Timeline of the rationality community
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This is a timeline of the rationality community (sometimes also called the "rationalist community").
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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] | |
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]
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2017 | September 20 | Open beta of LessWrong 2.0 begins.[22][23] |
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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/
- AI FOOM debate
- growth of local meetups
- growth of group houses, especially in the Bay Area
- Cognito Mentoring
- 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
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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.
- ↑ "FAQ - Lesswrongwiki". LessWrong. Retrieved June 1, 2017.
- ↑ "Roko's basilisk/Original post". RationalWiki. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
- ↑ "Roko's basilisk - Lesswrongwiki". LessWrong. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
- ↑ "You're probably wondering why I've called you here today". Slate Star Codex. September 29, 2014. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
- ↑ "moderators - r/slatestarcodex". Retrieved September 24, 2017.
a community for 3 years [Wed Feb 26 05:15:26 2014 UTC]
- ↑ "moderators - r/SneerClub". Retrieved June 1, 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.
- ↑ 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.