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| 2010 || {{dts|February 28}} || Publication || The first chapter of Eliezer Yudkowsky's fan fiction ''[[wikipedia:Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality|Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality]]'' is published. The book would be published as a serial concluding on March 14, 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry-Potter-and-the-Methods-of-Rationality |title=Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Chapter 1: A Day of Very Low Probability, a harry potter fanfic |publisher=FanFiction |accessdate=July 1, 2017 |quote=Updated: 3/14/2015 - Published: 2/28/2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gq84xy/theres-something-weird-happening-in-the-world-of-harry-potter-168 |publisher=Vice |title=The Harry Potter Fan Fiction Author Who Wants to Make Everyone a Little More Rational |date=March 2, 2015 |author=David Whelan |accessdate=July 1, 2017}}</ref> The fan fiction would become the initial contact with MIRI of several larger donors to MIRI.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://intelligence.org/2014/04/02/2013-in-review-fundraising/#identifier_2_10812 |title=2013 in Review: Fundraising - Machine Intelligence Research Institute |publisher=Machine Intelligence Research Institute |date=August 13, 2014 |accessdate=July 1, 2017 |quote=Recently, we asked (nearly) every donor who gave more than $3,000 in 2013 about the source of their initial contact with MIRI, their reasons for donating in 2013, and their preferred methods for staying in contact with MIRI. […] Four came into contact with MIRI via HPMoR.}}</ref> | | 2010 || {{dts|February 28}} || Publication || The first chapter of Eliezer Yudkowsky's fan fiction ''[[wikipedia:Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality|Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality]]'' is published. The book would be published as a serial concluding on March 14, 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry-Potter-and-the-Methods-of-Rationality |title=Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Chapter 1: A Day of Very Low Probability, a harry potter fanfic |publisher=FanFiction |accessdate=July 1, 2017 |quote=Updated: 3/14/2015 - Published: 2/28/2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gq84xy/theres-something-weird-happening-in-the-world-of-harry-potter-168 |publisher=Vice |title=The Harry Potter Fan Fiction Author Who Wants to Make Everyone a Little More Rational |date=March 2, 2015 |author=David Whelan |accessdate=July 1, 2017}}</ref> The fan fiction would become the initial contact with MIRI of several larger donors to MIRI.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://intelligence.org/2014/04/02/2013-in-review-fundraising/#identifier_2_10812 |title=2013 in Review: Fundraising - Machine Intelligence Research Institute |publisher=Machine Intelligence Research Institute |date=August 13, 2014 |accessdate=July 1, 2017 |quote=Recently, we asked (nearly) every donor who gave more than $3,000 in 2013 about the source of their initial contact with MIRI, their reasons for donating in 2013, and their preferred methods for staying in contact with MIRI. […] Four came into contact with MIRI via HPMoR.}}</ref> | ||
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+ | | 2010 || {{dts|May 4}} || || The {{w|RationalWiki}} page on LessWrong is created.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=LessWrong&dir=prev&action=history |title=Revision history of "LessWrong" - RationalWiki |accessdate=September 25, 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> | | 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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| 2016 || {{dts|December 1}} || || Downvoting on LessWrong is temporarily disabled.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lesswrong.com/lw/o7b/downvotes_temporarily_disabled/ |title=Downvotes temporarily disabled - Less Wrong |accessdate=September 24, 2017 |author=Vaniver |publisher=[[wikipedia:LessWrong|LessWrong]]}}</ref> | | 2016 || {{dts|December 1}} || || Downvoting on LessWrong is temporarily disabled.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lesswrong.com/lw/o7b/downvotes_temporarily_disabled/ |title=Downvotes temporarily disabled - Less Wrong |accessdate=September 24, 2017 |author=Vaniver |publisher=[[wikipedia:LessWrong|LessWrong]]}}</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> |
Revision as of 20:56, 24 September 2017
This is a timeline of the rationality community (sometimes also called the "rationalist community").
Contents
Big picture
Full timeline
Year | Month and date | Event type | Details |
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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] | |
2008 | 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.[8][9] | |
2009 | February | Eliezer Yudkowsky starts LessWrong using as seed material his posts on Overcoming Bias.[10] | |
2009 | March 12 | The LessWrong Wiki is created.[11] | |
2009 | April 16 | The LessWrong IRC channel exists as early as this date.[12] | |
2010 | February 28 | Publication | The first chapter of Eliezer Yudkowsky's fan fiction Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is published. The book would be published as a serial concluding on March 14, 2015.[13][14] The fan fiction would become the initial contact with MIRI of several larger donors to MIRI.[15] |
2010 | May 4 | The RationalWiki page on LessWrong is created.[16] | |
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".[17][18] | |
2011 (summer) | A rationality minicamp takes place.[19] | ||
2011 | July 18–26 | Paperwork to establish the Center for Applied Rationality as a nonprofit is filed.[20][21] | |
2012 | May 8 | MIRI's April 2012 progress report is published, in which CFAR's name is announced. Until this point, CFAR was known as the "Rationality Group" or "Rationality Org".[22] | |
2013 | February 13 | Scott Alexander publishes the first post on his new blog, Slate Star Codex.[23] | |
2013 | December 31 | Jonah Sinick announces Cognito Mentoring on LessWrong.[24] | |
2014 | February 26 | The Slate Star Codex subreddit, r/slatestarcodex, is created.[25] | |
2014 | June 6 | On LessWrong, discussion of mass-downvoting harassment begins to take place.[26] | |
2014 | July 3 | Eugine_Nier is banned from LessWrong for mass-downvoting harassment of certain users.[27] | |
2014 | December 7 | Eugine_Nier apparently returns under a different account (Azathoth123).[28] | |
2015 | March 14 | The serial publishing of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality concludes. | |
2015 | August 28 | The subreddit r/SneerClub is created as a place to "sneer" at the rationality community. (Connection to RationalWiki?)[29] | |
2015 | September 4 | The LessWrong Slack channel is announced.[30] | |
2015 | December 23 | On LessWrong, the user VoiceOfRa is banned for retributive downvoting.[31] | |
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.[32][33][34][35] | |
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).[36] | |
2016 | July | The Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $1,035,000 over two years to CFAR.[37] | |
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".[38] | |
2016 | December 1 | Downvoting on LessWrong is temporarily disabled.[39] | |
2017 | June 3 | The RationalWiki page on MetaMed is created.[40] | |
2017 | June 18 | The "Welcome to Lesswrong 2.0" post is made on the lesserwrong.com domain.[41]
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2017 | September 20 | Open beta of LessWrong 2.0 begins.[42][43] |
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
- https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/6tt3gy/a_history_of_the_rationality_community/
- TDT/UDT
- origin of some shibboleths: https://nintil.com/2015/12/31/less-wrong-shibboleths/
- growth of local meetups
- growth of group houses, especially in the Bay Area
- specific sequences?
- what's up with rationalist tumblr? https://www.facebook.com/julia.galef/posts/10103435063771462
- LW IRC
- first mentions by Caplan, MR, Chalmers ([1] for opinion), and some other people
- Eugene
Timeline update strategy
See also
- Timeline of Machine Intelligence Research Institute
- Timeline of Center for Applied Rationality
- Timeline of friendly artificial intelligence
- Timeline of decision theory
External links
References
- ↑ "Wei_Dai comments on Shock Level 5: Big Worlds and Modal Realism - Less Wrong". LessWrong. Retrieved September 16, 2017.
- ↑ Wei Dai. "Theory of Everything Mailing List". Retrieved September 16, 2017.
- ↑ "Yudkowsky - Staring into the Singularity 1.2.5". Retrieved June 1, 2017.
- ↑ "SL4: By Date". Retrieved June 1, 2017.
- ↑ Eliezer S. Yudkowsky. "SL4 Mailing List". Retrieved June 1, 2017.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Overcoming Bias : Bio". Retrieved June 1, 2017.
- ↑ "The Hanson-Yudkowsky AI-Foom Debate". Lesswrongwiki. LessWrong. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
- ↑ "Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI) - Less Wrong". LessWrong. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
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.
- ↑ "FAQ - Lesswrongwiki". LessWrong. Retrieved June 1, 2017.
- ↑ "Revision history of "LessWrong Wiki" - Lesswrongwiki". LessWrong. Retrieved September 25, 2017.
- ↑ "Revision history of "Less Wrong IRC Chatroom" - Lesswrongwiki". LessWrong. Retrieved September 25, 2017.
- ↑ "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Chapter 1: A Day of Very Low Probability, a harry potter fanfic". FanFiction. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
Updated: 3/14/2015 - Published: 2/28/2010
- ↑ David Whelan (March 2, 2015). "The Harry Potter Fan Fiction Author Who Wants to Make Everyone a Little More Rational". Vice. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
- ↑ "2013 in Review: Fundraising - Machine Intelligence Research Institute". Machine Intelligence Research Institute. August 13, 2014. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
Recently, we asked (nearly) every donor who gave more than $3,000 in 2013 about the source of their initial contact with MIRI, their reasons for donating in 2013, and their preferred methods for staying in contact with MIRI. […] Four came into contact with MIRI via HPMoR.
- ↑ "Revision history of "LessWrong" - RationalWiki". Retrieved September 25, 2017.
- ↑ "Roko's basilisk/Original post". RationalWiki. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
- ↑ "Roko's basilisk - Lesswrongwiki". LessWrong. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
- ↑ Anna Salamon (March 29, 2012). "Minicamps on Rationality and Awesomeness: May 11-13, June 22-24, and July 21-28". LessWrong. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
- ↑ "Center for Applied Rationality Nonprofit IRS Approval" (PDF). Retrieved July 8, 2017.
- ↑ Louie Helm (May 8, 2012). "Machine Intelligence Research Institute Progress Report, April 2012". Machine Intelligence Research Institute. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
- ↑ Louie Helm (May 8, 2012). "Machine Intelligence Research Institute Progress Report, April 2012". Machine Intelligence Research Institute. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
- ↑ "You're probably wondering why I've called you here today". Slate Star Codex. September 29, 2014. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
- ↑ Jonah Sinick. "Cognito Mentoring: An advising service for intellectually curious students - Less Wrong". LessWrong. Retrieved September 24, 2017.
- ↑ "moderators - r/slatestarcodex". Retrieved September 24, 2017.
a community for 3 years [Wed Feb 26 05:15:26 2014 UTC]
- ↑ Kaj Sotala. "[meta] Policy for dealing with users suspected/guilty of mass-downvote harassment? - Less Wrong Discussion". LessWrong. Retrieved September 24, 2017.
- ↑ Kaj Sotala. "[moderator action] Eugine_Nier is now banned for mass downvote harassment - Less Wrong". LessWrong. Retrieved September 24, 2017.
- ↑ Dahlen. "PSA: Eugine_Nier evading ban? - Less Wrong". LessWrong. Retrieved September 25, 2017.
- ↑ "moderators - r/SneerClub". Retrieved June 1, 2017.
- ↑ Elo. "Lesswrong real time chat - Less Wrong Discussion". LessWrong. Retrieved September 25, 2017.
- ↑ NancyLebovitz. "Voiceofra is banned - Less Wrong". LessWrong. Retrieved September 25, 2017.
- ↑ "ratanon - Catalog". Retrieved September 24, 2017. First post here is from April 12.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ offwo200 (August 12, 2016). "/ratanon/ - Rationalists Anonymous • r/slatestarcodex". reddit. Retrieved September 24, 2017. Another discovery post from August 2016.
- ↑ "Center for Applied Rationality — SPARC". Open Philanthropy Project. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
- ↑ "Center for Applied Rationality — General Support". Open Philanthropy Project. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
- ↑ "Machine Intelligence Research Institute — General Support". Open Philanthropy Project. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
- ↑ Vaniver. "Downvotes temporarily disabled - Less Wrong". LessWrong. Retrieved September 24, 2017.
- ↑ "Revision history of "MetaMed" - RationalWiki". Retrieved September 25, 2017.
- ↑ Oliver Habryka. "Welcome to Lesswrong 2.0". Retrieved July 6, 2017.
- ↑ Vaniver. "LW 2.0 Open Beta starts 9/20 - Less Wrong Discussion". LessWrong. Retrieved September 24, 2017.
- ↑ Habryka. "LW 2.0 Strategic Overview - Less Wrong Discussion". LessWrong. Retrieved September 24, 2017.