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| 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>
 
| 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>
 
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| 2010 || {{dts|July 23}} || || The [[LessWrong]] user Roko publishes "Solutions to the Altruist's burden: the Quantum Billionaire Trick". The ideas in this post came to be known as "Roko's basilisk".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk/Original_post |title=Roko's basilisk/Original post |publisher=[[RationalWiki]] |accessdate=February 26, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Roko's_basilisk |title=Roko's basilisk - Lesswrongwiki |publisher=[[LessWrong]] |accessdate=February 26, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2010 || {{dts|July 23}} || || The [[wikipedia:LessWrong|LessWrong]] user Roko publishes "Solutions to the Altruist's burden: the Quantum Billionaire Trick". The ideas in this post came to be known as "Roko's basilisk".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk/Original_post |title=Roko's basilisk/Original post |publisher=[[RationalWiki]] |accessdate=February 26, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Roko's_basilisk |title=Roko's basilisk - Lesswrongwiki |publisher=[[LessWrong]] |accessdate=February 26, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 2012 || || || The [[wikipedia:Center for Applied Rationality|Center for Applied Rationality]] is founded.
 
| 2012 || || || The [[wikipedia:Center for Applied Rationality|Center for Applied Rationality]] is founded.
 
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| 2013 || {{dts|February 13}} || || Scott Alexander publishes the first post on his new blog, Slate Star Codex.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/02/13/youre-probably-wondering-why-ive-called-you-here-today/ |title=You’re probably wondering why I’ve called you here today |date=September 29, 2014 |publisher=Slate Star Codex |accessdate=February 26, 2017}}</ref>
 
| 2013 || {{dts|February 13}} || || Scott Alexander publishes the first post on his new blog, Slate Star Codex.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/02/13/youre-probably-wondering-why-ive-called-you-here-today/ |title=You’re probably wondering why I’ve called you here today |date=September 29, 2014 |publisher=Slate Star Codex |accessdate=February 26, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2014 || {{dts|February 26}} || || The Slate Star Codex subreddit, r/slatestarcodex, is created.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/about/moderators |title=moderators - r/slatestarcodex |accessdate=September 24, 2017 |quote=a community for 3 years [Wed Feb 26 05:15:26 2014 UTC]}}</ref>
 
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| 2015 || {{dts|August 28}} || || The subreddit r/SneerClub is created as a place to "sneer" at the rationality community. (Connection to RationalWiki?)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/about/moderators |title=moderators - r/SneerClub |accessdate=June 1, 2017}}</ref>
 
| 2015 || {{dts|August 28}} || || The subreddit r/SneerClub is created as a place to "sneer" at the rationality community. (Connection to RationalWiki?)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/about/moderators |title=moderators - r/SneerClub |accessdate=June 1, 2017}}</ref>
 
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| 2016 || || || Vaniver, Anna Salamon, et al. begin the "LessWrong revival"
 
| 2016 || || || Vaniver, Anna Salamon, et al. begin the "LessWrong revival"
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| 2016 || {{dts|April 12}} || || The {{w|8chan}} board /ratanon/ is created around this time. The board hosts memes about rationalists as well as gossip of the rationality community, among other discussion.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160512141202/https://8ch.net/ratanon/catalog.html |title=ratanon - Catalog |accessdate=September 24, 2017}} First post here is from April 12.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.is/http://8ch.net/ratanon/* |title=8ch.net/ratanon/*: /ratanon/ - Rationalists Anonymous |accessdate=September 24, 2017}} The first snapshot on archive.is is from [https://archive.is/UQJW8 April 18, 2016], a post from April 14.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/4hz2qk/hate_reddit_but_still_inexplicably_on_reddit/ |publisher=reddit |title=Hate Reddit (but still inexplicably on Reddit, apparently)? Maybe /ratanon/ is the place for you. • r/slatestarcodex |accessdate=September 24, 2017 |author=MonkeyTigerCommander |date=May 5, 2016}} r/slatestarcodex seems to discover it on May 5, 2016.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/4xgfxf/ratanon_rationalists_anonymous/ |publisher=reddit |title=/ratanon/ - Rationalists Anonymous • r/slatestarcodex |accessdate=September 24, 2017 |author=offwo200 |date=August 12, 2016}} Another discovery post from August 2016.</ref>
 
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| 2016 || {{dts|May}} || || The Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $304,000 over two years to CFAR's Summer Program on Applied Rationality and Cognition (SPARC).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.openphilanthropy.org/giving/grants/center-applied-rationality-sparc |title=Center for Applied Rationality — SPARC |publisher=Open Philanthropy Project |accessdate=July 11, 2017}}</ref>
 
| 2016 || {{dts|May}} || || The Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $304,000 over two years to CFAR's Summer Program on Applied Rationality and Cognition (SPARC).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.openphilanthropy.org/giving/grants/center-applied-rationality-sparc |title=Center for Applied Rationality — SPARC |publisher=Open Philanthropy Project |accessdate=July 11, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|June 18}} || || The "Welcome to Lesswrong 2.0" post is made on the <code>lesserwrong.com</code> domain.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/HJDbyFFKf72F52edp/welcome-to-lesswrong-2-0 |author=Oliver Habryka |title=Welcome to Lesswrong 2.0 |accessdate=July 6, 2017}}</ref>
 
| 2017 || {{dts|June 18}} || || The "Welcome to Lesswrong 2.0" post is made on the <code>lesserwrong.com</code> domain.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/HJDbyFFKf72F52edp/welcome-to-lesswrong-2-0 |author=Oliver Habryka |title=Welcome to Lesswrong 2.0 |accessdate=July 6, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|September 20}} || || Open beta of LessWrong 2.0 begins.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/per/lw_20_open_beta_starts_920/ |title=LW 2.0 Open Beta starts 9/20 - Less Wrong Discussion |accessdate=September 24, 2017 |author=Vaniver |publisher=[[wikipedia:LessWrong|LessWrong]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/pes/lw_20_strategic_overview/ |title=LW 2.0 Strategic Overview - Less Wrong Discussion |accessdate=September 24, 2017 |author=Habryka |publisher=[[wikipedia:LessWrong|LessWrong]]}}</ref>
 
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* first mentions by Caplan, MR, Chalmers ([https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/5vji57/im_david_chalmers_philosopher_interested_in/de2jklb/] for opinion), and some other people
 
* first mentions by Caplan, MR, Chalmers ([https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/5vji57/im_david_chalmers_philosopher_interested_in/de2jklb/] for opinion), and some other people
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===Timeline update strategy===
 
===Timeline update strategy===

Revision as of 15:45, 24 September 2017

This is a timeline of the rationality community (sometimes also called the "rationalist community").

Big picture

Full timeline

Year Month and date Event type Details
1998 January 15 Wei Dai announces the creation of the "everything" mailing list, a mailing list for the discussion of modal realism.[1][2]
1996 November 18 Eliezer Yudkowsky writes the first version of "Staring into the Singularity".[3]
2000 February 6 The first email is sent on SL4 ("Shock Level Four"), a mailing list about transhumanism, superintelligent AI, existential risks, and so on.[4][5]
2000 July Machine Intelligence Research Institute is founded as the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence.[6]:3
2006 November Robin Hanson starts Overcoming Bias.[7]
2009 February Eliezer Yudkowsky starts LessWrong using as seed material his posts on Overcoming Bias.[8]
2010 July 23 The LessWrong user Roko publishes "Solutions to the Altruist's burden: the Quantum Billionaire Trick". The ideas in this post came to be known as "Roko's basilisk".[9][10]
2012 The Center for Applied Rationality is founded.
2013 February 13 Scott Alexander publishes the first post on his new blog, Slate Star Codex.[11]
2014 February 26 The Slate Star Codex subreddit, r/slatestarcodex, is created.[12]
2015 August 28 The subreddit r/SneerClub is created as a place to "sneer" at the rationality community. (Connection to RationalWiki?)[13]
2016 Vaniver, Anna Salamon, et al. begin the "LessWrong revival"
2016 April 12 The 8chan board /ratanon/ is created around this time. The board hosts memes about rationalists as well as gossip of the rationality community, among other discussion.[14][15][16][17]
2016 May The Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $304,000 over two years to CFAR's Summer Program on Applied Rationality and Cognition (SPARC).[18]
2016 July The Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $1,035,000 over two years to CFAR.[19]
2016 August The Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant worth $500,000 to Machine Intelligence Research Institute. The grant writeup notes, "Despite our strong reservations about the technical research we reviewed, we felt that awarding $500,000 was appropriate for multiple reasons".[20]
2017 June 18 The "Welcome to Lesswrong 2.0" post is made on the lesserwrong.com domain.[21]
2017 September 20 Open beta of LessWrong 2.0 begins.[22][23]

Meta information on the timeline

How the timeline was built

The initial version of the timeline was written by Issa Rice.

Funding information for this timeline is available.

What the timeline is still missing

Timeline update strategy

See also

External links

References

  1. "Wei_Dai comments on Shock Level 5: Big Worlds and Modal Realism - Less Wrong". LessWrong. Retrieved September 16, 2017. 
  2. Wei Dai. "Theory of Everything Mailing List". Retrieved September 16, 2017. 
  3. "Yudkowsky - Staring into the Singularity 1.2.5". Retrieved June 1, 2017. 
  4. "SL4: By Date". Retrieved June 1, 2017. 
  5. Eliezer S. Yudkowsky. "SL4 Mailing List". Retrieved June 1, 2017. 
  6. "Form 990-EZ 2000" (PDF). Retrieved June 1, 2017. Organization was incorporated in July 2000 and does not have a financial history for years 1996-1999. 
  7. "Overcoming Bias : Bio". Retrieved June 1, 2017. 
  8. "FAQ - Lesswrongwiki". LessWrong. Retrieved June 1, 2017. 
  9. "Roko's basilisk/Original post". RationalWiki. Retrieved February 26, 2017. 
  10. "Roko's basilisk - Lesswrongwiki". LessWrong. Retrieved February 26, 2017. 
  11. "You're probably wondering why I've called you here today". Slate Star Codex. September 29, 2014. Retrieved February 26, 2017. 
  12. "moderators - r/slatestarcodex". Retrieved September 24, 2017. a community for 3 years [Wed Feb 26 05:15:26 2014 UTC] 
  13. "moderators - r/SneerClub". Retrieved June 1, 2017. 
  14. "ratanon - Catalog". Retrieved September 24, 2017.  First post here is from April 12.
  15. "8ch.net/ratanon/*: /ratanon/ - Rationalists Anonymous". Retrieved September 24, 2017.  The first snapshot on archive.is is from April 18, 2016, a post from April 14.
  16. MonkeyTigerCommander (May 5, 2016). "Hate Reddit (but still inexplicably on Reddit, apparently)? Maybe /ratanon/ is the place for you. • r/slatestarcodex". reddit. Retrieved September 24, 2017.  r/slatestarcodex seems to discover it on May 5, 2016.
  17. offwo200 (August 12, 2016). "/ratanon/ - Rationalists Anonymous • r/slatestarcodex". reddit. Retrieved September 24, 2017.  Another discovery post from August 2016.
  18. "Center for Applied Rationality — SPARC". Open Philanthropy Project. Retrieved July 11, 2017. 
  19. "Center for Applied Rationality — General Support". Open Philanthropy Project. Retrieved July 11, 2017. 
  20. "Machine Intelligence Research Institute — General Support". Open Philanthropy Project. Retrieved June 30, 2017. 
  21. Oliver Habryka. "Welcome to Lesswrong 2.0". Retrieved July 6, 2017. 
  22. Vaniver. "LW 2.0 Open Beta starts 9/20 - Less Wrong Discussion". LessWrong. Retrieved September 24, 2017. 
  23. Habryka. "LW 2.0 Strategic Overview - Less Wrong Discussion". LessWrong. Retrieved September 24, 2017.