/http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/11/whither-ob.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=367406
|-
| 2008 || {{dts|December 10}} || || The <code>lesswrong.com</code> domain name is registered.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=lesswrong.com |title=Showing results for: lesswrong.com |publisher=ICANN WHOIS |accessdate=September 27, 2017 |quote=Creation Date: 2008-12-10T23:29:03Z}}</ref>
|-
| 2009 || {{dts|January 27}} || || https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/oD9fmceuJ4AFdSQ9q/ob-status-updatehttp://web.archive.org/web/20090131150554/http://robinhanson.typepad.com/overcomingbias/2009/01/ob-status-update.html
|-
| 2009 || {{dts|February 23}} || || https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/2om7AHEHtbogJmT5s/about-less-wrong
|-
| 2009 || {{dts|February 26}} || || "(A beta version of Less Wrong is now live, no old posts imported as yet. Some of the plans for what to do with Less Wrong relative to OB have been revised by further discussion among Robin, Nick, and myself, but for now we're just seeing what happens once LW is up - whether it's stable, what happens to the tone of comments once threading and voting is enabled, etcetera." "Posting by non-admins is disabled for now - today we're just testing out registration, commenting, threading, etcetera.)"[http://web.archive.org/web/20090228050247/http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/02/rationalist-origins-at-lw.html]
|-
| 2009 || {{dts|February}} || || Eliezer Yudkowsky starts LessWrong using as seed material his posts on Overcoming Bias.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/FAQ#Where_did_Less_Wrong_come_from.3F |title=FAQ - Lesswrongwiki |accessdate=June 1, 2017 |publisher=[[wikipedia:LessWrong|LessWrong]]}}</ref>
