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
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]
2015 August 28 The subreddit r/SneerClub is created as a place to "sneer" at the rationality community. (Connection to RationalWiki?)[12]
2016 Vaniver, Anna Salamon, et al. begin the "LessWrong revival"
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).[13]
2016 July The Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $1,035,000 over two years to CFAR.[14]
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".[15]
2017 June 18 The "Welcome to Lesswrong 2.0" post is made on the lesserwrong.com domain.[16]

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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

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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/SneerClub". Retrieved June 1, 2017. 
  13. "Center for Applied Rationality — SPARC". Open Philanthropy Project. Retrieved July 11, 2017. 
  14. "Center for Applied Rationality — General Support". Open Philanthropy Project. Retrieved July 11, 2017. 
  15. "Machine Intelligence Research Institute — General Support". Open Philanthropy Project. Retrieved June 30, 2017. 
  16. Oliver Habryka. "Welcome to Lesswrong 2.0". Retrieved July 6, 2017.